The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-06-20
Annual Meeting Grand Council Mount Yer.
non Ladies Association.

The Grand Council of the Mount Vernon
Ladies Association held its last annual
meeting at Mount Vernon on the 22d of
May, and continued in session eight days.
The reports for the past year indicate an in
creasingly prosperous condition of its affairs.
There were present the Regent Mrs. Laugh
TOM and the following Vice-Regents: Mrs.
Halsted, of New Jersey; Mrs. Comegys,
of Delaware; Miss Harper, of Maryland !;
Mrs. Pickens of South Carolina; Mrs. Town
send, of New York; Mrs. Barnes, of Dis.
trict Columbia; Mrs. Sweat, of Maine Mrs.
Hudson, of Connecticut; and Mrs. Ball, of
Virginia. The Association is most fortunate
in having secured the services of such gen.
tleman as Colonel Hollingsworth, and under
his superintendent the place is steadily i'm.
proving, and is being restored to it's old
fashioned beauty.
During the past year the barn, which
was last repaired in 1899, has been entirely
restored at cost of 1000, which sum was
raised by the Vice. Regents in their several
States. Porters' lodges and gates have been
built, and the wharf, which was swept away
by freshet in October, has been repaired
at cost of $99242. Roads have also been
repaired and drainage improved. The GEN.
tennial year brought crowds of visitors to
Mount Vernon, and its receipts and expendi-
lures were both large. AS it's result the su-
perintendent has placed in the hands of Mr..
Riggs, the treasurer, the sum of So, 100 for
the endowment fund. Mrs. Howard Town
send, Vice Regent for New York, brought in
a most handsome report from her State of
$1O,714.50 $4,000 of which was the con-
tribution of the Mount Vernon Aid Society
of New York, of which Mrs Algernon Sui
livan, Mrs. Burton Harrison, and Mrs.
Withers are the officers.
A number of interesting revolutionary
relics have been contributed; but to Gene
raj G. w. GUSTS Lee the Association is in
debted for the most interesting and valuable
relics of General Washington's furniture,
which he has deposited there, and entrusted
to the care of the Association at the solic-
tation of the Vice Regent for Virginia.
These are placed in the Virginia room, and
there we now find the bedstead upon which
General Washington died, hung with white,
revolutionary curtains, presented by Mrs.
General Bradley johnson; mirror with
ornamental gilt frame, pair of gilded brack-
cts, and large, handsome mahogany book.
case and secretary combined. Also, a can
dle-stand, originally Washington g, presented
by Major B. T. holland; mahogany table,
another relic of his furniture, presented by
Mrs. Duffy. The large, old fashioned coun-
terpane is the contribution of DR.. Harris
and the floor is covered with an Administer
rug, which in color and design is singularly
appropriate. This elegant carpet is the gift
of four Virginia ladies residing in New York,
and is presented through Mrs. General Heth,
Of Richmond. Two dressing rooms opening
into this chamber are entirely unfinished,
and it is hoped that other relics will soon be
contributed to place in these rooms.
There having been no published detailed
account of last years proceedings, it may be
we'll to state that at the Council of 1876 the
Vice-Regent for Virginia reported the fol-