The Washington herald., 1911-02-21
SCHOOL CHILDREN
CELEBRATE TO-DAY
Exercises for Washington's
Birthday to Be Held.
TAFT AS MAS0NS GUEST
President VIII Attend Banquet in
Alexandria Tomorrow - Various
Societies Will Observe Natal Day
of First President-Saengerb
Arranges Annual Ball for Evening.

Exercises in celebration of Washing
toms Birthday will be held in the public
schools of the District this afternoon,
when $1,000 pupils will hear patriotic ad-
dresses and Join in singing.
1t was left to the supervising princi-
pals of the divisions and the principals
of the various buildings TO prepare ap-
propriate programmes as we'll as provide
speakers. The school committee of the
Board of Trade in past years provided
speakers, but this year no such arrange
ments were made.
President Taft will celebrate part of
Washington's Birthday in Alexandria.
He will attend a banquet of the Masonic
order tomorrow night and will watch
team of Masons put several candidates
through their degrees.
Taft az Masons' Guest.
He will leave the Capital late in the
afternoon in a special train over the
Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway.
as the guest of Senators Martin and
Swanson and Representative Carlin. of
Alexandria He will attend a session
of the Alexandria Lodge soon after his
arrival in Virginia. A special degree
team of thirty-five men. coming from
Michigan. will go through their work
in the Presidents presence.
The Washington National Monument
Society will hold its annual meeting
tomorrow at 1890 o'clock at the home
of Charles c. Glover 1903 K street
The meeting will be followed by a re-
ception in the Glover residence.
The monument society is entering
Lo
existence. 1t was organized to pro-
vide the Capital City with suitable
memorial to George Washington. While
the society long since accomplished
the purposes of its organization. it still
retains an enviable position among the
patriotic orders.
Special Mass Arranged.
Washington Chapter, Knights of Co
lumbus, will attend solemn requiem mass
at St Patrick's Church at 10 o'clock.
Rev. P. ]. OConneIl, State chaplain.
will oficiate. and will be assisted by
the chaplains of the several councils.
Rev Cornelius J. Hagerty. professor at
Catholic University. will preach the SER
mon. Members of the order will as
semble in Carroll Hall at 9:25 and pro-
ceed to the church in a body.
The North Dakota Association has ar
ranged to hold a dual celebration at the
Hotel johnson in honor of Washingtons
Birthday and the twenty-second anniver
sary of the admission of North Dakota
into the Union.
The Association of Oldest Inhabitants
will meet at Carroll Institute Hall at
$50 o'clock in the morning and Rev. ].
II. Nelms will deliver an address on
George Washington A business meeting
will precede the exercises, which will
begin at 1880 O'Clock.
The Y. W. c. A. Vacation Lodge will
give a Martha Washington reception in
the evening at the rooms of the associa-
ton, Twelfth and streets. The board
of directors and the secretaries will be in
the receiving line A programme of read
ings, solos. and folk dances under direc
ton Of Miss Ruth Sven, will be given in
the gymnasium. Mrs. Charles I. Corby
and Mrs. Willis B. Rice will be assisted
in the dining-room by the Misses Ruth
I4arner. Dorothy kuhns, Edith Needham,
and Anna Green.
The Baraca and Philathea classes OF
the Fifth Baptist Sunday School will give
an entertainment of song, recitation. and
tableauX at o'clock tomorrow night
The members of the classes will wear CO.
lonial costumes and will sing a number Of
old-time songs.
Saengers Plan Dance.
The Saengerbund. as has been its Gus
tom for the last fifty years, will cele-
brate with a "Washington's Birthday
tanzkraenzchen," or a clubhouse dance,
at which the hatchet and cherry tree en-
blems will form a part of the decora-
tiOns.
The ladies' section of the Columbia
Turnverein will entertain members and
friends at an oyster supper at the home
of the verein.
The Arion Gesang Verein celebrated
the event with its grand annual mas
querade ball at the National Rifles
Armory yesterday. and there were nu-
merous representatives in costume of the
Father of His Country and Martha
Washington in commemoration of the
event
The Germania Gesang Verein will OBJ
serve the day with a musical programme
ct their clubrooms.
By direction of the librarian, the law
library and the several divisions of the
library composing the Sunday and holi-
Gay service are to be open Tomorrow
from 9 until 10 o'clock