The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-19
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION
WASHINGTON,S BIRTRDAY TO BE
 FITLY CELEBRATED.

FITLY CELEBRATED.
 Governors of North Carolina, Pennsyl-
 vania and Connecticut Will be Present-
 Reception in Their Honor at the Art
 school-45O Will Partake of Banquet--
 Toasts-Committees,
 The ninth annual dinner of the Con- necticut Society of the Sons of the Revolution will be held in this city on Tuesday, Washington's birthday, and will be a memorable event. About 450 will be present, including the gov ernors of at least three states and of possibly more, besides other persons of distinction. The Quinnipiao club and Republican league will throw open their club houses on that day to mem- bers of the society and out of town guests. From'11 to 12:30 reception will be rendered to the governors and other guests at the Yale Art school. At 12:30 they will leave the Art school and proceed to the new Music hall on Court street, where the banquet will be served at o'clock, followed by af- ter-dinner speaking.
 The hall will be handsomely decor ated for the occasion and Robinson's orchestra will furnish music. The. | speakers table across the north end of the hall will seat sixteen and is named Jonathan Trumbull after Connecticutss | Revolutionary governor. The other ta- bles, twenty-three in number, are also appropriately designated with the | names of some of Connecticut's Revo- l lutionary patriots and are as follows: l Israel Putnam, David Humphreys, James Wadsworth, Gold Selleck, Sil- | liman, Return Jonathan Meigs, Na-A than Hale, Captain John Couch, Eli- phalet Dyer, Timothy Dwight, Andrew | Ward, Naphtali Daggett, Joseph Spen- l cer, Thadeus Cook, Jabez Huntington. l Oliver Wolcott, William Williams, Gov ernor Saltonstall, David Wooster,
 Fisher Gay, John Tyler, Roger Sher-3 man, Samuel Wyllys, Jedediah Elder kin.
 l At the after-dinner speech-making Colonel N. G. Osborn will be toastmas- | ter. The following toasts will be re- sponded to: Georgia in the Revolu-
 tion," Hon. William Y. Atkinson, govt ernor of Georgia; Pennsylvania in the Revolution,," Hon. David H. Hastings, governor of Pennsylvania; "Connecti-s cut in the Revolution" Hon. Lorrin A. | Cooke, governor of Connecticut:
 Some Obscure Patriots" Rev. Watson
 l.. Phillips, D. D.; Inspirations of the Revolution" Professor Arthur II. Had K ley of Yale. Letters have been received from Governor Ramsdell of New I Hampshire, Governor Black of New l York, and Governor Russell of North. Carolina, saying they would like to be Epresent, but expressing doubt as to the possibility of their being able to.
 The committees are made up as fol- lows: Chairman, Edwin s. Greeley: executive committee, Edwin s. Greeley, Franklin H. Hart, Samuel E. Merwin, Hobart l.. Hotchkiss, with ye chairmenI I of ye sub-committees; invitations, l Henry B. Harrison, Edwin S. Greeley, Hobart l.. Hotchkiss; reception, Nehe-l
 miah D. Sperry. Arthur D. Osborne, !. Il Edward Heaton, James D. Dewell,
 Thomas R. Trowbridge, Lucius F.. Deming, George H. Ford, Charles S. Mersick, John H. Platt; dinner, Wilson H. Lee, Ellsworth I. Foote, Benjamin
 R. English, Frank c. Bushnell, Ma
 than Easterbrook, jr.; toastmaster, Norris G. Osborn; toasts, Norris C..
 Osborn. Edwin s. Lines, William H. Ely, Walter R. Gilbert; finance, Frank
 lin H. Hart, Eli Whitney, Asa C. Bush-
 nell L. Wheeler Beecher, Rufus s. Pickett, T. Attwater Barnes, John e.. North, Edward c. Beecher, Simeon J.
 Fox; halll and decorations, Everett E..
 Lord, Enos S. Kimberly, George Dud-
 ley Seymour, Frederick s. Ward; n1u-
 sic, William E. Chandler, Herbert C.
 Warren, Sherwood s. Thompson, Ell
 Mix; printing, Cornelius s. Morehouse,
 John R. Rembert; badges, George H.
 Ford, Nathan Easterbrook, jr., John O..
 North, Eli Mix; transportation, Simeon
 J. Fox John H. Platt; secretary, Will
 liam E. Chandler; assistant secretary,
 A. McC. Mathewson; treasurer, Wilson
 H. Lee.