Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18


one of it's liberal patrons. Col. McElroy
left for Atlantic City yesterday afternoon.
accompanied by a number Of his G. A.
r. friends and supporters.
Department Commander Henry A.
Johnson of this city Is already at At
lantic City. having left here for that
place Friday afternoon to complete ar
rangenients for the comfort of the mem
bers of the local department.. The head,
Hotel
Potomac Department Delegates.
The delegates to the national encamp-
ment were selected at the encampment
of the Department of the Potomac. held
here last February. They are j. A. All
len, T. H. Mckee. ]. e. Hart, Charles
Mathews and John Eyler Powell
Asst. Adjt. Gen. o. a. Oldroyd was
very busy man all day yesterday selling
tickets and arranging for the departure
of the largest contingent of u. a. r.
people for Atlantic City at 1:O5 pm To-
day, over the Pennsylvania road. In the
party will be Gen. S. S. Burdett, past
commander in chief. and j. L. Davenport.
commissioner of pensions.
Another matter which interests the
comrades of this departments the cholcf
of city in which to hold the next en-
II,
for both the highest Office in the gift OF
the national body-that of commander in
chief-and the honor of entertaining the
next national meeting in this city would
likely initiate against securing the former
honor there. only exists the bare hope
that something unusual may happen, and
the invitation of the local trade bodies be
accented However, the members of the
Department of the Potomac are unit
for Col McElroy for commander in chief,
~ 1,1ok additional n
sideration. Rochester and Los Angeles
are waging a lively contest for the next
meeting.
Relief Corps Representation.
The Department of the Potomac Wom-
ans Relief Corps delegates will also leave
at I :O5 today for Atlantic City. The dele
gates are Mrs. Anna c. Quinn and Mrs
Elizabeth Months. at large; alternates.
Mrs. Georgia Van Fleet and Mrs. Flor
ence Hoagiand.. Mrs. Nerah B. Atkinson.
president of the Women's Relief Corps,
and her staff will also be In the G. A. r.
sions of the w. r. c. will be held in st.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, at the
corner of Ohio and Pacific avenues. The
department w. r. C.. will hold a recep-
ton tomorrow evening at the Hotel Prin-
cess, from 8 to II o'clock. All past de-
partment presidents and daughters Of
veterans will assist.
The voting membership of the Depart
ment of the Potomac, w. r. c.: will be
as follows: Mrs. Norah 3. Atkinson,
president, and her staff: Mrs. Warden
Page, Julia Mason Layton. Edith S. En-
erson- and Delegates Elizabeth Months
and Mrs. Anna c. Quinn, and the follow
ing past departments presidents: Mrs. Ida
V. Hendricks. Mrs. Indiana Cowling, Mrs.
Anna S. Hamilton, Mrs. Georgia G. Balm,
Mrs. Annie w. Johnson, Mrs. Anna A.
Peck. Mrs. Margaret b. Tew, Mrs. Ma
tilda r. Sprague, Mrs. Vina NJ. Calhoun.
Mrs Ida A. Oldroyd. Mrs. Ida L. Chase,
Mrs. Ida ]. Hart. Mrs. Isabel Worrell
Ball. Mrs Emma l.. Newton. Mrs. Mary
A. Dow, Mrs. Rosamond B. Meacham and
Mrs Lizzie Owens Buchta-
The Isabel Worrell Ball Flag Associa-
ton, Mrs. Annie E. Hogan, president.
will also leave at 05 pm. today, accom-
panied by about twenty-five members of
the association. They will be quartered
at the Hotel De Vile, in Atlantic City.
Convention of Veterans Daughters.
The Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent.
No. /, Daughters Of Veterans, will at
tend in a large body its national conven-
ton at Atlantic City. which convenes
at the same time as does the Grand
Army OF the Republic. This large dele
cation includes a majority of the officers,
two past presidents and many of the
members. A delegation left the city yes
:erday afternoon for Atlantic City and
others will go today on the :O5 o'clock
train over the Pennsylvania railroad.
Their headquarters will be at the New
England Hotel.
The many friends of Miss Spencer,
president of the tent, regret her inability
to attend the convention their repre-
sentative. owing to the very recent death
of her father, the late Capt. James +.
Spencer of Madison, Wis, who was one
of the first members of the G. 4. X. in
his state and prominent In that organiza-
ton.
Mrs Minnie T. Guittard. the national
president Of the Daughters of Veterans,
has issued invitations to their reception
TO the commander-in-chief, Col. S. r.
Van SAINT. G. a. r., to he held at the
Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City, the even
ing of Thursday, September -
Old Guard as Escort.
The Old Guard will march from Armory
Hall at noon today to the Union station
and take the train over the Pennsylvania
railroad for Atlantic City, y. j. to at
tend the national encampment as escort
to the Department of the Potomac. AS
the company is a med and euipped, per-
mission has peen obtained from the gov
err5rs of Maryland. Delaware. Penn
sylvania and New Jersey to pass through
their respective states. The company
will muster about forty members.
The officers are: Captain. Amos J.