New-York tribune., 1905-02-22
VARIED CELEBRATIONS.
" ash'ngtons Birthday To Be OBJ
serUed IN Many Wags.

Few holidays celebrated in so varied fash
ion as Washingtons Birthday will be to-day. The
celebrations range from reception for the dino
saur at the Museum of Natural History to dinners,
patriotic addresses religious observances and q
general suspension of business The day will be
observed in the financial district as general
DAY. All the exchanges the banks and the Post
office will be closed
The annual invitation installation. entertainment
and reception of Peter Cooper Post No. s1s Grand
Army of the Republic. will be held tonight at
Tammany Hail. The installation services begin at
7:S0 o'clock
The twenty-second annual dinner Of the Sons of
the Revolution tonight at Delmonico's win be
marked by distribution of bronze medals to the
guests In commemoration of the late Frederick S.
Ta4madge. twenty years president OF the soci-
ety. and also commemorating the purchase OF
Fraunces' Tavern President Wilson of Princeton.
Brigadier General Frederick Grant and Governor
higgins will be among the speakers.
At l;SO o'clock the Old Guard holds its luncheon
in Fraunces' Tavern
More than two thousand invitations have been
issued for the public reception at the Jumel Man
sion, at 3 O'Clock. given by the Washington Head
quarters Association, which founded by the
Daughters Of the American Revolution. Several
prominent speakers will make addresses.
The Society of the Cincinnati will hold its annual
dinner tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria-
Grammar School No 49, in West 37th-st., VIII give
a dinner at the Park Avenue Hotel for the prtnci-
pal. James r. Pettgrew
Randolph Guggenheimer Will fill the stomachs of
otism at his annual Washngton's Birthday feast
Tor them tonight in the Newsboys Lodging House
in NeW-C -Chambers-st
The annual dinner Of the Associate Alumni Of
the City College will be held at the Hotel Astor. at
o clock William NJ K. OCott, 81, the president
or the alumni Will be toaStmaster
In view OF the interest taken by the public in
the dlnosaur recently placed exhibition in the
American Museum of Natural History, the mem
DerS OF the scientific staff of the Museum will be
in attendance in Fossil Hall, from 10 a. m. to
p m, TO explain about the specimens
professor A. 5. Bickmore will give a free illus
trated lecture Holland at $3.50 D. in the
large lecture nau OF the museum.
w aShlnSton's Birthday will be observed at Trim
lty Methodist Church, East uSth-St.. with en-
tertainment and social gathering in the evening
Miss Barbara Elizabeth Salter Will give reading.
The employees of the Street Cleaning Department
Will celebrate the holiday and air their grievances
at a mass meeting in Carnegie Hall. number OF
c!ergyEnen will be present to tndorse their plea
that they should not be required TO do other than
absolutely necessary work Sunday. The doors
will be open $50 p.
The Kings County Volunteer Firemen'S ASSOCia-
ton will hold its fourth annual parade in Brooklyn
this afternoon. II will be reviewed by the Mayor
The annual entertainment of the City History
Club VIII be held at 2:30 o'clock at the Educational
Alliance. JefTerson-st. and East Broadway. Dwight
L. Elmendorf will lecture Yellowstone Park
Mrs. Robert Abbe will make her annual gift to the
children, and there will be contest by musical
The public schools of Richmond Borough held
their special exercises Yesterday. The ClasSrOOms
were decorated with flags. bunting and pictures of
Washington. The exercises consisted of the sing
ing of patriotic and reCtations by the pupils
At the Curtis High School, IN addition TO the regu-
lar exercises, there was special COmmemoration
service in honor Of George William Curtis from
whom the school received its