HEW YORK TIMES, December 20,1915 
PAM-AIERIGAH HOST 
Mbre Than 1,000 Delegates to 
Attend Scientific Congress 
Opening Tomorrow. 
RECEPTION AT WHITE HOUSE 
Scores of Business Sessions with 
Entertainments Arranged 
—Noted Men There. 
WASHINGTON, Dec, 25. -Prepara- 
tions for the Second Pan-American Sci- 
entific Congress, which opens Monday, 
were being completed here today. With 
ail the hotel rooms in the city reserved 
for the 1,000 to 1.500 members of the 
congress and of the permanent scientific 
organizations which will meet with it, | 
practically every square foot of conven- 
tion space chartered, from lodge hall to 
ballroom and including even the Govern- 
ment and educational buildings, the city 
is awaiting the largest and most com- 
prehensive international gathering of its 
kind ever held in this country. 
Hosts and hostesses have arranged 
scores ‘ of Pan-American breakfasts, 
: luncheons, dinners, receptions, and balls, 
which' will make the hours between the 
sessions of the congress a continuous 
whirl of entertainments, concluding on 
the night of Jan. 7 with the first Pan- 
American reception ever held in the j 
White, House. It is expected President I 
Wilson will' return to Washington in 
time to address the members at a spe- 
cial meeting in the Pan-American Build- 
ing on the night of Jan. 5. 
Many of the delegates, who include 
hundreds of noted scientists, educators, 
and publicists of the two continents, 
have arrived in the city. The rest will j 
reach here, tomorrow afternoon in time I 
for the “ get acquainted ” reception to 
be giyen by the official United States 
■ delegation, headed by Judge George- 
Gray of Wilmington, Del., member of ; 
The Hague Peace Court. This reception 
will be held in the New Willard Hotel, 
where the organization committees have 
established official headquarters. 
Decorated with the flags of the twenty- 
one nations of Pan-America, the hotel 
presents an example which is being fol- 
lowed by other hostelries, and to a lesser 
degree elsewhere throughout ' the city, j 
A registration. . office has been opened In ! 
die New- fWillard, and ushers, with* I 
badges marked “ Scientific Congress,” , 
are at the entrances to receive the dele- 
gates as they .arrive. A branch Post Of- 
fice has been established in the hotel to 
^handle the delegates’ mail, and ar- 
rangements -have 1 beep 
and other facilities. 
The formal opening will take place at 
10 o’clock Monday In Memorial Conti- 
nental Hall, national headquarters of 
the Daughters of the’ American Revolu- 
tion. The assemblage, comprising some 
150 representatives of Lattn-American 
Governments and scientific institutions 
and. societies, about 700 representatives 
of American organizations, and about 
300 from educational institutions of this 
country-, will be called to order by John 
Barrett, Director General of the Pan- 
American Union, acting as Secretary 
General of the congress. After the sing- 
ing of the “ Pan-American Hymn ” by a 
chorus, Mr. Barrett will introduce, Will- 
iam Phillips, Third Assistant Secretary 
of State, as Chairman of the 'executive 
Committee which organized the ’con- 
gress, Mr. Phillips will call on Ambas- 
sador Suarez of Chile to take up the 
gavel as presiding officer for the thir- 
teen-day meeting, 
A welcome on behalf of the United 
States Government, under whose aus- 
pices the congress will be held, will be 
tendered by Vice President Marshall in 
the absence of President ■ Wilson. This 
will be followed by a formal address hi - 
Secretary of State Lansing. Responses 
will be made by the respective Chairmen 
of the twenty-one national delegations, 
beginning with -Dr. Ernesto Quesada of 
Argentina. In most cases the Latin - 
American Chairmen are the Envoys of 
their Governments in Washington. In 
the evening there will be a reception to 
the members of the congress and guests 
tendered by Secretary Lansing' and the 
United States delegation. 
The scientific discussions will begin 
Tuesday morning with the .semi -formal 
openings of the nine main sections of 
the congress, at which arrangements 
will be completed for consideration of 
the general subject assigned to each. 
Section No. 1 has anthropology, with 
Dr. William H. Holmes, head curator of 
Smithsonian Institution, as Chair- 
man.; No. 2 , astronomy, meteorology, 
and seismology, Robert S. Woodward, 
President of the Carnegie ' Institution ; 
No. 3, conservation, agriculture, irriga- 
tion, and forestry, George N„ - Rommel, 
chief, animal husbandry division, United 
States Department of Agriculture; No. 
4, education, P. P. CJaxton, United 
States Commissioner of Education; No. 
5, engineering, Brig'. Gen. William H. 
l.lixby, -U. S, A... retired; No. b, inter- 
national and public, law and jurispru- 
dence, Dr., James Brown Scott, Secre- 
tary of the Carnegie Endowment for 
International Peace; No. 7, mining and 
metallurgy, economic geology and ap- 
plied chemisfo-y, Hennen Jennings, for- 
mer President of the London. Institute 
of Mining and Metallurgy; No, 8, pub- 
lic health and medical science. Surgeon 
Gen. William C, Gorgas, U, S. A.; No. 
!), transportation, commerce, finance, 
and taxation, L, S. Rowe, President of 
the Academy of Social and Political 
Science. 
The sections on Wednesday will spilt 
I up into forty-five subsections, each with 
jits special topics. From then on the 
Congress will consist of a large number 
of separate meetings until the day be- 
fore adjournment, when the main sec- 
tions will meet again for the formulation 
of resolutions to be acted on at the clos- 
ing . exercises in Memorial. Continental 
Hall oii Jan. 8. 
There is to be a Women’s Auxiliary 
Conference meeting four days each of 
the two weeks. Mrs. Robert Lansing, 
wife of the Secretary of State, is to pre- 
side, and- a prominent part will be. taken 
by Mftfe: . SUarez, wife of the Chilean 
Ambassador ,. Addresses will be made 'by 
many prominent women,. , Women who 
speak 'Spanish have also been engaged 
as interpreters for the women of the for- 
eign delegations. 
