Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-09-11

a Will be interested IN the FOLLOWING
d account of the Seventh international
4 Congress of Esperanto at Antwerp,
8 which has Just been received in this
city.
" Amsterdam, Aug. 2Sth, 1911.
4 Kara Samideano:-
q On the 26th ult the Seventh In
q ternational Congress of Esperanto
a completed its labors at Antwerp,
. This years congress was the largest
n and most successful ever held by
. E-sperantists, there being present al
q most 1,SOO persons from about 40
" different countries, including all the
q men most prominent in the move
" ment, among them DR.. Zamenhof
u himself, who, as is the custom,
B opened the general sessions of the
4 gathering upon Monday, Aug. 21st.
y At this first session, credentials
4 were presented by the delegates
8 elected to the congress by various
4 Esperanto societies throughout the
] world, the delegates representing a
constituency of $4,000. Upon the
platform with DR.. Zamenhof, to-
y gether with the officials of the
meeting, were also the official rep
. resentatives of % Governments and
i governmental and municipal depart
ments. These included NJ. Goemans
/ for Belgium, NJ. de Mirandor for
Brazil, NJ. Praga for Chilli, Koey
Pung Yung for China, Capt. Pere-
y gordo for Spain, Mr.. E. G. Reed for
L the United States, M. Marsely for
q Guatemala, NJ. 1inar Schibbye for
Norway. The city of Prague, Aus
tria, was represented by NJ. Jan
Biskup; the city of BRUCE, Belgium,
Il ~ NJ Cohr :, nIr11tNr rf D,yI-
lie instruction and the Dept. Of Com
. merce of the Russian Government
by NJ. Nediylsin. The international
Peace Movement was represented
4 in the persons Of Prof. Oh. RIchet,
i delegate of the Society of Arbitra-
q ton and Peace" of Paris, and the
4 no less eminent Felix Moscheles Of
London, delegate of the "Interna-
tional Association for Peace and Ar
D bltration." Several states Of the U.
S. were also individually repre-
a scented officially, viz: Vermont, by
Mr.. Stanyan; North Carolina, by DR..
a Rudy; Massachusetts, by HinthrOp
Lee and Pennsylvania, by J. D.
q Hailman.
D One Of the most interesting events
Il of the opening session, the business
q of which consisted in receiving the
/ salutatlons of the delegates named
4 above and many others, representing
/ the members of the numerous ma
y tiOnalities gathered in attendance,
1 was the presentation to Dr.. Zamen-
1 hof by the Spanish Vice Consul at
Antwerp, of the Cross Of a Comman-
D der Of the Order of Isabella the
Catholic, bestowed upon him by His
= Majesty, the King of Spain.
MI C--~- -
Antwerp by the Mayor Of the city
i and at a later meeting the Project
of Police, in fluent Esperanto, made
a short address, eXtolling the value
: Of the language in tightening the
labor Of his department in a city of
j such diversity of languages as Ant
werp. Some 60 of the city police are
proficient In the international lam
guage and assisted much IN contrib
uting to the comfort of Esperantist
. visitors. In q visit to the Hague
? since, l also found police officers
competent to speak Esperanto and
about thirty (two-thirds) of the
: ram-car conductors Of that city use
? 1t f~luently.
= Congress week In Antwerp saw
8 several other sessions of the general
e body and many meetings of the sec
+ tions; such as the Esperanto law
yers, doctors, paeifsts, socialists,
religious bodies, freethinkers, ply
T ]sicists, police, ~spirttualists, etc, etc
! On the evening Of Aug. % and 23
was presented at the FLANDERS OPP
( era House." the poetic drama of
Katie" in Esperanto, by the actor
Of the Royal Nederland Theatre"
e The house was crowded both even
5 ings and the production was an ar
tistlc triumph in every respect.
= Excursions, dinners, and the usual
round of entertainments upon such
occasions filled out a remarkable
week, concluding with an Interna-
ton ball at the SOciete de IHarmOnie
on the evening Of Aug. 25, which
1 was attended by a great crowd, many
& in national costumes, ranging from
1 the kits and plaids of Scotland to
& the airy and mu~lticolored garments
Of the Danube provinces and the far
q East.
At the closing session of the Con-
q gress on Saturday, Aug. 26, among
letters and kilograms of greeting
D and fellcitation, good wishes for flu
ture success were received from His
j ! I aior+- tho L{y- - H. D0Irs.--