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WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 



The Congresses will be held in the permanent 

 Memorial Art Palace, on the Lake Front Park. 

 This building will have two large audience 

 rooms, to seat about 3,000 persons each, and more 

 than twenty smaller rooms, which will accommo- 

 date from 300 to 700 persons each. Popular 

 meetings will be held in the main audience 

 rooms. Meetings of chapters and sections of 

 different Congresses for the discussion of sub- 

 jects of more limited interest will be held in the 

 smaller rooms. It will be possible to have two 

 general Congresses and twenty, special Congresses 

 or Conferences in session at the same time, and, 

 if necessary, to have three times as many meet- 

 ings within a single day by arranging different 

 programmes for morning, afternoon, and evening. 



At least one hundred congresses will be held in 

 Chicago during the Exposition. The proceedings 

 of the Congresses will be subsequently published 

 in permanent form, and a programme is now 

 being arranged for the various departments and 

 their divisions by which the great specialists and 

 advanced thinkers of the age may participate in 

 discussing the important questions of the day. 



The officers of the Auxiliary are Charles C. 

 Ronney, President; Thomas B. Bryan, Vice- 

 President; Lyman J. Gage, Treasurer; Ben- 

 jamin Butterworth, Secretary. 



Objects. The objects of the Congress are: "To 

 provide for the proper presentation of the world's 

 intellectual and moral progress, with the assistance 

 of the leaders in all the chief departments of hu- 

 man achievement ; to provide places of meeting 

 and other facilities for kindred organizations to 

 unite in Congresses in Chicago during the Ex- 

 position season, for the consideration of ques- 

 tions in their respective departments ; to conduct 

 popular Congresses in which will be presented sum- 

 maries of the progress made and the most important 

 results attained in the several departments of civil- 

 ized life ; to provide for the proper publication of 

 the Congress proceedings as the most valuable and 

 enduring memorial of the Exposition ; and to bring 

 all the departments of human progress into har- 

 monious relation in the Exposition." 



Women'* Progress. Includes all the fields in which 

 women have achieved success; and will embrace a 

 General Congress of representative women of all 

 countries, beginning May 15, 1893. 



Public Press. Includes the Daily Press, Weeklies 

 and Magazines, the Religious Press, Trade Journals, 

 Scientific and Professional Journals, etc. Con- 

 gresses will be held during the week beginning May 

 22, 1893. 



Medicine. Includes General Medicine and Sur- 

 gery, Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery ; Eclectic 

 Medicine and Surgery ; Medico-Climatology. Con- 



resseswill be held during the week beginning May 

 E). The Congresses of Dentistry, Pharmacy, and 

 Medical Jurisprudence have been transferred to the 

 week beginning August 14, 1893. 



Temperance. Includes the Woman's Christian 

 Temperance Union ; Catholic Temperance Societies, 

 National Temperance Society ; Independent Order 

 of Good Templars ; Sons of Temperance; Templars 

 of Honor and Temperance ; Royal Templars of 

 Temperance ; Non-partisan W. C. T. U. ; Law and 

 Order Leagues ; Vegetarian Societies and similar 

 organizations. Congresses will be held during the 

 week beginning June 5, 1893. 



Moral and Social Reform. Includes Philanthropy, 

 Prevention, Charity, and Reform, as represented by 

 the National Conference of Charities and Correc- 

 tion; Women's Exchanges; Lodging Houses; News- 

 boys' and Bootblacks' Homes ; Humane Societies ; 

 Provident Associations ; Industrial Schools , Chil- 



dren's Missions ; Children's Aid Societies ; Day 

 Nurseries ; Relief Societies ; Orphan Asylums ; 

 Homes for Old People; Asylums for Incurables ; 

 Hospitals; Little Sisters of the Poor: Fresh Air 

 Work ; Soup Houses ; Penal Institutions ; Woman's 

 Refuges ; Houses of the Good Shepherd ; Reform 

 Schools ; the Salvation Army, and the like. Con- 

 gresses will be held during the week beginning 

 June 12, 1893. 



Commerce and Finance. Includes the general di- 

 visions of Banking and Finance ; Boards of Trade ; 

 Stocks and Bonds; Water Commerce; Railway 

 Commerce ; Commercial Clubs and kindred organ- 

 izations ; Insurance; Building Associations; Mer- 

 cantile Business, etc. The Insurance Congresses 

 will include Fire Insurance, Marine Insurance, Life 

 and Accident Insurance, Mutual Benefit and As- 

 sessment Associations, Fidelity and Employers' 

 Liability Insurance, and Insurance Specialties. 

 Congress will begin on June 19, 1898. The Water 

 Commerce Congress will be held during the first 

 week of August, simultaneously with the Engineer- 

 ing Congress. 



Mime. Includes Orchestral, Art, Choral Music 

 and Training, Songs of the People, Organ and 

 Church Music, Musical Art and Literature, Musical 

 Criticism and History, Opera Houses and Music 

 Halls. Congresses will be held during the week 

 beginning July 3, 1893. 



Literature. Includes Libraries, History, Philol- 

 ogy, Authors, Folk-lore, and Copyright. Congresses 

 will begin on July 10, 1893. 



Education. Includes Higher Institutions of Learn- 

 ing and University Extension; Public Instruction; 

 the Kindergarten ; Manual and Art Training : Busi- 

 ness and Commercial Education ; Education in Civil 

 Law and Government ; Instruction of the Deaf ; Ed- 

 ucation of the Blind ; Representative Youth of Pub- 

 lic Schools ; College and University Students ; Col- 

 lege Fraternities ; Psychology Experimental and 

 Rational ; Physical Culture ; Domestic and Economic 

 Education ; Agricultural Education ; Authors and 

 Publishers. The General Division of Public Instruc- 

 tion in Music is transferred to the Department of 

 Musical Art. Congresses will begin on July 17, 

 1893, and will be followed by the World's General 

 Educational Congress, in which all Departments of 

 Education will be represented. 



Engineeriny. Includes Civil Engineering, Mechan- 

 ical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Metallurgical 

 Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Military En- 

 gineering, Marine and Naval Engineering, Aerial 

 Navigation, Engineering Education. Engineering 

 Congresses and Water Commerce Congress will be 

 held during the week beginning July 31, 1893. 



Art. Includes Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, 

 Decorative Art, Photographic Art, Governmental 

 Patronage of Art Art Museums, Art Education, 

 etc. Congresses will open on July 31, 1893. 



Government. Includes Jurisprudence and Law 

 Reform, Political and Economic Reform, City 

 Government, Executive Administration, Intel- 

 lectual Property, Arbitration and Peace. Juris- 

 prudence and Law Reform will include the Laws 

 of Nations, Expatriation, Naturalization, and Ex- 

 tradition : International Privileges of Citizenship, 

 the Administration of Justice, etc. Political and 

 Economic Reform will include Political Economy 

 and Economic Science, Profit-sharing, Social Sci- 

 ence, the Single Tax and other Theories ; Public 

 Revenues, Statistics, Weights and Measures and 

 Coinage, Postal Service, Suffrage in Republics, 

 Kingdoms, and Empires, Civil Service Reform, etc. 

 City Government will include Municipal Order, the 

 Public Service, Public Works, Police Protection, 

 Public Revenues and Expenditures, and other im- 

 portant subjects. Executive Administration will in- 

 clude the nature, office, and application of Executive 

 Power, in Municipal, State, and National Govern- 

 ment. Intellectual Property will include Trade- 

 marks and Patents, both National and International. 



