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Show 3000 NEWSPAPER MEN EXPECTED i I Plans for Press Week at World's Fair. I I it fi Elaborate Entorlalnment for 5 , Delegates to the Universal ;j Parliament. S i Bcgins With Band Concert and Con- F eludes "With Voyage Down the J Mississippi River. 4 i. S)cclal to The Tribune. fri ST. LOUIS, .May 7. The greatest ? gathering of newspaper men ever i held will make the week begin- ? nlng Monday, May 1C, memorable among journalists. (That is "World's j: Press Week" at the World's fair. For i more than two years preparations for this gathering have been In progress. I; The result, now about to be achieved, is j a World's Press parliament In which will sit as delegates many of the most jj distinguished journalists in the world. i Newspaper men from every State and I city In the United States will be pres- I ent, and famous representatives of the press of every foreign land will co- S operate to make this parliament com- j plete. About 3000 Journalists are ex- 1 pected. w .uuring tne weeK many state and (lis- K trict Press associations will' hold their sessions within the exposition grounds. The National Editorial association will hold its annual convention there. Elaborate programmes of entertainment entertain-ment have been prepared for the members mem-bers of the various associations and for the delegaUs to the Universal parlia- ment. The newspaper man. for seven 1 days, will be the Invited and welcome ' guest of the greatest universal exposl- C tion. g The week's programme begins Mon- day morning as soon as the gales of the World's fair are open, the ilrst number being a band concert. At 9 o'clock fol- f lows an organ recital in the magnificent festival hall. The National Editorial association meets at 9:30 o'clock in rc- t cital hall, and again at 2 o'clock. A 4 o'clock the Kansas commission " receives the newspaper men in the Kan- l sas -State pavilion, and at S o'clock there is an evening session of the na- , Clonal association. Each day of the week begins with a band concert and organ recital In honor 1 of the visiting journalists. t Tuesday morning the National Editorial a?socla- S tion holds another session, and In the S afternoon, from 2 to 1 o'clock, the Mis- p sour! Press association will meet in the B splendid Missouri State building. Th fi evening Is occupied by a reception in j that building by the Missouri commis- j sion for the World's fair. i Wednesday morning the national association as-sociation will resume its sessions, and In the afternoon there are receptions at the Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio and Arizona Ari-zona buildings. An evening reception by the exposition olllclals will close the day. Sessions of the national association arc held Thursday morning and afternoon. after-noon. Texas and Oklahoma receive the newspaper guests at their respective pavilions during the afternoon. A 8 G'clock the first session of the World's Press parliament will begin In festival hall. The second session of the parliament will be held Friday morning, with a third session in the evening. Iowa. West Virginia and Idaho are tho State hosts of the newspaper men during that afternoon. . Saturday morning the closing session of the World's Press parliament is to be held. There is a- reception by the Federation of Women's clubs at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and at n?ght the Journalists may parade the Pike or do whatever else they may like. Starting at 9 o'clock Sunday morning the press representatives will enjoy a voyage on the Mississippi river, aboard the big, steamboat City of Providence. Walter Williams of Columbia, Mo., past president of the National Editorial association and now World's fair commissioner com-missioner to the foreign press, has been chiefly .nstrumental Jn creating the World's Press parliament. Mr. ' Williams, Wil-liams, more than a year ogo, spent nlnp months traveling In Europe and Asia, personal! visiting nearly a thousand editors In the Interest of the enterprise. |
