New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-04
Public to Greet ENJOYS of
New Republic in Car
negie Hall Meeting
Arrive Here Friday
Parade from Battery and Re
ception at City Hall-Pro-
gramme Announced

The citizens committee appointed by
Mayor Mitchell to welcome the Russian
War Commission issued a revised pro-
gramme yesterday for their entertain
ment during their two days stay
Friday and Saturday-in the city. The
committee called particular attention
to the general mass meeting to be held
at Carnegie Hall Friday night under
the auspices of "The American Friends
of New Russia" cooperating with the
committee
The committee has shaped its plans
so as to give the general public as
large an opportunity as possible to
greet the commissioners The Car.
negie Hall reception will afford the cit
liens an opportunity of meeting the
representatives of the new Russian
democracy and of hearing Ambassador
Boris A, Bakhmeteff and his colleagues
express the hopes and aspirations of
the new republic
Roosevelt to Speak.
Mayor Mitchell will preside at the
meeting and Colonel Roosevelt and
Samuel Gompers will deliver addresses.
The Russian Symphony Orchestra OF
sixty pieces will play the hymns OF
revolutionary Russia, and the national
hymn of the new Russian democracy
will be introduced. Motion pictures
taken at the time of the revolutionary
movement in Moscow and Petrograd
will be shown.
Mayor Mitchell yesterday announced
the names of the thousand members
of the citizens reception committee,
which includes practically the same
citizens who served on the committees
which welcomed the British, French
and Italian commissions. The revised
programme follows:
FRIDAY, JULY s
1880 p. m.-The commission will
arrive at Pier A, the Battery, and be
received by Martin W. Littleton,
chairman of the Mayors Citizens
Committee; Herbert Parsons. chair
man of the executive committee, and
others. A committee representing
the Russian colony will be at the
Battery to greet the commission.
The commission and escort will then
proceed to City Hall in automobiles.
Ais p. m.-The commission will
reach City Hall and be escorted to the
Aldermanic Chambers. Addresses will
be delivered by the Mayor and Mar
tin W. Littleton. and a response will
be made by the Russian Ambassador.
After the speeches the commission
will be escorted by the Mayor and
the official escort through Lafayette
Street, Washington Square and Fifth
Avenue to their place of residence.
Gas p. ma small dinner by the
Mayor and the executive committee
to the commission at the Ritz-Carl-
ton.
8 p. m.-Mass meeting at Carnegie
Hall under the auspices Of the Amer
lean Friends of New Russia, coope
rating with the Mayors Citizens
Committee. The Mayor will preside,
and addresses will be made by Colo
mel Theodore Roosevelt. Samuel Com
pers, the Russian Ambassador and
others.
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10 noon En- route to the City Col
lege Stadium small luncheon at
Claremont by the Mayors executive
committee.
1880 p. m.-The Mayor, members
of the commission and official escort
will attend the presentation of medals
and exhibition of the Fire Depart
ment at the City College Stadium.
2:45 p. m.-The commission and
escort will leave the City College
Stadium for tour of the city's park
system.
4 p. m.-Mass meeting in the Mall
in Central Park. The Community
/ Chorus will sing, and there will be
a band concert, TO be followed by adj
dresses by the ambassador, George
II. KEENAN, and others.
The dinner on Friday night was in
tended TO give the commission an OPP
portunity to meet Governor Whitman,
but the Governor was unable TO attend
because he had previous engagement
in Syracuse.
/ Tie Friday evening meeting at Car
negie Hall is not under the direction
of the Mayors committee. although it
is recognized as a part of the official
programme, and the Mayor will preside.
The mass meeting at Madison Square
Garden Saturday evening is not part
of the official programme. as it is be
ing arranged by Russian residents and