Evening star., 1902-04-10
ABOUT BANQUET BOARD
Reception and Musicale
Features of Function.
LIFE UNDERWRITERS
LOCAL ASSOCIATION ENTER
TAINs NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Welcoming Address by Commissioner
n. B. F. Macfarland-Minister WI
Among the Special Guests.

The Life Underwriters Association of
the District of Columbia rendered a recep-
ton and musicale last night to the eXecu-
tive committee of the national association
in the parlors of the Arlington Hotel. The
rooms were elaborately decorated with
flowers, palms and ferns, and the wedding
bells which had served as decorations for
marriage ceremony in the afternoon
We're left hanging from the central chan
delier, lending a special charm to the
scene
Mr.. Simon Wolf presided during the even
ing, and the guests were welcomed by a
reception committee, consisting of members
of the local association, among whom were
Simon Wolf, Max Cohen, T. A Lee, W. L..
K Barger S. P. Ficklen, j. T. Hendrick,
w. A. White, A. W. Avery, George S.
Wainwright, A. L. Newmyer, Mitchell Dy
renforth and w. B. Harding
Minister WI Ting Fang. Commissioner
H. B. F. Macfarland, Senator Dryden
and MIR. w. D. Wyman, president of the
national association, We're the guests Of
honor and delivered addresses.
Address of Welcome.
Commissioner Macfarland in a welcom-
ing address to the visitors, spoke of the
beautifying of the national capital and the
The national capital he said, lis glad
to welcome the National Association Of
Life Underwriters. Representing, as you
do the people Of the whole country, you
ought to feel at home in the city of their
pride Doubtless YOU feel the interest which
is now so general in the national ca apital
and the consequent desire to see it made
even more beautiful than it is Nothing is
more evident than this interest and this
desire. Every American citizen who comes
n oSh hty,trf rfo,, f-,,1 %o1l
lean citizen who can come does Gomez re-
joices in all that has been done here that
is worthy of the capital Of such nation
as ours: And even those intelligent Ameri-
cans who cannot come, and who know the
capital only through print and pictures
long for its prosperity.
The people of other countries have long
had the feeling for their capitals that we
are just beginning to have for ours. But
now that the feeling has come to us, it
stirs US more deeply and moves us more
rapidly than it does the older peoples.
Whether we live in the District of Column
bia or in one of the states territories,
we want to see the national capital devel-
oped and beautified as rapidly as possible.
And / believe that outside of the District
of Columbia intelligent people generally
expect to see the national government, as
representative Of the nation, provide means
for the national advancement of the nation
al capital, although they expect to see
the taxpayers of the District of Columbia
contribute one-half of the general munich
pal expenses
Makes Contrast.
. "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, reservations or institutions
within their borders desire the people OF
the District Of Columbia to pay one-half of
national expenditures here for parks and
buildings. You may not know that the peo-
pie of the District pay their full share of
all municipal expenses. Their contribution
Of one-half is in the aggregate (as the sta
tistics of cities published by the department
of labor in September, 1901, show, about
up to the general average per capita OF
city expenditures, although 1t 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 capital. They ought
to understand the relations between the ma
ought to know how economically and etti
ciently the affairs Of the District have been
conducted, without any form of eXtrava
gance, and without bribery or blackmail
under the compact of 1878 between the
citizens and Congress, which has excluded
partisan politics from affairs. Tho
more they study the more they will feel
proud of their interest in the national
capital"