Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-22


| be held under the auspices of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution. who had
| never failed when the country needed their
| devotion.
when we recall the heroes of the Span
ish-American war let it not be forgotten
that there were hundreds and thousands of
| volunteer women who surrendered their
| own for the sake of humanity.
| Al our wars but one have been wars of
principle-to gain our independence, to free
| our sailors from foreign interference to
conserve the Union and to give liberty to a
| suffering people. The only lasting wars are
the wars of principle, and their glory is
| never forgotten. When convinced that he
! is fighting for principle, for what is lasting,
| the American soldier is invncible. He is
| the incarnation of that spirit of liberty of
this century which has freed the Russian
serf has given unity to Italy; has founded
the French republic, and has made the
| chattels in our own country a free people.
| The American soldier is the lineal descend
| ant of the soldiers whose blood covered the
battlefieds of the revolution.
| The rich and the poor We'd with each
| other In patriotism. The men of Virginia
| and South Carolina were as eager to evince
| their loyalty as the men of Massachusetts,
and OF Connecticut. From the moment the
Maine was destroyed ours was again a
| united country; we no longer sing March
| ing Through Georgia. but Marching With
Georgia. and the flag means more to US all
| than ever before.
NO hoher war was ever waged than our
war with Spain. The character of the COM
| bat ennobled all who were engaged in it,
| The war, he said, has resulted in putting
our country into world relations where it
| Will play wonderful part in civilization.
Prolonged applause marked the close of
Mr. Griftith's address. and then Mrs. VIM.
| l.. Wilson sang the Star Snangled Ban
ner," accompanied by tha band The audi
ence rose, joining in the chorus.
Part the Sailor Played.
The next speaker was Mr.. Hilary Her
| bert. eY-Sepretarv Of uyIo
| of the work Of the sailor in the war. In
| part, he said:
Some Of you trace your lineage back d.
rectly to the heroes who began on the
ocean the battle for freedom, even before
the flag of our country was afloat. But
you can go still farther back, ladies, and
trace your ancestry. all of you, to the sail
| or man. The progenitors of your ancestors,
! of the men who fought at Concord and
| Lexington. at Saratoga, at the Cowpens
and Kings Mountain and Yorktown. were
sea kings away back in the immemorial
| past. The American is always at his best
when his feet stand upon the deck of mer
chant ship man-of-war. He is a sailor
| by heredity. His courage, his enterprise
| and his genius in the building and handling
/ of ships have always kept pace with the
| progress of our great country she
| marched forward to her place in the van
| guard of nations
| He paid a high tribute to the American
navy, saying that its growth was coinci-
|
| What Dewey, with Gridley and Dyer,
! and Wilde and Coghlan. and Wood and
Wharton and other brave officers and men
| accomplished at Manila was only a part Of
| what the sailor did in our war with Spain.
| The part played by our navy as a whole in
| that contest was necessarily the Hons part.
| 1t could not well have been otherwise The
| control of the sea was to decide the war.
| l mean no word of disparagement to our
| soldiers. Never was American valor more
splendidly displayed than on the heights
| n SGr1ti. IND ord
| that has fallen from the distinguished
orator who preceded me in praise of the
| courage of our army. l share with him
| in admiration Of it's heroism.
What Dewey had accomplished in Ma
| Mia harbor was repeated in the waters Of
| Santiago. The unsurpassed courage and
| tact and seamanship Of our officers and
| crews, together with the superior nerve
| and better craftsmanship of our gunners,
drove the Spanards from their guns and
| sent the Spanish ships to the bottom of the
| sea. All honor to Sampson and Schley. and
| Evans and Taylor, and Clark and Chad
| wick. and Cook. and to Wainwright for
| his wonderful fight in the little Gloucester,
| and to Sharpe in the little Vixen, and TO
the officers and men under them on that
memorable day. Manila and Santiago stand
| unrivaled among the naval battles of the
| world
| To conclude the exercises Mrs Bradbury
| sang Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,"
and the band played THE Stars and Stripes
| Forever" amid great enthusiasm.
| MIS- r dlFDdHhS, cIl'tlIliltl VI lilt peace
| jubilee committee, extended thanks of the
| D. A r. to the band and all those who
| had so generously lent their services to
| make the evening memorable. The band
! then play ed Dixie and a delightful
| evening ended.
| Singular Mistake.
| Mrs. Belle Draper has leaped into kind
| of notoriety that is not pleasant. She was
reported dead. and it YVES further reported
| that Mrs. Donald Mclean offered resolu-
! lions of sympathy and they were adopted
by the congress. Mrs Mclean got In her
| resolutions all right, but they applied to
| another woman. Mrs Draper has been the
recipient of flowers in her memory by the
wagon load. Friends have met her and
| fed affriShted from a ghost. Others
have Historically embraced her and con-
graduated her on her return to health. she
| has kilograms by the hundred; her husband
has letters by the dozen condollng with
| him. Meantime Mrs. Draper is eating three
| square meals day, with candy in between.
and is very much aive she says she
| didn't know she had so many friends, but
| is sorry they feel so bad.
Mrs Lyman H Baldwin of Detroit, q
delegate from Michigan to the D. A. R.
| convention, is the guest of Mrs. W. H
| Greegor, 1410 Bacon street northwest.
| The pretty little pink lady who so grace
| fully filled the arms of Mrs. Dor mus. the
real daughter with flowers the other
night, was the daughter of Mrs. Donald
Mclean, regent of the New York chapter.
Mrs. Mary Jane Seymour, historian gen.
eral of the ID. A. R., is slip of a woman
with snow-white hair and the blacklist OF
eyes. She has energy enough for dozen
women, and things just get up AMI hum
when she holds the rens. Mrs. Seymour
generally looks though she had just
stepped out of an old picture frame. She
gowns herself exquisitely.
Mrs. Kate Sawyer Foote Thomas came all
l. the way from Maine through Billiards and
EEainstorms to attend the congress, of which
ISShe has never missed an annual session.
Mrs Thomas, it is claimed is perpetual
remedy against the blues.
Mrs. Helen Frye White, daughter of Sem
ator Frye, has bean unanimously elected
by the Maine delegation as state regent for
the ensuing year.
Mrs. A. L. Barber will throw open her
beautiful home, Belmont Friday after
neon for a reception to the Daughters of
the American Revolution
Among the charming women i'll the con-
gress is Mrs. Hall, wife of the late Louis
n. Hail. a well-known lawyer of Pennsvl-
vana. Mrs. Hall is cultured woman of
large means and an active, jealous men,