l6o REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAl,. 



your countries need; it is from here that are shipped so many of those 

 things which are building up friendly trade between your nations and 

 ours. 



"We must come to know each other better, so much better that there 

 will be no more North or South or Central America, but one grand 

 America, united by ties of friendship and trade, leading the world in new 

 paths of peace, increasing the comforts of civilization through new ideas 

 and ideals, helping one another, so that all the peoples of all our nations 

 might be happier. 



"So Philadelphia is happy in welcoming you to-day. Every success, 

 every achievement, every advance made by any one of the Republics to 

 the south of us is a subject for sincere congratulation to Philadelphia, 

 because it testifies once more the mar^-elous power of the great principle 

 of self-government affirmed in our great Declaration of Independence, 

 amplified and safe-guarded in our great Constitution — both world- 

 famous and world-benefiting documents, penned and promulgated in this 

 city and both reflecting Philadelphia ideals." 



After luncheon the party was carried in automobiles, at 2.45, to Inde- 

 pendence Hall where the Liberty Bell's glass case was unlocked in 

 their honor, many of them reverently touching the old relic's famous 

 crack and remarking that it was their liberty bell as well as the Liberty 

 Bell of the thirteen original colonies. "The Bell," said Dr. Quesada, "was 

 the symbol of all the Americas." Leaving Independence Hall, the dele- 

 gates motored out past the United States mint on Spring Garden Street to 

 the Washington Monument of the Society of the Cincinnati at the head of 

 the parkway, and out through the park and along the Wissahickon to 

 Chestnut Hill. Many of the delegates left the main party at Chestnut Hill 

 to motor to the Baldwin Locomotive Works and to Cramp's Shipyard, but 

 the majority went on to the Wanamaker department store, where they 

 were taken for a tour of inspection by the Wanamaker military guides. 

 A special concert was rendered in their honor by the famous Wanamaker 

 mixed band, consisting of men and women players. From Wanamaker's 

 the party proceeded to the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford, where a table d'hote 

 dinner was served from 6.30 to 7.30. At 7.40 they were carried in hotel 

 automobiles as the guests of the city and the chamber of commerce to 

 the Metropolitan Opera House for a gala performance of Mozart's 

 "Magic Flute" in German. After the opera the party returned to the 

 Bellevue-Stratford in house automobiles for a buffet supper in the Clover 

 Room, being received by Mayor and Mrs. Thomas B. Smith. The supper 

 was followed by dancing. 



