The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-18
DauqhterS of American Revolution
By Frederic j. Haskin

gathering in of children from among
the foreign elements in cur population
and teaching them abouG this country
its institutions, its aims, its general
greatness, and above all, teaching them
love and reverence for the dag. NJ st
gratifying results have been achieved
from this work. and today there is no
small amount of genuine patriotism
among Uncle Sans little citizens of
foreign birth or of immediate foreign
extraction. In fact there are many in
stances where tho young foreigner is
already more deeply rooted in the facts
relating TO the history of this country,
that some native citizens, who are doub-
ly unfortunate in that they reside IN
remote parts, and have parents who
have neglected their education.
The ID. A. r. owns much property
that is historic, having purchased it to
prevent its desecration by people with
mistaken ideas of what constitutes pro-
gress. They have bought the fauous
old Ellsworth homo at Windsor, Connec-
ticut: Nathan Hales little schoolhouse
at New London, Connecticut; the Royal
House at Medford, Massachusetts, the
Meadow Garden House, home of George
Walton, Georgia signer of the DeclaF-
atlon of Independence: the spot at
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where
three women blew up a liberty pole in
front of building to keep the Britis!
from using 1t as mast; the famous Old
Block House at Pittsburg, which rail
road was about to demoish; the Hen
dirk Hudson House on the Hudson; the
Putnam cottage at Greenwich, Connec-
ticut; the Spalding House at Lowell,
Massachusetts; the sole Skule House -
at Chelsea. Massachusetts; the old
colonial OF IL
the old powder magazine at Hamilton,
Ohio; and the old fort that was named
for Alexander Hamilton in 1871, which
became in turn a jail, school. private
dwelling, club room, and museum.
Wherever there is historic spot to
preserve, Fthe Daughters go about
taking care of it, They have restored
the banquet room in independence Hall,
preserving the home of Betsy Ross.
When there is no work of this kind,
they instill the gospel Of patriotism in
some other way, In San Francisco they
set out an arcade of trees IN Golden
Gate Park, ono from each Of the thir-
teen original colonies. These trees were
generally taken from historic spots.
New Hampshire sent a maple from tho
Stark House, and Connecticut slip
lioHl Iuo famous Sndr1cr YAK. Atlanta
has copy of the famous Craigie House
in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Savannah
has erected n monument to Governor
Oglethorpe; Lexington, Kentucky, has
erected monument to the women Of
Bryan Station; and Rome, New York,
has marked the sites of old forts Bull
and Stanwix
The d. a. Il, of Tennessee secured an
Of $4,000 a year from the
State TO support a chair in American
history at the Peabody Normal Insti-
tute. In Tacoma, Washington, it has
civic improvement with a
Will In Newton, Massachusetts,, a
memorial has been erected TO John
Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians. -
In Roanoke, Virginia. monument has
been put up to the grave of General
Andrew Lewis, the hero of tho battle
of Point Pleasant, TIE chapter at
Jacksonville. Florida, has preserved the
old inscription on the Spanish monu-
ment there. The Kansas chapters have
been instrumental in preserving the
famous old Santa Fe Trail. by having
marks set along its courts. The chapter
at Bay City, Michigan. is saving the old
light house at the mouth of the Sagi-
nav River, one of the oldest govern
ment structures in the country. and tho
Colonial Chapter in Minneapolis is do.
ing patriotic settlement work among the
poor Of the foreign quarter.
In the Tribune tomorrow the Woman's
Christian Association will be the topic
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