Convention Arrangements:
• Centennial Aims, p. 160.
• The Centennial Roll, p. 161.
• Centennial Campaign Committee, p. 162.
• Centennial Convention Committee, p. 162.
• Bureau of Information, p. 162.
• A Full and Fair Count of the 50,000, p. 163.
• The Centennial Badge, pp. 164.
• Entertainment, p. 165.
• Postal Service, p. 165.
• Sightseeing, p. 166.
• Convention Reports, p. 167.

      In the Exhibit Hall, Forties Field, street floor, will be found the Centennial Roll Books of churches in all parts of the world. The books will be permanently preserved in our National Headquarters Building that is to be, and a duplicate set will be placed in the Library of Congress at Washington.

      At the principal railroad stations, in the General Headquarters down-town and at the Centennial Halls, there will be booths of information where you can find out for the asking anything you want to know. Lost and found articles should be reported promptly at these booths. [162]

      None of our conventions has been able to show a complete registration. The railroads give us credit for only half our actual attendance at the jubilee in Cincinnati, 1899.

      The Pittsburgh Committee is determined to have the name and address of every individual of the 50,000. Every unit of attendance adds a unit of projectile force to the plea we are trying to make the whole world hear. But you do not count unless you are counted.

      Every seat and every session is absolutely free, but no one will be admitted at any door of the hall without evidence that he has registered. Every one who wears the Centennial Badge will be passed without question. Every one else can secure a free admission-ticket--good for this session only--at a near-by booth.

      Every one who pays the regular Registration Fee of One Dollar will receive both the Centennial Memorial Program and the Centennial Badge. To provide for wives and children of regular delegates, and mere visitors, the badges are on sale at 15 cents each. [163]

      The question of the design and character of the Centennial Badge was before the Committee for just a year. The Badge is made of solid bronze, oxidized, and consists of a medallion of the regular Centennial Convention Emblem--portraits of the four Pioneers on the Pittsburgh coat of arms--suspended by black-and-gold ribbon from a pin bar of the same metal.

      There was sharp competition among a half dozen badge manufacturers for this contract of 50,000. The Whitehead and Hoag Co. was awarded the work because it demonstrated its ability to produce a real work of art that will be cherished not only by the delegates, but by their descendants.

      In order to secure perfect likenesses of the four great Pioneers in medium relief on the metal, large plaster models were first made. When these were perfectly acceptable they were reproduced in the bronze by the same process of modern mechanical accuracy that is used by the United States Government for its gold coins. Every piece shows the perfection of a jewel, and is a source of pride to its maker as well as to its owner. [164]

      Every train coming into Pittsburgh, October 11 to 19 inclusive, will be met by members and assistants of the Entertainment Committee in sufficient numbers to care for all who come. Those who have received assignment-cards by mail will go at once to the homes assigned them. All persons who have not been assigned will be taken to the down-town headquarters for registration, and from there sent by trolley to one of the many churches of the city which serve as sub-assignment stations, and are so marked on the map. From these, delegates will be sent to their places of entertainment. The Entertainment Committee numbers several hundred members, every one of whom stands ready to serve you in every possible way, so as to make your stay at the Centennial Convention one of pleasure and profit.

      Have all your mail directed to your place of lodging, if possible. The Entertainment Committee has arranged for a Convention sub-station post-office in Forbes Field, to care for what cannot be given a street or hotel address. [165]

      Pittsburgh the powerful says, "I am black but comely; yet no city of the West can surpass me in my emerald suburban robes by day, nor can any city of the East excel me when besparkled by my diamonds at night."

      Within the Centennial Quadrangle are the $20,000,000 buildings of the Carnegie Educational group. Here is the home of the Diplodocus, of which kings of the earth desire to have replicas; Schenley Park; Phipps Conservatory; the palatial mansions of Fifth and Forbes Avenues going east; the University of Pittsburgh; the magnificent St. Paul's Cathedral.

      FIVE-CENT trolley fares will take you to Highland Park and the great Zoo; Lawrenceville Model Children's Playground; Homestead Mills; Knoxville Heights.

      TEN-CENT trolleys take you to Duquesne Heights to see the greater city by night or day; our $7,000,000 filtration-plant at Aspinwall; Perrysville Heights, to overlook Allegheny.

      STEAMBOAT EXCURSIONS arranged as desired. These afford the best views of the great steel-mills, which cannot be entered on account of the danger. Fifty and twenty-five cents.

      BETHANY EXCURSIONS, daily except Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Pennsylvania lines to Wellsburg, and trolley from Wellsburg to Bethany. Two hours' ride each way. Cost inside of $2.00.

      WASHINGTON, PENN. Pennsylvania Lines, B. and O.; or trolley to the town where Thomas Campbell lived and published the "Declaration and Address." Round trip from $1.00 to $2.00.

      HISTORIC SCENES. Wabash R. R. to West Middletown Station; thence by vehicles to West Middletown, Brush Run Church foundation, Buffalo Creek baptismal spot, and Bethany. Return by trolley to Wellsburg, and Pennsylvania Lines to Pittsburgh. Total expense inside of $3.00. Parties will be made up from day to day at Sightseeing Headquarters in Forbes Field.

      NIAGARA and Atlantic Excursions after the Convention. [166]

      There are three ways in which you can get complete reports of the Centennial Convention. First, extraordinary measures are being taken this year by our church papers to make their accounts worthy of the Centennial.

      Second, Pittsburgh has a superb circle of daily papers. Each of these will cover every department of the Convention. They have made special mailing-prices for the nine days of the Convention and the day following. "The Gazette Times," "The Dispatch," and "The Post," morning papers with Sunday editions, will be sent the ten days for 15 cents. "The Leader" and "The Press," afternoon papers with Sunday editions, 10 cents each. "The Chronicle Telegraph" and "The Sun," afternoon papers without Sunday editions, will be sent for 10 cents.

      Third, thousands of people will want the reports in permanent form. The Committee will publish them in a handsome illustrated volume at $1.00 per copy to advance subscribers.

      The Memorial Program will also be mailed anywhere in the world on payment of the Centennial Dollar with such a request. [167]

[CCP 160-167]