The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-20
'A|NSL|E TO HONOR
BALTIMORE MAYOR
Will Give Luncheon at Common
wealth Club to Distinguished
Visitors.
CITY WILL BURY Ratchet
Visit of Mayor Preston to Rich
mond to Bring Harmony
Between Cities.
CITY WILL BURY RATCHET

Executive and administrative officers
OF tho city and State and n number OF
prominent citizens have been invited
by Mayor Ainsie to attend luncheon
that he Will give at . o'clock on the
afternoon OF Thursday. July 80, at the
Commonwealth Club in honor of dis
tinguished delegation from Baltimore.
The visitors will include:
James ". Preston. Mayor of Balti-
more. and president OF tho Star
Spangled banner Centennial Commits
sion
Charles Krcudcr. Jr.. secretary to
Mayor Preston.
a. s. Goldsborough. secretary OF the
Factory site Commission and editor OF
the Municipal journal.
Thomas +. McNulty. sheriff Of Balti-
more.
e. Milton Altreld. member Of the
Maryland Legislature and staff repre-
sentative Of the baltimore American
Raleigh &. Smith. staff representative
of the baltimore News
a. III. McDannald. staff representa-
tive Of the Baltimore Sun
j. Hampton Baumgartner. Baltimore
and Ohio railroad Company
Governor Stuart has already accent
ed an invitation to DO present, and the
Lieutenant Governor and other state
Officers are expected to attend Invi-
tatiors have been sent to tho membe re-
of the City Council. Administrative
Board. heads of city departments and a
zens
LUNCHEON WILL BE
HANDSOME AFFAIR
The luncheon Will DO Handsomely
appointed affair designed to welcome
nttingly the visitors from the Mary
land metropolis. There will he no set
speeches. but several Informal talks
10 Inc ~
sentative Baltimoreans and Richmond
crs so soon after the short period OF
unpleasantness that followed the nam
Ing Of the regional reserve bank cities.
II Is pointed out. should leave no want
OF a common topic around which to
build harmless pleasantries
The baltimore party will bring TO the
city personal invitation to attend the
national Star Spangled Banner Centen-
NAL. which Will he held In Baltimore.
September to 10. The visit to Rich
mond will follow similar visits to n
number Of cities in the South and
Middle West In a centonniaI tour which
began on July and will end on Au-
gust /. The itinerary includes. In the
order named. Cumberland, Pittsburgh
Cleveland. Detroit, Toledo. Chicago St.
Louis. Cincinnati, Louisville. Nashville,
birmingham, Atlanta. Jack sonville, Sa-
vannah. Augusta. Columbia. Charlotte.
IL.
VISITORS STOP HERE
ON WAY HOME:
Tho visitors will arrive in Richmond
at 5:b5 o'clock on the morning OF July
so. over the Seaboard Air Line Rail-
way. They will be tho guests OF the
city until $40 o'clock In the afternoon.
when they will leave over the Norfolk
and Western for Norfolk. After day
In that city the Marylanders Will re-
turn 10 Baltimore via the Old Bay
Line steamer at Sis o'clock on the at
ternoon OF July 81.
Advance notices of the celebration
that Baltimore will stage to commemor-
ate the writing of the star SpanClcd
Banner.' by Francis Scott Key. indi-
cate that the event will be Imposing
and spectacular to high degree.
Among tho dignitar!cs who are expect
Ed 10 be present are President Wilson.
former Presidents Taft and Roosevelt
and the Governors OF the fifteen States
comprising the Union ut the time of
the war of 1912. attended by large
military escorts.