The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-25

The society is justly proud of it's new
 home, the interior decorations of whicf
 fully sustain the fine impression one
 will receive from a glimpse of its ex-
 terior when it is completed. The build
 ing's front will be completed this spring
 by the Aberthau company of Boston
 who have been awarded the contract fol
 this work. The superintendence of the
 decorative work was done under the
 direction of Arthur Blackmore by A,
 F. Wheeler of Bradley street, this city,
 and our townsman, David H. Clark
 was the builder of the edifice. This much
 for the structure, and before proceeding
 tomention in detail concerning the dedi-
 catory programme, word as to the Phi
 Gamma Delta. This society was found-
 ed in 1S4S. Among it's presidents have been General Lew Wallace and others of national renown. Among its deceas- ed members were U. s. Senator Zebulon Vance of North Carolina and Senator Wright of Indiana, Senator Lane of Iowa, and the late Maurice Thompson, the author, who died last week. Among it's living members are Senators Fair banks of Indiana and Patterson of Col orado, Rt. Rev. Bishop McIaren of the Protestant Episcopal church, and Bish- op J. c. Hartzell of Africa, of the Meth odist church. Upon its rolls of mem- bership are the names of thirty-six col lege presidents, sixty United States sen- ators and congressman, and many judges of the supreme and superior courts. The president of the society to- day is pr. James O.. Wilson of New York.
 The society has forty-eight chapters and owns nine houses which are those at Yale, Columbia, State College of Pennsylvania, Indiana university, Cor nell, Gettysburg (Pa) college, Worces- ter Institute of Technology, Maine uni versity, and University of California.
 There was large gathering at the dedicatory exercises and banquet Sat urday evening, in which all parts of the United States were represented and twenty three colleges. The assembling of the members began in the afternoon, principally at the New Haven house and Tontine hotel, where were to be seen during the late afternoon many distinguished men exchanging greet ings and welcoming new arrivals. T. Alfred Vernon of New York was the leading spirit at these impromptu meet ing and in representing the prepara tions for the evenings event The evenings exercises opened at o'clock, when the | assembly gathered within the walls of | their new hall.
 Among the large number of visitors | present were the following: Norman N. { Fowler Springfield, Mass; Rev pr. James o. Wilson. Fabius NJ Clark, Walter B. Atterbury, J. Hampden Dougherty, Stephen V. White. Victor H. Stockell, Edward H. Tatum. Dr. Charles U. shaw, W. R. Malone, Colo nel Ira c. Aver, Louis J. Schiller, Stan- ley K. Wilson, Clarence NJ Smith, Jno F. Lennon, Lucien I. Warner, all of New York; pr. Frank S. Hoffman, Schenectady, N. Y; Charles J. Fite, Pittsburg, Pa.; Charles F. Phelps, Bal timore, Md: Walter c. Hill of Easton, Pa; Robert M. Whitney, Boston, Mass; Paul D. Honeyman, South Beth chem, Pa; Adolph J. Varrelman, Wor- 'ester, Mass; pr, Wilmer Christian, h. Annapolis; L. R. Gordon, Ithaca, N. r.; Dwight Cornell Orono, Me. Fred arick R. Jones, Schenectady, N. Y. Rev W. F. Blackman, A. B. Moody, c. N. Psttis. New Haven; Dr. Walter