Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-12
TURKS FIGHT HARD PLANS FOR GUESTS
Montenegin Advance Sou Distinguished Scientists to Be
tari Stubborn|y Opposed. Entertained Here.
BOTH SIDES LOSE HEAVL r COMING IN TWO PARTIES
Delegates
Leading One Column Chambers Number 400.
THE woUNJED TO VISIT POINTS OF INTEREST
of
Sa to Have Re- Representatives Foreign Coun-
Distinguished Scientists to Be
Entertained Here.
COMING IN TWO PARTIES
Delegates of International Com
mesce Chambers Number 400.
TO VISIT POINTS OF INTEREST
Party of Geograpbers, Including
Representatives of Foreign Coun-
tries, Also Scheduled. /

Several hundred distinguished visitors
VIII reach Washington this evening and
remain in the National Capital for sew
eral days They will come In two parties.
The larger viii be that of the delegates TO
the fifth International Congress- OF Cham
bers of Commerce. about 400 strong, who
are due to reach the city at 6:35 o'clock.
The other party is that of the geogra-
piers. representing this country and six
teen foreign lands. Sixty OF them are
scheduled to arrive at O'Clock, coming
from Charlottesville Va. where they
were the guests of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Virginia.
The delegates to the Congress of Cham
bers of Commerce. which was held in
Boston recently. viii arrive i'm the spe-
cial trains in which they have been tour
ing the United States. They come here
from Pittsburgh, Pa, and accompanying
| them will be ID. ]. kaufman. chairman
of the .ocal committee in charge OF their
entertainment, and Secretary Thomas
Grant of the WASHINGTON Chamber OF
Commerce both having Joined the party
TO-DAY in Pittsburgh.
Committees to Greet Delegates.
AT the Union station a committee from
| the Chamber of Commerce is to meet the
| delegates Ii will be headed by ID. J.
| to their hotels in automobiles. Tomor-
row they will be taken on a sightseeing
tour about Washington. and Monday a
special trip to Mount Vernon has been
arranged, with luncheon aboard the
steamer. Monday evening the delegates
are to be the guests of honor at a big
reception given at the Pan-American
Union building by the Chamber of Com
merce and Director John Barrett of the
union. They will leave here Tuesday.
Tkx mill
Union station by the officers of the Ma
tional Geographic Society and escorted
to Congress Hall Hotel. which will be
their headquarters. The party is in
charge of Prof. William Davis of Har-
ward. They represent sixteen foreign
lands. Accompanying the foreign scien-
fists will be number of American
geographers. The nations represented in
clude Austria. Belgium. Denmark, France.
Germany, England, Holland, Hungary.
| Italy, Norway Portugal, Russia, Servia.
Spain. Sweden and Switzerland. In the
party will be men Of the highest standing
In their own countries. Lucien GalloiS
will represent the University Of Paris.
while the French ministry OF public in
struction has sent Antoine Vacher as its
representative. Italys representative Will
be DIR. CeSare Calciatti.
Henry o. Beckit of Balliol College ana
Allan Grant Ogilvie Of the Oxford School
OF Geography are among the Englishmen
in the party. Prof. George G. Chisholm
and Belgium will send Jules lie Clercq.
former president of the Royal Belgian
Geographic Society. Vladimir Doubian-
sky. the Russian explorer. who has re-
Gently been appointed conservator of the
imperial botanic gardens at ST. Peters,
burg, is the Russian representative. while
the secretary general of the Royal Geo
graphic Society of Spain, DIR. Ricardo
Beltran Rospide, represents the Span
tSh government.
DR.. Gannett to Entertain.
The visitors. accompanied by many Of
ficers and members of the National Geo
graphic Society, VIII visit Great Falls
| tomorrow, where DIR. Henry Gannett,
president of the society. will be host at a
| luncheon, after which the party will in
spect the gorge and the river at and be-
low the falls.
The visitors will be guests at a lunch
con to be served Tuesday in the admins
tration building of the Carnegie Institu-
ton, rendered jointly by the institution
and the Carnegie Foundation for Inter-
national Peace. Covers will be laid for
12O persons at this function. A smoker
at the National Geographic Societys
quarters. in the Hubbard Memorial build
ing. is planned for Monday or Tuesday
evening.
The delegates will be guests also at a
reception which is to be given at the Pam
American Union building Monday even-
ing.