The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-17
international Municipal Con-
gress to Open in Chicago
Monday Will Be of Great
est Importance.
PRESIDENT TAFT TO
GIVE ONE ADDRESS
Another Speaker on Program
Is James Bryce, Ambassa-
dor from Great Britain,
Known as an Expert.
(National News Association

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 16.-Wlth the
arrival of exhibits and delegations
from all of the important cities of the
United States and many European
countries, those in charge of the In
ternational Municipal Congress and
Exhibitions, which opens Monday and
continues in session till September 80,
claim for the convention not only a
record attendance, but deliberative
Importance that will be felt through
out the United States.
The aims and object of this gather
ing of city heads is an exchange of
ideas upon the administration of mu-
nicipal affairs; the formation of model
codes of municipal ordinances govern
ing every department of city govern
ment; the promulgation and ratifica-
ton of the model ordinances adopted; !;
and the instruction of delegates.
Some Of Speakers.
Among the many prominent men
who are interested in the work of the
International Congress, and who will
address the delegates are: President
Taft, James Bryce. ambassador of
Great Britain, Governor John A. Dix,
of New York, Senator La Toilette, DR..
NJ. A. Evans, Mayor Gaynor, of New
York City, Brand Whitlock, mayor of
Toledo. Ohio, DR.. lie Grande Powers,
head of the government statistical bu-
reau, Bion J. Arnold, Chicago's trac-
ton expert and many, others.4--~
Delegates have been appointed to
the Congress from all the important
cities in the United States, and many
are sending exhibitions of municipal
administrations to be shown in the
great exhibition hall of the Coliseum.
Among the many delegations that will
attend will be a party of Japanese,
appointed by the Mikado, to study the
administration Of American cities, a
delegation of municipal officials from
New York and representatives from
the international Association of Fire
Engineers convention which will con-
vene on September 10, at Milwaukee.
The meetings of the International
Municipal Congress and Exhibition
will be divided and sub-divided so that
each and every department of city gov.
ernment will be represented and may
be attended by those interested in that
particular branch. Four sessions will
be held daily. Two of these will be
sessions of the Congress as whole in
the great Congress Hall of the Coli.
scum. The other two sessions will
each consist of a number of divisional
meetings held in smaller apartments
in the First Regiment Armory.
Have Model Ordinances.
Prominent mon in the municipal
government government of Chicago
have been asked to serve as chairmen
of these divisions of the congress. The
speakers who appear before the small
Ter meetings will lead general dis
cussion rather than make addresses.
And each speaker will prepare for
each division of the congress a set of
model city ordinances covering the
subject considered by that division.
At the end of the sessions the dele
gates will vote on each of the ordi-
nances that have been adopted as "A
Model Municipal Code Adopted and
Recommended by the International
Municipal Congress" applying to each
of the several subjects.
At the full meetings of the congress
in the large hall. the formal addresses
will be delivered. and these meetings
in addition to being conducted by the
delegates of the congress. will be
open to the public.
The closing days of the convention
will be given over to the discussion
Of hygienic problems that confront the
modern municipality, such as the
methods of controlling milk supply;
control of conta gfon and school inspec.
ton; protection of water and disposal
of sewage; yard sewage. stables and
slaughter houses; the law in relation
to health work. disposal OF garbage,
and the cost of the health department
per capita. More than three hundred
health commissioners will attend these
discussions and help in forming model
city ordinances governing public
health and sanitation.