plague 



The Days of a Man ni904 



Fighting of the American Vigilance Society, devoted to the 

 therei eUmination of the "Red Plague," as I termed the 

 twin curses of venereal parasites, m an address at 

 Santa Cruz. That appellation has now been adopted 

 by the National Social Hygiene Association as a 

 natural derivative from "red light district," and a 

 convenient cognate to "white" plague (tuberculosis), 

 "yellow" fever, and "black" (bubonic) plague. 



The month of July of this year was made notable 

 by the assemblage at St. Louis, during the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition, of a Congress of Arts and 

 Sciences attended by leading men from all over the 

 world, upward of fifty scholars having been invited to 

 confer together and to address the public.^ At a ban- 

 quet tendered by the Exposition Commission to its 

 guests, I had the honor of sitting with some of the 

 Great greatest chemists of our time, among them Ostwald 

 scientists of Leipzig, Van t'Hoff of Holland (later of Berlin), 

 Arrhenius of Sweden (later of Leipzig), Ramsay of 

 London, and our own Harvey Wiley. At the next 

 table was an equal number of noted theologians who 

 had a jolly time under the lead of the versatile Har- 

 nack. Among the zoologists I was glad to welcome 

 Mitsukuri as representative of Japan. Other foreign 

 zoologists were Yves Delage and Alfred Giard from 

 the Sorbonne, Oscar Hertwig of Berlin, and Max 

 Verworn of Gottingen. American workers in this field 

 were also well represented. 



On this occasion I made the acquaintance of James 

 Bryce (later Viscount Bryce), over whose address on 



' Dr. Howard J. Rogers of New York was president of the Congress; the 

 special committee in charge consisted of Dr. Simon Newcomb of Washington, 

 Dr. Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard, and Dr. Albion W. Small of the University 

 of Chicago. 



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