The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-12-03
Good Attendance Indi-
Gated for Opening
Session To-Day.
TAKE BREAKFAST
WITH GOV. MANN
Visitors From Rome in Behalf OF
Rural Credits-San Francisco
Exposition Represented-Each
Governor Has Local Com
mittee for His Entertain
ment-Reception Tonight.

Nine Governors two former cover
noTs. the man who originated the
Governors Conference. the acting
secretary. together with people who
Will present issues 70 the meeting OF
this week had arrived in the city
last night Early. morning traihs
bring others. 50 that there will be a
good attendance AT the opening ses-
sion this morning. Acting Secretary
Miles C. Riley said last night that the
largest attendance in the history OF
the conference was already assured.
The early arrivals were as follows:
Governor Francis T.. McGoyern. OF
Wisconsin. chairman Of the executive
Committee. Governor and Mrs. Fred
erick ". Plaisted, Of Maine Governor
Edwin l.. Norris. OF Montana, Cover
nor " ". Kitchen and = p ArendeN.
Of North Carolina. Governor Albert
W. Gilchrist. Of Florida, Governor
Tasker L. Oddie. Of Nevada: Governor
Simeon T.. Baldwin, OF connecticut.
Governor and Mrs. John - DIX and
niece. Miss Douglass. OF New York
Governor Emmet ONeal OF Alabama.
former Governor and Mrs. John
Franklin Fort and Miss Fort. OF New
Jersey. former Governor Augustus Z.
Wilson, OF kentucky. Nj C. Riley.
ecting secretary. % Madison. VIE.
William George Jordan, Father OF the
Conference OF Governors OF New
Aork; Mr.. aud Mrs. samuel Heilner.
Of Spring Lake y j.. DR.. Lillian ~.
Johnson. OF Memphis. Tenn, and Miss
Ernestine Noa. OF Chattanooga. Tenn.
Welcomed by Governor Mann.
Governor william Hodges Mann. who
vas IN Norfolk yesterday welcoming
the National Guard Association. re
turned 10 the city last evening, and
with Mrs. Mann. went 10 the Jefferson
Eotel last night where he greeted
tho incoming Governors. Hello.
Governor was the general saluta-
zion in the lobby. as one after another
arrived.
Secretary >. = Riley. chosen 20 act
IL tais capacity by the executive com
Inittee for the interim between meet
Ings. came ia early. and saw all the
Governors In quick succession 'He
is the man who does the work" said
Governor McGovern. Mr. Riley d.
vested himself OF his travelling gar
ments, shook hnds with al the visi
tors made himself Of service 70 a
dozen people a, once. and then pro-
eceded TO business.
First he delivered the customary Ell
logium of the Jefferson Hotel then he
praised the hard work which Governor
Mann has done and MS successful ef-
forts 70 make the meeting IuI Of
pleasure. Next M. Riley showed how
and why this particular Conference
OF Governors viii have the larger at
tendance. viii b. the most important
and the most successful OF all
Finally he opened = batch u tslc-
grams, which show matters that VIII
lie presented 10 the conference pro-
vided hearing Is granted
Greetings From Frisco.
..
Pacific Exposition. containing the in
formation that DT. T. :. Jones. Louis
lana commissioner TO tn san Francis
show OF 1915. and DT- Frank a.
Wolf, associate physicist cf the Blu
reau OF Standards. Department OF Com
nlerce and Labor. Will be here TO say
some thinge in behalf Of the neat
worlds fair.
Another revealed the information
that Miss Kate Barnard. OF Oklahoma
viii visit the conference. She is in
troducfd by Governor George ". =
Hunt. of Arizona who says that she Is
thoroughly familia. with the Arizona
Institutional Reform and can explain
1t First the conference viii try u
Ind out what it Is.
DR.. Lillian W. Johnson and Miss
Ernestine. Noe nave come over from
Rome. italy. 10 attend the Conference
OF Governors. Thy have been in the
Eternal City studying the methods Of
the international Institute OF Agricui-
ture. on which David Lubin has made
Tor himself everlasting fame. They
especially desir. u interest the Gov
ernors in the matter Of rural credits.
a. worked out in many European ccun-
tries. and &C wei fortified with Etcra-
surc on tn subject r sides. they
= 4
o. y hat thsy sr. talking.
Mission Of individuals.
alyrcn T. ilerrick. ambasssdor TO
France. will BE- here to act as the
persoBsI representative % P--s ident
Taft IN this same matter ~ rural Gre
dts. Or INhnson and Miss Noe have
been invited to N. White House DIM
ner IN Washington SATURDAY. when the
Governors will D. f.nesent
Mr.. and Mrs Teiin.r arc here be-
Cause they are Interested IN she con-
ference. u met last year IN their town
o. Spring lake. y. 7.
Former Governor Eort and Wilson
were especially invited by Governor
Mann. They always took the kccncst
interest 81 the conference while active
members. and were iosders 81 thought
Or that body.
Governor McCovcrn WIS thc Roose-
Welt candidate for temporary chair
nan ~ the Chicago convention. which
renor1insted Mr. TAFT. tie survived
are pemoc-atic victory and vas re-
elected.
Mr.. Jordan was the author Of the
famous letter 81 1905 90 President
Roosevelt which rad ~ ifs result the
formation II N. Conference ~ Gov
<rnor- Last year hc vas secretary.
urraka.s 80 Mansion.
st SIS O'Clock this morning autcro-
tiIer viii call 81 the Jefferson Tor tho
visiting Governors and those Nith
taern. and viii take them 10 the execu-