Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-19
SULGRAVE COMMISSION
TO ARRIVE HERE MONDAY
Distinguished British Guests
Will Receive Cordial Enter
tainment at Hands of
Leading AtIantians De-
part Wednesday
BY CONDO

English nobility in the persons OF
members of the Sulgrave commits
sion will be welcomed to Atlanta
Monday evening, when the commits
sion arrives here on its tour OF
leading cities in the United States.
The British delegation arrived in
New York City September 10 and
has been received in Philadelphia,
Boston, Washington, Richmond and
Norfolk.
A committee Of Atlanta citizens
headed by Mayor Key has been
charged with the responsibility Of
welcoming and entertaining the Sui
grave commission while it is in At
lanta. Atlanta's most cordial hos
pitality will be accorded the dis
tinguisheC visitors from the moment
of tLeir arrival Monday evening un-
til their departure for Washington
early Wednesday morning.
The party will be met at the Ter
nlinal station at 1870 o'clock Mon
gian Terrace hotel. At $50 o'clock
Tuesday morning the committee on
entertainment will Gil for the
guests and escort them to the city
hall, where they will be formally
well omed to Atlanta by Mayor Key;
thence to the state CAPITOL to be
>~ceived by Governor Hardwick.
Later in the morning the commits
sion will be accompanied on an au-
to- .obile tour of various points Of
interest in and ar md Atlanta, ar
irving at the Druid Hills Country
club in time for luncheon.
Early in the afternoon Mrs. Will
liam Lawson Peel and a committee
will hold a reception in honor of
the delegation at he new Haber-
sham hall Of the L. A. r. At 4:30
o'clock the entire part, will be serv-
ed tea at Craigellachie, the beauti-
full country home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John w. Grant.
The delegates will be guests of
honor at an elaborate dinner at the
Piedmont Driving club at o'clock,
when approximately GEO guests, in
Guiding leading Atlantians and local
1embers of the American branch of
Z Sulgrave institution, will be en-
tertained. Formal addresses will be
made. by leaders Of the delegation.
The present visit of the Sulgrave
commission, it's fourth to this coun-
try. has as its primary purpose the
presentation of the statue and busts
OF three great Englishmen, William
Fit, prime minister of England; Ed
mund BurFe. the great orator who
chdmpioned the American cause in
the Revolutionary war; and Wis.
count James Bryce, former ambas.
saor to the United States. The Pitt
bust was presented on September
IA to the city of Pittsburg, named in
his honor; and the statue of Burke
and the bust of Lord Brice will be
given to the people Of America and
placed in Washington.
The delegation is headed by Sir
Charles Wakefield, former lord may
or of London. Accompanying him
are Lady Wakefield, Sir Arthur Ad
lington Haworth and Lady Haworth
Sir William Let's, member Of par
| Lament; Harold slender, Esq, OF
the Westminster Gazette; the Hon
Lucien Turcette Pacand, govern
| ment leader of the Canadian house
of commons; William MacCaIlun
| Grant, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Nova
| Scotia; Hon. D. B. Edwards, acting
nigh commissioners from Australia tc
the United States, and other no
| table persons.
The SulgraVe institution is an in
ternatIonal organization formed tt
| promote more friendly relations
among the English speaking peoples
The institution derives it's name
| from the old Sulgrave manor ir
| Northamptonshire, England, the an
cestral home of George Washington