Evening star., 1915-06-12
BOSTON NCOURTES|ES
T0LAT|N VISITORS
Welcoming Smiles and Cordial
Greetings for Representatives
of Southern Republics.
GUESTS TOLD TO SELECT
OWN FORM OF PLEASURE
Demonstration Also IN Compliment
to Assistant Secretary Peters,
Who Pilots the Delegation.
Special From a STAR corr.spopasnt


| Special From Stair Correspondent
| BOSTON. Mass. June 12-The sacred
codnsh, which is said to be the deity
| of all good Bostonians never glis-
| tened so serenely. and the blood of
Boston's Back Bay section never ran
SO blue and true to Puritan tradition
| as they do today when the citizens OF
the Hub are turning out in grand style
to welcome not only the Latin Amer
lean delegates on the pan-Anlercsn
financial tour. but to show what thev
| think of Andrew J. Peters. assistant
| secretary of the Treasury, who is in
| charge of the party for the govern
ment
Mr. Peters. Washington will remen7-
Der, served eight years in the House
or Representatives for Boston. From
the bluest- -blooded, most sacred and
most silk-stockinged portion OF the
BACK Bay district. where the Win
| throps speak only to the Lodges, and
the Lodges are said to converse only
with the angels
Boston's Hospitality.
Boston has done itself proud. II has
opened everything for the visitors.
from the opera house to the Bunker
Hill Monument. 1t has showered the
visitors with cards to clubs, that man.
family would wait two generations
before entering. 1t has ensconced the
party in one of the best hotels in the
world, in the middle of the aforesaid
| blue blooded and silk stockinged Back
! Bay district. and has called upon the
delegates today with a committee of
gentlemen all of whose forbears
brought their furniture with them in
\ the Mayfower. 1t started the enter
tainment last night by sending to the
motel the entire Boston Opera Com
| panys orchestra. which gave a con-
cert for the party exclusively under
the direction of Wallace Goodrich
| Today it continues the entertainment
| py asking each man in the party what
ne wishes most to do: Some> of the
party want to go yachting. and inn
nedlately Boston yacht owner says.
Il will be delighted my yacht is al
| ready under steam Another Sroup
wants to see a ball game: easy An
and that's where Boston lives, YOU
know. DR.. Arjonas of Panama inform
| ed the entertainment committee that
| what he most desired to see was an
operation performed. The COMMITTEES
Immediately arranged to have him see
| one in one of Boston's bluest blooded
hospitals. where they all use the
| broad "a"
Really in Need of Surgeons Service.
The Star correspondent asked tho
| surgeon in the case whether they were
to perform the operation for the bene-
mt of DR.. Arjonas exclusively, or
whether the subject really had some
| thing the matter with him. The s,,n,
| seon sfaVely replied that the gentle.
man on whom DR.. Arjonas was about
to cast his eyes really needed the sur.
| gical treatment which was to he rem.
| dered him.
Other delegates wanted to see Bunker
Hill and go over the route, or part Of
| 1t, followed by that historic watch-
maker and false teeth designer, Paul
Revere. the original Of the messase-to-
Garcia type of Americans.
! Latln Americans all know the history
of this little neck of the woods where
John Hancock lies and where Ben
| franklin started printing before en-
terlng the halls of fame at Philadel-
phia
There will be no rushing through
factories and no being taken through
commercial institutions while the party
is in Boston.
The people here are going to show
| the delegates just what kind of folks
| they are and let them assume that
! Boston does a little business on the
SIDE For that reason they have ar
idHSeo 70 tahe as many as want to go
up the North Shore this afternoon.
most charming tea given by Mrs
Andrew Pieters and Mrs. John C. Phil
lips at their home, in North Beverly.
was the rendezvous for all members of
the party after they had come in from
motoring through some of the prettiest
sections in this part of old Bay state.
Luncheon and a Golf Match.
The Essex Country Club attracted
several members of the party for
luncheon and a round of golf, while
others spent an hour or two al the ST.
Botolph Club. Tonight there will be
formal dinner at the Algonquin Club,
where Senior Nergara Bulnes, Senor
Perez Triana and Mr.. Peters will speak.
Tomorrow many of the party will visit
some of the historic spots in and
around Harvard University, will see
the Arnold Arboretum the Sargent es-
tate. the Larz Anderson estate and
other places. Every one has been in
vited to the Brookline Country Club
tomorrow afternoon. and after that
preparations will be made for the trip
to New York.
So it is easy to be seen that Boston
assumes that Latin America knows 1t
can produce so many billion pounds OF
Goldfish in year, and can turn out
watches at the rate of one a second.
and has considerable of a shoe bust
not going to overlook showing its Cen
trail and South American guests that
favorite son, Andrew J. Peters, Is the
real thing around here and that every
thing in Boston. from baked beans to
culture, is on tap for his friends.
Anxiety Over Evening Clothes.
When the party stepped from the
special train at the back Of Bay sta
ton yesterday, where the porters have
their pedigrees and family trees tat
tooed on their arms, the members made
all haste to get their bags to the hotel
so they could dress for dinner and at
tend the really beautiful concert.
There was much fussing and fuming
in the party. as the bags were just a
bit delayed. and many of the men
thought they would not be able to don
the clothes which mark the attire of
gentlemen the world over after the
sun has set. However, every one in the
party, with one single exception. ar
rived in the dining room dressed to the
last word of propriety; and then to
the great surprise of all the delegates
found they were the only men seem
ingly in all Boston who had done so.
The single exception was Robert
Heinl of Washington, editor for the
publications of Chamber of Commerce
Of the United States. Mr.. Heinl was
t~;A T.