Evening star., 1901-10-22
Movement to Perpetuate the Memory
of the Late President.
MEETING OF LOCAL ASSOCIATION
Officers Directed to Prepare
Articles Of Incorporation.
ADDITIONS TO COMMITTEE

| Another impetus to the Mckinley memo
rial arch project was given yesterday
! afternoon at a meeting of the executive
| committee of the National Memorial Arch
| Association in the offices Of the American
| Security and Trust Company, 140l G street.
| Secretary Gage was present for the first
| time and there was full attendance OF
| the committee with the exception OF
| Charles C. Glover.
| Mr. Gage assured his fellow members
| that he would cooperate IN every way for
| the success of the memorial. He had just
| returned from Colorado, and he told the
! committee of the interest manifested by
| the people of the west in any undertaking
| that would tend to perpetuate the memory
| of President Mckinley.
| Through John Joy Edison, its chairman,
! the subcommittee on Incorporation reported
| that an examination of the law relative
! to organizations such as this association
| had been made by John B. Larner, who
! gave it as his opinion that the Memorial
| Arch Association can be properly incorpo-
| rated under the laws OF the District OF CO.
lumbia. 1t had been thought advisable at
first to depend upon an act of Congress,
but Mr.. Larners opinion was accepted as
settling the question. The committee was
authorized to go ahead and prepare arti-
cles of Incorporation The officers of the
| association will be the incorporators.
Promise of Cooperation.
Mr. Edison read a letter from Ryerson
Ritchie, secretary of the association for
the erection of the Mckinley memorial at
Canton, Ohio, saying that he would for
ward to the Washington committee a copy
of the articles of incorporation of the asso-
| citation with which he is connect ed Mr..
Ritchie promised his official and personal
assistance to the executive committee of
the National Memorial Arch Association:
It was unanimously voted to add to the
| present membership of the executive COM
| mittee William 7. Harris, commissioner Of
education; the Rev. Dr. r. Dewitt Tai
mage, John w. Douglass and Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Federation
of Labor.
Mr.. Macfarland, president Of the execu-
tive committee, reported the acceptances Of
appointments as national vice presidents
from Admiral Dewey, DR.. Eliot president
of Harvard University; Mgr Conaty Of
the Catholic University of America; joan
b. Carroll and Bishop Edward G. Andrews.
Nineteen persons have already been asked
to serve. A subcommittee was named, con-
sisting of Mr.. Macfarland Mr.. Bell and
Thomas f. Walsh, to suggest additional
names.
Appointment of Vice Presidents.
general discussion ensued as to the ap-
pontment of men who will take active
! work in aid of the project throughout the
several states and particularly in the CEN
! telS VI populdti tioll II was llHdliy ueclueu
| to allot to each member of the executive
committee a single state, or group of
states. with the local standing of whose
| citizens lie is best acquainted, from whom
| to suggest the names of those regarded
most worthy of being asked to serve as
| vice presidents. Appropriate representation
! in the list of vice presidents will be given
to rorto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the f.
| ippine Islands, and the Americans in for
| eign cities where there are colonies of resi-
| dent Americans will also be accorded rep
| resentation.
| Many letters have been received from all
! parts Of the country during the past few
/ days expressing interest in the memorial
] arch. The new rooms of the association in
| the Kellogg building on F street, will be
! ready for occupancy this afternoon.