Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-10
CENTENARY TO
Be OBSERVED
Centenary Of Signing Of Treaty
of Client to Be Celebrated
in United States.

New York, Dec. 9.-At a meeting OF
the slb.exacutive committee or the
American Peace Centenary Committee
held in the Offices Of the committee
WoolwOrth building. New YORK. on
November 27. unanimous approval
, was given to the plan OF carrying oul
the program rs arranged so lar as IL
! relates to the participation OF churcn-
es, schools, colleges and universities,
and 10 postpone all functions OF pnDiic
rejoicing until after the wal IN Elr.
one is over and peace declared. ana
approximately a normal condition pre-
walls.
The committee has received a com
munication from the committee or one
hundred Of the city Of W~ashington@an.
not ncing its action in adopting a reso-
luton %pOstpOning its functions winch
are local to the city OF Washington,
pntil a more convenient season, pos
sibly until 1917.
The program adopted by the Amer1.
can committee at its meeting, and ap-
proved BY the Canadian committee
! acting through its secretary and man
aging committeeman, e. II. Scammell,2
is as follows: @Hh q
The committee to be represented
by 4 committee of twelve, when iln+'
cludes Albert Eugene Gallatin, Isaac
n. Seligman and william B. Rowland,
Of New York; DR.. Henry Stnrgls
Drinker, South Bethlehem, Pa; Thorn
as r. Bayard, Wilmington, Del, and
Harry c. Morris, Chicago, at the IN.
yelling Of the Client memorial tablet
erected by the American institute OF
architects as its contribution to the
celebraticu. This tablet will be UNI
yelled az twelve O'Clock IN Wednes-
day, December 2, in the OctagOn
,bnildng, Washington, D. c., which Is
the headquarters of the institute. in
the presence of a distinguished gath.
ering. President Wilson viii make the
address. -
Address to People.
In the morning Of December "a an
address to the people OF America com.
memOrative of the centenary of the
signing of the Treaty OF Client, which
took place on Christmas eve, 1914,
will be published. This address will
be signed by Hon. Joseph H.; Choate.
as. chairman, and a number Of other
prominent men as members Of a spe.
ga, committee. -
On January 8, 8. and 10 in the city
Of New Orleans under the auspices of.
the Louisiana Historical Society, the
state Of Louisiana and its citizens,
with guests from Canada and else
where, will celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of the battle of
<Yauy. 0r1nonc p q nj" nf thn .cnnf,Iru pf
peace which followed that battle, Tho
army and r,avy will participate in the
celebration and probably battleships
from other nations! II President Will
son, members of his cabinet, and
other important citizens have. been in.
vited 10, be present.
The churches of the United States
and Canada will hold acreligious OBJ
servance on Sunday, February. Ia,
which is tn Sunday nearest the date,
February Il. eli which the Treaty of
Client was ratified. ...
In many Ct the state capitals formal
addresses will be made on the after
noon or evening of February II or
IS, the dates respectively of the rati-
~ficatinn OF the treaty by the senate
and it's proclamation, with particular
reference to the fact that of the un.
fortified frontier of 1910 miles mark
ing the boundary line of the United
States and Canada.
Through the interest of a number
of members O. the American commit
tee prizes will be offered to pupils
of the public schools for excellence
in the preparation Of essays relating
to the century of peace and the I'M
armed frontier.
There has already been issued from
the press a volume of historical re.
view OF the century of peace written
under the auspices Of the committee
by Professor William A. Dunning,
Leiber professor of history of Coium:.
bia university. This work has a fore
word by former Ambassador James
Bryce and a preface by DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler.
Aside from the events above men.
toned no attempt will be made at:this
time to carry out any program which
would mean pageantry or public MI
joicing. a@