The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-24
JERSEY s. A. R. TO
SEND DELEGATES
TO CONVENTION
Many to Attend Annual Con-
gress in Baltimore
Next Week.
OFFICERS WILL GO
IN FULL FORCE
Society in This State Has a
Membership of Nearly
400.

The New Jersey Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, will ser a large
delegation to the twentieth annual con-
gress, which will be held in Baltimore
next Thursday and Friday. The Jersey
officers who will attend the meeting
are: President, Edward s.. Atwater,
first vice-president. Thomas w. VIII
Jams; second vice-president, General
James F. Rushing; secretary, Colonel
James r.. Mullikin; treasurer, Captain
Oscar H.. Condit, registrar, John Jack
son Hubhell; chaplain. the Rev. DR.. J..
II. Egbert, and historian, w. C. ARM
strong.
The State delegates are: Governor J..
Franklin Fort, John L. Merrill. Charles
S. Higgins, Oscar Fl. Condit, Albridge
C. Smith, George T. Parrott, Henry M.
Doremus, David l.. Pierson, Charles r.
Holmes. Edwin Rayner, William A.
Howell, Moses M. Crane, Joseph II.
Shafer and A. W. Bray, a trustee of the
National Society.
The headquarters will be the Hotel
Belvedere, Charles and Chase streets.
The preliminary program is as follows:
Thursday, April 20. at 8 p. M, meeting
of the national executive committee.
A committee of the Maryland Society
will be in attendance from 8 d. m. at
the Belvedere, where badges and infor-
nation can be obtained. Friday. April
30. Q a. M, meeting of the national
board of trustees. From 9 to 10 a. m.
informal reception of delegates. AT 10
a.. m. opening of the congress, with
welcome by the mayor of Baltimore.
After lunch congress will continue
business up to the election of officers.
At 8 p. m. reception to delegates and
their ladies in the parlors of the Belve-
dere by the Maryland chapters of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
Saturday, about % a. m, special
train for delegates and ladies' and mern-
bers attending the congress, to Annap-
oils, where election of officers and trus-
tees will be held in the old Senate
chamber of the State Capitol, followed
by a meeting of the newly elected
board of trustees. After luncheon at
the executive mansion opportunity win
be afforded to visit the grounds and
buildings of the United States Naval
Academy and other historic places, re-
turning to Baltimore in time for the
banquet, which will be held at the Hotel
B~elvedere at 1880 p. m.
The New Jersey Society now has 3s3
members enrolled. a net gain of twenty
the year. This includes the Or
and Elizabeth chapters and the
Montclair chapter, which is in process
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the fifth State president, being preceded
by the late General William s. Stryker,
Josiah c.. Pumpelly, John Whitehead
and Governor Fort, in the order named.
The national presidents have been
Cornelius A. Pugsley, General Francis
II. Appleton, James D. Hancock, ex-
Governor Franklin Murphy, General
Edwin S. Greeley, Edwin Warfield, Gen.
eral Horace Porter, Walter S. Logan.
j. c. Breckenridge and Nelson
A. McClavey. There are all told 10, 900
members.
The State society is also preparing
for the next meeting, to be held at
Spring Lake, on the anniversary of
the battle of Monmouth, June 2S next.
There viii be special train con
dations to carry the members from the
upper part of the State and luncheon
viii be served at the New Monmouth
Hotel, addresses will be made by prom
inent people. the Meister Quartet will
render patriotic selections. Governor
Fort, of this State, is expected to be
there, and the president of the State
society, L. S. Atwater. will preside.
The meeting will be augmented by the
Monmouth County Historical Associa~
ton and the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Ladies will attend this
meeting.
The arrangements are in the hands
of a committee appointed by the State
society of the s. A. R., and which con-
of Thomas w. Williams. chair
man; John J.. Hubbell and Lowell III.
Carr.
This State society reports hat there
are three more chapters about to be
organized in the State, one in Newark,
one in New Brunswick and one in
Montclair. The Elizabeth chapter,
is the Oldest in the State at the
present time, is doing good work; also
the Orange chapter, with a member
ship of almost 100, is dong very ac-
tive work.