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Music Trade REVIEW.
The Only Music Trade Paper in America, and the Organ of the Music Trade of this Country.
1879.
VOL. IX.
No. 6.
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 20 TO NOVEMBER 5, i885.
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NORTH, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN
EXPOSITION.
BEVISED LIST OF SPECIAL DAYS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10, 1885.
To the Press and Public:
On the 21st of July the Board of Management of
the North, Central and South American Exposition
(to be opened at New Orleans next November, for a
period of five months), announced a series of Special
Days for the celebration of subjects peculiarly Ameri-
can, and Hemispherical in their scope.
This announcement was so favorably received by
the Press and Public, that the Board have decided
to enlarge the programme. In doing so it is necessary
to change a few dates previously announced. The
following is the revised and enlarged list:
Tuesday, Nov. 10, American Peace Day.—To be
celebrated on opening day. The Presidont of the
United States; the Governors of all the States ; the
Presidents of the fifteen sister Republics of Spanish
America; the Emperor of Brazil, and the Governor-
General of Canada will be invited.
Henry Ward Beecher will be invited to deliver an
address on the subject of "Peace and Good Will"
between States, Sections and Nations.
In order to give practical importance and value to
this occasion, Boards of Trade, Chambers of Com-
merce, etc., will be invited to send delegates to organ,
ize an "American Commercial Peace Union" as a
standing protest against the increase of war debts
and war taxation.
Thursday, Nov. 12, American Governors' Day.—
The Governors of all the forty-six States and Terri-
tories of the United States; of the twenty-eight States
and Territories of Mexico, and of the States of other
American countries will be invited.
Wednesday, Nov. 18, American Press Day.— Editors
of all newspapers in the United States, Canada,
Mexico and the countries of Central and South
"America, will be invited.
Chas. A. Dana, Esq., of the New York Sun will be
invitod to deliver an address.
Wednesday, Nov. 25, American Musical Congress.
—Letters of invitation will be sent to all Musical
Societies of the United States and other American
countries, and an endoavor made to make it the grand-
est celebration of the kind ever held upon this con-
tinent.
Wednesday, Dec. 2, American Mediterranean Day
—Large delegations will be expected from all Ports,
Cities, States and Chambers of Commerce, tributary
to and interested in the Gulf of Mexico. At an early
date a special statistical circular, illustrated with
diagrams, will be sent to the Press and Public of
thoBestates, on the subject of tributary Countries,
Bailways, Rivers, Commerce, Cotton Belt, Pine Belt,
etc, etc., in order that all interests may be repre-
sented at this grand celebration.
Hon. Charles E. Hooker, of Mississippi, will be
invited to deliver an address.
Wednesday, Dec. 9, American Bankers' Congress.
— Circular letters of invitation will be sent to all
Bankers of the United States, Canada, Mexico and
Central and South America. Such subjects as uniform
coinage, banking laws, etc., will be considered.
Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury,
will be invited to deliver an address.
Wednesday, Dec. 16, American Mayors' Day.—
Letters of invitation will be sent to the Mayors of all
American cities, and the day set apart in honor of
the collective city exhibits.
Hon. Wm. R. Grace, Mayor of New York, will be
invited to deliver an address.
Tuesday, Dec. 22, New England Day.—This will
be a celebration of Forefathers' Day, or the anniver-
sary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.
Large delegations will be expected from all New
England States, and from the New England Societies
of Western and Southern cities.
Hon. Wm. C. Endicott, Secretary of War, will be
invited to deliver an address.
Saturday, Dec. 2G, American College Day.—All
Colleges of North, Central, and South America will be
invited to send full delegations—the object being to
stimulate an exchange of educational information—
to attract the students of Spanish and Portuguese
America to our institutions of learning, and our
students to their antiquities and classic history.
United States Senator Wm. H. Evarts, will be in-
vited to deliver an address.
Tuesday, Dec. 29, American Congressional Day.—
Invitations will be sent to the Vice-President of the
United States and all Senators, to the Speaker and
Members of the House of Representatives, to the
Members of the Congress of Mexico, and all other
American countries.
The day will be celebrated during the holiday recess
of our Congress.
Wednesday, Dec. 30, American Commercial Con-
gress.—To be held during the week that Members of
Congress are present. Its object is to consider tlie
best mode of inaugurating an " American Hemi-
spherical Policy," based upon more intimate indus-
trial, commercial and social relations between the
three Americas.
