The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-13
MEETING OF TWO SOCIETIES
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION AND SO-
 CIE7Y or WAROF 1s1a

Haven HOuse-O hicers of Both sooie-
 ties Elected and Other Busin ess Trnns-
 acted-Nathnn Hale schooIhouse Pur- | chased.
 The annual meeting of the Sons of | th4 Revolution of the State of Connec- ticut and the Society of the War of 1872 | of the State of Connecticut were held yesterday afternoon at o'clock at the New Haven house. The officers of both
 societies for the ensuing year are as follows: Sons of the American Revolution--
 President, Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley of
 Hartford; vice president Hon. Daniel
 N Morgan of Bridgeport; secretary,
 Rev. Henry N. Wayne; treasurer, Col
 onel Henry w. Wessells; registrar, Will
 liam T. Andrews; chaplain, Rev. F. R. Sanford of New Haven; board of man.
 agers, A. Floyd Delaleld of Manches- ter, James ". Cheney, Howard N. Wakeman of Fairfield Charles F. Hart, Howard G. Provost, Charles H. Leeds, Ransom +. Fitzgerald, Charles w. Hodge. Charles B, Mason; delegates,
 Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Robert c.
 Morris, Timothy Jones, John S. Jones
 of Westport; alternates, Hon. Daniel
 N. Morgan, James w. Cheney, George
 J. Holmes, Frederick D. Street. Henry J. Warren.
 Society, of the War of 1S12-President,
 Hon. Morgan Gardner Bulkeley of
 Hartford; vice president, Colonel Hen ry Walton Vessels of Litchfield, Will liam w. Slxiddy of Stanford, Jesup Wakeman of Southport A. Floyd Del
 afield of Noroton, John Edward Heaton
 of New Haven; registrar, William Tay-
 Tor Andrews of Noroton Heights; sec
 retary and reasurer, James Barton Bowen of Putnam; chaplain, Rev. Alexander Hamilton of Norwalk; ex-
 ecutive committee, Louis J. Allen, chief
 engineer U. s. N; Charles F. Coe of
 Bridgeport Louis M. French of Noroton
 Heights, George J. Holmes M. D., New
 Britain, Orgen Storrs Seymour of Elm
 pire building, N. Y., John H. Swart-
 wout of Stanford, John c. Turner of
 Noroton William w. Van Deusen of
 Middletown, Eli Whitney of New Ha-
 ven; delegates to the general society,
 Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Colonel
 Henry w. Wessells, Cyrus s. Bradley, A. Floyd Delafield, John Marshall Hol-
 combe, Henry J. Warren
 At the meeting of the Sons of the Revolution the treasurers report show ed comfortable surplus in the treas ury and the secretary's report showed a total membership of 1O5 at the pres ent time. seventeen new members have been taken in during the year and two hundred new propositions were re- ceived.
 The matter of the abuse of the Amer ican flag for advertising purposes was brought up Report was made in one case where an American flag was used in church parlor to protect the carpet. The society was marked in its disap- probation of any misuse of the flag.
 There was discussion of the project for marking the graves of deceased persons in the War of the Revolution. It came up on a report from pr. George J. Holmes of New Britain. The na tional convention adopted resolutions in favor of a general marking of these graves and the report was of the same nature
 F. H. Greene of the New York socie- ty of the Sons of the Revolution, made | very interesting address and attended | the meeting as a delegate from that i society.
 In the address MT. Greene said that | the New York society has recently | purchased the old school house where | Nathan Hale commenced his life work | after graduating from Yale, and has | restored it to it's original condition. The school house stands Oh the east | bank of the Come cticut river at East Haddam, and it is the purpose of the society to present it to the association for patriotic purposes. It is the full intention of the New York society to donate 1t to the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, with the understanding that they preserve it as a permanent of Nathan Hale,
 It is also the intention of the society to have the building dedicated there on June 6, the anniversary of Nathan Hale's birth, and to have Dr. Edward Everitt Hale, nephew of the patriot, deliver the oration. It is expected that Judge Francis M. Finch of the court of appeals or New York will be present to cad his famous poem on Hale and that Victor Palsits of the New York Public Library, who is now preparing life ,f Hale, will be there and read his paper. MT. Greene's talk was a most one, and was greatly enjoy d by all.
 A committee of five was appointed to for the meeting of the so- iety on June 6 for the purpose of the New York society at Cast Haddam on that date. The Society of the War of 1872, many f the members of which are members ( f the Sons of the Revolution, besides { lecting officers heard the reports of the < ecretary and treasurer. The meetings ,ere well attended, and after they ad- { burned a delightful spread was served 1 /