The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-15

ton.
 Three months after the ladies re- cefved their rebuff at the hands of the Sons the Society of the Daughters was organized. in August. 1890. Three wo- linen were present at the first meeting, land they were Mrs. Ellen Harden Wal
 worth, Miss Eugenia Washington and Miss Mary Desha. All good things are
 three" says the old German proverb, lTheEocfety now has nearly 52,000 mem
 bers and is increasing at the rate of
 5000 year. It Is eminently satisfac-
 tory to discover that there are in the country SO many descendants of the Revolutionary fathers as these figures
 indicate. The colQrs of the organiza-
 tion are dark blue and white. Their
 seal bears the figures of Abigail Adams
 seated at a spinning wheel So much for the D. A. R x
 The brilliant Flag Day gathering at Portland marks the official appearance of the new President General. Mrs Don- aid kMcLean. an able parliamentarian, an Eloquent speaker and a zealous AmSrican patriot. The officers of the D. A. R. hold their places two years. and Mrs. Mclean was elected President General at the recent meeting in Wash ington to succeed Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks, gife of the vice-Presfdent of the United States.
 Mrs. Mclean Is @ Southern woman, her native State being Maryland. though she has lived in New York city many years. The D. A. R. of New York lcity some time ago established per- petual scholarship in Barnard College,
 the institution for girl students att
 tached to Columbia University Out of complement to the gallant effort of the lady who/ did so much to raise funds for the endowment of the scholarship, Tt is called the Mrs. Donald Mclean scholarship. The New York Daugh- ters are marking in various ways the sites of Revolutionary battles which took place in the State.
 One of the most important enter prises of the D. A. R. thus far has been
 the construction of Continental Memo rial Hall, the Society's national build ing at Washington, where delegates from the Chapters in all the States may assemble. It Is a beautiful structure of white marble and steel The audi torium seats 5000 persons. The build- | ing is not yet quite completed. though lit was dedicated at the last national meeting. It contains large and striking portrait of Mrs. Fairbanks.
 This was first presented to her Cy the D. A. R., then by her presented back again, so to speak, to the Continental Memorial Hall.
 Admirable as are the achievements,
 manifest and visible, of the D. A. R., however. still more manifest is their invisible work-that which is ap- parent only in its effects of increased patriotism and interest in our coun- try's history among American women.
 Outwardly the society builds memo rials and preserves records of Ameri- can history. Inwardly 1t keeps alive and fans the sacred flame of patriot
 ism in the hearts of women. There
 was need of fostering patriotism among American women, with all the snob- bery and imitation of the social ways of foreign courts that increase of wealth had imported.
 Intensely patriotic from the first have been the officers and leading spirits of the D. A. R. Their presf- dents general. succeeding Mrs. Har- rison, have included the wives of two vice presidents--Mrs, Adlai E. Steven
 son and Mrs. Fairbanks-and the wives of two cabinet officers-Mrs.
 John W. Foster and Mrs. Daniel Man
 ming. The present vice president gen.
 eral Is Mrs. John R. Walker of Kan
 sas City.
 Charlotte Van Beck.