The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
NAGEL TO GREET
NOTED ENGINEERS
this AFTERNOON
Will Represent Taft at Garden Party
and Reception at White
House To-day.
DELEGATION TO LUNCH
AT BUREAU OF STANDARDS
Party Spent Yesterday Witnessing
Military Drills and Visit to
Mount Vernon.

President Taft will be represented by
Secretary Nagel at the reception and
garden party which is to be given in
honor OF the visiting delegates to the
sixth congress of the International As
sociation for Testing Materials, on the
White House grounds this afternoon at
5 o'clock. Secretary Nagel will be as
sisted by several prominent government
officials
The delegation will visit the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing. the Depart
ment of Agriculture. the Capitol, Treas
ury. and other public buildings this
morning, and will lunch at the Bureau
OF Standards. A tour will then be un-
dertaken through Rock Creek Park. the
visitors returning to the city in time for
the White House reception at o'clock.
After dinner the delegates will visit
the Library of Congress. after which
they will entrain for Pittsburg at 10
o'clock tonight. Buffalo. Niagara Falls
Toronto, Cleveland. and other cities will
be visited on the tour. which is in charge
of Richard L. Humphrey. structural ma
terial expert, OF Philadelphia.
Yesterdays visit of the delegates TO
Washington came to a fitting conclusion
with reception given in their honor at
the new National Museum by the regents
of the Smithsonian Institution. This
function was successfully carried out.
the visitors evincing deep interest in the
rich collections Of the museum. The af-
fair was strictly a social function.
Those in the receiving line included
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Rathbun, repre-
senting the regents of the Smithsonian
Institution; Mr.. and Mrs. Fred V. CO.
vile. representing the Washington
Academy of Science: Mr.. and Mrs. John
H. Hanna, representing the Washing
ton Society of Engineers; Gen. and Mrs.
w. H. Bixby. representing the army;
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ Howe. representing
the International Association for Test
ing Materials; DIR. Joseph A. Holmes
and Mrs S. S. Vorhees, representing the
Washington committee.
The party left for a trip down the Po-
tomac yesterday morning at $50 o'clock
On the revenue cutters Apache and Mo
hawk. Their first stop was at Mount
Vernon, where the visitors had to be
landed in gasoline launches, the draft
of the ships being too deep TO permit
them to land at the wharf. From Mount
Vernon the party left for Fort Washing
ton and Fort Hunt. At the latter post
they witnessed a special drill with the
big disappearing guns. which seemed of
especial interest to some of the Russian
delegates, one of whom took photographs
of the breech lock of one of the big guns.
This was done with the permission OF the
commanding officer OF the post.
Arlington and Fort Myer were visited
next. and at the latter place a cavalry
drill was given for the benefit of the
visitors. who enthusiastically appIauded
the troopers as they went through their
evolutions and charges Lunch was
served at Marshall Hall.
1t was noticed on the way down the
river that one OF the women OF the
Vienese members nonchalantly puffed a
cigarette and some of the Germans were
on a quiet search on the government
boats for beer, the day being warm. and
their custom being to quench their thirst.
When they were told that the liquid was
not carried on government boats they
seemed perplexed.