Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-08
PLANS OF DAUGHTERS
BUSINESS TRANSACTED BY BOARD
OF MANAGEMENT.
Independence Day to Be Celebrated in
This city-Montana Representa-
ton Again Discussed.

The sessions Of the national board of
management of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution closed yesterday even
ang and adjournment was taken until Octo-
per. Mrs. Donald Mclean president gem
eral. left this morning for her home In New
York city.
We transacted a great deal of very i'm
j portant business and I am gratifed with
the prosperous outlook" said Mrs. Mclean
before leaving. I'VE shall go on with the
construction Of Continental Memorial Hall
just as rapidly as our funds will permit. 1
am gratifed to state that the sum of 49, 1oO
part from unexpected sources, has been re-
ceived by me and was turned over to the
finance committee at our meeting yester-
day.
Mrs. Mclean will return to the city at in
tervais during the summer to attend to all
necessary business, but a good deal of her
time will be spent in visiting with chapters
In the various states and filling engage
ments to attend receptions and to deliver
speeches.
Mrs. Mclean has been invited to seven
different states to deliver an address on
Flag day, and from this embarrassment of
| riches has elected to remain at home in
the empire state where big Flag day cell
abration will be addressed by her. June
the president general will attend the New
Jersey state meeting of the daughters at
Elizabeth, where there will be big cele-
bration of the battle of Elizabethtown. On
the 18th of June Mrs. Mclean will be the
guest Of her native town. Frederick, Md
where the whole town has been invited
by the Frederick Chapter Daughters of the
American Revolution. to unite at the town
hall in monster reception to the citys
gifted daughter.
On Bunker Hill day the residents of
Sommerville, N. j., will celebrate. and have
invited the president general to be the guest
of honor.
June 10 Mrs A. J. Robinson of the New
York city chapter, of which Mrs Mclean
has been regent for ten years, will give
| reception for Mrs. Mclean, and has given
Mrs. Mclean the privilege of inviting the
national board of management of the d. A.
R. The invitation will be accepted by a
large number of the ladies' who will be
handsomely entertained in New York
Mrs. Mclean will accept the invitation of
the Maine D. A. R. for jollification in
Portland, Me-. some time during the sum-
mer. and later she will go to Portland Ore,
to the exposition she is one of the vice
presidents for New York.
Boards Decisions.
The board of management decided to
send an appeal to the GOO chapters through
out the country, asking for subscriptions of
81 each, for the purpose of honoring the
memory of the nurses sent out by the asso-
citation who lost their lives during the
Spanish war. One thousand nurses were
sent to the front, and thirteen of them,
eight young girls, four Sisters of Charity
and one Sister of Mercy, died while located
in fever camps y Cuba, Porto Rico and
this country. plot of ground in Airing
ton was given by the government and they
were buried therein. monument was
erected by the assocad don. and it is for
this fund that the contributions are in
vited. Mrs A. G. Draper, who treas
urer of the hospital corps; Miss Desha,
Mrs Frances Nash and Miss Dorsey are
honorary officers of the Spanish-Amerfcan
War Nurses Association. The president is
DIR. Anita Newcomb MCGEE, who has just
returned to America from Japan.
The board of management also decided
to give big patriotic celebration the
Fourth of July. The exercises will be held
in Continental Memorial Hall, and the
Sons of the American Revolution and
other patriotic societies will be invited to
assist the Daughters, who will for the
first time In Washington undertake this
patriotic observance themselves The Sons
of the American Revolution have hitherto
taken the initiative in such matters.
A new committee on bylaws was au-
thorized by the board. The chapters
throughout the country may make their
own bylaws but these must be in con-
formity with the constitution and by
laws of the national society. are sub
mitted to the national board of manage
ment for their action. The committee ap-
pointed yesterday consists of the vice
president general in charge of organiZa-
ton Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main Miss
.
Washington and Mrs. Geo. F. Beach.
Changes in Committees.
Several changes in committee appoint
ments were made. Miss Alne Solomons,
at her own request was transferred from
the auditing TO the printing committee.
Mrs. F. l. Matthews appointed mem
Der of the printing committee: Mrs. Mary
S. Lockwood was added to the purchasing
committee and made chairman of the COM
mittee to purchase furniture for the rootn
of the president general at headquarters at
9th and F streets; Mrs. Teunis Hamlin
resigned the craftsmanship of the purchas-
ing committee and Mrs. Howard L. Hodg
kins was appointed chairman.
Referring to a letter from Mrs. Jennie S.
Tallant, which was given out yesterday,
criticisng the continental congress. the
past president general, Mrs. Fairbanks,
and the present presiding officer Mrs
Amos G. Draper, past treasurer general,
gave to the press last night excerpts from
resolutions adopted by Silver Bow Chapter, |
dated May ., 1905, signed Mrs. Jennie Tai
LIANT" which "purports TO express the SEN
timents of the Montana Daughters" 1t is
declared that this matter never
brought to the attention of this chapter
nor its sanction requested" therefore "Sil-
yer Bow Chapter repudiates the statement,
together with the sentiments therein eX-
pressed being those of the Montana
Daughters.
Mrs. Tallant and Mrs. Helen Hill Weed
are both members of the Silver Bow Chap
ter. The resolution repudiats the Tallant
letter in it's entirety and declares Mrs.
Weed to be not legal representative OF
the chapter of Montana
Montana will hold an election for state
vice regent In July to fill the place left va
cant by the resignation of Mrs. Helen Hill
Weed.