Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-21

dress. black and white, quite up to date,
and rather perky that she was again a
foster child of Uncle Sam, just sixteen
| years old.
| Perhaps the question will arise Why
does the United States Congress print these
reports?' First, because they exacted this
service from the Society of the National
Charter, emphatically not because the So
clety had report 1t wanted the govern
ment to print for it, for this society does
| Its own printing.
1T needs only careful scrutiny to see the
long lists of soldiers and patriots names
! That have been brought to light-names
which were lost in oblivion and which are
now recorded-their enlstments, their serv-
Ice. their deaths and their resting places
| VIII not be lost again, for they are securely
recorded in the printed documents Of the
Society of the Daughters Of the American
| Revolution.
Our reports for the Smithsonian Institu-
| ton call for the work done annually by this
| organization This. knowledge we get from
our own printed documents and the reports
OF chapter work through the state re-
gents.
Historic Homes and Places.
Mrs Lockwood then spoke as follows of
| the historic homes and historic places own
| ed or under the watchful care of the D.
A. r.:
There is the Ellsworth house at Wind
sor' Conn. We know Washington often So
| Jo"i iiSu llle IOOI OF OlNer ELLSWORTH,
and we know that this judge of the supreme
! court of the state of Connecticut-a member
of the council of safety and one of the
trainers of the federal Constitution, min
! lister plenipotentiary of France, senator and
| chief justice of the United States under It's
nrst Presldent-lived and died in this house
| and that his descendants and those of Abb
gaii Wolcott Ellsworth, sixteen in number.
| united in presenting to the Connecticut
J Daughters this homestead and it is under
the care of the Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth
| Chapter
Then there is the little Nathan Hale
/ school houSe-yours And the ROYAL house
! at Medford, Mass, Headquarters of Gen.
! STARK This has been purchased and owned
by the Sarah Bradley Fulton Chapter
Griswold-and this brings Mother Bailey
! at the massacre of Fort Griswold be
| fore us. The Anna Warner Bailey
| Chapter petitioned President Roosevelt to
| to secure them to the state for a memorial
park. and to place in the care of the chap
| ter eleven old guns and 1900 shot. as well
| as the Old show house on the reservation
| grounds
First Purchase
The Meadow Garden house. the quaint
| home Of George Walton, the signer, near
Augusta, Ga, was the first real estate
bought by the society. And there is the
| revolutionary block house. the redou5t of
| Fort Pitt The story of the saving and
restoration of this property by the Pitts
burg chapter is as interesting as a romance
Ihere is also the Hendrick Hudson hOuse
| cared for by the Daughters and the han
quet room In Independence Hall restored
ana under the care of the Philadelphja
chapter, and the old historic Pohick Church
OF Virginia. restored and under the care of
| MI Vernon chapter, Reference is also made
| 10 the Putnam cottage of Greenwich Cen
| ha Trey
| RACKS OF Trenton N. j.; the Spalding house
| III boWeil, Mass, under the care of Molly
narnum chapter, and I'VE Little Old Schulz
! House at Chelsea, Mass and the old DAG
| gett house of Pawtucket owned bv the
ehapter and a memorial to revolutionary
| ancestors
The John Riley Chapter of Hamilton.
| Chlo' possesses the original powder maya
| zine of old Fort Hamilton. This has in
| 'he years been jail school house a
| private dwelling and is now the chapter
n oua h, u 'he John Riley chapter. These
| are Out starter in the line of historic
| places owned by this organization
The report the ninth of the series a1so
| covers all the department work done by the
| d. A. r. ~ ''''
| The Santa Fe Trail.
Mrs W. E. Stanley. state regent Of Kan
| sas, is the wife of former Gov w r
Stanley Three delegates are here from
kansas-Mrs. Stanley of Wichita Miss
Bessie Stubblefeld of Independence and
| Miss Mary Meade of Topeka
One of the tenets of the Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution IL
| 10 perpetuate the memory of the spirit of
the men and women who achieved American
| independence, by the ACQUISITION and nro.
| lection of historical spots and the erection
| of monuments
No incident of the revolution occurred on
| Kansas soil, and the Kansas Daughters
| puzzled over the possibilities of raising
shrines to patriotism within their own
| boundaries. The chapters had each done
something locally to mark historic points,
! and had helped in a modest way in the
| erection of the monument on the site of
the old village Of the Pawnee republic
where Lieut.. Pike, in 1906 had persuaded
| the Indians to lower the Spanish flag and
| raise that of the United States.
The state regent of the Kansas society
Mrs Fannie g: Thompson, in 1902, sug-
gested the marking of the Santa Fe trail
| what plan she would have proposed il not
known. for her death occurred in February
| 1903. The Daughters at their conference in
| 1904 revived her suggestion and adopted ii
| In her memory.
Legislature Called Upon
1t was not then definitely known through
| what counties the trail ran, though the line
of the Santa Fe railroad was supposed to
follow its general course. The Kansas
1 state Historical society procured from the
War Department, at an expense of $50, the
map and field notes Of the survey made by
the Sibley commission in 1857 of a
wagon road from Fort Usage, Mo-. to Taos
the first settlement in the direction of Santa
Fe in New Mexico but finding this map at
fault in some respects the old settlers along
the trail were called upon to lay down the
road as they found it. To this they cheer
fully responded. offering. in addition, their
help in placing the stones The legislature
of 1905 was called upon to appropriate 81 .OOO
for the purchase of the markers which re-
quest was granted
| The stone selected is OF red granite from
| the town of Granite, Okla, and is rough
hewn, dressed on one side only on which
the inscription is cut, the base being two
feet square, and the whole marker weighing
about seven hundred pounds
! Notes Of the Congress.
| Mrs. Mclean will be given a tea at the
New Willard Monday afternoon at 5 O'Clock
by the Fairgrounds Association of the Dis
, trict. Mrs. Samuel Ammon of Pittsburg.
who is prominent in the public playground
work of her home city, will be one of the
| guests of note
When MIS-. Samuel W. Jamison announced