Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-22

ed by the Board of Trade, the Cham
Der of Commerce and the District Com
missioners. The committee expects
that President Roosevelt will cal
the special attention of Congress to the
Lincoln centennial and recommend q
fitting memorial. Special thanks were
due Senator La Toilette. the committee
report declared. for his efforts to haze
February /, the anniversary of Lin
coins birth, declared a national hoil-
day. There was no dissent to the re-
port.
Protecting the Nations Flag.
Mr. Cox presented the report of the
special committee on the law protecting
the nations flag, of which he is chairman
giving a record of the committees work
before Congress during the past year. The
committee hopes the bill providing such
protection will soon pass the House. 1t
has passed the Senate.
A full review of educational advance
ment in the District was embodied in the
report of the committee on universities,
as presented by it's chairman, Jackson H.
Ralston. After thorough study of the
educational institutions of the District
the committee reports the following find
ings which were Endorsed by the board:
Year by year the fact becomes empha-
sized that Washington is truly univer-
sity center, and that to it, rather than to
New Haven or Cambridge or Ithaca, will
flock in incre asing numbers, seekers after
higher liberal and scientific education.
The government has gathered together, as
nowhere else, scores and even hundreds OF
men of the highest literary and scientific
attachments. Nothing can prevent utfl1za-
ton of their requirements in an educa-
tional way, and so we see estaDllShed
among us three universities In active oper-
alton furnishing training for the most
part to members of the white race and
one university open to colored and white,
but practically exclusively patroniZed by
the colored, in addition TO numerous law
and medical schools connected with or in
dependent Of the universities to which We
allude The growth of the government
departments has added to the number OF
instructors available for special branches
to such good purpose that some OF our
universities make business of teaching
subjects very imperfectly considered any
where else in the United States
Development of Transportation.
In considering the development of gem
eral Transportation in the District dur
ing the past year, the committee on
Transportation. of which John l.. New
bold is chairman, finds that conditions
are satisfactory and that no complaints
have been received by the committee
from merchants or shippers. The re-
port calls special attention 10 tne INK
ing into closer relationship of Washing
ton and Baltimore by the new electric
system. the enlargement o. the freight
yards and office. and the completion of
the Union station. 1t was adopted.
j. Harry Cunningham presented the re-
port of the committee on press. 1t con-
tanned an expression of thanks to the
newspapers of Washington, which was
approved by the board.
According to the report ofsthe commit
tee on membership, of which J. Louis
Willige is chairman. the active member
ship of the Board of Trade fell off dur
ing the period between November IL,
1907, and November 9, 1908, from 697 to
65S. There were SO new members elect
ed during the year. while 81 were lost
by death or resignation. Many of the
members lost. the report explains. were
dropped from the rolls on account of
delinauencies in dues of several years
standing.
History of the District.
Progress in the preparation of his
tory of the District Of Columbia was
reported by Thomas P. Morgan, chair
man of the special committee in charge
of the work.
A special resolution offered by w. H.