The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-29

GEOGRAPHERS
Of WORLD
Great Men Of Europe and Am.
erica VIII Visit Fargo
Complete List Of Distinguished
a.. Party Given
All Arrangements Complete
For Their Entertainment

All Of the arrangements have been
will leave the Northern Pacific de-
pot at o'clock Sunday morning to
make the run to Muskoda, about
twenty miles east of the city, there
to meet the special train of the Am
erican Geographical society, which
with the international society is
making a tour of the country, and
the train will make a stop over at
Moorhead to take on the members of
the reception committee there. The
aching chairman of the committee,
Superintendent Hoover of the city
Is in readiness and that after the
guests have arrived here, they will
be taken for a short trip about the
two cities. AS they will only be in
Fargo about two hours at the most
very little can be done excepting ia
give the visitors a general view OF
Fargo and her possibilities.
The party will reach this city at 8: 80
and will be met at the depot by auto
mobiles and be taken out to the ag-
ricultural college where Secretary
Stine and Chairman Hoover today
made arrangements for their recep.
ton. They will then visit the other
places of learning in the two cities
and there will be short reception
held at the commercial club rooms
and 1t Is expected that the specia
train will leave at IL a. m.
There are 105 men in the party, in.
cluding the foremost geographers o.
| Europe as well as America and II 4,
| up to the local committee to give then
| as good an impression of the country
| as possible during their short stay
1t is probably the most ditinguisheC
party OF scientists that ever visited
the northwest in company and Fargo
| has been greatly hOnored in the fac
that she has been selected as one O.
the principal cities of the United
States TO be visited on this occa,
| sion.
| OF course they will be given a IooI
| at the new Thirteenth street schoo
| house on the southside, as it Is salC
/ to be one of the very most moderI
/ in the country.
+ Following are the members OF tn,
party who will participate in the ex
cursion, which has an itinerary in
| Guiding the entire country from coas
/ to coast and a period of time from
! Aug. 20 to Oct. 1S: -... s.
Austria--Dr. Edmund Brucker, pro
| fessor of geography at the Universit,
| of Vienna; DR.. Fritz Machatschek, pri
/ vatdozent of geography at the Univer
sity of Vienna; Or. Eugen Oberhum
mer. professor of geography at tn
i University of Vienna.
4 Belgium Leclercq. forme
president of the Royal Belgian Geo
graphical society; Paul Elsen, membe
1 of the Royal Geographical society Q
i Antwerp.
\ Denmark-Prof. Ole olufsen, secre
tary of the Royal Danish Biographies
Il society.
France-Henri Baulig. instructor 1
geography, University of Paris; AlbeI
Demangeon, professor OF geograph,
I University OF Lille; Emmanuel d
: Margie, vice president section of his
torical and descriptive geography {
Il the Comite des Travaux Historiques {
Scientifiques; Edouard Alfred Marie
late president Commission Centrale d
la Society de Geographic; Emmar1ut
: de Martonne, professor of geography /
the University of Lyons and Paris
Lucien Gaiiois professor Of geograph,
University of Paris; Antoine Vache
!, professor of geography, Uniersity {
8 Lille. Pierre Bastian, jacques Gomber
students, University of Paris: Francoi
; Herbette, assistant In geography, Uni
versity of Paris.
81 Germany ID. Erich yon Drygalsk
, professor of geography, University {
81 Munich; DR.. Fritz Jaeger, professor I
lcolonial geoEraplly. University OF Bel