Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-24
NATIONAL CONGRESS S. A. R.

Patriotic Organization VIII Meet In wash
ipgton for Three Days Beginning Apri
3Oth.
The annual congress Of the National
Society Sons of the American Revolu-
tion, for 1902, will be held on April
Both, May LIST and May I'd, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, in Washington
City, District of Columbia, at the New
Willard Hotel, corner of Fourteenth
street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The
sessions of the congress will be held
in the main banquet hall of the New
Willard. This hotel will also be the
headquarters of the delegates, the
meeting place of the general board of
managers, the national executive com
mittee, and for any meetings of the
other national committees
The following preliminary arrange
ments have been decided upon by the
committee having the matters in
charge;
Wednesday, April Both Meeting of
the national committee at 8 a. M,
prior to opening session of congress-
Annual Congress of the National So
ciety will convene at 10 "a. m. Ad-
dresses of welcome, with response by
President General Logan. Preliminary
business session; reports of general
officers, national committees, &c. Ad-
lournment. T. m.-Delegates, al
ternates and friends will be shown
points of interest of the city and
Georgetown, in special cars of the See
ing Washington Car Co. This will re-
quire about two hours and half s
p. m. General reception will be held,
details of which will be furnished later.
Thursday, May lst Congress will
reassemble about 10 o'clock. Adjourn
ment in time for lunch, and at |. 40
trip will bA made to MI. Vernon on a
chartered steamer. Grafton at tomb of
George Washington, and photograph
OF the members will be made at Wash
ington's home. Steamer later in the
afternoon will take Iarty across the
river to Marshall Hall, where dinner
will be served in the main hall, after
which several informal speeches will be
delivered, returning by steamer to
Washington about p. m.
Friday, May I'd. Congress will re-
assemble about 10 O'Clock, at which
time the general officers will be elected
for the ensuing year. In tho afternoon
a reception will be given, the details
OF which are not yet completed:e 8
p. M, the annual banquet will be
given in the banquet hall of New Will
lard Hotel. Guests and speakers of
prominence II attend, and it is ex-
pected that orations will be delivered
by the President of the United States
and Chauncey M. Depew, with 10 or
y more Of national reputation.
This will end the official programme,
hA L
DR.. John w. Bayne is chairman, will
be aT the service. of any delegates or
friends remaining over Saturday. The
reception committee will also arrange
to take those who desire to any Of the
public buildings or drive to Arlington.
On April 10Th, the day prior to the
opening of the congress, special COM
mittee from New York, with Col
Prime as chairman, will unite with
committee of d. @. Society, with Gen.
Vincent as chairman, in placing a
marker of the national society over the
grave, in the Congressional Cemetery,
of Gen. George Clinton of New York,
compatriot of the American Revolution,
soldier and statesman. The committee
has suggested that on the night of the
banquet President Roosevelt and Sena.
tor Depew deliver short orations upon
Gen. Clinton, this being deemed appro.
pirate, inasmuch as Gen. Clinton and
President Roosevelt both served as gov
ernor of the State of New York and
Vice President of the United States.
The delegates elected by the Della.
ware Society are William DeWolt
Dimock, L. irving Handy, Spottswood
Garland, Thomas +. Bayard and Howard
d. Ross, and the alternates, Capt.
Henry b. Nones, Martin Beadenkopf,
D. Brainerd Ferris, L. b. Jones anc
William s. Lednum.
A reception for the wives of the dele
gates will be given at the White Hous,
by Mrs Roosevelt on the afternoon O
April Both.
Mr. Ross is the chairman CT tn,
national committee on publication
which will report the completion of tn,
publication Of the national register 0
the organization. This register viii
contain the ancestry of each of thu
10, 600 members, and sketch of eacl
of the subordinate societies connecte,
with it. There are 80 State societies
and one in France, one in Hawaii an,
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