Evening star., 1925-04-27
CITY PLAN EXPERTS
VISIT MT. VERNON
Delegates to Conference
Here Lay Wreath on Tomb
of Washington.

convening here tonight and tomorrow
of the pan-American conference on
| capital cities got under wav TODAY
When the vanguard of delegates Jour
neyed to Mount Vernon to Law a
: wreath on the tomb of America s
pioneer capital planner, George
Washington
The approximately so members of
the party, most of them Just arrived
from last weeks city planning and
afcnltectural international confer
ences In New ork City, under aus.
plces or the American Civic Asso.
clatlon, seized the opportunity. Incl
dentally, OF inspecting one of the
country's finest examples of colonia
archltectures as presented in the old
manor house.
Following their return to the city
THIS afternoon the delegates, repre-
sentinS Cuba, Mexico, Colombia. Ar
Sentina and other American
countries, together with half a hun
dred European delegates, will be
given an informal luncheon at the
MayfloWer Hotel as guests of the
washington committee on the Fed
eral city of the American Civic As
soclation. under whose auspices the
present conference is being held.
VIII Tour City To-day.
The remainder of the time inter
Nehlng until the formal opening din
ner of the conference tonight at S
CLOCK at the Mayhower will he de-
voted TO viewing the sights in the
National Capital from the architect :
ana city.planner's point of view.
Inc delegation was conducted to
Mount Vernon this morning by Mrs
Eleanor Thurman. extension secre-
tary of the Washington committee.
The group made the trip in buses.
carrying with them the beautiful
wreath prepared for the tribute. The
laying of the wreath was effected with
httle ceremony, but not without IN
impressfveness that bespoke the rev
erence with which the foreign dig
hltafies present regard the memory
q" america S first great leader
Return Made by Boat.
The return to Washington was
made by boat this afternoon.
Among those making the pilgrimage
We're: DIR. Cornelius Gurlitt. Germany:
Or. Hildebran nd Gurlitt Dresden. Ger
msnN' Karl Barth, Germany; Prof
Huso Wach, Germany: H. Armund
Berlin. Germany: Prof. Heinz Wetzel
Germany; H.. w. 10th. Germany: Ber-
esford Pite, l. Takski. Japan; d. Dahl
Noulan Cauchon, Ottawa, Canada +:
Mrs. Atom H. Classen, Oklahoma
CITY, Okla; Alderman Howell. Cardiff.
Wales; Mr.. and Mrs. c. +. Mangner;
Df. /. j. Brix. Charlottenburg. Ger
many; Prof. Herman Stubben, Ger.
many: Mrs. Caroline Foote Marsh
Ebenezer Howard, Weswyn Garden
city. Engla nd; Herr and Frau Sieben
Germany; DIR. Daniel Sigloch and wife
Germany: DR.. f. Neuman and wife
Germany; X. Bruce, Manchester, Eng.
land: Miss Felicia r. Scatcherd. Lon
don; Herr Walter Virus; Danzig, Ger
many; Max Feuchtinger. Ulm. Ger.
many; Ludwig Lemmer. Germany;
Kurt Hager. Dresden. Germany: r.
W. kissan. London. England DR.. Arie
keppler, Amsterdam, Holland: Barry
Parker. Letchworth England: Prof
and Mrs. A. Muesmann. Germany:
Franz Schenck. Germany; Franz
Roeckle, Germany: n. Chapman. Lon
don. England: C. 3. Purdom. ,Welwyn
Garden City. London; Paul F.. Hopper
Berlin, Germany: Fritz Lehman, Co.
logne. Germany: Wilhelm ArntZ Co
logne. Germany; Ernst May and wife.
Breslau. Germany: DR.. stephan Pra-
ger. Merseburg, Germany: Albert Lii
lenberg, Gothenburg- Sweden: Her
mann Schneider. Karlsruhe. German
Otto Berger, Breslau. Germany; DIR.
w. c. Behrendt, Berlin, Wilmersdorf
DR.. Paul Brandt. Hamburg, Germany;
DR.. X. Heiligenthal, Oberbaurat. Ber-
lin; Prof. Bruggeman, Paris. France:
Paul DR.. Rutte. Paris. France: Joseph
Bassompierre, Paris; DR.. Schmidt, Ger
many.
The conference proper will be
launched with the dinner tonight
when an imposing array of speakers
VIII discuss the architectural and
natural beauties of many pan-Amer-
lean capitals.
Frederic \. Delano. president of the
American Civic Associa ton and chair
man of the Committee on One Hun
dred on the Federal City. will be the
presiding officer at the banquet. and in
opening the discussion will tell OF
Washington's development. present
and future. as a world capital. DIR.
Leo H. Rowe, director general OF the
Pan American Union, will be toast
master.
The speakers will - include Col
James Franklin Bell. Engineer Com
missioner of the District OF Column
bia: Senor Don Manuel Q. Teller.
Ambassador of Mexico: Senod Don
Francisco Sanchez Latour. Minister
of Guatemala: Senior Don Ricardo J.
Barton Payne. chairman, OF the Amer
lean Red Cross, and DIR. James Brown
Scott of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace.
Musical Program.
Incidental music will feature spe-
cially arranged program Of selections
by South American composers, play
ed by the Arsenic Ralon Orchestra
and with Leopoldo Gutierrez, South
American baritone. as soloist. The
compositions are from a collection of
works by South American composers
made by Franklin p. Adams. counse-
lor of the Pan-American Union
Tomorrow will be busy one for
the delegates. Registration at 1890
am. will be followed by a private in
spection OF city beautiful exhibits
from Pan-American capitals at the
Pan-American Union Building. The
exhibits. which include photographs,
drawings, maps, etc, of noted CAPT
tails of Latin American countries, will
be open to the public beginning May l.
|.
AT 12:4o pm. tomorrow the delegates
will go to the White House to he re-
ceived by the President and Mrs. Cool
idge. and at 80 pm. an "interna-
tiOnal luncheon will be given at the
Mayfiower. at which leading architects
and city planners of this and foreign
nations will speak on the general
topic: World Capitals Al $40 pm.
there will be another sight seeing trip,
and the conference will close tomor-
row night with a conference at the
Pan-American Union Building, mark
ed by motion pictures and appropriate
music.
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