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Show A GRAND BANQUET TONIGHT. Iron and Steel InUltute Festivities An JCIauornte Curd. New York, Oct. 2. Special. Quite as elaborate as tho hospitalities bestowed on the Pan-American congress con-gress will be the reception accorded the foreign delegates to the international convention of the iron and stetd trade The lirst banquet occurs tonight at Del-monico's. Del-monico's. It will bo presided over by Sir J. Kitson. This banquet, the invitations invi-tations to which were engraved in Ku-gland, Ku-gland, will be given by the British Iron and Steel association. The invitations are very English. Printed on largo cards and in seven different colors, they look, and in fact are, chromos. 'The portrait of Stevenson is iu the center, and in the four corners are cuts of a locomotive lo-comotive and other products of the iron and steel makers' art. Accompanying this card is another engraved by the Homer Lee company, and which is issued is-sued by ex-Mayor Hewett and others of the American committee. The mayors of all tho principal cities have been invited, in-vited, but none of them will attend as each has written that he prefers awaiting await-ing the arrival of the visitors in his citv This convention of the iron and steei trade will attract wiile attention as it is claimed that tho United States has advanced to that position among the iron and steel producing nations of the world which was formerly held by Great Britain. |