The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-04
PEACE: CENTENARY
T0BE CELEBRATED
Anniversary Of Signing of Treaty
OF Client Will Be Signally
Observed.
PROGRAM BEING PREPARED
International Conference Com
mlttee Will Hold Meeting in
New York Tomorrow.
PROGRAM BEING PREPARED
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new york. May 3.-Arrangements
'or the fitting and adequate celebration
of the centenary of the signing of the
treaty of Gheht, which brought to a
crosse the War OF 1912 between the
-phlted states and England will be
completed within the next few DAYS.
Inc International Conference Commit
tee' which has the, completion of these
artansements in hand, will meet In
TINS city Monday. According to rhe
program the committee will assemble
ut me City Hall at 10 o'clock in the
morning, where an address of well
come VIII be made by Mayor Gaynor.
ailer which chairman for the first
day Will be chosen In accordance
win precedent this chairman will be
CHOSEN from one OF the two delegates
from Client. These are rEcheyin De
Bruyne and Alphonse Van Werveke.
This courtesy is extended to Client be-
cause Burgomaster of Client pre-
SIDED at the opening session of the
JOINT high commission which met in
Client in August, 1914
me address of welcome will be re-
sponded to by Lord Weardale, head of
the British delegation and president
OF the nterparliamentary Union. the
formal address of the day will be de-
| livered by ex-President Taft. After
! these opening exercises the conferees
VIII take luncheon al the Waldorf
astoria as the guests OF the Pilgrims
Society
While most OF the work of the con-
ference will be done by subcommittees
the delegates will meet as commit,
tee OF the whole every afternoon al
O'clock
On friday at II A. NJ the American
committee VIII hold its annual meeting
at the Hotel Plaza Andrew Carnegie
viii preside, and speeches will be made
by Congressman Flood. of Virginia,
and Professor w. A Cunning. of Co.
lumbia University.
On Friday afternoon the American
committee and the conference com
mittee VIII hold n joint meeting, az
which the report of the conferences will
be read.
on the evening of May 9, the Ameri-
can conference will give n banquet at
the Hotel Astor in honor OF the vis-
tors Prominent men from all the
states in the Union will attend this
banquet
During the course of the conference
the foreign guests will be entertained
personally by Andrew Carnegie, DIR.
Nicholas Murray Butler. Cornelius Van
derbilt and others.
Other features that have been ar
visitors include a trip up the Hudson.
visit TO Boston, Philadelphia and
Chicago, whore the visitors will he
welcomed by the respective Mayors of
those cities.
There will also be visit to Wash
ington on May - where the confcrees
Will he received by President Wilson.
Secrufary Bryan and others who are
prominently identified with the admin
Il iDp ,
In the evening, where the officially and
sociall&elect of Washington Will
gather to do honor to the cause repre
sented by the visitors. The principal
address at this banquet Will be de-
livcrcd by Secretary OF State William
j. Bryan.
The main body of the visitors will
sail for England on May 81.
The members of the American con-
ference committee are:
Honorary chairman, Joseph II.
Choatc; chairman, Alton b. Parker
Charles Francis Adams, Boston. Mass:
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell, Washing
ton, u. c.; August Belmont, New York;
Rudolph Blankenburg. Philadelphia,
Pa; Abraham Brittin, New Orleans,
La; Winston Churchill, Windsor. VT;
John Clafin New York; Henry Clews,
New York; William V. Cox. Washing
ton d. c.. Robert Fulton Cutting. New
York; Chauncey NJ. Dcpcw; Admiral
George Dewey. Washington: Stuyve-
SAINT Fish, New York; Hon. Joseph Il.
| Foraker New York; Henry Ford. De-
troit; Hon. Eugene n. Foss, Governor
OF Massachusetts; Albert Eugene Gal
latin, New York City; William J. Gay
nor. New York; Howard d. Hadley.
Plattsburgh, n, Y; John Hays Ham
New York; DR.. John G. Hibbcn, Prince
ton, \. j.; James j. HILL st. Paul;
Adrian lsclin. New York; Breckin-
ridge Jones. st. Louis, Mo; Chester S.
Lord, New York; Cyrus S. Mccormick.
Chicago, Ill; Hon. William Hodges
Mann. Governor of Virginia. General
Nelson a. Miles. Washington; Charles
c. Moore, san Francisco Cal; Henry
c. Morris. Chicago, ILL.,; Robert c. Nor
rls. New York; Henry Fairfield Osborn.
New York: William Church Osborn,
New York: Rear-Admlral Robert e.
peary, Washington: II: c. Phillips.
Lake Mohonk. n. Y; Clifford Pinchot
Washington; Dallas b. Pratt, New
York; George NJ. Reynolds, Chicago,
III; Colonel Hugh l.. Scott. Washing
ton; James Brown Scott, Washington:
Seth Low. New York; Colonel Robert
VI. Thompson, Washington; Henry r.
Towne, New York; Andrew d. White.
Ithaca, n. y; Henry White Washing
ton; Ansley Wilcox, Buffalo, n. Y;
Frank 5. Witherbee. Port Henry, y. Y.
Among the prominent honorary mem
bers OF the American committee arc:
| William j. Bryan. Washington; JOS
eeph II. Choate. New York; Charles W.
Eliot. Cambridge; Charles w. Fair.
banks. Indianapolis; j. Pierpont Nor
gan. Jr., New York: Theodore Roose-
Welt, New York, and I1lihu Root. New
York.
Tho conferees for Great Britain are:
The Right Honorable the Lord Wear
| dale; Captain the Honorable Sir Arthur
Lawley. G. C. ]. a.: tho Right Hon
! orable the Earl Stanhone: the Rirht