Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-10
INVITED TO MEET HERE
MESSAGE TO CONVENTION OF CHARI-
TIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Board of Trade and CitiZens' COM
mittee Jointly Take Action
Money for Expenses.

When the delegates for this District to
the national conference of charities and
corrections go to Topeka, Kansas, next
month, to attend the meeting to be held
there, they will take with them an invita-
ton from the board of trade and citizens of
the District to hold the conference of 1901
in this city. At a meeting yesterday in
the rooms of the board of trade of the COM
nlittee on charities and corrections of that
body and a committee Of citizens invited
to meet with 1t the sum of 5000 was
pledged to defray the expenses of the con-
ference should the invitation be accepted.
The chairman OF the board of trade COM
nlittee. Mr.. b. T. Janney, presided at the
meeting yesterday, and the secretary. Mr.
Cuno H. Rudolph. kept the minutes. Ad-
dresses in regard to the conference and the
Importance of the meeting of such body in
this city Were made by Mr.. Herbert w.
Lewis, the superintendent of charities: DR..
A. B. Richardson, the superintendent of the
Government Hospital for the Insane: Mrs.
Sara A. Spencer and Mss Clara Barton. Mr..
j. b. T. Topper was elected treasurer OF
the committee. and the chairman was re-
Quested to appoint all necessary commit
tees, including an executive committee, to
which the chairman. secretary and treas
urer are to be added.
Committee in Charge.
The committee of 100 citizens selected by
the board of trade committee to take charge
of the arrangements for the entertainment
of the conference, in the event it should
meet here is as follows:
Rev. w. c. Alexander, Mrs. ]. w. Bah
son. II. V. Barnard. Mrs. kat b. Barlow,
Miss Clara Barton. Capt. l.. S. Beach, c. ].
Bell. Edward F. Bingham, II. F. Blount.
w. j. Boardman, Jules Boeufve, Andrew c.
Bradley, Justice Brewer. Justice Brown,
w. W. Burdette, A. s. Caywood. Cecil Clay,
c. c. Cole. John F. Cook, Walter S. Cox.
s. w. Curriden. w. F. Downey. John Joy
Edison James f. Fitch. Charles E. Foster.
Justice Fuller, Lyman Gage, DIR, f, NJ, Gal
laudet, Justice Gray. Mrs Justice Gray
William B. Gurley. Alexander B. Hagner.
Rev. Teunis s. Hamlin Justice Harlan,
George H. Harries, Bishop John +. Hurst
John Hay, George F. Hoar. Archibald Hop
kins, Rev. Lawrence Hunt B. T. Janney.
James F. Johnston, Miss Bessie kibbey,
Charles King. John 3. Larner, Rev. E.
Bradford Leavitt. Tallmadge A. Lambert,
Herbert w. Lewis. Henry Cabot Lodge, A.
NJ Lothrop, Charles Lyman. Mrs. H. D.
AicLanahan. Mrs. James Fl. McGill. James
Mcmillan, H. b. F. Mcfarland, Rev. Ut.
Mackay- Smith. Mrs. Charles MOORE +. L.
Moore, DR.. NJ. G.. Motter. DIR. G. p Neil,
Rev. S. NJ. Newman, Charles F. Nesbit,
Theodore W. Noyes. r. A. Pearson, Justice
Peckham. William B. Powell, A s Pratt,
Redtield Proctor, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe
Miss Alice Riggs, Lewis Richie, John w
Ross, Miss Frederick Rogers. Cuno H. Ru-
dolph. Right Rev. H. Y. Satterlee, DR.. A
b. Richardson. Justice Shiras, w. NJ Shus-
ter, Thomas w. Smith, Ellis Spear. Mrs
Sara a. Spencer. w. H. Stoutenburgh. Dr.
ID. ID. Stafford. G. w. F. Swartzell Richard
Sylvester, W. 5. Thompson, Col George
Truesdell. ]. B. T. Upper, Thomas E
Maggaman. B. H. Warner, NJ. I. Weller.
Miss Fannie Wheian, Justice White, John
b. Wight. Beriah Wilkins, George S. VIII
son. ]. o. Wilson, Rev. Fred c. Wines.
Simon Wolf and S w. Woodward