Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19
TOURING THE SOUTH
PRESIDENT GENERAL OF THE d.
A. r. VISITING IN DIXIE.

Mrs. Donald Mclean, president general Of
the Daughters Of the American Revolution
departed this week for a tour Of some OF the
southern states, after few hours in Wash
ington on her return from q tour OF the
northern states, where she attended many
! conferences OF the D. A. r.. and was ten
dered many receptions and banQuets and
spoke at some half-dozen patriotic gather
| ings. Mrs. Mclean had visited as her las,
engagement before the southern trip the
| Maryland Line Chapt Of Baltimore, where
| she was handsomely entertained. She tool
with her to Baltimore the now historic
/ Paul Jones flag to show 1t to the Mary
| land Daughters.
II felt that it was like taking 1t home,
| for 1T was in Baltimore that the star
spangled banner was born" she said to a
| Star reporter. THE flag which is twenty
| feet long and Of the heaviest silk" she said.
with its stars hand embroidered. Is one
that I asked Admiral Sigsbee to take with
! him to France to place over the catafalQue
of Paul Jones when he started back to the
United States. The flag is the joint gift OF
myself and several New York Daughters.
Admiral Sigsbee draped the catafalque with
this flag and after Paul Jones' remains were
placed In the tomb at Annapolis he returned
the flag to me. am keeping 1T as a sacred
trust for the Daughters Of the American
Revolution and when Memorial Continental
Hall is finished 1 shall place it in an her.
metically sealed case In that hall. l feel
that the D. A. r. all over the country are
interested in seing it. and as so few of them
can come to Washington to see it, l carry it
to them in my travels.
Many Relics Received.
Many other relics are being constantly ad-
ded to the store of rich things the D. A. r..
now have on hand for the hall when 1t is
completed. The latest addition is from Mrs.
A. J. Robinson Of the New York chapter.
She has presented to Mrs. Mclean two
chairs from the Mayflower. These have an
authenticated history. 1t is said, and Mrs.
Robinson gave them to Mrs. Mclean for use
in the office of the president general. Mrs.
Mclean says that when her term of office
Is ended she will place these chairs in the
hall museum.
Mississippi Valley Conference.
Mrs. Mclean, who Is the only woman hon
ored by the governor of New York with q
position on the New York commission for
the jamestown exposition, was obliged to
leave for Georgia just at a time when 1t
would have been pleasant to have been in
New York city, where Gov. Higgins enter
tanned the members of the commission to
meet Prince Louis, but Mrs. Mclean felt
that her duty was to her Georgia .Daugh-
ters," who had made plans to entertain
her. She went direct to Macon. Ca. where
the state conference was held and recep-
ton given in her honor. While there she
was the guest of Mrs. j. A. Rounsaville,
state regent. Mrs. Mclean returns to New
York this week for a day, and then goes
to Connecticut for reception in her hon
or, then to New Jersey to visit prominent
D. A. R. chapters. She will then return to
New York city to participate in several So
cial functions to be given in her honor.
Trans-Mississippi Conference.
Mrs. Mclean was invited by the state re-
gents of Minnesota Iowa, Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Missouri and Kentucky and other west
ern states to attend their state conferences,
but found II impossible to arrange eastern
dates so as to get to those PARKWAY states.
The Iowa state regent suggested to the
president general that it might be q good
plan to hold conference Of the Mississlp-
pi valley states, when she might meet all
the middle west D. A r. without SO much
travelling, and this met with Mrs. McLean's
approval Some time next year 1t is propos-
ed to hold the first of these conferences.
The president generals itinerary includes
a visit to Baltimore and Massachusetts be-
fore Christmas. She is endeavoring to keep
two weeks of the holiday times for her own
family In New York. Early in January she
will again visit chapters Of the D. A. r.
in Connecticut, and will return to Washing
ton during the month to attend reception
OF the Sons of the American Revolution, to
which she has been invited. She then goes
to Philadelphia to a reception by the Phila-
dephia chapter, where she will be the guest
Of honor A little later she goes to Detroit
Mich, to accept the hospitality Of the De-
troit Daughters. While there she will be the
guest of Mrs. Parker. state regent She will
visit Boston, then come back to New York
for two days, then return to Washington
In time for the February board meeting
Mrs. Mclean expresses herself as very
much pleased with the fine work that the
individual chapters are doing along historic
lines In their various localities In many
states the chapters have taken up the mark
ing Of historic ground, the restoration of
colonial buildings and the preservation of
historic pictures and furniture. Mrs Nc
Lean feels that this is a step in the right
direction.
Interest in Work.
while we want the chapters to take an
abiding interest in Continental Memorial
Hall" she says, I'VE also want to foster
in them @ desire to care for their local his
toric spots and preserve their local ira
ditions. 1 want the Daughters to be 'indi-
Vidual and original and they will find me
always supporting all their efforts When
they get interested in the preservation of
local historic spots, they widen their hori-
Zon just so much and come to see how val
liable to the world viii be the collection
which shall some day house In Continental
Memorial Hall. All states have not reyoIu-
tionary relies and landmarks but the D. A
r. of these states take up patriotic
teaching, the marking of local historic
spots"
The state conference of Kansas lately
held In Wichita, perfected IT'S arrangements
for marking the old Santa Fe trail. the his
toric highway across the continent from the
missouri river to the Golden Gate through
Santa F'e, n. M, past Salt Lake and over
the Rockies to San Francisco. The Kansas
D. A. R. propose to mark that part of the
trail which passes through Kansas made
in the first place. 1t is thought by Coronado
when he crossed 1t to some point near
where Atchison, Kan, now sands In his
search for the seven famed cities of CIbola
Ihe ID. A K. of that state have been work.
ing az this matter for several years and
last winter got an appropriation from the
Kansas legislature for 81 COO to aid them in
their work. They now believe that it will
take considerably larger sum and will ask
the legislature for more money at its NEXT
session. Kansas also adopted a state badge
1t Is sunf1ower, in the center of which Is
placed the spinning wheel and distaff of the
national society.