Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-14

! fulfilled and the national university.
| is to be a real fact.
The memorial building which the
women of the country are 10 erect
will lie in the center of a gro,ip as
the college buildings. 1t will be
known rs the administration building.
containing the offices of those who
control and direct the affairs of the
| university. 1t will also have four
| large lecture rooms and an audito-
rum seating 1000 people There
VIII also be large memorial hall in
the building where much that relates
TO George Washington and the patri-
OTIS OF the nation will be preserved.
IL Is to be very handsome build
ing. The designs will be accented
only after most careful consideration
and with view of meeting the pur-
poses for which the building is i'll
tended
The women who have this memorial
Ill charge do not intend Ito have ii
Quilt by the wealthy contributors
whose money comes and goes easily.
II is to be memorial in all the name
implies. They want it built by the
women OF America. They want the
women of the country to feel an in.
~~AN'I ~ lilo OllC iuSlllullOn WHICH
is to commemorate for all time the
noble character of Washington and
which is the only one where the
women have been the founders. The
idea Is to have women from ono end
of the country to the other raise the
funds and each woman to have an
interest in the building, to know that
she has contributed OR raised small
amount and that her name is included
III the large list of American women
who appreciate the character of
Washington. In the memorial hall
OF the building is to be recorded the
name of every woman and every per-
son who desires to help the women
build this memorial There forever If
Will remain. the record of tribute
which women have raised in memory
of the greatest man America has ever
produced.
IL seems like very large contract,
the raising of 100000, but Mrs Wads-
worth believes that most of the money
VIII come in small amounts, in small
contributions from those who would
ike to help build such memorial
ana who would like to have i1corded
Tor all tine the fact that they were
among those who. even in a small
way, helped to erect 1t. In all the
ages to come the millions of people
who will visit the national capital
will see in the midst of the buildings
of great university named for Wash
ington, splendid building finer
than all the others, with this inscrip-
tion over it's front entrance:
Greeted by the Women of America"
part of Mrs. Wadsworth's plan
In raising funds is to have different
organizations in different parts of the
country take up the work and these
organizations and subscribers will be
kept in separate accounts.
"Of course remarked Mrs Wads
worth in discussing the subject, at
might be possible to make a strict
personal canvass of very rich people
to raise money for such purpose
as we have in view. But that is not
the object While we want to get
rs much money as possible. and will
be glad to get 1t from any source.
this is II great national affair, it is
something the women of America arc
doing and we want all tho women whU
feel an interest and share in the pa
triotic impulse which has inspired IL
TO do something. Being great ma.
tional affair 1t would be far better
to have millions represented than only
Il few"
Mrs. Wadsworth is confident that
the women of America are going to
make this memorial to George Wash
ington success.-Womans' National
Daily.