The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24
DANES CLOSED
THEIR SESSIONS
WITH ELECTION OF OFFICERS
AND THE PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS
OF THANKS.

OF THANKS.
Some Changes Made in the List of
Omcers Nominated on First Day
of COnventIOn-These Made Neces-
sary by this Refusal of Two Of
Those Nominated TO Accept ONCE
for the Present Term-President
Gave Account of Ceremonies OF
Day Before Mt Fredericn-MOre
Work to BE Done Looking to Pres
ervntiOn of Old Fort.
The Georgia Society of the Colonial
Danes of America held the last ses-
sion of it's convention yesterday.
The chief matter before the meet
had been nominated on the first day
of the convention, but when the cleo
ton came around several changes
were made in the slate. because of
the refusal of some of the ladies to
accept. The election resulted in the
following board:
President-Mrs. J. ]. Wilder of Sa-
vannah.
First Vice President-Mrs. Annie J..
Warning of Savannah.
Second Vice President--Mrs. Joseph
R. Lamar of Augusta,
Honorary Vice President-Mrs. H. M.
Mediation of Macon.
Genealogist-Miss Eugenia Johnston
of Savannah.
New Members of Board-Mrs. w. l..
Wilson, Mrs. P. w. Meldrim, Mrs. w.
G. Charlton, Mrs. Charles G. Barney
of Savannah, Miss Mary Jones of Phil
adelphia Mrs. Adner c. Flewellen OF
Columbus, Mrs. William H. FELTON, of
Macon, Mrs. Alexander Smith of At
lanta and Mrs. NJ A. Lipscomb of
Athens.
AT the meeting of the board the fol-
lowing officers were elected:
Recording Secretary-Mrs. L. M. Le-
Hardy.
Corresponding secretary-Mrs. A. R.
Lawton.
Registrar-Mrs. ]. S. Howkins.
Treasurer-Mrs. Charles G. Barney.
Historian-Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb.
Didn't Want Omcers.
Mrs. Louis G. Young. who was for
merly first vice president, and who
was nominated to succeed herself in
that position, declined a reelection and
remained firm in that decision, al
though urged by a number of the la
dies to change it. Mrs. Thomas S.
Morgan, who had been nominated to
succeed herself as genealogist, also re-
fused to allow her name to go before
the Meeting.
In electing the honorary vice presi-
dent it is customary to observe a rule
of rotation among the larger cities OF
the state. and as this office had beer
held in Atlanta. by Mrs. I. Y. Sage
| it was transferred to Macon by the
| election of Mrs. Mediation.
The session was opened as usua
! with prayer, which was followed by rol
| call, and the reading of the minutes o
the previous meeting. By request Mrs
. Wilder gave an informal, but interest
| ing account of the happenings at Fred
/ erica the day before, this account be
| ing for the benefit of such member
as had been unable to attend the cere
monies.
Resolutions of Thanks.
|
eral resolutions of thanks were passed.
the ladies wishing to express their APP
| probation to the Daughters of the
| American Revolution, at Brunswick,
| for the hospitality shown on their visit
| to that city en- route to FREDERICK; to
| Miss McDonough of Brunswick and
Miss Taylor of st. Simons, and the
children who assisted them in deco
rating the fort at Frederick; to Rev.
h o let IN
the ceremonies at the fort and to
Messrs. Watson & Powers for the cour-
tesies of the De Soto.
Miss Taylor is a member Of the fam
lily that owned the property on which
the old fort Is situated, and which
not only gave the site of the fort to
the Colonial Danes, but also granted
them a right-of-way to it from the
landing, and, further, gave the re-
mains of one Of the original cannon
that formed a part of the forts de-
lenses. This cannon is now mounted
on top of the ruins.
Keeping River Back.
Though the Society of Danes has
done much toward the preservation
of the historic ruins, the work is still
less complete than they wish to make
it. A large quantity of oyster shells
have been placed in front of the ruins
to keep the river from encroaching
further on the site of the fort, but
the sides of the old building, where
it extends into the river, are not COM
pIetely protected, and it will be neces-
sary to place more oyster shells there.
This work it is hoped to do in the
near future.
The majority of the visitors to the
convention left the city for their homes
either last night, or will go this MORN
ing. 1t is expected that all will have
gone by tomorrow morning