Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-22
PAY THEIR TRIBUTE
Oldest Inhabitants Honor
Memory of Washington.
LETTER FROM 7. w. MOVES
Alludes to First Presidents Inter
est in Capital City.
PATRIOTIC EXERCISES HELD
Building Fund Now Lacks Only Lit
tie More Than $3.50 of
Being Complete.
PATRIOTIC EXERCISES HELD

Washingtons birthday was celebrated
by the Association Of Oldest Inhabit-
| ants Of the District of Columbia at it's
FEBRUARY meeting in Carroll Institute
Hall today. President Theodore w.
| Noyes, who was unable to attend the
| meeting, addressed letter to the as
| socfation dealing with the cordial feel
| ing which the Father of His. Country
had manifested toward the Capital city,
which was planned for the banks of the
| Potomac. Mr.. Noyes' letter was as fol-
lows:
| To my great disappointment I find
myself unable to preside this year at
our Washington's birthday celebration.
MY regret at inability to participate
in our exercises of today is the keener
because feel that nowhere else should
i the memory of Washington be honored
with SO great fervor as in this city, and
| that by no one else should this day be
celebrated so enthusiastically as by our
| organization. whose foundation stone
| Is Washingtonianism.
THE ties Of sympathy and affection
| between Washington, the man, and
Washington, the city, are many and
strong. The father of his country is
even more directly and Enthusiastically
the the father her Of his city He gave gave it
| and planned for its future. If he had
! lived to see the seat of government
| transferred from Philadelphia to the
ten-miles square he would have been
the champion of the infant city against
to strangle 1t by capital removal and
! those who would have starved 1t by
| non-support. His spirit and influence
not dying with him. and not buried
h Ill ~
| served through all the years as a
shield for the defenseless capital.
Wrote Prophetically Of City.
Hts plans and prophetic vision con-
templated no mean and stunted city on
| the banks Of the Potomac. In May,
1895, he wrote prophetically OF Washing
ton: "A century hence, If this country
keeps united (and it is surely its policy
and interest to do so), it will produce a
city. though not as large as London, yet
Of magnitude inferior to few cities in
Europe. on the banks Of the Potomac.
permanent seat OF government OF the
United States
George Washington believed that ma
tional control Of the federal city would
consistently be SO exercised as to de-
velop here great and prosperous city.
rivaling in all respects the European
capitals He did not contemplate the
possibility Of the placing by any one of
artificial obstacles in the path of capt.
tai expansion. He would have been
shocked and indignant at the suggestion
that Washington's growth might be
shackled by disabilities imposed upon its
people, not required to guarantee ma
tional control, which would rob its resi-
dents or access to local means of self
support. establish their judicial and po-
lftical status as lower than that of aliens
and, by rendering residence here undesir-
able, tend to depopulate the city.
What City Has Accomplished.
IF his spirit now takes cognizance of
| this worlds affairs he is doubtless proud
and exultant over what his beloved city
has accomplished in the direction Of his
| prophecy. in spite Of the Gripping Of in
furious disabilities, the stunning of
starvation and the shock of murderous
attacks. Indeed. we may readily imagine
| that his spirit has been during the whole
OF the city's life It's good genius and
patron saint, protecting it, unseen, from
the assaults of it's enemies.
With all Americans we unite today to
honOr the greatest of our great men
great like the lofty monument which
commentaries him in enduring strength,
In simplicity. in stability. in steadfast-
| ness. We of the Washington which he
AouhuCu oho "HlCA influence mas Do
tected mingle with our admiration of his
greatness and veneration for his char
acter the warmer sentiments of graft
tude and love-
In honoring today the memory of
Washington, let us resolve that his
words concerning the nations city shall
not be falsitied. Let us honor the man
by bringing the predicted honor to his
namesake city. To this end let us CO.
operate with all our might to develop on
the banks of the Potomac populous,
prosperous, beautiful capital, surpassed
In magnitude only by London, and
equaled in attractiveness by no other
city In the world"
Letter to Be Printed.
The letter was read to the association
by Judge Charles S. Bundy, vice presi-
dent. who occupied the chair in Mr.
Noyes' absence Brainerd H. Warner
declared that a vote of thanks should be
extended to Mr.. Noyes for the commune
cation.
mo man has done more to bring ahout
conditions in Washington city which are
In accord with the ideas of George Wash
ingtoD than has Theodore w Moves"
declared Mr.. Warner.
The association, on motion by Mr.. War
ner, voted to have the letter printed and
to have 1900 copies distributed.
"A business meeting preceded the
patriotic exercises. Judge Bundy an
nounced from the chair that the project
for remodeling the old engine house at
18TH and III streets, to be used as the
home of the association, soon would be
an accomplished fact.
| There is only little more than $500
OF the $4,000 fund required still to be
collected" declared Judge Bundy.
Il. A. COlOnna, treasurer of the as
ISOLATION. who has charge of the build
ing fund. reported that s2,56S5O had
been pledged, and that $4,000 already
had been paid in. He made an appeal
| to all the members to contribute. so
| that they might feel more personal
| interest when they entered the new
home.
1.-The criticism has been made that the
| Oldest Inhabitants Association is putting
| it's money into improvements to a build
| ing to which it has not title" said Mr..
Colonna. But the association is infiu-
entail enough to maintain it's title to this
home, which it will share with the Volun-
teer Firemen's Association. And il in the
future the association. made up of men
who have built up this city. should be-
come OF SO little moment that it cannot
maintain it's title to this home, the as
ISOLATION should go out Of existence"
Raise $3.50 in Few Minutes.