The evening times., 1900-02-17
MANY DELEGATES COMING
Ninth Annual Convention of the ID.
A. II. to Begin Monday.
Two Sessions 10 Be Held Daily for a
Week-SenatOrs Depew and Garter
10 Deliver Addresses Nednesday-A
Visit 10 the Corcoran Art Gallery.
Lunchcons by the Local Chapters.

| The ninth Continental Congress of the
! National Society Of the Daughters of Ihe
! American Revolution will be held in this
/ city at the Grand Opera House from Mon
| day February -. until Saturday, Febru-
airy "a.
The congress will be called to order at
| s o'clock by the President General, Mrs.
/ Daniel Manning followed by prayer by
the Chaplain General and the Congress.
An address Of welcome by the President
General will be delivered and a response
made by Mrs. Robert Emory Park, State
Regent of Georgia. after which the reports
of the State regents will be presented. The
Marine Band will be in attendance Mon
day evening
There will be two sessions daily there
after, one from 10 a. m. to 4 or D. m,
with a recess from 1880 to . O'Clock for
luncheon. and another session from to 10
p. m. None but members of the Congress
viii be admitted to the floor OF the house
during the sessions, and none but MEM
bers viii be permitted TO address the Con-
gress.
The headquarters of the National So
Ciety al 902 + Street northwest, will be
open from s o'clock in the morning until
g o'clock i'm the evening, from Monday 10
Saturday, inclusive. for the convenience of
visiting members of the Association.
Senators Depew and Carter will address
the Congress Wednesday evening on pat
riotic topics. At the morning session of
Thursday. the nomination and election Of
vice presidents general will take place.
The Association has received an invita-
tion from the Board of Trustees of the Cor
III.
collections on Thursday evening from .
until II o'clock Cards of admission may
be obtained from the chairman of the re-
Ception committee and the State regents
OF their respective delegations.
The following are the chairmen of COM
mittees: On invitation Mrs Charles W.
Fairbanks. Indiana; arrangements for re-
ception. Mrs. William Lindsay, Kentucky;
programmes Mrs. Sara r. Kinney Con-
necticut. house committee. Mrs. Robert
Stockweil Hatcher Indiana; hotels and
railroads. Mrs. Kate Kearney Henry,
Washington. u. c: credentials and badges
Mrs Eleanor Washington Howard, Nir-
ginia, music and decorations. Mrs Charles
". Fairbanks Indiana; press. Mrs Albert
Ackers Tennessee.
The following young ladies' will act as
pages for the Congress: Miss Finckel, page
70 the President General: Virginia, Misses
W hdSHtliStbi dRlii NbltiNr -Etdi idu1b- -Rl1SVS
stockton and Solomons; Connecticut
Misses Holmes and Ramsay; Massachu-
sets. Miss JeweJt and Lamb; South Caro-
lima. Misses Hacker and Willis: New Jer-
sey, Misses Garyin and Morgan: Rhode
Island Misses CroRill and Campbell New
Hampshire Misses Mary Morgan and Bell
North Carolina. Misses Young and Nc
CahiIl. Delaware, Misses Ansley and Nc
Insis: New Yorh. Misses Doty and Early;
PENNSYLVANIA Misses kearsey and keim.
The local chapters of the organization
viii serve luncheon every afternoon at
Willard Hall.
The following are the officers of the Ma
tiona Board OF Management Of 1900:
President general Mrs. Daniel Manning
New York: vice president general in
charge OF organization of chapters. Mrs
Eleanor Washington Howard, Virginia;
vice presidents general. Mrs. Ellen NJ.
Cotton. California: Mrs William Lindsay.
Kentucky: Mrs. George NJ. Lindsay,
Washington. H. C.: Mrs Charles W. Fair |
banks Indiana: Miss Mary s. Forsyth. !
New York: Mrs. George i. Fuller, Massa
chuselts: Mrs. y. ID. Sperry. Connecticut;
Mrs. Estes G.. Rathbone Ohio; Mrs. Dan
iel Newman, Nebraska: Mrs. Clement \. +.
Griscom. PeGns, lyania; Miss Annie /
Wheeler Aiabama: Mrs. William p. Frye, /
Maine. Mrs julius c. Burrows, Michigan: I
Mrs. Francis : Nash. South Carolina: /
Mrs. II. &. Cheney. New Hampshire; Miss !
Mary Bryce Temple. Tennessee; Mrs. !
Charles 4. Stalely. Washington. ID. c.; /
Mrs. 4. L. Barber Washington. d. c.; /
Mrs. G. Z Goodloe Washington, ID. c.: !
Mrs. W 4. Roebling. New Jersey: chap !
lain general Mrs Bette MCGUIRE Smoot. /
Virginia: secretaries general. Mrs Albert /,
AkerS. Tennessee; Mrs. Kate kearney /
Henry. Washington. ID. G: registrar gen /
eral Miss Susan Riyiere Wetzel Wash /
ington. u. G.: treasurer general, Mrs. /
Charles Carlyle Darwin, Washington, ID. /
c; historian general, Mrs. Mary Jane /
Seymour Massachusetts,; assistant histo !
rian general. Mrs. Robert Stockwell /
Hatcher, Indiana; librarian general Miss /
Julia Ten Eycl, McBlair, Washington, ID.
c.
II is estimated that between 200 and /
500 delegates and an equal number of al
viii be in attendance during
I he sessions of the Congress