Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-08
Memorial Hall Fund.

Mrs. Mclean spoke alphabetically Of
what she hopes to. see accomplished by the
organization At meeting of the national
board sum amounting to more than
700 was received for Continental Memo
rial Hall, 500 being from Mrs Fairbanks,
past president general, which had been
pledged by her at the last Continental
Congress Mrs. McMilin of New York
gave $3.50. and New York City CHAPTER sent
in quite large sum-
Ihe national board has decided to erect
at once the front pavilions of Continental
Memorial Hall, and will install the pe-ma-
nent heating apparatus if possible in the
present condition of the building Mrs
Mclean is anxious to have this done be-
cause several organizations have requested
the use OF the hall during the coming
winter The National Geographic Society
has been granted the use of the hall this
winter for its meetings.
1t is my desire" said Mrs Mclean. ito
make the hall center of literary and art
lectures and especially for lectures on
American history. / hope we can some day
guarantee these lectures free of cost to ali
we are building an ornament to Washing
ton, beautiful building which Will be
pleasing to the eye. 1t is besides memo
RAJ TO our earliest heroes, and | want to
see 1t dedicated to all that is uplifting and
eievating. l want it to he a university of
American history"
Some of the members of the D. A. r.
VINO nave desired to keep the Offices in the
organization very exclusive rather resented
The appointment by Mrs. Mclean of floor
members to places upon the large COM
mittees, that Is members who have never
served upon the national board at any time
President Generals Purpose.
ut has been my intention. If ever came
to the head of this body of patriotic wom-
en- declared Mrs. Mclean, ITO obey the
constitution and by-Iaws and to recognize
. every woman in the society as far as Is pos
sib!e. Every member of the Society OF
the Daughters of the American Revolution
is eligible to every office in it, | desire to
widen the horizon of the society and inter-
est every chapter and every member of
every chapter in the work that we are
doing, and this cannot be done il the COM
mittee work is all kept within the narrow
bounds of the national board of manage
ment, past and present.
Il am disregarding no constitutional prece-
dents, and l am establishing no unconstitu-
tional presidents. l intend to rest inside
the rules OF the society, and at the same
time exercise all my constitutional pre-
negatives and one OF them Is to consti-
tute my own committees. L have made good
committees. l think. and l know they are
doing the work we'll"
Mrs. Mclean has now had the reins of
government or the d. A. X. in her hands
about five months and believes that she
can speak confidently of the future. In
those nve months she has visited the D. a
h in more than half the states east of the
Mississippi river, attending the state con-
ferences. and has been the recipient she
says. of splendid hospitality everywhere
She speaks In high praise for the MEM
bership, and with PRIDE or the harmony
which seems to prevail everywhere even
among those chapters in her own state
which opposed her election. The president
general Degan her tour or the eastern D.
A. r. circles early In July, going first to
Newburgh, n. Y, where she was enter
tanned at the home of Ex-Governor and Mrs
Odeli and given reception by the d. A.
k. She then visited Goshen and the Min
nesinK Chapter, then went to otter Lake,
up IN the Adirondack mountains, where
she was entertained by the Gen. William
Floyd Chapter. The reception was held in
the midst Of the big forest in a fiag-draped
pavilion OF exquisite beauty, Mrs. Mclean
says ard above the flags hung frinxes of
pond lilies. Subsequently she went to the
lag raising OF the ID. A. r. at White Lake.
Experiences in Maine.
One week was spent by the president gen.
eral at Portland, Me. at the state con-
ference of the d. A. r. 1t was the first
time In the history of the society that
the organization in Maine had had a presi-
dent general at a state function and the
members proceeded to make the most of 1t.
The North Atlantic squadron. commanded
anchor outside the harbor and took prom
inent part In the entertaining of the week
The Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton OF the Pine Tree state presented to the
old battleship Maine an elegant service of
silver. which went down with the gallant
ship in Havana harbor. There was general
mourning among the d. A. r. of Maine
over this untimely loss OF their, beautiful
present, and they Were all greatly sur
| prised to learn year or so later that the
silver had been recovered from the wreck,
though they were unable for u long time
to locate IL.
Mrs Kendall. state regent OF the Maine
| ID. A. r.. made it her especial business to as
| certain what had become OF the silver sery-
| ice. For a long time she met with disap-
| pointment, going from one department in
| Washington to another. only to ind that
| none OF them knew anything about It,
| though all had a vague remembrance that
| II had been taken from the wreck by &C.
| cident Mrs. Kendall found at last that the
silver had been placed IN the Smithsonian
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