The Washington times., 1902-04-10
RECEPTION RENDERED
LIFE UNDERWRITERS
Executive Committee Guests
of Local Association.
Address of Welcome by Commissioner
Macfarland-An Enjoyable
Musical Program.


| y reception and musicale in honor of
the executive committee of the National
Association of Life Underwriters was held
at the Arlington Hotel last evening by the
Life Underwriters Association OF the Dis
trict of Columbia
Address of Welcome
TIE address of welcome was delivered
by Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland, who
said in part:
The National Capital is glad to well
cone the National Association of Life
Underwriters. Representing as you do.
the people of the whole country. you
ought to feel ut home in the city of their
pride. Doubtless you feel the interest
which is now SO general in the National
Capital. ard the consequent desire to see
1t made even more beautiful than it is.
Nothing is more evident than this inter
est and this desire
Every American citizen who comes to
Washington (and every intelligent Amerl-
can citizen who can come does Gomez re-
joices in all that has beer done here that
is worthy of the Capital of such a nation
as ours. And even those intelligent Amer
leans who cannot come. and who know
the Capital only through print and pic
lures. long for its prosperity. The peo-
pie OF other countries have long had the
feeling for their capitals that we are just
beginning TO have for ours. But now that
he fool hoe,
deeply and moves us more rapidly than it
does the older peoples.
Whether we live in the District of Co
lunbia. or in one of the States or Terri
tories, we want to see the National Capi-
tai developed and bcautified as rapidly
possible. And | believe that outside OF
the District of Columbia intelligent people
generally expect to sec the National Gov
ernment as the representative of the ma
tion provide the means for the national
advancement of the National Capital, al
though they expect to see the taxpayers
of the District of Columbia contribute
one-half of the general municipal ex-
penses.
Pay Full Share of Municipal Expense
The people of Wyoming do not have to
pay one-half of the expense of maintaining
the National Yellowstone Park. and
neither they nor the people in other
States having national parks. ireserva-
tions, or institutions within their borders
desire the people of the District of CO.
lumbia to pay one-half of national expen-
ditures here for parks and buildings. You
may not know that the people Of the Dis
trict pay their full share of all municipal
q has,
is in the aggregate. as the statistics of
cities published by the Department of La
Dor. in September. 1901, show, about IN to
the general average per capita of city ex-
penditures, although it is exceeded by the
average per capita in some of the largest
cities. and in some others OF about the
size of Washington.
The citizens of the District are willing
to pay all that can properly be expected
OF them. They feel sure that nothing
more is expected by their fellow-cItizens
in the States. Citizens everywhere ought
TO study the affairs of the National Carl
tai. They ought to understand the rela-
tions between the National Government
ana the District. They ought to know how
economically and efficiently the affairs of
the District have been conducted without
any form of extravaganza, and without |
bribery or blackmail under the compact |
Of 1873 between the citizens and Congress.
which has excluded partisan politics from
our affairs. The more they study the
more they will feel proud OF their interest |
in the National Capital"
Musical Program Rendered.
The musical program was In two parts |
rs follows:
Part Cello solos. (al Romance" I
Campagnol: (bl "Czardas." Fischer. Mr. |
WencesIao Villalpando: soprano solo. |
scene and aria from Lucia di Lam |
mermoor." Donizetti Mrs Ivy Herriott |
shade: violin solos. fa) "Romsnza." Sara
safe: tb) "Czardas," Hubay. Miss Minna |
deinrichs; Ladies Mandolin Quartette. faj |
selections from Carmen" Bizet: lbl |
Gypsy Love Song. Herbert, Miss |
Springsguth. Miss Wiley. Miss Skidmore
and Miss Cohen; Prof. 4. Y. Holmes, di-
rector.
Part II-Cello solos (aI "Kol Nidrei.
Nenceslao Villalpando; soprano solos ta)
The sandman Song" DeKoven; (b) Les
illes De CadiX" BiZet Mrs. Ivy Herrlott
Shade. violin solo. "Mazourka" Zarzysh.
Miss Mnna Heinrichs; bass solo. Down
n the Deep" Petril. Mr.. Arthur f. Mid
iletOn.