Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-21
GREETING TO WELlERS
Friends Honor Former Wash
ington Charity Workers.
HUNDREDS PAY RESPECTS
Notable Reception rendered Pitts
burg Visitors at Y. N. G. A.. -
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
MI. Justice Brewer Presides and
Makes Address Of Welcome.
Mr.. Weller's Response.


| Nearly 1900 men and women of this
| city gathered at the Young Mems Chris
| tian Association building on q street las,
night and paid homage to Mr.. and hrs
| Charles F. Weller, the former having
! been for number of years general sec
! rotary of the Associated Charities OF
| Washington and who now occupies a
| similar position in Pttsburg, Pa.
| The gathering was a representative one,
| being made up of persons of all denomi-
nations and of various stations in life, all
of whom had been in some way interested
| in the social and charity work of Mr.. Wei
| Ter and his wife, and who grew to respect,
honor and love them during their life here.
| The fluctuations paid them they stood
near the head of the receiving line in the
main reception room of the Y. NJ. G. a.
building on the third floor were genuinely
| affectionate and impressive.
| Following the reception every one gath
| cred in the large gymnasium on the first
| floor, where speeches eulOgistic of the
| character and work of Mr.. and Mrs. Wei
| Ter were made by Mr.. Justice Brewer.
| who presided: Commissioner mcfarland,
| chairman of the general committee; Bish-
| op Harding and Rev. Mr.. Little, president
of the Associated Charities of Pittsburg.
At the conclusion of his remarks Com
| missioner Macfarland, OH behalf of the
many friends of the couple. presented
| them with d large and handsome silver
| set
| When it came MIR. Weler's turn to say
| something in reply he was so overcome
! with emotion that it was hard to select
words He said it would be utterly use
| less for him to attempt TO express his
| and his wife'S pleasure and thanks.
| 1T would take me several days to say
what / would like to- Mr.. Weller said.
1T really hardly seems that this can be
| possible; that this is Mrs. Weller and
| myself. and that you have all come out
to express such kindly. generous feelings
| to us as you have expressed this even
could not express what this meeting has
| meant to u.s..
An Inspiration to Both.
| Il do want to say, however, Sthat in the
hard work that lies before us i'm Pitts
burg, and that is the hardest job the
| Weller family has ever tackled. in the
great big work that is there to do, l
shall look back-we shall both look back
to this meeting with great joy, and we
will comfort ourselves when the dis
couragements come by saying that there
are lot of good people, misguided PEG.
pie, in Washington who believe we can
do something for Pittsburg, and we are
going to take great strength from that
And while l shall enjoy eating from that
beautiful set of silver. 1 hope that some
of you, many of You, all of you, will
come out and help us eat out of it. Cap
plause.)
I'VE are going to take still greater
strength and joy from the thought of
this Incompatible meeting. It. seems to
me there never has been such a gath
erlng anywhere. 1t is going to put
CT rcyfh in,
give us courage for the great work ahead.
You cannot imagine how great is the
work that needs to be done in the great
city of Pittsburg.
Friends. we are going to take this
meeting somewhat for ourselves. We are
going to say that these good folks in
Washington. overemphasizing that little
we have tried to do. will back us up
with their faith and love, and We are go
ing to rely upon it and go forward with
increased strength.
Il thank you from the very bottom of
my heart I don't believe man or woman
could possibly have had a more kindly,
a more generous. more inspiring ex-
preston of affection than this has been
While we don't want to die yet, certainly
We could not have better funeral than
this if we died tonight. Gaughter) 1t
Is splendid kind of a funeral.
A Little Sermon in It.
And friends l have got to preach a
little. i am SO grasping / believe we
have never had such a meeting as this
In the National capital. There have been
other assemblases something like this, of
course, but never an assemblage where
we let our hearts go out as they have
tonight, because we are honorng the
work that we have tried to do
And again We ought to say to our
selves here tonight that we have only
made hpQlnninQ how owl,
appreciate what we do not know We have
only started on the lines of great achieve
ment as we look around in this beautiful
National capital. we see the move
menu Ior me Improvement of housing
conditions which ought to put this CITY
at the top and make it a leader. as we
look around and see the crusade against
tuberculosis, as we look around and see
the social settlement work among the
colored people. which needs your s,pport
as we look all about and see these things
we can realize the compensations of the
work.
The Citizens Committees.
The citizens committees that ARRANGED
for the occasion were composed as fol-
lows:
Henry b. f. Macfarland, chairman
Reception-W. H. Baldwin. chairman.
Mrs. Charles j. Bell. Scott c. Bone. Fred
Knowles Cooper, O. f. Darnall, Mrs r.
9. Davenport, H. Bradley Davidson, Judge
William II. DeLacy, John b. Dickman,
DR.. Merrill L. Gates, Miss Alice Ives Gill
man, Mrs. Adela Gates Hensley, Mrs.
William II. Hoeke, Mrs. Gardiner G.
Hubbard. Prof B. T. Jenney, Myron Jer-
main Jones. I. Hubert-Jones. DIR. George
Nj. Kober, DR.. H. c. Macatee, Mrs Ellen
S. Mussey, Charles f. Nesbit DR.. Sofe A.
Nordlsoff-Jung, Thomas G. Moves, T.
Francis Riggs, Mrs. Milton J. Rosenau,
Miles NJ. Shand, G. w. Skinner, Edgar
d. Shaw. George Otis Smith. Miss Flor
ence Spofford, Gen. George NJ Sternberg,
Dr. Rebecca Stoneroad. Maj. Richard Syl-
vester DR.. Wilbur =. Thirkicld, Hugh A.
Thrift, DR.. William Tindall. G. A. Weber,
Dr.. Max West, Miss Edith c. Westcott
and George S. Wilson.
Finance-Cuno II. Rudolph chairman: ].
Philip Herman, fiennen Jennings, ID. j.
kaufman. y. Lisner. \. NJ Lothrop. Ar
thur ID. Marks, \. G.. Moses, James f.
Oyster John b. Sleman. jr. Col George
Truesdell. s. w. Woodward Robert n
Harper and John JOY Edison.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. F.. West. chairman;
Miss Eugenia NJ. Bray, Miss Elizabeth V.
Brown. r. Hubert-Jones. Mr.. and Mrs.
John P. Neigh. Miss Helen Nicolay, Rev
T. G. b. Pierce, Rev. John Van Schaick,