The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-13
TO RALLY
Taft Will Address Meeting
for Washington Memorial.
JUSTICE HARLAN TO PRESIDE
Campaign TO Raise Fund for Erec-
ton of Monumental Structure Will
Receive Formal Impetus SeXt Sat
urday-MusIcaI Programme 60 Be
Feature-Buttons 10 BE Sold.

Al a patriotic mass meeting Of public
and private educational institutions OF
the District next Saturday at $50 o'clock
in the Memorial Continental Hall, Justice
John NJ. Harlan. OF the United States
Supreme Court. will preside. and the
speakers Of the afternoon viii be Presl-
dent Taft. Senators Lodge and Burton.
and Mrs. Henry F. Dimock the president
of the George Washington Memorial As
ISOLATION.
Patriotic music viii be furnished by a
section Of the Marine land. and Percy
:. Foster will lead the singing Of the
patriotic hymns. The audience Will be
composed Of the young women and men
attending the private schools of Wash
ington. students Of the Washington Nor
NAL school, and delegations from the city
high schools.
This meeting Is 20 be under the auspices
o. the building committee Of the educa-
tional institutions. cooperating with the
George Washington Memorial Association,
'.l Niflih -sAAN. A4lAfal fnitfAsAEA -'ANtI'"s 10
the chairman Mrs. Mussey and her en-
thusiastic committee have worked I'M
tiringly. No effort has been spared 90
arouse interest and enthusiasm.
Twelve Years of Activity.
The George Washington Memorial As
ISOLATION has been IN existence since Sep
TENDER. 1SaS. and was organized for the
purpose Of erecting a building 10 be
known as the George Washington Me
mortal Building.
The building is to be practical ia plan
and construction, and Of the most durable
will furnish a home and gathering place
for all national. patriotic. scientific. edu-
cationaI. literary, art, medical, and simi-
| lar organizations that may need such ac-
commodations.
The association proposes 10 raise
mainly by popular subscription 10000
for the building and an additional S50oc5i
az an endowment for maintenance in or
der that conventions and societies car
/ use the building without charge. To make
the work a monument in the hearts OF tht
people ii is proposed TO begin with thf
/ children The board OF education has
heartily Endorsed the movement and has
given permission 10 introduce the project
to the public school children % Wash.
ington. DR.. Arthur Ramsay. Of Fairmon
Seminary, as chairman Of the subcommit
tee on private schools. has charge Of the
movement in those institutions.
Buttons to BE Sold.
! There have been prepared for sale mos
attractive buttons. bearing a medallion
head Of George Washington, those in blue
| costing 10 cents and those In gold 81. Th'
purchasers of the blue buttons Will owl
a brick in the building. while a gol,
button entities the owner to a certificate
and also the privilege of having his nam,
preserved In the permanent records. Thu
patriotic celebrations in the schools Thu
year, in commemoratiou OF George Wash
ington's birthday, viii place special EN-
phasis upon the button project.
Following are the men and womeI
working for the cause. Mrs. Mussey
chairman; Mrs. Charles n. WalcOtt, vic,
chairman; Mrs. Thomas II. Carter Mrs
Adelia Gates Hensley. Mrs William II
Hoeke, Mrs. Barbour Walker, Judge VIII
lam H. De Lacy. DR.. Arthur Ramsay
Dr. Thomas ". Sidwell Mr.. Louis L
Hooper, Nj. ". Y. Cox. Dr.. William V
| Tunnel, Mr. A. T. Stuart, Mr.. Percy NJ
Hughes, and Mr.. Roscoe c. Bruce.
Mrs. Henry F. Dimock. Of New York
the sister Of the late Secretary Whitney
is president Of the Memorial Association
and has as her advisory council Hon
Eiihu Root DR.. S. Wier Mitchell, DR.
/ William Welch, Cen Horace Porter. DR.
Charles D. WalcOtt Dr. Edwin Alder
man. Prof Alex Agassiz, DR.. Ira Rem
sen, Prof. IT, Fairfield, Dr. Charles W
| Dabney, Mir. Charles j. Bell DR.. JOIN
A. Wyeth. and Dr.. Thomas Nelson Page