The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
HOLIDAY FOR
DOANE BUST
UNWILLING
To Take Place December Il.
Former Senator Smith to
to Make Presentation.

Former United States Senato& James
Smith, jr., will, in all likelihood, be
asked to make the speech for
mally presenting 10 the city OF
Newark the memorial bronze bust OF
the late Monsignor George H. Doane,
and Governor-elect John Franklin
Fort will probably be requested to de-
liver the GRAFTON of the day.
Barring the appointment of COM
mittees TO arrange the details
Tor the exercises in connection
with the unveiling of the statue
and a decision to have the grafton de-
fiyered by a layman rather than u
churchman, the committee which met
in the Board Of Trade rooms yesterday
afternoon deferred formal action. pend
ing a report from an expert who will
10 to Mt. Vernon. N. Y, to look at the
bronze cast there.
Former Mayor Henry M. Doremus,
who is chairman of the general COM
mittee, has gone South for a long stay
and by unanimous vote his associates
yesterday selected former Senator
Smith to act as its executive. 1t Is
planned to unveil the memorial, pur-
CnaSeQ Will IualuS IdiSCo ny POPAAoh
subscription. on December IL, unless
something arises to interfere.
Mr.. Smith, in accordance with a mo-
ton of the gathering, named Samuel
Kalisch, the Rev. DR.. Louis Shreve o.
borne, of Trinity Episcopal Church. n
Frederick w. Kelsey a committee on
speakers. of which he will be a MEM
Der ex-officio. The committee is charged
with selecting the men who will make
addresses and the clergymen who will
participate in the formalities. 1t was
voted late in the meeting that the
members of the speakers committee
communicate with Mayor Jacob u
ling and ask him to accept the Dust
for the city, after the presentation
speech.
As a committee on the selection of a
marshal, procuring music and making
other arrangements for the procession
that is to be a feature of the unwilling,
former Senator Smith named Joseph M.
Byrne, the Rev. Joseph Leucht, rabbi of
B'nai Jeshurun, and James Taafe. The
committee mentioned was afterward
charged with making the general ar
r~angements for the occasion.
The first subject for discussion at
yesterdays meeting was whether the
orator Of the day should be a. clergy
man or :. Senator Smith sboke
t,,d,cialy1r as chairman. He called to
fbe ttentlo of the members of the
the broad mindedness of the
man whose memory was to be honored.
He nointed ont that his interests were
confined to the church, bug that
every question involving Newark and
her citizenship interested the great
mind of the mousignor. While a church.
maj who was highly honored in the
church. he was a man who would be
emernbere by men of all creeds and
no creed,l The funds raised for the me-
mortal had come from the pockets of
all classes and from men and women of
ALI churches.
Mr.. Kelsey was ~outspoken in favor of
The selection of a layman; Mr.. Kalisch
as in fayoring the choice of a
rIerpvman RI deliver the grafton. After
eome little disc,,ssjon>and the defeat Of
a motion bv Mr.. Kalisch that q Sec
ended, nv DIR. Osborne for the selection
nf q clergyman. a motion by Mr.. Kelsey
for tbe selection OF a layman was
nassad nimor
Inst before adjournment it was voted
RI reouest Mayor Haussling to Issue
4 PROCLAMATION for the closing of
n,acea of business. particularly the
stores In the centre of the city, from
/ to 8 o'clock in the afternoon of the
day of the unwilling.
As tentatively arranged. the public
demonstration will include the Com