Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-11-10
SIXTH CONFERENCE
National Society D. A. K. Hold
Annual Session In Old
Senate Chamber
REPORTS OF CHAPTERS
Patriotic Women Hold Important Historic
Meeting Distinguished Women
Present


With not a single man in sight,
ITO historic women who can claim
honorable descent from distinguished
ancestry, met this morning amid hall
lowed scenes and colonial surround
ings in the old historic Senate Cham
ber.
The occasion was the Sixth Mary
land State Conference of the National
Society Daughters of the American
Revolution. Patriotism filled the air
in ana about the old State House, and
there was the spirit everywhere of
fraternalism, commingled with that
of patriotism.
The session convened at 10 a. m.
The program was carried out except
that Mrs. Markell did not respond,
but Miss Sarah Custis alone made the
response to the welcome, and in the
absence Of the recording secretary,
Miss Ritchie, of Frederick, Mrs. L.
Dorsey Gassaway, of the Peggy
Stewart Tea Party Chapter, served
as recording secretary. The follow
ing was the complete program:
Morning Session, 10 a. m. Prayer.
Rev. ]. 2. McComas; address of well
come, Mrs. Letitia z. Wilson; re-
sponse, Miss Sarah Custis; roll call ;
minutes.
Reports of Officers-State Regent,
Mrs. J. Pembroke Thom; recording
secretary, Miss Ritchie, absent, sent
telegram of regret; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Frederic Tyson; !;
treasurer. Mrs. Adam Denmead; his
torian. Mrs. Morris L. Croxall.
Reports of Special Committees
! Braddock Trail, Mrs. Morris l.. CroX-
all, chairman; Maryland Room, Mrs.
Beverly Randolph, chairman.
Luncheon at 1880 m.
Afternoon Session, 80 p. m.-
Conservation, Mrs j. u. Iglehart; un-
finished business; report on by laws.
Miss Lillian Griffin; new business !;
motions; adjournment.
Pages-Miss Anita Cresap, Mrs.
Lucy W. Dibert, Miss Genevieve
Fields, Frances Hopkins, Miss Sue
Griffith, Miss Grace Atkinson.
Reception Committee-Mrs. Robert
Bowie, Mrs. John D. Wright, Mrs.
H. T. Newcomb, Mrs. John dep.
Douw, Mrs John H. Murphy, Miss
Margaret Fieds, Miss Katherine Wal
ton, Mrs. Thomas l.. Gibson, Mrs. f.
L. Bullard.
A large party of Regents of the
Baltimore Chapters d. A. r. and
other Chapters in the State, that had
to pass through Baltimore, arrived
here today in special car from that
city over the Short Line, the Mary
land Electric Railways Company.
The special left Baltimore at 9:l0
a. m. and made the trip to Annapolis
in forty-fve minutes, the party be-
ing in their seats at the old Senate
Chamber and ready to answer to roll
call when the State Regents gavel
| fell at 10 a. m., calling the Confer
ence to order. The party will leave
on a special over the Short Line for
the return trip at p. m.
Presented by the Peggy Stewart Tea
Party Chapter of Annapolis was a
large bunch of yellow chrysanthe-
NUNS that rested upon the desk of
the presiding officer, Mrs. ]. Penn
broke Thorn, State Regent. With re-
gal dignity and precision, Mrs. Thorn
presided and she insisted upon perfect
order and complete silence, and she
had it too, or she stopped the pro-
| gram.
Mrs. Thom read telegram of re-
gret from Mrs. Scott, the President
General of the ID. A. R., who was un-
able to be present..
Montgomery County had the most
to say. Exhaustive papers were
read, three or four in number. by the
historian, Mrs. Morris l.. CroxalI, re-
gent of the Janet Montgomery county
Chapter. The Chapter is doing a
great work.
Among its plans mapped out is
that of marking the graves of Reyo-
lutionary heroes. Mrs. Croxall said
! 900 of Montgomery men fought in
| the Revolution and of this number rs
graves had been located, and it was
anticipated to designate these with
markers of the d. A. r.
Mrs. Beverly Randolph's report OF
the Maryland Room was complete anC
comprehensive. She described The
rooms selection by the committee, il
furnishings and equipment, and sale
it was the consensus of opinion tha'
the Maryland Room was by far the
| handsomest room in Continental Hall
Washington, D. c.
In her report Mrs. Croxall advo
Gated substitute for the State song
Maryland, My Maryland" and thi,
suggestion met with general disap
proval of members of the Peggy
Stewart Tea Party Chapter ant
others to whose hearts Randall's pa
triotic song is near and dear.
Mrs. Bassett, Regent of the Balti
more Chapter, read a paper tha
was the gem of the morning ses
sion. Mrs. Bassett is a woman O
great personal magnetism, and he
paper bore the stamp of an autho
of deep learning and broad culture
She said we were given such patri
OTIS as Patrick Henry, George Wash
ington and even John Marshall no
| by accident, and it is due to then
and IN ne IN keaN THAR Ynarnrv fras1