The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-15
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION
ANNUAL MEETING IND ELECTION
 OF OFFICERS.

-OdiCers Eleoted-SohS oi NoN""''"" Reject Union With Sons of American
 Reyolution-Valuabl Paper on Land
 marks by Henry Baldwin
 The Sons of the Revolution held their annual convention at the New Haven house yesterday afternoon. The follow ing officers were elected: Hon. Nor gan G. Bulkeley of Hartford, president; D. N. Morgan of Bridgeport, vice pres ident; Rev, H. N, Wayne of New Brit tain, secretary; Colonel H. w. Wes- sells of Litchfield, treasurer; William F. Waterbury of Stamford, registrar; Rev. George D. Brown of Branford, chaplain; board of managers, A. r. Delaneld, R. P. WalSeman, Dr. George J. Holmes, c. S. Foster, Timothy Jones, D. l.. Welles, Thomas J. Bradstreet, J. E. Bowen, Dr. l.. T. Day.
 Delegates-Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, H. w. Vessels. A. F. Delefield, Tim othy Jones, John s. Jones; alternates, General William II. Bulkeley, D. H. Gould, Hon. D. N. Morgan, Charles w. TlOuSe, UT. w. rIeculul lSAiNlib N'Sh- eral William Bulkeley, chairman.
 An amendment was adopted limiting the membership of the society to 15O, The proposed union of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Sons of the Revolution according to the plan proposed by the national association in October was rejected as the scheme was not satisfactory adjustment or the differences of the two societies. Henry Baldwin of this city, chairman of the committee on landmarks, made the following interesting report:
 To the Connecticut Society of the Sons
 of the American Revolution:
 Gentlemen-Yourc committee, to whom was referred the subject of locating and suggesting proper and suitable mark ings for historical landmarks through out the state of Connecticut and prop CT legislative enactment respecting such memorials, beg leave to report.
 After consulting with each other, your committee determined to ask the active cooperation of the other hereditary and the historical societies of the state and they are requested each to name committee of three members who should also consider the same questions as had been committed to our care Nine societies responded by appointing each committee to act with us.
 A meeting of the united committees was held at the house of the chairman in New Haven at which a very free dis cussion of the entire subject was had and some letters and papers presented. jA t lI. >ff fIN irrr ecutive committee consisting of the chairman of each of the committees represented in the meeting was appoint ed It was expected that this executive committee would examine the subject, pass upon each point and report at a future meeting of the united commit tees. The appointment of this execu- tive committee has proved unfortunate; 1t has been impossible to get them to- gether and no work has been done by them as committee.
 Practically the entire work has fallen upon the committee of our society and it is of the labor we have accomplished that we now have to report.
 There are scattered through the state quite a number of memorials. Some have been erected by private citizens, some have been placed by societies; some by city authority and some by the legislature. These memorials are in various forms. Some are buildings, which house libraries; some are dormi- tories for students, some are churches or chapels and some are monuments or tablets. Added to these we have to mention public parks or pleasure grounds named in honor of some his toric event or after some distinguished parsonage, and memorial trees, each of which calls to remembrance the life and labors of some one who has gone. Then again there are the remains of the Indian; some years ago there were sew efal monuments that had been erected by the Red Men and around these they were accustomed to gather at stated seasons and call to mind the former greatness of the tribe and their past exploits. Nearly every one of these ln- dian monuments have .been destroyed by relic hunters, who have in every in- stance Git Is said) accomplished nothing.
 We have gathered up to this time about 700 slips upon each of which we have recorded that which we have IOunQ respecting some interesting pldCei incident or person. To put these rec ords in type and print them would pos sibly require a book of some hundred or mere pages; this it will be necessary to do before final report can be sub- 1nitted, but as these slips refer to only a part of the state we will have to re- serve such a report until the next an- nua1 meeting, when it is hoped that all necessary facts may have been secured we for the present give a preliminary pamphlet that we desire the members would take home with them, read and then send to the chairman of our com mittee such facts as shall concern their own locality, as may be of use, and any other detail as they may find omitted in our pamphlet.
 At the general meeting letter was presented suggesting that we should consider the march of the French army under Count Rochambeau, who left Providence. where they had been in camp all winter for re-enforcements that never came, to join Washington on the Hudson river. The course of the march is given by Abbe Robin, a French chaplain who accompanied the expedi- ton. Following this guide we are able to name the several places where en-