Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-20
AMERICANS RESPOND To
PROPOSED PEACE FETE
Lay Plans to Celebrate Centen-
ary of Signing of Treaty
of Ghent
Especial to The Herald)

BOSTON, Mass, Sept 19.-Dr. James
l.. Tryon, assistant secretary of the
American Peace society, finds in
America cordial response to the pro-
posal to celebrate the century of peace
between the Unite[ States and Great
Britain which will be marked by the
anniversary of the signing of the
Treaty Of Ghent in 1914. He has Civ
en- to the press letters received by
him preparatory to meeting IN Iof-
onto of the One Hundred Years Peace
society. This organization, recently
formed by representatives from trade,
peace, historical and other bodies, is
intended to furnish the towns and Cit
les of the American Canadian border
with a means for associated work in
the interests of the celebration.
The writer's of the letters are Hon.
Andrew D. White, chairman of the
American delegation to the first Hague
conferences; Hon. Richard Olney, eX-
secretary Of state; President Abbott
Lawrence Lowell of Harvard univer-
sity; Cardinal Gibbons, Hon. Eben S.
Draper, governor of Massachusetts;
Hon A Pothier, governor of Rhode
Island; Hon. A. ]. Montague, eX-goV-
ernor Of Virginia. Hon. Richard Bar
thodt, president of the American group
of the interparliamentary union; Hon.
Samuel w. Mccall, member of con-
gress from Massachusetts; Prof AL
bert Bushnell Hart Of Harvard univer-
sity; Prof. George H. Blakeslee OF
Clark university; Dean Henry Wade
Rogers of Yale university law school,
Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts;
Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, president of
the Transatlanticc society; Rt. Rev.
Frederick Courtney, formerly bishop
of Nova Scotia; DR.. Francis e. Clark,
president of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor; Rev. Alexander
Mann, D. D., rector of Trinity church,
Boston; Rev. Philip S. MoXom, ID. D.,
of Springfield Mass; Hon. Charles f.
Libby, president Of the American Bar
association; Hon. Charles Francis
Adams, president OF the Massachusetts
Historical society; Hon. James p.
Baxter. president of the New England
Historic Genealogical society; Bishop
B. b. USHER president of the Victor
ian club. Boston; j. Arthur Favreau of
the Societe Historique Franco-Ameri-
caine, Boston; Bernard j. RothWell.
president of the Boston chamber or
commerce; Richard L. Cay secretary
of the Massachusetts state board of
trade: Lee ST. Smith, ex-president
chamber of commerce, Pittsburg, Pa,
chairman of committee on foreign re-
lations and commerce; John Brown
Lennon, treasurer American Federation
Of Labor; DR.. Benjamin F. Trueblood,
general secretary of the American
Peace society; DIR. Francis H. Rowley,
president of the American Humane
Education society; Edwin D. Mead, di-
rector of the international school Of
peace; Hon. George A. Roberts, presi-
dent Of the Commercial National bank,
Chicago; and Rev. Charles p. Beals,
field secretary Of the American Peace
society.
The letters show a sincere feeling OF
fraternity in America for Canada and
Great Rritian. Several of them COM
ment ON the benefits of the Rush
Bagot agreement made in 1917. which
pledged the United States and Great
Britain to refrain from building arma-
ments on the Great Lakes, and hold
II UP as a practical example for the