The Washington herald., 1913-11-03
MANY DELEGATES
COMING TO CITY
Conservation Congress VIII
Bring Visitors to Wash
ington.
ORGANIZED FIVE YEARS
First General Meeting win Be Held
Here Since Governors Were at
White House in 1908.

Widespread interest in the Fifth Ma
tionai Conservation Congress is shown
by the large number of delegates al
ready appointed. These delegates are
! from every State in the Union. They
represent States, counties. municipalities,
educational institutions, and national and
local organizations. Included in the list
are many men and women of national
prominence who have been Identified with
the cause OF conservation since its incep-
ton at the famous Conference of Gov
ernors held at the White House in 1908.
This years session Of the Conservation
Congress viii be held November Is. I9.
and 20 in this city. 1t will be the first
general gathering of conservationists In
the National Capital since the Confer
ence of Governors. For this reason the
executive committee has determined to
devote the greater part of the program
to forest and water power conservation,
the subjects with which the movement
began. The sessions will be open to all
who are interested.
List Of Delegates. .
Delegates who are residents of the
District OF Columbia, already appointed,
are as follows:
Albert NJ. Read, American Warehouse
mems Association; ID. A. Smith, District
of Columbia Paper Manufacturing Com
pany; Representative Scott Ferris, Repre-
sentative Claude Weaver. Representative
Bird S. Mcclure, Senator T. P. Gore and
Senator Robert L. Owen OF Oklahoma;
William II. Baldwin and W. T. Denison,
National Municipal League; Representa-
tive c. o. Lobeck, Representative Silas
n. Barton, Senator G. NJ. Hitchcock. Sem
ator George Norris, Representative
Charles II. Sloan, Representative John
A Mcguire, Representative Moses p.
phens Of Nebraska; Representative NJ.
o. Leighton of New Jersey; John F.
Shafroth, Denver Chamber of Commerce;
II. L. Wills, Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers; Joseph 4. Holmes, David
White and C. ID. Walcott, Geological So
ciety of America; E. W. Dom, jr., Ma
than c. Wyeth, Leon f. Dessez, +. b.
Pyles, ]. r. Marshall, and Glen Brown.
American Institute of Architects; Prof.
J. Z. Pope, American Economic Associa-
ton; DR.. Carl L. Alsburg. American
Chemical Society; George C. Shaffer,
Washington Chamber of Commerce;
Charles L. Parsons, American Chemical
Society; j. Harry Cunningham. Com
missioner o. p. Newman, r. B. Beh-
rend. Z. A. Bogley, and Roy c. Clafiin,
Washington Chamber Of Commerce; Will
liam d. Stephens, University Of South
Carolina; NJ. NJ. Flannery and Henry B.
F. Macfarland, National Tax Association;
John p. Heap. American Humane Asso-
citation; J. V. Craig, National Hay Asso-
citation; Harry p. Letton, Lincoln, Nebr.;
George Shiras, Gilbert NJ. Grosvenor, II.
NJ Smith and r. v. Coville, National
Society.
Mrs. Leonard II. Wilder, Woman's Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress;
Mrs. Foster Elliott. California FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs; Mrs William
L. Andrews, General Federation of wom-
ems Clubs; Miss Ellen c. Lombard. Mrs.
Giles Scott Rafter and Mrs. Arthur A.
Birney, National Congress of Mothers; |
Mrs F. II. Newell, Mrs. Lydia A Will |
Iiams and Mrs. Duncan Z. Fletcher. |
woman's National Rivers and Harbors |
Congress; DR.. W. S. Stratton, American |
Society for Testing Materials; Howard |
International League for |
Improvement; Charles Herbert |
stockton, George Washington University; |
Rev ]. c. Elliott Albany College; Rev. |
Ulysses G. 3. Pierce Willis ]. Fowler, |
and Samuel S. Ashbaugh, Hillsdale Col
ege: Josephine Arnold Rich, Internation-
al Sunshine Society; Judge H. NJ Cla-
oaugh and Paul b. Dunbar, Pennsyl-
rania College; Mrs. A. L Pearce, Wom-
yress; Mrs. A. B. Cummins, Iowa FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs; Mrs Janet
Richards, Mrs. James Lansburgh, Miss
Elizabeth Brown, Mrs. ]. Edison Briggs,
md Mrs. Ellis Logan, District Of CO.
umbia Federation Of Women's Clubs;
Mrs. Horace w. Towner, Iowa Fedora
ion of women's Clubs: J. S. Dunnigan
Ind Alexander T. vogelsang. San Fran
;isco, CAL; Mrs. Foster Elliott, Califor-
Tia Federation of women's Clubs; Mrs.
William F. Hancock. Mrs. Sarah Crois-
ant Mrs. Ralph Kahn, Mrs. Arthur
Ramsay, Mrs. William d. Bigelow, Mrs.
augustus knight and Mrs. Joseph James,
District Of Columbia Federation Of Wom-
ms Clubs; Miss Mary d. Carter, Mrs.
sarah A. Clemons, Mrs. Carl Smith, Mrs
Nary L. johnson, and Mrs Ida Lair,
Noman's National Rivers and Harbors
Congress; Isaac Reynolds Hit. Ernest
francis Burchard and Harrison East
nan Patten, Northwestern University;
,yrus Cline, Hillsdale College; Carl A
.arlson. Charles c. Yates, Arthur Cole
spencer and Owen Burt French, Case
chool of Applied Science; Charles Ed
Yard Munroe, George Washington. Uni
ersity; Clyde Kelley, Muskingum Col
eye; Representative Edward Gilmore,
Dr.. LIS. Rowe, American Society OF
'olitical and Social Science: Gen. Will
am H Bixby, American Academy OF
'olitical and Social Science; Prof Henry
J. Graves, Yale University; Lieut. Col
Y. c. Langftt: Senator 7. E Burton;
Thomas c. Thatcher; p.
!. Ridsdale, Lehigh University, South
Pa: Frederick H. Newell.
Institute Of Technology; I.
thomas H. Tulley. Durango, Col; Cuno
1. Rudolph, Balthasar H. Meyer and T.
,. Claxton, American Academy OF Politi-
al and Social Science