Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-29
Washington Is Convention
Center of All America

, Capital city for its meeting place
Three days later the National Board of
Trade, representing the commercial bod
les IN every large city in the country,
gathered in Washington for several
days sessions. On the same date in an
other part Of the city. the American AS
| ISOLATION of Masters. Mates and Pilots
met TO discuss problems of special inter-
est TO themselves. Before this organiZa-
| ton had adjourned delegates to the an
nual meeting of the State Federal Stock
Feedlng Associa ION began to arrive in
| large numbers.
were officially doomed In a ladies'
tailors convention About a week later
| the International Builders and Traders
Association met here. The next conven-
ton was the Pythian Grand Lodge.
which assembled February % The same
day there was in this city an Interstate
conference on weights and measures.
In March the first convention to meet
mere was the Eastern Commercial Teach
ers Association. and before it had adj
! journed the Sigma Chi Epsilon Frater-
nifty opened sessions in Washington
April Hebrews from all parts of the
country met here TO attend the, conven-
tlon OF mai Birth, which was address,
ed by President Taft, Miss Mabel Board
man and other prominent people of
washington. This convention had hard
iy adjourned when women from every
! state in the Union gathered in Washing
49, Us oCiC6dtSS VI TWO separate ana
olstlnct conferences. One was the Wom-
al SuHraglSts convention, with it's pro-
gram or votes for women and the Sec
0no was the patriotic organization of the
daughters of the American Revolution,
winch convened in Continental Memorial
HAL The members of the D. A. r.
had hardly adjourned before another pa
triotlc association of women, the Daugh-
ters or lSl2. assembled in the city. Three
days later the Society of Colonial Danes
opened here their biennial conference.
Inc annual meeting Of the National Tu-
perculosls Association was the first ma
tlonal gathering here in May May 3 the
congress of American Physicians and
surgeons met here to discuss medical
problems of general interest. Next in or
Ger was the convention OF the American
therapeutic Society, which opened two
days later, and before 1t adjourned elected
Ir, Harvey W. Wiley its president. The
opening OF the pharmacopeial convention
TOOK place May 10, and d few days later
800 Poles, from various parts of this
country and Europe. most of them mem
bers OF the Polish National Alliance, met
mere Tor the opening of the first Polish
National Congress. which issued an officia
declaration of independence for Poland
About the middle Of May the American
Federatlon of Arts and the United Ty-
pothetae of America held annual sessions
IN different parts of the city.
One OF the last great gatherings in the
month OF May was the worlds Sunday
school convention, which brought to the
capital about 15.010 persons from almost
every state in the Union and almost every
civilised country on the globe. F1fty-one
nations were represented at this great
convention.
Following this International assembly the
entire executive and legislative branches
or the state of Louisiana, accompanied by
hundred Or more of its business men,
invaded the capital.
Washington is logically the convention
city OF the country, and once the National
Capital has a gigantic auditorium, like
the one proposed by the George Washing
ton Memorial Association. it will make
the capital even more popular as a gath
erin8 place for national societies and or
CARNATIONS of every kind Recognizing
the tremendous commercial advantages of
large conventions, the business men of
Washington are now doing all in their
power to increase the popularity of the
National Capital as a gathering place.