REPORT OP THE SECRETARY GENERAL. l6l 



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1916. 



Immediately after breakfast the members of the party assembled and 

 were carried in hotel automobiles to the Market Street Station and left 

 on a special parlor-car train for Princeton at 10.30. On arrival at Prince- 

 ton at 11.52 the party proceeded to Nassau Hall by the way of Blair Arch. 

 Formal exercises took place in the banquet room of Nassau Hall at 12.30. 

 The secretary general, Mr. John Barrett, introduced President Hibben, of 

 the university, who welcomed the delegates in the name of the university, 

 pointing out that at the battle of Princeton the British made their last 

 stand in Nassau Hall and that it was also here that Washington received 

 the thanks of the Colonial Congress for his services. President Hibben's 

 address of welcome was responded to on the part of the delegates by Mr. 

 Eduardo Pinto, of Costa Rica, who emphasized that Pan Americanism is 

 the shortest possible way of attaining American unity. Leaving Nassau 

 Hall at 12.35 the party walked through the library arch to automobiles 

 and was driven to the graduate college where an informal luncheon was 

 served at i p. m. in Proctor Hall. Short speeches were made on this 

 occasion by Secretary General Barrett, Dr. Andres Montolio, of the 

 Dominican Republic, and by Prof. rP. M. Brown, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity. Dr. Montolio expressed the profound thanks of all the dele- 

 gates for the generous reception tendered them, and Prof. Brown ex- 

 pressed the appreciation of the faculty for this opportunity of enter- 

 taining the delegates and a cordial desire that they might return again. 

 After luncheon the party was carried back to the station in automobiles, 

 leaving Princeton at 2.30, the train arriving in New York at 3.45. 



On arrival in New York the members of the party were driven to the 

 Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where an informal reception was tendered by Mr. 

 Cabot Ward, second vice president of the Pan American Society of the 

 United States and Park Commissioner of New York City. Mr. Ward, 

 who was introduced by Mr. John Barrett, gave a short speech of welcome 

 which was responded to by Mr. Barrett. 



A beautiful banquet was tendered in the main banquet hall of the 

 Waldorf-Astoria at 7.30, by the Pan American Society of the United 

 States in cooperation with the general committee of New York City 

 which had been appointed by the Secretary of State in honor of the visit- 

 ing delegates to the Second Pan American Scientific Congress. The ladies 

 and invited guests occupied the balcony boxes. The officers of the Pan 

 American Society of the United States are as follows: 



