Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-28
AS ITS SPECIAL GUEST
BRIGHTwooD CITIZENS rRIBrrE To-
COMMISSIONER MacrARL.Np.


special meeting of the Brightwood
Citizens Association was held last even-
ing IN Felters HAN in honor of Mr. II b.
+, mcfarland president of the board OF
Disulct commissioners. President L, p
shoemaker presided and Mr. John a.
heene was secretary. Mr.. mcfarland was
escorted into the hall by Mr. Wilton +
Lambert, vice president OF the organIEa-
ton, and was given an ovation by the
large number of persons present.
After some remarks of a general charac-
ter. Mr. Shoemaker, addressing President
Macfarland. said, In part:
The Brightwood Citizens Association
welcomes you this evening as a guest. not
only because OF our appreciation Of the
pnphc service already rendered by YOU, but
because We feel that you are Interested IN
the general welfare of the people. and de-
sire TO be brought personally in contact
with them and their necessities
we further feel that your presence In
olcates your approval of our organisation
and the. efforts we are making to assist
you and your associates in the arduous
duties our Commissioners are called upon
TO perform.
Your presence is also an encourage
ment or the policy which has been for some
time In force by this association to bring
our members In touch with prominent
oihciais and citizens OF the District so that
they may understand not only the local
r
r1tory, but the general public improve
ments We have advanced and shall con-
tlnue TO advance, in behalf Of the entire
District, believing. as We do. that any ap-
preparation of money to be expended and
every public Improvement established al
though general I'm charac ter. becomes to a
very great extent a local benefit.
Policy of the Association.
1T has been, and hope 1t will continue
to be, the effort of this association TO
broaden its influence. and to not only sup
port, but to inaugurate measures OF a gen.
eral character involving the welfare of the
entire District. This policy is Illustrated
by the numerous resolutions which have
been favorably considered and adopted by
years.
I'VE cannot refrain, Mr.. President from
expressing to You our high appreciation of
the Efforts you have personally made to
secure from Congress the amount neces-
sary to crafty some of the actual needs OF
this community, and as these efforts have
been crowned with signal success. although
perhaps not equal to your expectations and
desires. We tender to you our sincere
thanks.
You will not feel. Mr.. President that
you have been invited here to enable us to
eulogize you. | have too much respect for
the dignity of your office and my admira-
tion of your virility is too great TO Justify
me in making such an effort
MIR. MacfarIand's Response,
In replying to Mr. Shoemaker Mr.. Mac
farland said in part:
Congress did more for the District al its
last session than in any former year since.
in 1878, it gave us the constitution of the
District of Columbia Not only did the
District receive much larger appropriations
In spite OF unfavorabie conditions: not onlv
was the principle Of advances from the
federal treasury in anticipation of District
mr. tad.
was the first half of the District code en-
acted into law, but every project for the
Improvement of the District chargeable in
part to District funds was provided for
more or less fully, with the sole exception
of the District government building which
was left in q hopeful state. Every deaart-
ment of District affairs and every section
of the District Will be benefit ed by the leg
isation of the last session. 1t was due
partly, no doubt, to the new devotion of
the nation to its capital, the new conscious
ness OF responsibility and duty toward tho
District in Congress so admirably brought
out on centennial day, at the opening Of
the session. But it was also due, without
doubt, to the practical unanimity with
which the Commissioners of the District,
Its Official representatives, were supported
by its citizens in their presentation of its
needs and of measures to meet them be-
fore Congress. All the organizations OF
citizens that constitute unique and i'm.
portant feature of District life contributed
u this support. The result shows what can
be accomplished when the Commissioners
are thus supported and when Congress
hears the District speak practically with
one voice"
Both addresses were frequently inter-
rupted with applause
Remarks Were also made by Mr. Louis
A Dent, Justice c. S. Bundy, Mr., I. NJ.
Mr.. j. b. Kinnear and others.
Resolutions Adopted.
Resolutions offered by Mr.. Wilton J,
Lambert were adopted welcoming Mr. Mac
who was termed "our respected
the representative of the
interests of the people of this
and we appreciate his presence
1t this meeting of our association
The resolutions recited that: I'VE desire
to express our high appreciation OF his
personal efforts in behalf of the general
welfare Of the District by securing from
Congress larger appropriations of money
'or necessary improvements for which the
taxpayers have long suffered"
1t was ordered that rising vote Of
hanks be rendered to Mr.. mcfarland at
his special meeting held I'm his honor. and
hat this evidence OF our appreciation OF
lis efforts shall be shown"
The other invited guests of the evening
we're Justice c. S. Bundy, Mr.. L. NJ. Saun-
iers, MIR. Benjamin Holman, Mr.. L. A.
Dent, register of Wills; Colonel r. s.
Brown, Mr.. j. b. Kinnear, president of the
rakoma Park Citizens Association; MIR,
lanes y. White of Pasadena, Cal, and MIR.
". c. Wood.
The program was closed with a recep-
ion to Mr.. Mcfarland and the other in