The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-22
EDUCATORS BEGIN
TO ARRIVE TODAY
Delegates to Convention of De-
partment of Superintendent
Will Stay All Week.
WILL BE WELL ENTERTAINED
Whole City Is Planning to Ex-
tend Glad Hand to Visitors.
Arrangements Completed.

Delegates to tho annual meeting OF
the Department Of Superintendents
National Education Association, viii
begin to arrive here to-day from ev
cry section OF the country. and by to-
morrow night II Is expected that hun
dreds OF delegates will be In town.
The convention opens on Tuesday night
with big meeting in the City Audi
torium, while business sessions are to
be held simultaneously throughout the
city during tho week.
The headquarters will be ut tho JEFF
ferson Hotel. where all members OF the
association are expected TO register
to the meetings. Tho National Coun
Gil Of Education and the Department
of Normal Schools Will meet here at
the same time. Commercial exhibits,
OF which there will be many, will be
shown In Murphy's Hotel. The Ma
tional Council Of Education will hold
session tomorrow night In the Jef-
ferson Hotel and the National Society
for the Study of Education will meet
in Seventh Street Christian Church.
While the convention will dispose
OF mass OF business and Will hear q
large number OF important addresses
and lectures on educational topics, the
entertainment features have not been
neglected, and there will be something
to intercat the visitors each day DUR
Ing tho week. Among the invitations
extended them ere the following:
Richmond Manufacturers Exhibit, 10
A. NJ. to 8 z. NJ. each day; Virginia
Historical Society. 8 A. w. 10 P. NJ.
at Lees home. 707 East Franklin
Street; Association for the Prcserva-
ton OF Virginia Antiquities. John Mar
shall home. Ninth and Marshall Streets,
8 a. NJ. TO 3 p. NJ: Confederate Me-
mortal Literary Society. Davis home,
Twelfth and Clay Streets. a. n. to
Q p. NJ; Valentine Museum, Eleventh
and Clay Streets, Q to y. M; Art Club
OF Richmond. 52l West Grace Street. 4
to p. NJ: City of Richmond smoker.
Jefferson Hotel on Thursday night at
10 o'clock.
In addition TO these. the woman's re-
ception committee has arranged a num-
Der OF events for the entertainment of
the women who viii attend the con-
ference. There Will be a reception by
Mrs. Henry c. Stuart on Tuesday after
noon from to o'clock at the Execu-
tive Mansion, and special matinee
Will be given at the Bijou Theatre on
Thursday. A reception will be given
1T the Sauer Extract Company's plant
on Wednesday, and one ct the Confed-
crate Womans Home on Friday after
noon from TO o'clock.
One OF the features OF the entertain
ment viii be trip TO Hampton on
Saturday. a special train Will leave
here at Q o'clock that morning. and
on Invitation of William and Mary Col
ieGe. a stop of one hour will be made
at Williamsburg. The train will ar
rive ct Richmond al o'clock the same
day.
The convention is expected to be one
of the largest and most important ever
held in this city. Several thousand del
egates and visitors are expected to at
tend Special railroad rates have been
made from every section of the coun-
try, and the local committee on ar
engagements Is confident that the at
tendance will exceed 5000
All educational sources OF the city
have united In efforts TO give the yisi-
tors the best time they have ever had
at any convention. The school chill
dren have done their part toward the
entertainment of the citys guests by
the preparation OF handsome pamphlets
containing historical sketches Those
VIII be distributed free.