Evening star., 1915-12-26
SAVANTS T0BEG|N
WORK TOMORROW
Pan-American Congress Will
Convene at Continental
Memorial Hall.
VICE PRESIDENT TO MAKE
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
Responses Will Be Made by the
Chairmen of All the Foreign
Delegations.


A final meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Pan-American Scientific
Congress was held late yesterday after
noon, following which details of the
program of the great gathering which
is to begin at Continental Memorial
Hall at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning
were announced. Simultaneously de-
tails were announced of the program
of the woman's auxiliary conference.
the first session of which will take
place in Continental Memorial Hall.
Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock.
1t was announced that the majority
of the Latin American delegates to the
congress- who have been spending a
few days in New York, will leave that
city for Washington on a special train
this morning at IL o'clock, arriving
here about o'clock. The delegates
will be met this afternoon in the presi-
Dental room at Union station by Will
liam Phillips. third assistant secretary
of state, who is chairman of the execu-
tive committee in charge of the con-
gress.
Mr. Phillips will be accompanied by
Madden Summers. United States consul
general at SaO f'duiO. WIN 10 iio"
in charge of some of the arrangements
in Washington for the congress; by Sted-
man Hanks of the State Department and
by Capt. Powell Clayton, L. S. A. as
military attache. and Lieut. Rufus King.
L. S. N. as naval attache, aids. This
delegation will formally represent the
United States government in welcoming
the Latin American delegates.
Chileans Arrive Today.
The delegation to the congress from
Chile will arrive in Washington this
morning by way of Key West. and will
be formally welcomed to Washington by
State Department attaches. A number of
young men and women of Washington
who speak Spanish and Portuguese will
gather at the New Willard Hotel. the
headquarters of the congress. this morn
ing and afternoon. for final instruction as
TO how they are to serve companions
and interpreters to the visiting Latin
Americans and the women of taeir
families.
Boaz w. Long. who is acting as chisf
of the division of Latin American af-
fairs of the State Department, will go
to Philadelphia this morning to board
the special train bringing delegates
here, and John Barrett. secretary gen.
erai of the congress. heading a party Of
the men aids. will go--to Baltimore Ito
board the train. and escort the dele
cidentally. IL was announced last night.
has appropriated the sum of 5000 for
the entertainment of the delegates
while they are in this country. A trip
to Baltimore, Philadelphia. New York.
Boston. New Haven. Pittsburgh, Pa.
and Bethlehem. Pa. has been arranged
for some of the foreign visitors. to be-
gin at the end of the congress, which
will continue in Washington for thir-
teen days from tomorrow. The trip will
begin January 10.
The Opening Session.
John Barrett. secretary general, will
call the congress to order tomorrow
morning. The Marine Band will be in
attendance. and the Pan-American
Hymn. preceded by a selection from
THE Messiah" by chorus of 125
voices from the Home Club of the In
terror Department. will be sung, urider
the direction of Otto T. Simon. Mr..
Barrett will introduce the president
OF the congress, Amba ssador Suarez
Mujica of Chile. Vice President Mar
shall will deliver an address of vel
come. 1oiiowed by an address by Sec
retary of State Lansing, and a response
by Ambassador SuareZ Mujica Then
Will follow responses by the chairmen
of all the foreign delegations to the
congress
One of the spectacular features of
the stay of the delegates here will be
an exhibition of aerial flights at 2:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon by Juan
Domentoz. an associate of the famous
Brazilian aeronaut. Alberto Santos Du-
mont. who is a delegate to the congress
This VIII take place in the Ellipse op-
posite the White House and the Pan
American Union building
Mrs Robert Lansing, wife of the Sec.
retary OF Stite. is the chairman of the
woman's auxiliary section, the follow
Ing other women being members OF
the committed:
Mrs Albert s. Burleson. Mrs. David
Houston. Miss Sarah Louise Arnold
Mrs. William II. Bixby, Miss Mabel r
Bcardman. Mrs; Philander G. Ciaxton,
Fairchild. Miss Kate Fowler. Mrs. Gil
bert II. Grosvenor. Mrs William C.
Gorgas. Mrs. William Fl. Holmes. Mrs
hrch,9aid Hopkins. Mrs. Florence Kel-
Lsthrop. Mrs. Louis F. Post Mrs. Ern-
est w. Roberts. Mrs. George NJ. Rom
mel MTs James Brown Scott. Mrs
Charles d. Walcott. Miss Lillian WaId
Mrs F. j. Yanes. Mrs c. L. Swippet,
organizing secretary.
Woman's Auxiliary's Program.
The program of the woman.s auxi,.
larry conference. which is TO meet in ali
sessions at Memorial Continental Hall
as announced last night, will be as fol.
lows:
Tuesday Morning, December %.
Presiding, Mrs. Robert Lansing. :,
message from the General Federation
of Women's Clubs to the women q,
Central and South America, Mrs. Percy
Pennybacker; Patriotism of Women
Mrs. William Cumming Story; The Lat
in American Woman. Mrs Blanche Y
de Baralt: Tomorrow, Miss Zona Gale
Paseantry. pan-American interpre
ter. Miss Hazel Mackaye.
Wednesday Morning, December 20.
Presiding. Mrs. William Cummfnu
story: The Changing Emphasis in tn,
Education of Women in the South
Miss Elizabeth Cotton; University Edu
cation for Women. Mrs. Herman Col
Etz: The Powers of Darkness-th.
Housing Problem Mrs. Albion Fellow:
Bacon; Public Libraries Mrs. Philande,
C. Claxton: Constructive Woman al
Aid to Modern Progress. Miss Jane
Richards.
Thursday Morning, December 80.
Women in the Red Cross Field, Mis-
Mabel Boardman: Nursing in Cuba
Miss H. Eugene Hibbard; The Commu
nity's Duty to the Child as Related I,
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