Evening journal., 1900-12-18
LORE CHOSEN
FOR PRESIDENT
At Annual Meeting Of DcIa-
ware Historical Society
MANY VISIT THE BUILDING
PennOck PuSey Reads Interesting
Paper Upon Two Deceased Men,
berS Of Organization
MANY VISIT THE BUILDING

torical Society Of Delaware last night, |
officers for the ensuing year were re-
elected as follows: President, Chief |
Justice Charles b. Lore; vice-presi- |
dents, Bishop Coleman, from New Cas-
tie county; ManlOve Hayes, Of Kent |
county, and Governor Ebe w. Tunnel, |
Of Sussex county; recording secretary, |
Willard Hall Porter; corresponding !
secretary, John b. Bird; treasurer, VIII |
mer j. Ellison; librarian, CITY Solici- !
tor Conrad; stenographer, Pennock |
Pusey; directors, Dr. John p. Wales, |
Colonel William A. LaMotte, Judge Ig- |
natius c. Grubb, Caleb p. johnson and |
John M. Rogers.
These committees for the following
year were named:
Classifcat.on-City Solicitor Henry
c. Conrad, Howard ID. Ross, Francis II. |
Honecker.
Year Book-Pennock Pusey, Thomas
e. Young, John NJ. Rogers.
In his annual report Chief Justice
Lore said the society was in a pros
porous condition. The deaths Of George |
w. Bush and Lewis c. Vandegr.ft, |
members Of the society, took place dur
ing the year.
Secretary Porter said that the So
ciety had 166 active and twenty-seven !
associate members. Miss Johnson, !
registrar, reported that during the year
1853 visitors had registered at the rooms, !
while 1S4 visitors failed to register !
Mr. Bird, corresponding secretary. re- ]
ported that during the year sixty-three
donations were made to the society,
compared with eighty-four for the year
previous.
Donations to the archives of the So
ciety at the session last night were:
New York at Gettysburg" from New
York State Library; Decennial register
of Pennsylvania Society, Sons Of the
Revolution, Captain Henry Hobart
Bellas; Directory of Wilmington for
1862 and 1868; Life Of Christ" printed
in 1905; Mason on Self knowledge" "
printed in 1901; Jonathan Edwards on
Original SIM all printed in 1771 in
Wilmington, given by Henry W. Nor
row; Ethan Aliens Drama Of the
Revolution" presented through Mrs.
Elizabeth Clarke Churchman, by Will
liam o. Mcdowell, president Cuba
American League.
Pennock Pusey historiographer of
the society. read a paper in which he
gave thoughtful and carefully COM
piled biographies Of Mr.. Vandegriftl
and Mr.. Bush.
In concluding the biography Of Mr..
Bush. Mr.. Pusey said:
With him in the days of long ago
1t was the writer's good fortune to be
associated in the membership Of the
Ciceronian Literary and Debating So
ciety, OF which there are now but three
known survivors. AS its name i'm
plies, it was an organization of youth
ful aspirants to literary and oratorical
honors. In its exercises. however.
aside from business. MIR. Bush, al
though an active member rarely spoke
and never debated But while others
vented glowing oratory and scared with
aspirations, all too liable to be nipped
with untimely frOsts, our friend would
quietly occupy himself with little mat
ters fruitful in immediate practical re-
suits. He talked with different young
members and encouraged their timid
first efforts for self-imprOvement; heI
wrote questions eliciting study and in
Vestigation for true answers, and in
nameless, unobtrusive ways made him
self a most helpful and pleasant COM
panion to all his associates.
These habits Mr. Bush continued
and enlarged in after years by the sys-
tematic encouragement Of young men,
both orally and by brief newspaper ar
ticles to invest their earnings in saw
ings institutions and in the purchase
OF lots for future homes, while he was
never tco absorbed by the exactions of
an expanding business to cease his
cherished plan Of writing for the news
papers brief, pithy communications in
behalf OF various industrial, aesthetic
and other self-helping schemes Of
everyday application, in ftrtherance of
the common welfare. For many years
the New York Evangelist and other
religious journals weekly contained
from Mr.. Bush brief practical sugges-
tions for advance in church and house
hold practices. while il would be diff
hcult to detail his many kindnesses,
such as speaking CHEEKY and helpful
words 10 the friendless and suffering.
giving free river rides to sick and poor
children, and other acts done in Sc
cret, all of which. while gracefully
supplementary to the labors of an ever
growing and most exacting business.
with unremitting services to the gen
eral public, have aided to render the
memory of George w. Bush to surviv-
ing friends at once a benediction to his
past and added incentive to their fu-
ture"
In concluding his reference to Mr..
Vandegrift. the speaker said: "As be-
fore stated, the writer's acquaintance
with the deceased was comparatively
limited; but a long acquaintance was
not required to know Mr.. Vandegrift
in the essential traits Of his character,
With a hearty frankness Of manner.
there was something in his honest
greeting suggestive Of the breadth and
warmth Of a genial, yet brisk and open
morning air. TO breathe which dispelled