Evening star., 1913-12-08
International Gathering Will
Assemble Here Tomorrow
Morning.
ADDRESSES WILL FAVOR
VIVISECTION RESTRICTION
Rev. DR.. C. Ernest Smith Sounds
Keynote of Meeting in Sermon at
st. Thomas P. E. Church.

The first International Anti-Eivisection
ana Animal Protection Congress ever
held in the United States is to be opened
at o'clock the afternoon at the
Raleigh Hotel with reception TO dele
gates The reception is TO continue until
O'Clock, being followed at SO O'clock
this evening with series of motion PIC
lures and stereopticon views showing vAc
rious phases of bird and animal life.
The formal opening of the congress
will taae place at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow
morning in the ballroom OF the Raleigh,
when Ri. Rev. Alfred Harding. Bishop of
Washington, is to offer the opening
prayer. Following the invocation by
Bishop Harding, Edward H. Clements.
president of the congress. will speak,
and the address of welcome will be de-
lvered by William Jennings Bryan, Sec
retary of State. The history of the anti
vivisection movement viii he presented
in an address by Mrs. Caroline Earle
White; Rev. DR.. c. Ernest Smith, rector
Of ST Thomas P. E. Church, will read
number of letters indorsing the work of
the organization. and Ernest Thompson
Seton will deliver an address on cruel
methods of trapping, the material for
bnt dduISSS ttiit5 ~'AA-
Thompson Seton's own observation and
experiences in the wildS of the north.
Tomorrow afternoons session will in
Guide addresses by six prominent advo-
Gates of the legal restriction OF VIvlSec-
tion and other forms OF cruelty to AMI
mails. The program for the session is as
follows:
'Slaughterhouse Reform Francis H.
Rowley. president of the Massachusetts,
Society for the Prevention of c. uety to
Animals; Animal Hospitals Mrs.
James Speyer. president of the New York
Woman's League for Animals; Humane
Societies vs. Cruelty. Frederick F. Bel
lamy, treasurer of and counsel for the
Society for the Prevention OF Abuse in
Animal Experimentation: The ConStruc-
tive Side of the Antivivisection Move
inent." by Miss Lind Hageby. honor
cry gene al secretary of the Animal De-
fense and Antivivisection Society OF Lon
don: The Restriction of Nivisection, by
DR.. Hamilton Fisk Biggar. honorary pres
ident of the American Institute of Ho-
meopathy. and Regulated NiviSection,
by Miss Janet E. Richards
Delegates Appointed. y
In addition to the local committee on
arrangements for the congress. of which
DR.. C. Ernest Smith is chairman, dele
gates from the National Society for the
Humane Regulation of vivisection have
been appointed as follows: Justice Wen
dell P. Stafford, president of the society,
Miss Clara Emory, secretary; Rear Ad-
niral S. A. Staunton, L. $. N; Col c. A.
Williams, L. s. A., and c. I. Tabor.
From the Washington Humane Society
President Hutchins has appointed dele
gates as follows: DIR. Wa1iace Radcliffe.
Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark. Medical
Director John E. Wise, Chester A. Snow.
Col Archibald Hopkins. r. Ross Perry.
W. Clarence DuvaIl, James S. Harlan.
Mrs Edward Douglas White. Mrs Peter
GoeIet Gerry. Mrs Julian James. Miss
Jane Riggs, Mrs. +. E. Smith, Mrs. Flor
ence Cairns, Mrs. Ira +. Bennett, Mrs.
Alexander Sharp, Henry Il. +. Macfar-
land and John p. Heap.
Besides eight constituent societies of the
United States which have Joined in the
present congress, European countries
whose representatives are contributing
papers to the program are Great Britain.
Sweden, Germany. France. Italy. Norway,
Denmark. Belgium and Russia tFfnland).
Describes Vivisection Horrors.
Rev. DR.. c. Ernest Smith is chairman
Of the committee on arrangements, and
is, well, vice president of the con-
gress. In his sermon yesterday morning
at ST. Thomas Church Rev. Dr. Smith
described the horrors of vivisection and
the inevitable reaction upon human be-
ings of cruel practices toward animals.
Rev DR. Smith preached from the text
in Ezekiel, 34:4: The diseased have ya
not strengthened. neither have ye healed
that which was sick; neither have We
bound up that which was broken, neither
have ye brought again that which was
driven away, neither have ye sought that