The Washington herald., 1913-05-11
PEACE WORKERS due
NCAPITAL TOMORROW
Members Of international Committee
and American Body to Visit
Washington.
PLAN MANY ENTERTAINMENTS

For the international committee now in
the United States to confer on the ar
rangemets for the celebration. of the sign
ing Of the treaty OF Client and the 100
year period Of peace between English
speaking people and for the members of
the American committee accompanying
the foreigners who reach Washington to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock, a pro-
gramme of entertainment has been ar
ranged by Capital peace advocates that
will fill the day and a half the dele
gates will spend here.
The foreign conferees left New York
yesterday for Boston after holding a
number of conferences on the general
celebration planned and are to leave the
Hub city this afternoon at 5:15 o'clock.
They will arrive tomorrow morning and
remain until Tuesday noon, when they
start on a tour Of the West and North
that will take in Chicago Detroit, and
Niagara Falls, and finally land them
back in New York.
The peace delegates will be received
at noon tomorrow by Secretary of State
Bryan, and at 1880 they will meet Pres
ident Wilson at the White House. A
luncheon, given by Col. Robert NJ.
Thompson. will follow at 1 o'clock. and
during the afternoon the party will visit
the various points in and around the
Capital
The big feature of the Washington
visit, however, will be the dinner to
be held at the Willard tomorrow night
by the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace. At this dinner Secre-
tary Of State Bryan. Senator Root OF
New York, and others will speak. Tues
morning until train time will be spent
by the delegates in further sightseeing.
The result of the conferences that have
been held in New York has not been
made public as yet, and probably moth
ing will be given out for some time ex-
cept that it has been decided that some
sort of general celebration will be held
to commemorate the hundredth anniver-
sary of the signing Of the treaty Of
Client. December IA, 1914, and of the
of the peace pact by the
United States, and the attendant cere-
monies between February 10 and 20 of
tho same year.
The peace workers of the District
have planned an elaborate programme
for that time. 1t is planned, among
other things, to ask the President to
hold a reception: that the Postoffice
issue an appropriate
stamp on the line of the stamp issued
for the Hudson Fulton celebration and
other national events; that the city be
illuminated, and that all the
ministers make the date the occasion
for special services in commemoration
Of the 100 years of peace. 4
The New York men who will accom-
pany the foreign delegates TO WASH
ington are Andrew Carnegie, Chaun-
cey NJ Depew, DR.. E. r. l.. Gould, w.
F. McCombs, Austen G.. Fox, Charles
Stewart Dawson. George William BUR
leigh, William Curtis Demorest, An
drew D. Humphrey. and John A. Stew
art.
Lord weardale, when seen before
leaving New York, said:
I'm leaving New York we are grained
10 believe that a complete unanimity has
been accomplished in relation to the
plans for the celebration of the centenniai
festivities Of 1914 and 1915. 1t is not always
easy to bring into exact conformity some
times varying views upon matters or TINS
kind and to agree upon cohesive plan
which is likely to attract the support or
all we'll wishers Of British-Americar |
friendship on both sides OF the Atlantic
so far as the British committee is /
II is already pledged, as is |
we'll known. to the purchase OF Sulgrave /
Manor, in Northamptonshire, the ances-
raj home of the Washington family, |
which it is believed will be gratifying |
o American public opinion, and for all /
ime establish free from injury place.
which will naturally be regarded by |
American visitors to England as possess
d of particular interest to them, and |
will. indeed, be visited by large num-
'ers Of English people who admire, as
Iii fair-minded men do, the Industrious
areer of George Washington. This will
onstitute the main feature OF the per-
nanent record in Great Britain, and it
s hoped that it may be rendered more
ttractive by the contribution from
riends in America of Washington relics
nd by suitable furniture, so as to make
in all respects a fitting memorial.
Apart from this, there will be proba-
ly a tablet with suitable medallions in
Westminster Abbey and further memorial
ablets in other parts of Great Britain,
nd probably some national memorial,
he foundation stone of which, in common
With other national memorials in Amer
"a, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere,
" the King, the President, and his
1ajesty's representatives abroad.
The establishment of interchangeable
of American history and
travelling Scholarships is also intended,
nut the whole programme will shortly
e made public, and it Is not necessary
hat l should further dwell upon its de-
ais, except to again emphasize the
leasure with which we are able to re-
ord that a complete understanding has
cen established between all parties con-
erned.
'In leaving New York I should like to
e allowed to express with all the forces
hitch I can how greatly we have been
,uched by the generous reception of
ne whole American public. We have
cen met with smiles and kindness on
very hand. The hospitality which has i
cen extended to us has been unbounded. ,
he personal attention of the different l
TENDERS of the reception committee I
ould not have been exceeded, and il {
,e very natural sentiment Of gratitude
hich this reception has created in our 1