Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-21
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Order of Exercises on Wash
ington's Birthday Adversary.
THE PROGRAM ELABORATE
Masonic Banquet in the Evening One
Of the Features.
MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILED
Attorney John N. johnson Endorsed
for Appointment as Judge
General News.
MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILED
Special Correspondence of The Star.


ALEXANDRIA, Va February p, 1907.
The 10th anniversary of the birth Of
George Washington will be celebrated in
this city tomorrow. 1t will be a day of pa
triotic church services and banquets, the
last named being the order of the day. The
occasion will also be enlivened by band con-
certs. One of the chief features in con-
nection with the celebration will be the
placing of a wreath on the tomb of WASH
ington. At noon the various bells through
out the city will be rung, and the afternoon
will be devoted to banquets and band con-
certs. The banks and city offices will be
closed all day. and in the afternoon most
of the business houses will suspend business
for the remainder of the day.
1t is expected that large number of visi-
tors from Washington and vicinity will be
present Everything points to a most sue
cessful celebration. The committees having
the different celebrations in charge have
worked assiduously, practically nothing be-
Ing left undOne to insure the success of each
event. Many of the business houses, to-
gether with a number of private residences,
will be decorated for the occasion.
The first exercises of the day will occur
at IL o'clock at Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church, under the auspices of Mount Yer
non Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, of this city. The exercises will
Ut VI pdtllotlC CHdTdcleT. BISHOP ttOUeTC
A. Gibson of Richmond, Va, will deliver an
address appropriate to the occasion. The
members of the Daughters of the American
Revolution of Washington have been in
vited to be present and participate in the
exercises. They will leave that city on the
1870 o'clock train. At the conclusion of the
exercises collection will be taken up for
the restoration of historic old Pohick
work is being accomplished through the eff
forts of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Executive Committee to Meet.
The members of the executive committee
of the George Washington Birthday Asso-
citation will meet at 10 o'clock in the rooms
of the chamber of commerce, at the corner
of King and Washington streets, and from
there they will proceed to Mount Vernon,
where they will place beautiful memorial
wreath on the tomb of Washington. The
committee having the affair in charge num-
bers about twenty members of the assOcia-
ton
At / O'Clock in the afternoon a band con-
cert will be held at the intersection of
Washington and Cameron streets. directly
opposite Christ Church The stand has
already been completed The concert will
be given by the Naval Gun Factory Band
of Washington. numbering thirty pieces.
Fourteen numbers will be played, and after
the first seven have been rendered there
utes. The band will be under the direction
of Prof. Jacob G. Moody. The program
previously outlined in The Star will be car
ried out in detail.
At 2 O'Clock the members of the Washing
ton Birthday Association and their friends
will assemble in the rooms of the Chamber
of Commerce and Immediately thereafter
proceed in a body to McBurney's Hall, just
opposite, where an elaborate banquet will
be served. This banquet will be the chief
event of the afternoon. The hall has been
elaborated decorated for the occasion; more
than 200 guests will participate. The hall
will be open for the inspection of the ladies
of the city from IL o'clock until noon. The
occasion will be enlivened with music
which will be furnished by an orchestra.
The banquet promises to surpass anything
Mr.. A. D. Brockett, chairman Of the asso-
citation, will act as POSTMASTER.
Toasts will be responded to as follows:
George Washington" Rev. Charles D.
Bulla, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South Of this city: 1.-The neighbor-
ing counties" Judge Charles E. Nicol,
judge of the circuit court for this district:
Alexandria" Mr.. Charles c. Carlin of this
city; Virginia" Judge r. 7. w. Duke jr
of Charlottesville.
Masonic Banquet.
Alexandria Washington Lodge of Masons
has planned for banquet to be held that
night at their temple All Masons residing
present and participate. Masons residing
outside of this Jurisdiction will be admit
ted by card only 1t is expected that the
banquet will be very brilliant one. Many
prominent members of the craft from diff
ferent section of the country will be present
for the purpose of participating in the af-
fair. Washington was a member of this
lodge of Masons, and the lodge annually
celebrates his birth with a banquet. The
toasts to be responded to are as follows:
"Alexandria-Wash ington Lodge, No. o.
Right Worshfpful DIR. w. M. Smith of this
city; George Washington Representative
Charles A. Towne of New York; Liberty
Lodge of Beverley, Mass, Eugene ]. v.
Huiginn of Beverley, Mass; THE Grand
Lodge of Virginia" Most Worshipful Judge
r. T. w. Duke of Charlottesville, Va;
THE Old Dominion" Representative Harry
D. Flood of Roanoke, Va; Andrew jack
son Lodge" Mr.. ]. Johnson Green of this
city: The tenets of Free Masonry" Most
Worshipful X. Kemper.
The banquet will take place in the ban
quet hall of the lodge room. Music for
the occasion will be furnished by Prof
Raymond d. Schroeders orchestra of
Washington. The hail has been beautifully
decorated for the affair.
The Columbia Steam Fire Engine Com
pany has also completed plans for it's
banquet, which will occur at night at the
companys house. and the affair promises to
be a very successful one. The chief engi-