Evening star., 1902-03-12
ANNUAL CONGRESS
SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
TO MEET HERE.
Chairmen Of Local Committees Named
Program Of Exercises Outlined
- National Officers.

The annual congress of the Sons Of the
| American Revolution will be held at the
New Willard Hotel, this city, April 80 and
May and 2. About $50 delegates are ex-
pected, and many of the states will send
alternates. The following states have al
| ready appointed their delegates: Maryland,
Delaware. New York. Maine, Illinois, vir-
| gnia, Connecticut. Indiana, louisiana,
| Michigan. Missouri, Pennsylvania. South
Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Texas and
California.
The chairmen Of the various local commit
tees having in charge arrangements for
the annual congress are:
Congress committee, Mr.. William g.
Knox; secretary, Mr.. Wallace Donald Nc
Lean; banquet committee. Mr.. William H.
Bayly; reception committee, DR.. John w.
Bayne: White House reception committee
Mr.. Henry F. Blount: excursion commit
tee, Mr.. John P. Earnest; committee on
speakers, Mr.. John Good; programs and
printing, Mr.. Bernard r. Green: city COM
mittee, Mr. E. Southard Parker; auditing
DR.. Charles w. Richardson: finance. Mr..
II. Warner: ladies' committee. Captain
I ]. Jewell and committee on badges, Mr..
F. D. Owen.
Marker for Vice Presidents Grave.
The day previous to the opening of the
congress special committee from the New
York society. with Colonel Prime as chair
man, will unite with a special committee
from the District of Columbia, General Vim
cent. chairman, in placing a bronze marker
of the National Society of the Sons over
the grave in Congressional cemetery of
General George Clinton of New York once
governor of that state and Vice President
Of the United States.
The congress will open its sessions Wed
nesday morning. April 80, at 10 o'clock in
the ban0uet hall NJ tho I'd rx,fth
addresses OF welcome and a response by
President General Walter s. Logan Of New
York. After the various reports of the
state officers, general officers and commit
tees an adjournment viii be taken, and at
o'clock the delegates and alternates with
their friends. will be shown the points Of
interest In Washington and Georgetown in
the special cars Of the seeing Washington'
car committee.
At 8 o'clock in the evening a general re-
ception will be rendered the visiting dele
gates and their friends.
The congress will reassemble Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock, adjourning in time
foT the members to leave for Mount Vernon
at 40 o'clock on a chartered steamer. An
grafton Will be delivered at the tomb Of
Washington. after which the steamer will
cross to Marshall Hall, where the delegates
Will be served luncheon and several in
formal speeches will be delivered. The
party will remain at Marshall Hall for
some time, returning to the city about s
o'clock.
Election Of Officers.
Friday morning. May 2 the congress will
again convene at 10 o'clock for an election
OF officers for the ensuing year. In the
afternoon the delegates will visit the White
House. paying their respects to the Presi-
dent. who is a member of the New York
state society.
At Oclok in the evening the annual
banquet will be held. A program of speak,
ers or national reputation Is now being
arranged. Orations will be delivered on
George Clinton as a patriot Of the Ameri-
can Revolution, a soldier, and a statesman.
After the banquet the congress will be
| brought to close.
1t is expected that a number Of the del
egates will remain over Saturday visiting
the public buildings and going to Alexan-
dria to see Christ Church, the worshping
place of George Washington.
The society is now composed of about
1900 men, representing thirty nine states.
There is a society in the Hawaiian Islands,
numbering about seventy members of
which William II. Allen is president. There
is also a branch Of the organization in
France. of which Gen. Horace Porter. Unit
ed States minister to that country, Is pres
ident
The present national officers of the as
sociation are president general, Walter s.
Logan, New York; vice presidents general,
James d. Hancock. Pennsylvania: Thomas
Pitts, Michigan; Horace Davis, California;
John Whitehead, New Jersey: and Geo. A.
Pearre. Maryland; secretary general, Capt
Samuel e. Gross, Illinois; treasurer general,
general A. Howard Clark, District of Co.
lumbia; historian general George w Bates,
Michigan; and chaplain general Rev Ethel
bert D. Warf1eld, Pennsylvania.