Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-12
DAUGHTERS CONGRESS
Program to Be Observed at
Continental Hall.
TWO SESSIONS DAILY
SPECIAL MEETINGS FOR BUSI-
NESS ONLY PROVIDED FOR.
Order of Exercises as Adopted for the
Coming Week, Beginning Mon
day Next.
TWO SESSIONS DAILY

The program for the fourteenth CONT
mental congress of the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution
issued from the headquarters of the
organization today. The congress will
meet at the new Continental Memorial Hall
next Monday and the sessions will con-
tlnue through the week For the conve-
nience of the members the program is d.
vided into sessions, but it is recommended
that it be followed serlatim.
There will be two sessions daily-one from
10 o'clock am, until 4:3O pm, with re-
cess from 1 to 2 o'clock; the other at
o'clock pm. Roll call will be answered by
state regents for their delegations, the
chapter regents responding for their
spective chapters State delegations may
meet at their convenience for the election
of their state regents and state vice re-
gents.
Special business sessions may be held
during the congress.
The First Day.
Monday, April II, 19O5-10 a m dedicatory
exercises of Memorial Continental Hail.
2p.m.-The congress will be called to order
by the president general, Mrs Charles War
rem Fairbanks, when prayer will be offered
by the chaplain general, Mrs. Teunis S.
Hamlin. Following this an address of well
come will be made by the president gen.
eral To this responses 0imited to five min
utes) will be by Mrs. William NJ. Liggett,
state regent of Minnesota; Mrs. Henry w.
Richardson, state regent of South Carolina;
Mrs. Alfred A Kendall, state regent of
Maine; Mrs Abraham Alice, state regent
of Nebraska. Report of the credential COM
mittee. Mrs. Miranda Barney Tulloch, chair
man, and of the program committee, Mrs.
W Ia
the session
pm.-Jubilee exercises will be held un-
der the auspices of the Memorial Continental
Hall committee. At this meeting a report
of the Memorial Continental Hall commit
tee will be presented by Mrs. Charles War
rem Fairbanks, chairman, and report of the
ways and means committee, Mrs George
M. Sternberg, chairman. Contributions to
the Memorial Continental Hall fund will
be received and there will be brief ad-
dresses.
Program of Tuesday.
At 10 o'clock am, following the OPEN
Ing exercises, announcement, will be made
by the president general of Neeco1lfe-
tee on the recommendations of national
officers.
Reports of national officers will be sub
mitted as follows: The vice president
general in charge of the organization of
chapters, Mrs. Miranda Barney Tulloch;
the chaplain general, Mrs. Teuns S. Ham
lin: the recording secretary general, Mrs
William E. Fuller; the corresponding sec
rotary general Mrs. Henry L. Mann; the
registrar general. Mrs Augusta D. Geer;
the treasurer general, Mrs. NJ E. s. Davis,
followed by the report of the auditing
committee; the historian general Mrs.
Jonathan p. Dolliver; the assistant his
torian general Mrs. Mary S. LOCKWOOD
the librarian general Mrs Mary Evans
Rosa.
Reports by the editor, business mana
ger and magazine committee of the Amer
lean Monthly Magazine will follow. The
editor is Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, the bust
ness manager Miss Lillian Lockwood and
the magazine committee Mrs. Sara Thorn
son Kinney, chairman.
Amendments to the bylaws will be
considered and nominations of national
officers editor of the American Monthly
Magazine and business manager of the
American Monthly Magazine will be in or
der.
Election of Officers.
Wednesday at 10 a. m. the most important
item Will be the election of national off,
GERS and the reception of reports of state
regents.
Reports of the following standing COM
mittees will also be submitted as follows:
Franco-American memorial Mrs. Sara
Thomson Kinney, chairman; revolutionary
relics, Mrs. Julius j. Estey, chairman; ma
tional university, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Wal
worth. chairman to prevent the dissertation
of the United States flag, Mrs. Walter
kempster chairman; Prison-ship Martyrs
Monument Association, Mrs. Stephen "
White, chairman. Reports of the commit
tee on directory, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood
chairman, and of the committee on patri-
otic education, Mrs. ]. Heron Crosman,
chairman will then be submitted
Thursday, 10 o'clock a M, the announce
ment will be made of elections, and a re-
port of the committee or the recommended
tons of national officers will be presented,
followed by unfinished business and new
business. There will be no meeting Fri
day and Saturday The closing proceedings
will consist of brief consideration of new
and unfinished business.
The Committees.
The committees for the fourteenth Con-
tinental Congress are:
Committee on dedicatory exercises of Me-
mortal Continental Hall-Mrs. Charles War
ren Fairbanks, chairman; Mrs. Althea RAN
dolph Bedle, Mrs. Franklin F. Brooks Mrs
julius C. Burrows, Mrs. J. Heron Crosman.
Miss Mary Desha. Miss Ella Lorraine Dor
sey, Mrs. Julius j. Estey, Mrs. John W.
Foster. Mrs. James NJ. Fowler, Mrs Au-
gusta d. Geer Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin Miss
Susan Riviere Hetzel, Mrs Julia X Hogg
Miss Elizabeth Bryant Johnston Mrs de
i. Randolph keim, Mrs William Lindsay
Mrs; Charles Warren Lippitt. Mrs. Mary
S. Lockwood. Mrs. Charlotte Emerson
Main, Mrs. Daniel Manning, Mrs. James r.
Mellon. Miss Virginia Miller. Mrs. Greenlef
W, Simpson, Mrs George NJ. Sternberg,
II.
Terry. Mrs. Miranda Barney Tulloch, Mrs.
Ellen Hardin Walworth. Mrs. Walter Har-
vey Weed and Mrs. Charles A. West.
Ballman the broker. who, on advice of his
Credential and badge committee-Mrs.
Miranda Barney Tulloch. chairman; Mrs.
NJ. +. s. Davis, Mrs. Julius ]. Estey, Mrs.
William l.. Fuller, Mrs. Mary S. Lock-
wood, Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main, Mrs.
Mary Evans Rosa.
House committee-Mrs. Eleanor s. w.
Howard. chairman; Miss Clara Lee Bow
man. Mrs. A. ID. Brockett. Mrs. Henry L.
Burnham, Mrs. William II. Coleman Mrs
Charles Warren Lippitt, Miss Julia r. Z.
McBlair, Mrs. Robert F., Park, Mrs Mary
Evans Rosa, Miss Elizabeth Chew Will
iams.
Invitation commttee-Mrs. Charles II.