The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-30

the site for the building. Many of our wisest and most practical women have said the daughters can never be thor oughly interested in the building until we have the site. Whether this has been 8 wise move viewed from a financial stand point we cannot say and must leave this to Continental hall committed feeling that their loyalty to the best interests of the society is true and tried and they have made no mistake.
 ''The practical argument is that the need for the building Is great and press ing; 1t Is so necessary to our national so- ciety for many reasons, the enumeration of which would take much of this val uable hour.
 "The sentimental reason, not a weak sentiment either, but sentiment of the noblest order appeals to us to build this hall as it shall be the crowning work of our hands, the monument Of all the daughters to all the brave and noble men and women of the revolution who gained for us American independence.
 'I beg you to continue your work for Colonial hall. It is proper here to speak of certain matter in connection with Con tinental hall To the regular committee Of whicE Mrs. Fairbanks is chairman was added a committee ways and means of which Mrs Doshoore of the founders is chairman
 And now with summary of the va- rious matters of which have spoken. and which as state regent I earnestly beg you will bend your energies to accomplish, viz: Locating the graves of revolutionary soldiers; searching for real daughters, working for Continental hall subscribing for and supporting out state official organ also our national organ.
 I leave these matters with you. In con- cluding this imperfect report l wish to say to this convention that the work Of the society of the D. A. R. is a delight to me and therefore what I have done has not been a hardship during the years I have been state regent. It is impossible for me to rightly express my apprecia- tion of the loyal ability, high purpose ! ard admirable patriotism of the Ala i bama chapters their steady, united sup port during my regency has been my | strength and inspiration.
 1 'I know I fall below what the ideal 1 chief officer of the state D. A. R. should ] be and I take my share of blame If we i have not prospered as we should I might l have been more diligent, more tactfuI, more resourceful, with the sense of my inability and want of perfect adaptation to the work always on me. yet the con- l. sciousness that have tried even though I have failed often, is a source or some comfort and pleasure to me. Even though we may not have grown ana prospered i as some states yet the fact that we are 1 a united society, are at peace and dwell 1 together in unity is always pleasant 10 i think of I feel that I speak your senti- ments as well as my own when I say. Hay this blissful state continue and may no momentous troubles ever come to dis turb distract and rend in pieces the Alabama Society Daughters of the Amer lean Revo lution.
 Continental Hall Fund.
 Mrs. Ellen Peter-Bryce, chairman of j the Continental Hall committee, made her report, concluding with an eloquent appeal to the Daughters to lend every i energy in the interest of the Continental ] Hall which is to be erected in Washing i ton by the national society, as a memo i rial to the heroes of the revolution. 1 In her report Mrs Bryce stated that l Alabama gave S194 last year to the Con- tinental Hall fund and each year this , state has been more generous to this cause, considering her membership, than any other state.
 The Birmingham chapter gave the larg- est amount of any other chapter in the state, yet each chapter did well and gave in proportion to her ability.
 "In Continental Hall,'' said Mrs Bryce 'sthe name and history of our society will | be written in stone and marble, where our archives will remain undisturbed.
 continental Hall is an absolute neces- 1 sity. We are spending each year an inn mense amount of money for place in l which to hold our annual meetings.
 '"The need Is most urgent and the building of Continental Hall should be our one great aim and to accomplish it | everything else should be laid aside.
 .The Daughters have been planning fcontinued on Eiohth Pacei