Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-10
THE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL.
Local Representatives Issue an Address Re-
g9lding The Collection for the University.


An address to the puhiic:--Numerous
questions have been asked with regard
to the standing of those who are
responsible for the movement in behalf
of the George Washington Memorial
University. The best brief answer
would be that almost every man of
prominence educationally in the United
States has given his name and influ-
ence to the cause. The executive coun-
Gil of the national university is as fol-
lows:
Hon. Melville Fuller. chief Justice. U.
Ex-senator George f. Edmunds Of
Vermont.
Ex-President william Pepper, l.. l..
d.. University OF Pa.
Hon. Andrew I. White, l.. L. D., ex-
president Cornell university.
Governor John Lee Carroll. l.. l..
D., general president Society of Sons
of the Revolution. Maryland.
General Horace Porter. L. L. D., pres
ident General Society Sons OF the Amer
lean Revolution.
En- United State Senator Eppa
Houston, l.. l.. D.. Va.
Ex-united States Senator A. II. Gar
land. late attorney general u. s., Ar
kansas.
Colonel Wilbur II. Smith, Kentucky
university.
General John Eaton, L. L. D.. ex-
United States commissioner of educa-
tion. New Hampshire.
Hon. Gardiner q. Hubbard. L. l.. D..
president National Geographic society.
Simon Wiscomb. l.. l.. D.,
director. of National Almanac.
Hon. John a. Kasson, ex-United
TOD III. -.
sador to Germany, Iowa.
Hon. Oscar S. Strauss. ex-United
States minister to Turkey. New York.
G. Brown Goode. L. l.. D., assistant
secretary. Smithsonian Institute.
Ex-Governor John w. Hoyt, NJ. D.,
LID, chairman of National University
committee.
OF the authorized members of the
national committee there are ten Unit
ed states eNcsenators. the presidents
of one hundred and ninety universities
and colleges, thirty-eight state super
intendents of instruction, and many
others of national reputation.
William 7. Harris. our present Unit
ed States commissioner of education.
indorses the movement. The National
Education association at three success
sive annual meetings unanimously in
dorsed the proposition to found n ma
tional university and has n permanent
committee in the field.
The women of Utah are engaged In
assisting national committe of women
to build the administration building of
the National University. The names of
the women who stand at the head of
the movement are a sufficient guaran-
tee that failure is impossible.
The presidents of almost every one
of the reat national organizations of
women are found In the list of names of
those who support the movement. Such
names are:
Frances Willard. president w. C. t.
u; Mrs. May l.. Dickinson, national
council of women; Mrs. Ellen NJ. Hen
rotten, general federation of women's
clubs; Mrs. Margaret Bottome. kings
daughters; Mrs. Kate Bromlee Sher-
wood. woman's relief corps.
The work in Utah IL preceding with
great energy. Those having the work
in charge assured the national secre-
tary that Utah would be found among
the first to respond &c this patriotic APP
peal, and they see no reason to doubt
that their prediction will not be veri-
fed.
CORINNT1 NJ. ALLEN,
Vice Chairman, Washington Mem
mortal Committee of Utah.
EMMELINE b. WELLS.
Press Representative.