Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-05-06
every english SPEAKING
COUNTRY Represented At
PEACE Meeting IN n. Y
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alive Of New Foundl@nd and SIR Geo.
HOutSon Reid, p. c., high Commission
er Of Australia. Belgium, or rather
the city OF Chen, where the famous
treaty was signed on December p.
1914, was representa- Ly Alderman
c. De Bruyne, High Sheriff Of Client.
and AlphOnse Van Werveke, Curator
Of the Museum OF Client. The Amer
lean delegates included Joseph II.
ChOate, honorary chairman of the Am
cr'can conference committees; Alton
i. Parker, William Church Osborn,
Col. Robert NJ. Thompson, Washing
ton, d. c.; Charles Stewart Davidson,
William Curtis Demorest, DR.. John II.
Finley, William D. Forbes, Austen G..
Fox, DR.. y. r. l.. Gould, Andrew E..
Humphrey, Dr.. George F. Kunz, Cal
vim w. Rice, DR.. Louis l.. Seaman, Will
liam Solomon, Isaac n. Seligman, An
drew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
George T. Wilson, Dr.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, and others.
Mayor Gaynor Speaks.
! After the formal opening Mayor
Gaynor delivered an address of well
come to which response was made in
behalf Of the visitors by Lord Wear
dale, Chairman OF the British Con-
ference. After these preliminaries,
Van Werveke, Of the Museum of Client
to preside over the meeting. The ses-
sion lasted several hours, and at the
close the delegates were the guests
at luncheon of the Pilgrim Society, at
the Waldorf-Astoria.
Will Meet Daily.
After today the international con.
ference will meet daily at 4 p. m,
though most of its work will be done
by subcommittee. Although it is
impossible at the present time to fore
cast the program which the confer.
ence will eventually agree upon, it
may be said that the celebration will
principally center around three mo-
the centenary of the signing of the
mentous dates: December "a, 1914,
the centenary of the signing Of the
Treaty Of Client; January 5, 1915, the
centenary of the dinner given by the
City Of Client in honor Of the Joint
High Commission which had arrang-
ed the treaty; and February II, 1915,
the centenary Of the ratification Of the
Treaty of Client. 1t rests with the
conference to decide what form the
celebration or celebrations are to
take.
The American Committee will hold
its annual meeting on Friday, May 8,
at II a. M, at the Hotel Plaza. An
drew Carnegie will preside and Con-
gresham Flood of Virginia, Prof. w.
A. Dunning of Columbia University
and others have been invited to deliv-
er addresses.
In the evening of the same day the
visiting delegates will be the guests
of honor at a dinner to be given by
the American Committee at the Hotel
Astor, ending the conference in this
city. During the conference, the Wis
itors will be entertained by Andrew
Carnegie, Dr.. Nicholas Murray Butler,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Dr.. Louis Liv-
ingston Seaman, and others. One fea-
ture of their entertainment will be a
sail up the Hudson, if the weather is
pleasant.
Visit President Wilson.
On the morning of May 10, the WIS.,
iting delegates, with a small escort of
members of the American Committee
will depart for Boston, where they will
be entertained by the local Centenary
Celebration Committee, acting in con.
junction with a committee of cit
liens headed by Mayor Fitzgerald. On
the following day the delegates will
start for Washington. D. c., where
they will be received By President Will
son and his cabinet on Monday, May
II. On the following day the delegates
will visit Richmond, Va, reaching Phil
adelphia on May II. Then they will
visit Chicago, returning to New York
by way of Detroit, Buffalo, and Niagara
Falls, in time to sail for England on
May q.