The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
DELEGATES HERE
FOR CONVENTION
Sessions of Anti-vivisection
Congress VIII Begin
Tomorrow.
MANY SPEC ECHES PLANNED
List Includes Secretary Bryan and
Speaker CIark-Moving Pictures
Will Be Shown.
MANY SPEC CHES PLANNED

DELEGATES from many States and from
Europe are gathering in this city for the
first international anti-vivisection and
animal protection congress to be held in
the United States. This convention will
open at the Raleigh Hotel tomorrow aft
ernoon with a reception and motion pic
lures in the evening. The congress comes
to Washington on the invitation OF the
National Society for the Humane Regu-
lation OF Vivisection. and meets under
the resolution OF the congress-, held in
London in 1909 and Endorsed at Copen-
hagen in 1911.
Mrs. Clinton Pickney Farrell, OF New
York City, general secretary Of the in
ternational association, and Mrs. Flor
ence P. Waripg, organizing secretary. ar
rived at the Raleigh last evening. Mrs.
Farrell is an ardent worker in the move
ment, being president of the Vivisection
Investigation League Of New York.
The constituent societies formally join
ing in the congress are the American
Society, Of Philadelphia;
the Maryland Anti-Vivisection Society, OF
section Society, of Boston; the Vivisec-
section Investigation League. OF New
York, and the National Society for the
Humane Regulation of Vivisection, of this
city. The congress- object, briefly stated.
is consistent opposition to all forms Of
cruelty to animals officers Of the con-
gress are: Edward H. Clement, presi-
dent, Boston; jefferson Seligman, treas
urer, New York; Mrs. Florence Pell War
ing, organizing secretary, New York, and
Mrs. Farrell, general secretary.
Opinions Vary Widely.
A great range Of opinion is found
among persons who interest themselves
in the question OF vivisection from the
abolitionist to the mild
est restrictionist. Among the hundreds
OF letters from persons prominent in all
fields of effort, Mrs. Farrell says, not
more than ten have favored unrestricted
Three hundred and twenty-five persons
have been enlisted as vice presidents OF
the Animal Protection Congress. The
church is represented by an archbishop,
bishop, and monslgnor OF the Roman
church, twenty-five Episcopal bishops.
eleven bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, and officials OF other Protes-
tant denominations. Eleven United
States Senators, twelve governors, men,
bers of Congress. and many persons
prominent in professional and military
life are identified with the movement In
addition are the large number OF Tor
eign vice presidents. Among them are
the Duchess Of Somerset, the Marchio-
ness of Donegal. the Princess Mele Ba-
rese, president OF the Society for Preven-
tiOn of Cruelty TO Animals of Naples;
the Countess Ruth, of Stockholm; the
Count Georg Won Rosen, chamberlain TO
her majesty, the Queen Of Sweden; Mar
quise du Trevor de Breffeillac, president
of the Society for the Protection OF AMI
mails, Paris; Marquis de Wentworth, Mar
quise Cecil de Wentworth, officer d'Acad-
emie, Paris.
Among the speakers at the sessions
of the congress will be Secretary Of
State Bryan, Speaker Clark, Senator
Myers, Ernest Thompson Seaton, Dan
Beard. Francis H. Rowley, and DR..
Hamilton F. Biggar Another speaker
Will be Miss Lind-of-Hageby. of London.
She is a gifted speaker and has been
heard in Washington once before. She
'peaks twice during the congress. The
meetings will be open to the public.