Evening star., 1901-02-12
THE ADVANCE GUARD
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton Arriving in the City.
CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT GENERAL
The Tenth National Congress to
Open Next Week.
RECEPTION TO MEM BE r S

The representatives to the tenth national
| congress of the Daughters of the American
Revolution are beginning to arrive, and by
! Saturday night the big hotels will be pretty
well filled up with them. The real work of
the congress will begin Tuesday 1t is esti-
| mated that there will be not less than 5000
| accredited delegates and alternates in the
| congress, and they will be accompanied by
nearly as many friends who Will be the
| guests of the city during the week of the
| congress, to take in the social affairs, which
will be numerous and brilliant as well as
| to visit the historic spots in and around
Washington.
| Mrs. Elroy NJ. Avery, editor of the Ameri-
| can Monthly Magazine, the organ of the
D. a. r., published in Washington. reached
| the city last evening. Mrs. Avery is a resi-
dent of Cleveland, Ohio, very bright up
| to-date woman. She is at the Regent,
where she will be pleased to see her friends.
Mrs. David G. Brown. state regent of
Montana, has arrived and is the guest OF
her sister, Mrs. Middleton Smith, on 10Th
street. Miss Mary Temple of Knoxville,
| past vice president general of Tennessee
| and prominently mentioned for state regent
| in the coming congress. is at the Ebbitt,
| where she has been surrounded by hosts
of friends since her arrival Mrs. Ida
| Hustled Harper, who represents one of the
| California regents, is at the Normandie.
MRS. Harper is cldSSeu among tHe lew
strong minded daughters. She is a suf-
| fragist of the most pronounced type, and is
the biographer of Miss Susan B. Anthony,
who Is also member of the Daughters or
| ganizatiOn. Mrs. Harper Is newspaper
| writer. She returned recently from trip
| over continental Europe. Among other ar
rivals is Mrs. J. J. Estey, state regent of
| Vermont, whose home is at Battleboro'. VT.
Mrs. Estey is at the Dewey. Miss Sarah
| Cox, who is a charter member of the
| tional organization, has just returned from
| Europe, where she has been Tor several
| years. She is at the Ebbitt.
The Headquarters.
| Headquarters of the D. A. R. will be at
the Ebbitt this year. This hotel Is close TO
the opera house where the sessions of the
congress are to be held, which is quite an
advantage to busy women.
The local headquarters in the Washington
Loan and Trust building present a busy
scene just now, with dozens of young ladies
rushing the official part of the work to COM
pletion. 1t is a tremendous task to get
ready for a congress of the d. A. R.. they
say, and one congress is scarcely concluded
till another is being planned for. Mrs. Dan
lei Manning, president-general, who makes
her home at the Arlington, has been en-
eeged in directing the work for the com
fort Of the congress, and the most perfect
arrangements have been completed.
The great social event of the congress
will be the reception at Corcoran Art Gal
lery, for which thousands of invita- tons
have been issued The invitations read as
follows: complimentary to the National
Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. The trustees of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art request the pleasure of the
presence of - at a private view of its
collection. from o until II O'Clock, Monday
evening, February IS. 1901
These invitations have the name written
liz each, and are sent to the resident mem
Der by mail. Those for the guests of the
city are to be placed in the hands of the
c q TO n-lfS
in person to those from their own states
whom they wish to honor each delegate
and voting member as we'll as each alter
nate, receiving one. Admission to the gal
lery will be by card, and only those present.
ing the same will be admitted The daugh-
ters are preparing to make this reception
one of the most brilliant in the many that
they have had in their ten years of exist
eEce.
Called Upon to Mourn.
Thus early in the history of the society
1t has been called upon to mourn the death
of one of its founders, Miss Eugenia Wash
1ngton, who was one of the real Washing
tens left. She used to laughingly remark
that the reason she had never changed her
name was because she was proud to wear
that of Washington, and wished to have it
on her monument
The National Society of the D. A r is
probably her proudest monument, however,
for she was one of its four original found
erS, ana was the recipient of. a splendid
jeWeled emblem two years ago from the
national society, pleased to thus honor those
who helped to perpetuate their noble or
ganization Memorial service for Miss
Washington will be held in the opera
house on the evening of February % an
anniversary made sacred to the American
people as being the birthday of the great
Washington himself.
Campaign for Presldent-GeneraI.
The contest for president-general Of the
organization goes merrily on. The promi-
nent candidates are: Mrs. Charles Warren
Fairbanks Of Indiana, Mrs. Donald Mclean
of New York city, Mrs. Washington Roeb-
ling of New Jersey, Mrs. William Lindsay
of Kentucky, with several others In the
background. Mrs. Fairbanks is the candt-
date of all the District daughters, and has
been Endorsed by many state and chapter
regents, and her boom, it is claimed is out
OF range Of the sharpShooters at the
enemys guns. She is also a student of par
liamentary law, and is said to preside with
grace and dignity.
Mrs. Donald Mclean may be said to be
her most prominent opponent, and Mrs
Mclean has friends by the legion She
is a fine presiding officer and a good par
Humanitarian. something the society con-
fesses 1t greatly needs. The parliament
sions will open on the 10Th and close the
23d instant.
Tonight Continental Chapter, Mrs Mary
$. Gist. regent, gives tea at the Wash
ington Club, 171O l street for the resident
D. A. X. of the District of Columbia
Hotel Arrivals