New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-05
INCREASING IN NUMBERS.
IONS OF THE REVOLUTION MEET AND ELECT
OFFICERS.
rur SOCIETY IN PROSPEROUS CONDITION
sour SHARP CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE

COME SHARP CORRESPONDENTS RELATIVE
TO THE PROPOSED HARLEM TABLET
rho New-York State Society Of the Sons OF the
poyolution assembled in annual meeting !esleiuaS
.f,arnoon at O'Clock, in the OLD fraunce IdNei"
-, the southeast corner Of Broad ana rear s'S'
About $50 members were present ms ticket was
,o,od. President Frederick Samuel Tallmadge'
'osLlont Flovd Clarkson: secretary. Thomas
,,sard Vermive Smith; treasurer Arthur Mel
DIN Hatch: registrar, Charles lsham' chapiaih'
,ho Rev Brockholst Morgan; Board OF MANAGES
Iobn Garfield Tomlirson Gouverneur Mather smith,
william CASTOR Hamilton John Lawrence BenJa-
n,n douglas SiIIiman. Charles Augustus Schermer-
-, Charles Augustus Peabody, jr.; Asa BIRD
crd,ner Henry Wyckoff lie Roy. John Hone and
charles Hornbower woodruff
r,, roaxpum vote cast was 1876 and this num-
,er nrevaled in the choice of officers and in favor
=, eight Of the eleven members of the Board OF
ssonaqers Some outside favorites were voted for
nomey Charles NJ Murray. who received four
,as and Walter j. Sears. r. J. Oakley Rhine
lander George Clinton Genet, and James Mortimer
Montgomery. the retiring secretary. who received
one vote each The lowest vote recorded was 1873
for Asa Bird Gardiner. When the announcement
,ras made a motion followed that the vote should
ha made unanimous. President Tamadge put the
question and hearing strong affirmative response
declared IL carried. But opposition came from How
land Page Hasey, who declared that this could
NOT be legally done. Finally 1t was decided to
record the vote reported by the telers-Colonel
William Irwin Martin and George Gardiner Fry.
This contest was the only indication of break in
the harmonious proceedings of the meeting
The secretary's report showed that there had
been admitted into the society during the last year
ai9 new members; seventeen members had died,
seven resigned, and four dropped from the rolls,
leaving total membership of l,27S. The committee
on organization in other States-John Hone, chair
man.-reported that a society with seventy-iive
names had been formed in North Carolina. one
with fifteen names in South Carolina, and others
in Illinois Kentucky Missouri Michigan. Rhode
Island Virginia, West Virginia and Minnesota,
with varying membership. Treasurer Arthur Mel
win Hatch reported assets of Sl225S ~. with no
liabilities.
REMEMBERED By THE COLONIAL DANES.
The Colonial Danes OF the Revolution sent to the
society beautiful floral Offering which, it was
finally voted, should be given to Mrs Talmadge.
vote of thanks TO the Colonial Danes was adopt
ed, with the provision that the resolution be en-
crossed, and official copy presented to each
member of that organization by John Austin
Stevens accompanied by appropriate address.
James Mortimer Montgomery, who has long served
as secretary, received on retirement vote of
thanks which was taken standing. followed by
three cheers for the retiring officer. His last year
book submitted in a bound volume yesterday con-
tains thirty portraits of Revolutionary Army off
GERS and many maps and plans of battlehelds
The book VIII be distributed 10 members OF the
society
Other work routine. General Daniel Double
day reported the work accomplished by the
Tablet Committee. and offered a vote of thanks TO
those who planned and carried out the ceremonies
attending the unwilling of the statue of Nathan
Hale, in City Hall Park. John Austin Stevens
spoke feelingly of the work of the late Hamilton
Fish, in the promotion OF the organization of the
society. Smith T. Lane inquired concerning
year his motion for the creation OF a French
society. The committee reported progress. So did
the committee the selection of a site for a
home for the society.
The room in which yesterdays meeting was held
Is that in which Washington, 10 years ago yester-
day. babe farewell! To his officers. after the
ton of NewYOrk by the British forces NOvem-
Der 25 l7S5 Pleasing addresses this subject
made by President Tdllmadge and John Austin
Stevens.
CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT THE TABLET.
Richard II. Greene, historian of the NewYork
Genealogical and Biographical Society. wrote let
ter which was published in The Tribune November
& criticisng a tablet which had been put up by
the Sons of the Revolution William Irwin Mar
tin chairman of the Committee dwelling. and
also member of the Tablet Committee of the
Sons Of the Revolution has written a sharp letter
10 Mr.. Greene, follows:
Mr.. X. Henry Greene.
My Dear Sir: Ny attention has been called to your
p'caustic' letter If November q, published in The
Tribune November 2S / think II you mad seen
the tablet before you wrote the letter YOU would
not have used tn language YOU did Look at il
and see it, Then, as gentleman. you Will send