The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-05
THE LOAN EXHIBITION
TO BE CHEN BY LADIES OF THE
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
 Beginning Tomorrow and Lasting Three
 Days-Great Efforts Being Made to Make
 It a Great Sucoess-Articles Representing
 Periods of Our History Up to 1TS3-Do,
 uments in Washington's Own Hand-
 writing-Other Plans for the Event.
 The colonial loan exhibition, which opens in the New Haven Colony Histor- ical society tomorrow afternoon, prom ises to be the most interesting event of the kind which has ever taken place in this city, and the committee of ar engagements, composed of Miss R. D. Beach, Mrs. H. s. Hotchkiss, Mrs. A. M. Wheeler, Mrs. William Beebe and Mrs Clarence Deming, is making every ef- fort to render the exhibition a grand success. and from present indications 1t is apparent that the members of the committee will succeed in their att tempt. ..
 The ladies were busily engaged yes- terday in arranging the exhibits all ready received. The Hartford exhibit, which was shown at the exhibition held there last week, was expected last eve ming. Articles of great value and of memorial and historical interest will be on exhibition, the show being con- fined not only to exhibits from Connect icut, as was the one in Hartford, but including those from New York, vari- ous points of New England and from as far as south as Leesburg, Va. The articles to be shown will represent the earlier periods of our country's history, especially embracing the periods of lat CT colonial and Revolutionary days. There will, however, be shown articles coincident with the very early times of the seventeenth century. None of the articles will represent a time later than 17S3. This limitation has been made necessary from the fact that so many articles of later times have been offer ed that while they are of great value and full of interest, there could not possibly be found room for them in the exhibition rooms.
 Miss Beach, chairman of the commit tee, has already received over 1000 let ters in regard to the exhibit and has been exceedingly busy in preparation for over month. The articles will be placed in the lower rooms and whether the upper rooms of the building will be used for this purpose has not yet been decided.
 The teas to be given every afternoon during the exhibition will be served in the back parlor of the first floor.
 The ladies in charge of the tea room have arranged to make the three after moons distinctive. On Wednesday the table and service will be strictly Puri- tan in decoration and dress; Thurs day, Revolutionary, with the blue and white so dear to old New England housekeepers; and on Friday. gorgeous with reds, blues and yellows of colonial colors. These teas will be served both afternoon and evening without extra charge.
 On Thursday afternoon a paper on Colonial and Revolutionary Music" will be read by Miss G. F. Newcomb 
 trated by several songs of the periods spoken of by several ladies.
 On Friday evening, the closing even- ing of the exhibit there will be a sort of reception, at which colonial and Revolutionary period costumes or full dress will be worn. The public is in vited
 In some way the impression has got ten abroad that this exhibition is for members of the Historical society only, but such is not the case, as the public is cordially invited to attend each day on the payment of the price of admis- sion.
 A letter was received yesterday after- noon offering the loan of the original preliminary draft of the answer to a suit in chancery in General Washing tons own handwriting. There are also several subsequent papers in the case in General Washington's writing, and in one of the documents he expresses re- grct at some delay of his, stating as his excuse that he had been called away to take command of the Continental army The documents are on the pro- bate records of Leesburg, Va. There will also be shown several pieces of cut glass and china, the duplicates of which are now at Mt. Vernon.
 A box containing many valuable rel ics was yesterday received from Dela- ware. New Castle county, which is section of the state most teening with historical interest, that county having been settled at an early date by SwedeS
 The proceeds of the exhibition will be used to found a genealogical corner i'll the already extensive library of the Historical society, the proposed special corner to contain historical family his tories and other genealogical works The proceeds of the recent exhibition in Hartford will be applied to the same purpose.