Hon. Richard W. Townshend, of Illinois, will be
invited to deliver an address on the subject of an
American Zollvereln, or Customs Union, and Hon.
Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, an address on the
subject of reciprocity treaties. AU Governments of
American countries will be invited to send official
delegates.
Friday, Jan. 1, African-American, and Emancipa-
tion Day.—This is intended to be a double celebra-
tion of what the colored race have contributed to the
material development of America, and of the anniver-
sary of Emancipation.
Frederick Douglass and Ex. U. S. Senator Bruce,
of Miss., will be invited to deliver addresses.
Tuesday Jan. 5, American Native Peace Day.—
Delegations from the Indian Tribes of the United
States, the Aztecs and other civilized native races of
Mexico, the Incas of Peru, and the various other na-
tive races of Central and South America will be in-
vited. They will be dressed in their respective na-
tional costumes, and evidences of their antiquities
and civilization will be exhibited. Delegations will
also be expected from the various Indian Schools of
the United States. Other appropriate ceremonies
will be provided and an address delivered.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
SINGLE COPIES, 10 CENTS.
Friday, Jan. 8, Anniversary of the Battle of New
Orleans.—This day, which is a favorite one in New
Orleans, will be devoted to a celebration of the
victory of General Jackson over the British at New
Orleans. Suitable ceremonies will be provided.
Tuesday, Jan. 12, American Railway Congress.—
All Railway Companies of the United States,
Canada, and Central and South America, will be in-
vited to 6end delegates. An address will be delivered
on the subject of railway progress on this continent,
and other suitable ceremonies will be provided.
\
Friday, Jan. 15, American Electrical Congress.—"
This will be held during the same week that the rail- %
way delegates are present. The progress of electrical,
science in all its branches, will be illustrated, and '
addresses will be invited from Cyrus W. Field, Edison,
Bell and others. During the exercises, telegrams,
and cablegrams of congratulation will be sent to the
President of the United States, the Presidents of the
fifteen Spanish American Republics, the Emperor of
Brazil, the Governor-General of Canada, and replies
expected from those officials.
Tuesday, Jan. 19, American Water-Ways Conven-
tion.—This will be for the consideration of the im-
provement of the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Red
and other rivers of the United States, the construction
of the Hennepin Canal, the Improvement of Galves-
ton Harbor, the condition of Erie Canal, and other
water-ways and Harbors of the United States. Large
delegations will be expected from Boards of Trade,
and other commercial organizations, and from the
cities and towns interested in water transportation.
Ex-Senator Wm. Windom, of Minnesota, and Ex-Gov.
Horatio Seymour, of New York, will be invited to
deliver addresses.
Friday, Jan. 22, American Inter-Ocean Transit
Congress.—Delegations will be invited from all mar-
itime cities of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coast.
Addresses will be invited from representatives of
the Tehuantepec, Panama, and Nicaragua projects.
Monday, Jan. 25, Scotch-American Day.—Delega-
tions will be expected from the Scotch Societies and
Clubs of the various American cities.
United States Senator Beck, of Kentucky (a native
of Scotland), will be invited to deliver an address
on what the Scotch have contributed to the develop-
ment of America.
Wednesday, Jan. 27, American Manufacturers' Day.
—This day will be celebrated by a display of repre-
sentative manufactures of North America, and the
raw, materials of Spanish and Portuguese America.
Also by an address on the subject of " New Markets "
for our surplus manufactures, and a reciprocal de-
mand for their raw material.
Monday, Feb. 1, American Merchant Marine Day.
-Representative merchant vessels will be expected
in the Mississippi river, opposite the Exposition
grounds, from the United States, Mexico, Peru, Chili,
Brazil, Argentine Republic, and other American coun-
tries.
Addresses will be invited from Major Chas. S. Hill,
and Hon. David A. Wells.
Wednesday, Feb. 3, American Agricultural Con-
g reS8 .—Delegates will be invited from all agricultural
societies, schools and colleges of the United States,
and other American countries.
Hon. Norman J. Coleman, U. S. Commissioner of
Agriculture, will be invited to deliver an address.
Wednesday, Feb. 10, Anglo-American Day.—Dele-
gations will be expected from the various St. George's
Societies of the United States. Suitable ceremonies
will be provided and an address delivered on what
the English have contributed to the settlement and
development of American countries.