The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-17
Officials and Diplomats
VIII Use Steamer
Newport News.
To Leave Washington
Thursday Evening
at 8 O'Clock.
Secretary of the Navy
May Have Party on
Dolphin.

Preparations are being completed by
the ter-centenuiaI commission for the
participation by Government officials
and members % the Diplomatic Corps,
who viii be the guests Of the commission,
at the opening ceremonies of the James
town Exposition, on Hampton Roads,
April 26.
Nearly every embassy and legation
in this city has accepted invitations to
be guests of the commission on the trip
from Washington to the exposition and
return. This party. which VIII number
more than one hundred. viii be per
sonally conducted by Huntington W.
son, Third Assistant Secretary Of State,
who viii represent the State Depart
ment on the occasion. The excursion
will be under the management OF AS
= sistant Secretary of the Treasury Ed
wards. the secretary Of the commits
sion.
To Use Steamer Newport News.
The party viii make the trip on the
steamer Newport News. Of the Washing
ton and Norfolk Steamboat Company.
Heading the party, in their official ca
pacities as members of the commission.
will probably be Secretary of the Treas
MetcaIf
The invitations to the diplomats were
extended to every ambassador and min
lister. the counselor or first secretary
OF embassy or legation. and the milf
tary and naval attache. with their wives
and a limited number Of ladies' Of the
family OF each.
The ship VIII leave Washington at 6
o'clock on the evening OF Thursday.
April p. and arrive at Hampton Roads
early next morning. shortly after the
arrival there Of the MayhoWer, bearing
the President and his party.
The boat viii leave the exposition at
sunrise on Saturday morning, April q
IN order 10 give the guests Inc advan-
tqge or a day trip up the bay and the
historic +ls, Fotonac, arriving in Washing
Ton late Saturday afternoon. 1t is cal
twelve hours
Metcalf May Use Dolphin.
The list OF the Presidents party has
not vet been announced. Owing to the
limited accommodations on the Nav
flower. the number viii be small. While
IL has not been definitely decided. il -
possible that Secretary Metcalf viii
make the trip on the Dolphin, escorting
Few army and navy officers. Sen
atcrs and Representatives 1t has not
Yet been decided who viii officially rep
resent the War Department in the alb
sence of Secretary Taft.
In the meantime, the vessels of the
foreign navies have begun to arrive in
american waters, but none of them will
drop anchor in Hampton Roads TIL
the morning Of the opening of the expO-
sition, when. after having modified
just inside the Capes, they will enter
and take the positions assigned 10 them
officials of the BueTaU OF Navigation
are now busy al work on the chart for
these locations.
Bremen First Foreigner There.
The German ship Bremen was the first
ship to arrive from foreign waters. For
several weeks she has been at Newport
News undergoing repairs. She belongs
to the German cruiser squadron Of the
West Indies. The training ship from
Argentina has arrived at Baltimore.
and. after a few days visit there. she
viii stop at Annapolis. where the onicers
viii be the guests of the Naval Acad-
envy officials.
Only a few of the attachments of for
eign armies have arrived. and there is /
little information in Washington con-
corning them, as they viii be taken care
OF by Mai. Gen. Frederick D Grant /
commanding the Department of the
East, who has been at Fort Monroe the |
past two weeks, carrying out the ar 1
for the army representation /