Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-20
THE COLONIAL DANES
MEETING SCHEDULED FOR TODAY
UNAvoIDABLY POSTPONED.
Executive Session to Be Held Tonight
disappointed Delegates at
Hotel This Morning.

| Inc society OF the Colonial
Danes Of America were to have met this
morning. and some OF them-a select few
assembled at the Arlington. as that hostel
| ry had sheltered the society on a former
similar occasion Another coterie of dele
gates and alternates invaded the New Will
| lard which Is really national headquarters.
according to the instructions from the high
| er powers.
At the Arlington the ladies were told
that the society was not known there; try
the New willard"
At the New Willard the clerk said he
mad received information that there was to
De meeting of some kind. and they were
met with the query: do the ladies belong
10 the Engineers Society,"" The ladies
Indignantly replied in the negative They
SAID they were members of the National
| society OF the Colonial Danes of America
Inc clerk then affably stated that he had
peen told some ladies would hold a meeting
| there at o clock pm. today. He thought
| II was the Society of Colonial Danes
me ladies' wandered upstairs to a parlor
where some sons of Ham were arranging
gut chairs In rows. They questioned the
men and were told that some women was
goln' to do som'thin' tha' thes mawnin'"
so these delegates waited. about a dozen
OF them. they carried letters from the sec
retary OF the national organization saving
LOT them to report with their credentials
TINS morning. That these credential cards
must be i'm before the executive meeting at
O'Clock tonight
The president was to sion here uaS
informed, said one lady, plaintively but
letter that l wrote her on important bust
ness ten days ago lies In the box at the
motel office, unopened. 1 don't know what
to do next"
II want tickets. or an invitation. or some
thlng 10 the unwilling OF the monument in
Arlington tomorrow" said another lady
How can we file our credentials when
there Is one here m receIya 1''
asked half dozen delegates in unison
Letter From National Secretary.
Finally one of the ladies produced a letter
from the national secretary. Mrs. William
Reed of Maryland. who said she would ar
rive this afternoon at 5 o'clock
The president, Mrs. Howard Townsend of
New York. she stated. was scheduled to ar
rive yesterday afternoon. Up to the hour
when the ladies left the hotel, worn out
with waiting. not one of the national Off
| GERS had appeared on the scene. and the
way some OF the delegates scored them
was a-plenty
Are there no programs? If we had
! program we could possibly learn something
| from that" said one delegate. looking ex-
pectantly about. but nobody had any pro-
grams up their sleeves. though the new
style or sleeve on some of the elegant
gowns worn this morning were ample
enough to shelter a good-sized pamphlet
| :. Wen. TINS is being exclusive to the lin
| IT, remarked one dame.
A Star reporter had been busy securing
the names of the delegates and alternates
but one lady refused to give her name or
her state.
| Eve are not allowed to talk to reporters.
| she asserted. The press committee at
| TENDS TO giving out all that we permit the
| pubic TO know anything about You must
| not print anything about us till the press
committee gives you permission
The press committee did not nut In an an
pearance. SO The Star reporter had to
| hustle for information unaided, and the
delegates and alternates at this hour of
| writing We're Stil searching the horizon
| Tor signs of somebody to report to-
| 1heFe seems to be general impression
among the delegates that the monument
! to the Spanish War Veterans erected by
| the National Society of the Colonial Danes
| of America in Arlington, will DE dedicat ted
| and unveiled tomorrow afternoon at 4;3o
COCK. 1t Is said that invitations to this
| Impressive ceremony have been out for
| some time. None of the delegates and al
| ternates who We're at the New Wizards
this morning had received an invitation
| The sessions Of the National Society of
the Colonial Danes Of America will be
| secret and executive.
| Badge of the Order
The badge. which is of solid gold. is de-
scribed as follows: The badge shall con-
| sist of round disc with a center of light
blue enamel, and the figure of a colonial
dame in gold modelled in relief on the same.
| Around the center of blue enamel shall be
| a circle of white enamel. with the title of
| the society, National Society Colonial
| Danes of America in gold letters flush
| Surmounting this shall be the modelled fig
ure of an eagle In gold, and diverging from
| the disc twenty rays in gold. arranged in
| four groups of five each, the three cent toy
rays In each group to be surmounted by
| stars OF blue enamel, these, with a similar
star placed Immediately below central disc.
being emblematic of the thirteen original
states.
| "On the reverse side of the badge shall
| be the motto, VIRTUES, Majorum Filiae
| Conservant.' The materials of the badge
snai! De 14-karat gold and enamel. and
i shall be worn suspended by a silk ribbon
| Of blue and yellow from a gold bar on
| which Is the name of the state"