Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-07-20
CITY WILL HONOR
BALT|MOREANS
Richmond Will Give Lunch
con at Commonwealth
Club to Visitors. /
WILL BURY HATCHET
Visit of Mayor Preston TO State Cap
ital Designed to Bring Harro1f
Between Cities.

Richmond, July 20.-Executive and
administrative officers of the city ana
ct,+o and q number of prominent
citizens have been invited by mayor
Ainslie to attend luncheon that he
will oive at . o'clock on the after
noon Of Thursday, July 80, at the
commonwealth Club in honor OF
distinguished delegation from Bal'l-
move The visitors will include:
lanes II. Preston, Mayor of Baltl-
more and president Of the Star
snanyIed Banner Centennial Commits
sion.
Charles Kreuder, Jr., secretary to
Mayor Preston.
s. Goldsborough, secretary OF
the Factory Site Commission and ed
itor Of the Municipal Journal.
Thomas F McNulty, sheriff OF BAL
timore.
E Milton Altfeld, member Of the
Maryland Legislature and staff rep
resentative of the Baltimore Amerl-
can.
Raleigh c Smith, staff representa-
tive of the Baltimore News.
A. H. Mcdonald, staff representa-
tive of the Baltimore Sun.
J. Hampton Baumgartner, Baltl-
more and Ohio Railroad Company.
Governor Stuart has already ae-
cepted an invitation to be present,
ard the Lieutenant-Governor and
other State officers are expected to
attend. Invitations have been sent
to the members of the City Council,
Administrative Board, heads of city
departments and a limited number
of representative citizens.
The luncheon will be a handsomely
appointed affair designed to welcome
Gttingly the visitors from the Mary
land metropolis. There will be no
set speeches, but several informal
talks are expected. The meeting OF
representative Balt!moreans and
Richmonders so soon after the short
period of unpleasantness that fol-
lowed the naming of the regional
reserve Eank cities, it is pointed out,
should leave no want Of common
topic around which to build harmless
pleasantries.
The Baltimore party will bring to
the city personal invitation to at
tend the national Star Spangled Ban
ner Centennial, which will be held in
Baltimore September 6 to 13. The Wis
it to Richmond will follow similar
visits to number of cities III the
South and Middle West in centen-
NAL tour which began on July 8 and
will end on August /. The itinerary
includes, in the order named, Cum
berland, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, De-
troit, Toledo, Chicago, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Biz
mihgham, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Sa-
vannah, Augusta, Columbia, Che
lotte. Raleigh, Richmond and No
folk.
The visitors will arrive in
mond at 800 O'Clock on the NOM.
| of Julv 30, over the .Seaboard Air
Lire Railway. They will be the
guests of the city until 4:10 o'clock
Ain thej afternoon, when the3 We'll
leave over the Norfolk and Western
for Norfolk. After day. in. that
citv the Marylanders will retrun to
Baltimore via the Old Bay Line
steamer at 6:15 o'clock on the after
neon Of July 81.
Advance notices of the celebration
| that Baltimore will stage to COM
memorate the writing Of the Star
| Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott
Key, indicate that the event Will be
imposing and spectacular to hfgh
! degree. Among the dignitaries VINO
are expected to be present are Pres
ident Wilson, former Presidents Taft
and Roosevelt and the Governors Of
the fifteen States, comprising the
! Union at the time of the war of
1912, attended by large military es-
corts.