Among those present were Mayor Hugh J.Grant, Elihu Root, Andrew Carnegie, Chauncey M.Depew, and Horace White.

On the walls were portraits of Washington and General Bolivar, and intertwined with the Stars and Stripes, the vividly coloured banners of the South American nations.

At the right of the chairman, William H.T.

Hughes, sat Senor F.C.C.Zegarra of Peru, and at the left Mayor Grant.

The address of welcome was delivered first in English and then in Spanish by Mr.Hughes, who possessed a perfect command of both languages.