Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-28
BISHOP OF
London COMING
Duke of New Castle Also
Expected.
Prominent Delegates to Episcopal
Convention Offering to Pay
Large Sums for Homes.

Richmond, Va, Feb. 25.-The COM
mittee appointed to arrange for the
entertainment of the delegates and
visitors who are expected to attend the
Episcopal Convention in this city next
October will begin to lay their plans
possibly this week. Mr.. o. H. Funston
has been made chairman of the COM
mittee, but he has not yet named his
fellow workers.
Though the convention is yet some
months off, it will require much time
to make all the necessary preparations
for the holding of the meeting. here.
It will probably be the largest gather
ing of it's kind eve seen in this city,
and it will certainly last longer than
any other organization which is sched-
uled to meet in Richmond during the
Jamestown Exposition. The sessions
will continue three weeks, as is the
rule: and they will be attended not
only by delegates from all over the
United States, but from England, Gam
ada and other foreign countries as well.
Among those to come from England
L ~ tIiO h1ShC
nington-Ingram, the Bishop OF London,
who has written to Bishop Gibson,
stating that he will be present. He
will be entertained by Bishop Gibson
while here. Other d~ignitaries of the
Church of England will attend. aud it
is stated that the Duke Of Newcastle,
who has been several times to America
and Richmond, and is said to be very
fond of this country, will visit the con-
vention.
The greatest amount of careful plan
ming will be necessary to arrange for
all 1.-THE delegates to have suitable
places for while in Rich
mond. Many of the weather. among
them will renthouses, and several have
already sen urgent requests offering
to pay almost any amount to wners.
It has been generally understood that
Mr.. J. Pierpont Morgan would secure
WestbrOok, on the Ginter estate, but
it was reported last nigt that he had
already rented the handsome Franklin
Street residence Iof a prominent Rich
mond man. Another gentleman OF
New York has telephoned, asking that
a house large enough to accommodate
fifteen Or twenty people be engaged for
him and his guests.
Mr.. J. C. Thomas, a wealthy Phila-
delphian, is also trying to engage a
suitable house, as is Miss Mary Coles,
also Of Philadelphia. Bishop Potter,
of New York, will rent a house, if
possible.
AS the Episcopal convention will
come much later than the other large
5 bodies scheduled to meet in Rishmond
during the exposition, Mr.. Funston,
: chairman of the committee on arrange
/ ments, expects to receive the aid Of the
l committee of the Baptist General
Association, the Confederate Veterans
committee, and the committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, to aid him in
, securing quarters for the delegates.
o Large numbers of them will be accom-
: modated in the Jefferson and in Muir
r phys Hotel, and in other hostelries,
, several of which are being enlarged for
this OCCASION. But the hotels of the
city will not be able to accommodate
all the representatives who will as
f semble here, and the committee will
, make a campaign of the city in order
to secure suitable clearinghouse.
Many ofthe visitors will be enter
tanned by their friends, but this will
not be sufficient to relieve the COM
mittee of it's labors.
It is expected that the number OF
delegates and visitors will greatly ex-
ceed that of the convention held in
San Francisco six years ago, which
was itself very large. During the three
weeks the convention is sitting many
important questions affecting the wei.
fare of the church and religious inter
ests at large will come up and be-fully
| discussed.