The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-08
GOOD MEETING OF
ANCIENT SOCIETY
Central Committee OF Association
for Preservation Of Virginia
Antiquities Hold Forth.

The central committee of the Assoc
citation for the Preservation Of Virginia
Antiquities met yesterday at noon in
the assembly rooms of the Virginia His
torical Society. Mrs. j. Taylor Ellyson
presided. and members present We're:
Mrs. II. Theodore lGllyson, Mrs. Henry
Taylor, Mrs. j. II. Southal, Mrs. ]. En-
ders Robinson, Mrs. Henry Gibson, Mrs.
W. S. Murray. Mrs. A. w. CARRIER, Mrs.
John b. Lightfoot Mrs. Edward v.
Valentine, Mrs. j. Caskie Caben, Mrs.
| Norton r. Savage, Mrs. S. H. Yonget
Mrs r. w. Watkins. Mrs. G. w. p.
Brock, Mrs, ". a. Anderson. Mrs. j. Il
Wexford, Mrs Charles B. Ball. Mrs. w.
c. Bentley, Mrs. J. Aston Cabell, Mrs.
| w Ct. Stannard, Mrs. Thomas Boiling
and Mrs. Alice M. Tyler.
Satisfactory reports We're made by
the treasurer and corresponding secrc-
tary
| A letter was read from Miss Louie
Taylor, dircctress of the Norfolk Aranch
of the association, asking permission
! for her branch of the a. p. Y. a. to
make an exhibit at Jamestown EXPOSE
ton On a notion made by Mrs. John
b. Lightfoot and seconded by Mrs. Nor
ton Savage, the secretary was in
Gtructed to write to Miss Taylor, grant
ing her request.
Mrs. ]. Caskie Cabcll and Mrs. w c.
Bentley were appointed u committee
to select hostesses for the D. A. II.
Building at jamestown Island.
Hospitablc invitations were received
from Mrs. Harrison. of Brandon" and
Mrs. Ramsay OF "Westover," Inviting
the Ds;S0rioY inr, n n g at I,.i
homes, on the return trip Of the annual
, pilgrimage to Jamestown Monday next
2 The secretary was instructed to write
= TO these ladies', expressing the thanks
:, of the association for their Kindness
i but declining the invitations for lacl
c OF time.
!. Mrs. George Randolph Cannon, of tn
' boulder committee, reported the foun
daton laid 70 rthe boulder on Ganblo
Hill The exercises in connection witt
> the unvoilinS viii take place on Jun
~ 10th.
:. Mrs Stannard, Of the landmark com
;, signed by Nh. William Sheppard
TO be used in marking histori
- houses Ind sites. The design wa
surmounted by three ships; under
o. meath the motto: Del Gratia vi,
T. gInia Condta.' and the Inscription
site OF the Home of George Myth
I, signer Of the Declaration OF lndepcn6
- encc Placed by Association for Il!
NJ Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
IS, This tablet will be placed on the hous
IS, No. sos Ease Grace Street, as markin
a. the site of Wythcs home Similar tablet
ed with appropriate Inscriptions, VII mal
of tho former home Of Chief-Justcc Joi
Marshall tha site of Edmund Randolph
home, now the city Hall; the site OF II
Allan home on South Fifth Street, n.
the Retreat for the Sick, in which bull
ing the NirgIniu convention met wh
~ adopted the Constitution Of the Unit
States.
A sixth tablet viii be placed at Jane
eH town Island i'll recognition Of yalual
ls services rendered by MIR. S, II. yonge
ri the building OF the sea wall ana in t
ge work Of excavation made there.
he Mrs, i, W, watkins Of the menbc
he SHIP committee, reported the lolowi
a new members; Mrs. Charles r. Lee. NJ
~ Landon Il. Edwards, Mrs. L. J.. Lew
se Mrs Eppa liunton, Jr,, Mr.. William
nj. Johnson, Of Houston, VA Mrs Willi
T. Junkin OF Lexington, Va; Mrs, 10
Frost, Mrs Victoria Royal I5roadhc
- and Mrs, Carlton Jackson,