The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-23
Great Memorial to Washington
Assured.

The George Washington Mem
torial Association; of which Mrs.
Henry f. Dimock, of New York,
lis president, has received $780,
900 from ]. P. Morgan, quarter
4 of a million dollars from the City
of Washington; D. G., and special
donations from national societies,
partly pledged, aggregating an
other quarter Of a million. AT
the Annual Meeting of the AS
sociation, held in Washington,
February Is, the present Board
of Officers we're reelected, and
plans were adopted for a remark
able nationwide campaign to cul-
minatein a notable celebration
February D, 1912. As result,
this country will be treated for a
year to an intensely interesting
campaign for the accomplish
ment of the great Memorial
Building which the Association
will erect in Washington, d. C.
George Washington is to be a
living personality for that time,
his life and teachings and the
history of his era being illumin-
ated by methods which are bound
to thoroughly popularize the
movement. In the end this coun-
try will be the richer by an insti-
tuition without parallel in the
World-a world Forum with the
most modern facilities for assem-
bling and disseminating the re-
suits of research along every line
of human welfare.
The above Association was in
corporated in Washington, d. c.,
in 1898, with a view to bringing
about the erection of a United
States University in order to
carry out Washington's wishes
for the greater diffusion of knowl-
edge in this country. About two
years ago reorganization took
1 place, and Mrs. Dimock, sister
of the late William G. Whitney,
Secretary of the Navy under
President Cleveland, became
president. Mrs. Dimock pro-
posed the still broader form of
memorial which instantly re-
ceived the highest praise in all
lquarters. Under her energetic
guidance, the Association has
| laid the foundation for sure sue
cess in the splendid showing
made at it's Annual Meeting.
| There already exists wide-
spread interest in this movement.
In New York, subscription
blanks. are being displayed in
Epublic institutions of many kinds
and in stores to enable citizens
| and children to offer a birth
4 day tribute to Washington by en-
tering their names upon these
lists. Ohio is to have a special
room named for that State in the
| Memorial Building. Mrs. JOS
| eph B. Foraker, wife of the Sena-
| tor, is the Ohio State Chairman,
and has interested the schools of
Cincinnati in making large sub
scription to the Children's Wing.
Delaware also has its State
branch. Mrs. Mary Bringhurst
being State Chairman. The
work there is progressing rap
idly. In other States the move
ment is steadily gaining in popu-
larity, Massachusetts, and New
Jersey being especially inter-
ested.
| A Children's Wing is one of
the features of the building, to
be built from the ten-cent con-
| tributions of children, and de-
voted to their interests. The
! Association gives very attractive
| pins to the contributors to wear
as tokens of their part of the
work. One of the distinguish
ing features of the movement is
| that it is not saddled with exec
utive expenses. There are no
administration salaries whatso-
ever; the Officers and Advisory
Board are high-minded persons,
mostly of offiuence, who are act
uated wholly by motives of pa
| triotism.