30 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EDUCATION. 
questions relating to methods and modes of management, and their pro- 
grammes will invite large audiences of interested teachers. 
With this brief sketch of the points in the programme herewith pre- 
sented, I beg leave to thank you, Mr. President of the World’s Congress 
Auxiliary, and through you your aids and assistants in the local com- 
mittees of education, for your uniform kindness and helpfulness in arrang- 
ing the details of this congress. I thank vou in behalf of the Committee 
of Arrangements, and in behalf of the National Educational Association. 
+\DDRESS BY HON. ALBERT G. LANE, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL 
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AND SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
INSTRUCTION FOR THE CITY OF CHICAGO, PRESENTING DR. JAMES 
B. ANGELL, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, AS 
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN OF THE GENERAL SESSIONS. 
Fellow- Teachers : 1 extend to you greeting in behalf of the city of 
Chicago, and of the National Educational Association. 
Chicago, which has been noted in the history of the world for its mar- 
velous growth in population and material wealth, and which was the recip- 
lent of your loving charity when the great conflagration utterly destroyed 
111 of the business section of the city, extending from Harrison Street on 
‘he south to Lincoln Park on the north, and between the lake and the 
river, greets you, the educational representatives of every State in this 
Union and every country on the Western Continent, with the official 
sepresentatives of the great powers of Europe. the governments of Africa 
and Asia. 
At the time of the great fire in 1871 Chicago had a population of 
about three hundred and fifty thousand. A city which had been laid 
waste needed to be rebuilt. Chicago appealed to you for money to aid 
her, and one hundred millions of dollars was placed at our disposal to 
rebuild in greater beauty and on more permanent foundations our busi- 
ness blocks, our public halls, our residences, and our schoolhouses. The 
sons and daughters of New England, of 01d England, of the countries of 
Europe, and even Asia, heard of us, and came to increase our population 
and to contribute to our wealth. Twenty-one years have passed, and we 
have called you to visit us. We come to render an account of our stew- 
ardship. Behold a city with a population increased one million souls. 
In 1871 we were slightly known to the world as the young city of corn 
and pork. We come to you now with forty miles of magnificent boule- 
yards, connecting six parks of nearly cighteen hundred acres of land ; 
with our three public libraries which will attract the students of this 
continent, our three technical training-schools, our three universities, all 
andowed to the amount of twelve millions of dollars. 
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