REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 15I 



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5. 



Special drill at Fort Myer, Va., in honor of the delegates to the con- 

 gress and their families at 2.30 p. m. This drill was tendered by the 

 Secretary of War and the officers and soldiers of the Fifth United States 

 Cavalry, and was witnessed by a large number of delegates, who were 

 carried in automobiles for this occasion to Fort Myer. Invitations were 

 also extended to Cabinet members and the diplomatic representatives 

 and other prominent officials in Washington. 



The drill was reviewed by Col. Wilder and a large staff of officers. 



Particularly interesting to the guests were the bareback drill of Troop 

 K, in command of I/ieut. Homer M. Groninger; the cossack drill of 

 Troop M, in command of Capt. W. D. Forsyth; the saddle drill by Troop 



E, in command of Capt. Robert M. Baron; the battery drill of Battery 



F, Third United States Field Artillery, in command of Lieut. Bethel W. 

 Simpson; and the jumping contest, in command of Lieut. Sloan Doak. 

 The Fifth Cavalry Band played throughout the entire drill. 



Other social affairs were : 



Reception tendered by the Secretary of War and Mrs. Garrison to the 

 official delegates of the congress and their families at 1 830 Connecticut 

 Avenue, from 5 to 7 p. m. 



Dinner tendered by the president of the congress, his excellency the 

 ambassador of Chile, Senor Don Eduardo Suarez Mujica, at the em- 

 bassy, 1 01 3 Sixteenth Street. 



Host for dinner was : 



Mr. Paul M. Warburg, 1704 Eighteenth Street. 



Dr. John A. Brashear gave an address entitled "An Evening's Jour- 

 ney Among the Stars," including many slides from South America, at 

 Memorial Continental Hall, at 8.15 p. m. 



The Spanish American Athenaeum presented the Spanish comedy 

 Zaragiieta in two acts, by Carrion and Vital Aza, in honor of the dele- 

 gates, at Carroll Hall, at 8 p. m. 



THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 



Special electric trains carried the delegates of the congress and mem- 

 bers of their families over the Washington & Virginia Railroad at 2 p. m. 

 to the historic home of the first President of the United vStates, George 

 Washington, at Mount Vemon. 



The President of the United States addressed the members of the 

 congress in formal session at Memorial Continental Hall at 9 p. m. 



