Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-13
IN HOHoR OF Or. v. LEEWHITE
COMMISSIONERS ASKED TO NAME
BRIDGE FOR HIM.
Resolutions Adopted at Meeting of
Oldest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of Birthday Anniversary.

Resolutions calling upon the District Com
missioners to name the bridge crossing the
Eastern branch at the foot of PenAsyl-
vania avenue Whites bridge, in honor of
DR. william Lee White, were unanimously
adopted at a meeting of the Oldest In
habtaUts Association and other friends
of Dr. White at his home on Floral Hill
yesterday. The occasion was the celebra
ton of DR.. Whites eighty-siXth birthday,
and the resolutions were presented and
PASSED after general discussion had de-
veloped the fact that the host of the day
by his untring efforts twenty years ago
was almost wholly respous. BILE for the con-
| struction of the bridge which has figured
so largely in the growth and prosperity of
| the southeastern section of the District of
Columbia.
In the prea mble the resolutions recite that
ali great enterprises require the stimulating
efforts of some public minded citizen and
that expression of appreciation is too often
reserved for the funeral discourse or the
epitaph. The resolutions then review the
events leading up to the construct on of
the Pennsy lvdnia Avenue bridge, with DR..
White named as the leading spirit in for
w,.yding the enterprise. Besides calling
upon the Commissioners to name the struc-
tuye Whites. bridge and to place proper
inscriptions on the ENDS. the resolutions
prov d for en.istiAg the support of resi-
dents in the southeast and in adjacent
Maryland in the plan 10 mono: Dr. White
Fully 20 persons participated N the
birthday anniversary celebration at Floral
Hi.l representatives OF all organizations of
whic!! b-. W!.ite IS a member being pres
including the Mystic Shr.ners. Oldest In
habitants ami the Grand Army The re-
c-ptiOn continued from $50 O'Clock until
10 mostly on the spacious lawn which
surrounds the White hcnle. Mrs. White
and other IN, Tnbers Of the family assisted
tn nilnuIe, wli,e-beart!ed host in receiving
his gu SITS. Music was furnished by d
string osch:strl and friends of Or. and
! MIS-. V hike save 4 series OF vocal and IN
/ stluIlcHtal Let onS.
The Participants.
Among those who part. cipa,ed in this i'm
promEtu program We're: Miss Carrie Nc
Reynolds, Dr. Woo1man. DR.. Evans and
Mr.. Barrett Prof t'ra!se Richard made an
address, and he introduced the resolutions
which We're adopted with general acclaim
The Association of Oldest Inhabitants car
red a beautiful floral wreath birthday
gift to DIR. White. The presentation was
made with the following eulogistic state
ment.
The Association CT Oldest Inhabitants
presents tbs small token of its esteem for
you as a man and an associate. congratu-
latinG you sincerely upon passing so sue
CesSfully the eighty-SiXth milestone of your
life, and hoping that you will live to be a
centenarian In age III the ranks of your fel-
low-members.
DR. White was born in Kentucky, but
the past thirty-SeVen years he has made his
home in Washington, occupying the same
handsome old house where yesterday he
greeted his friends. be entered the army
as a surgeon and served through the civil
war. He later became interested in jour
nalsm shortly afttr coming to Washing
ton he established Il paper of his own,
calling it the Free Press For years DIR.
w mite has been connected with the pension
office.
DR.. White has been married twice. first
il 1852. at Danville, Ky. His wife ed n
1891, leaving him four sons, Roily Lee
White. William G.. White. both OF whom
art now in Washington; John T: White CT
New York, and George V. White of San
Francisco. His second marriage took place
in 1879. when he married Mrs. A. G.
Stakes, the widow of Judge Stakes of Cal
ifo-n a. The present Mrs White, WHO was
q Mss Anna f, Cox. daughter of John Wat
kins Cox of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, comes of one
of the most distinguished families in the
country.