New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-09
ovERsleHrs OF THE. COMMITTEES.


The Tribune is sorry to see that the centennial
celebration committees are making no provisions
either in the parade on the grand stand, or at the
ball for the heirs Of Anneke Jams. The committees
need not wait thinking that the Anneke Jams heirs
will apply for these favors, like the members Oh
the legislature because they viii do nothing Of
tho kind; the Anneke Jams heirs are modest ana
though they are not afraid to say that were they
TO appear in the parade they would march past
property rightfully theirs mulch Of the way, still
if they are not hidden to the feast they are very
far from asking for an invitation They should
be included in the parade by all means. They
would make an imposing showing, and II they
could oil be got together it would take them sew
era hours to pass given point. They would
make truly democratic gathering, too, rich and
poor, distinguished and obscure; they would come
from the humblest walks Of life and from the Sen
ate Chamber and Supreme Bench
II age of family is wanted the Anneke JAMS
heirs can show it, Mistress JAMS and her worthy
husband settled in New-YorlS in 1880, II we mis-
take not. Here's ancestry IL the committees want
that sort of thing. For over two hundred years
her descendants have been multiplying and replen-
ishing the Garth. There are thousands Of Anneke
JAMS heirs in this country who do not even know
neke JAMS family may not, as a body, have been
connected with the Inauguration, but they came
nearer to it than the Legislature. The heirs are
too modest; they should 60 to the committee and
demand their rights.
Another class that the committees seem TO be
strangely overlooking Is that large body of good
old ladies scattered all over the country who dis
tinctly remember having been kissed by Wash
ington They are entitled TO recognition, If any
one is. 1t is TO be regretted that Washngton's
nurses have disappeared, but we believe they
have. Only few years ago and they were
numerous in Virginia, and were occasionally heard
Of elsewhere Fifty years ago an old colored lady
who used to take care Of George Washington in
his youthful days died every month. Statisticians
tell us that some three or four hundred Washing
ton nurses have passed away since the beginning
OF the century. Since the late War they have
been scarce and now we believe the last one Is
gone But the old ladies who were kissed by the
Father Of his Country remain in considerable num-
hers. Those ladies who danced with him are
growing scarce, but the others are still with us.
They are the same dear, good old ladies, who knit
q pair OF socks before breakfast, scorn the use Of
spectacles, and occasionally walk q mile to the
postofIice We read Of them in the village papers
and also in the Boston press. The accounts tell
Of their sons and daughters, young people Of
eighty; OF their great grandchildren Of
their celebrated receipt for dried pumpkin, first
published 70 an anxious world in 1920. Some
times their recollection Of events since the war of
1912 is somewhat cloudy, but back OF that their
memory is clear and standing out distinctly above
everything else is the fatherly kiss which the first
President imprinted ON their youthful lips. They
are fast going the way OF oil flesh, and should
be honored in the present centennial celebration
At the next centennial, Of course, nothing OF the
kind viii be possible, though the elderly ladies
that General Sherman kissed may then be numer-
GUS We trust the committees will do their duty
now that their attention has been called to o few
oyeEsghts Of which they have been guilty.