Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-31
DAUGHTERS TO MEET
Preparations in Progress for
Continental Congress.
SESSION TO BEGIN APRIL 10
Members Of the District D. A. r.
[ Will Assemble Tomorrow.
NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES
Reading Of Annual Reports Of Of
ficers-oficial History Of
Founding Of Society.

The Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton are preparing for the Continental
Congress. which will be opened Monday
April ID. In Continental Memorial Hall
The building is rapidly nearing compile
| ton, and 1T is announced by those in
charge that 1t will be in readiness for
the congress.
The annual meeting Of the District D.
A. r. will be held tomorrow at the Ar
| hngton Hotel, beginning at 10 o'clock
Business will occupy the morning session
In the afternoon several songs written
| for the d. A. r. will be tried out" that
considered the best to be the official sons
OF the society. One of the most interest
ing features Of the days conference will
De the nomination of candidates which
the District Daughters will support In
| the congress for office for the next two
year term.
| 1t Is said that the majority vote in the
| District will probably be for Mrs. Mat
| thew I. Scott of Illinois for president gen.
| eral, but the opposition is slated to pre-
sent a candidate whose name has no,
been made public 1t is said that half a
! dozen names have been suggested. The
report that Mrs. Tafts name will be pre-
scented is not taken seriously. as she is
| not member of the D. A. r., and the
requirement is that a person must be a
| member for two years before holding Of
flee of any kind.
! Mrs Henry Taft. who is a member OF
the New York city chapter of which Mrs
| Donald Mclean was regent for many
years. is regarded as an enthusiastic sup.
| porter of Mrs. Scott.
There will be mass meeting to well
come the visiting Daughters of the Amer.
| lean Revolution Saturday evening, Apri
| II, at the New Willard. program OF
entertainment will be given, with Mrs
| Howard L. Hodgkins, District regent, pre-
siding.
Reading of Annual Reports.
| At the annual meeting of the District
chapters the reports of all the District
regents and of the officers will be read
1t is stated that these will show create,
| increase in membership and general gooG
| condition Of chapters than ever before.
1t is also stated that the report to the
Continental Congress of the registrar gen.
eral, Mrs Amos G. Draper, will show a
| larger accession of members in the ma
tional society by several hundred than
during any previous four years
1t is understood that the serious ILL
ness of Mrs. J. Eakin Gadsby, historian
general will prevent her accepting any
office at the coming congress. Mrs. Gadsby
has the custody of the historical and BIZ
ographical collections of the national SO.
ciety, and has catalogued and arranged
them. The Office of business manager OF
the magazine, the organ of the national
Society, which was left vacant by the
death of Miss Lockwood. will probably
! not be filled at the coming session of the
congress.
Ten vice presidents general are to be
elected. Those whose terms expire are:
Mrs. j. Morgan Smith. Alabama: Mrs.
| Charles Deere, illinois,; Mrs. Wallace
| Delafield, Missouri; Mrs Alexander Pat
| ton, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Charles II.
Terry. New York; Mrs. A. A. Kendall,
| Maine: Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Dis
| trict of Columbia; Mrs H. s. Chamber
| lain. Tennessee. Mrs. Lindsay Patterson
| North Caro- ina, and Mrs. Baldwin Day
| Spilman, West Virginia.
Other Offices to Be Filled.
| Other. Offices to be filled are president
general. vice president general in charge
| Of organization, chaplain general. regis
/ trar general, treasurer general, librarian
general, and assistant historian general
Nearly. all the incumbent officers are in
| eligible because of having served two
terms.
AT the meeting of the board of man.
agement of the national society in No
vember, 1903 a history of the founding OF
| the society was ordered. The committee
appointed to prepare the history consist
| ed OF Mrs. Helen M. Boynton, first treas
urer general of the society, chairman
Mrs. Belle Merrill Draper, former treas
| urer general, both of the District, and
Mrs Elizabeth Bowron of New York, the
associate members. This committee has
just issued the pamphlet with the COM
pi ed history. 1t Is in white and blue, the
colors of the national society, and con-
tains the approval and signatures of the
two living founders of the society, Miss
Mary Desha and Mrs. Ellen Hardin Wal
worth.