The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-11-25
DICKENS TO Be
HONORED LIKE
AN EMPEROR
Private Citizen OF England Will
Find Cairo In Its Gala
Attire
PLANS FOR THE RECEPTION
Only Committee And Ladies In
Charge Expected To Appear
In Evening Dress
PLANS FOR THE RECEPTION

Arrangements for the entertain
ment OF Alfred Tennyson Dickens,
who will arrive In Cairo on Thanks
giving Day, have been completed by
the Woman's Club and the CONNER
eial organizations.
Through misunderstanding 1t
was stated that the reception to be
held in honor of the distinguished
visitor at the Alexander Club would
he formal 1t is now announced that
oaly the committee members and the
young women who are to serve frappe
Will be expected to wear evening at
tire.
Mayor Parsons stated last night
that ne would have all of tha streets
In the business section flushed, and
he asks the citizens and business men
to cooperate with the municipal au-
thorities in keeping the sidewalks
and cutters clean.
Every citizen of Cairo should deco
rate his home and place of business
with American flag. Mayor Parsons
said: "We must not overlook any
chance To impress Mr.. Dickens that
Cairo is o progressive city"
Alfred Tennyson Dickens is to tell
or his travels in the United States
In book, the title of which is to be
Modern American Notes" He is
travelling over virtually the same
route taken by his lllustrious father
in 1912. and in his book will tell of
the vast improvement made In the.
cities and towns mentioned in
Charles Dickens American Notes.
An article in the Pittsburgh Dis
patch, written by L. c. Macpherson,
announces that an American book.
written by William Clyde wilkins, a
member of the City Council Of Pitts
burgh, which stated that the main
purpose Of Charles Dickens visit to
America in 1872 was to visit Eden
(Cairo) is receiving commendation
in English publications.. The title
of the book is, Charles Dickens in
America" 1t is profusely illustrated
and newspaper clippings of 10 years
ago are used to furnish connected
stories"
Mr.. wilkins declaration that
Dickens came to the United States
to visit Cairo oorroborates a paper in
the Journal of the Illinois Histor-
ieal Society" by Dr. j. F. Snyder,
which follows:
Came to Cairo.
ITO see Cairo was really the main
object of his visit to America. In
1887, one Darius D. Holbrook, a
shrewd Boston yankee, organized the
Cairo City and Canal Company, q
scheme as audaciously illusive as the
John Laws Bubble Of 171S; and 60
ling to Europe he plastered the walls
everywhere with flaming litho-
graphs Of a grand city at the junct-
ion of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
lin fact, as mythical as the tabled
Quiyira Of Coronado's search. In Lon
don was the banking house of John
Wright eco. the same that in 1899
confidenced the Illinois Fund Com
missioners, Governor Reynolds. SEN
ator Young, General Rawlings and
Colonel Oakley. into depositing
100000 OF Illinois bonds, restilt-
ing in a loss to the state of half their
value. Through John Wright G. Co.,
Hclbrook actually sold bonds of his
Cairo company to the amount of
$4,000, COO. Among his numerous
victims, who, tits asserted, invested
in them large part of his slender
means, was Dickens"
Notes From Notes
Mr.. Wilder quoted from "Ameri-
can Notes in describing the famous
novelist's visit to Eden.
AT length, upon the morning of
the third day, we arrived at spot
so much more desolate than any we
had vet beheld that the forelornest
places We had passed were. In COM
iparispn, full TO Interest. AT the
junction Of the two rivers, on ground
II. kA A4a -
\ to flat and low and marshy mat at
certain seasons of the year 1t is inun-