Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-12-20
TO PLACE WASHINGTON
IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
British and American Committees
For Peace Centenary.
YIcTORIA,s sTATUE HERE.
Proposal to Buy Ancestral Home
Of Washington ia North
ampfonshire.

The proposal to erect monument
to Queen Victoria in Washington was
approved Wednesday by the execu-
tive body Of the American COMMITTEES
for the celebration Of the ona hun
dredth anniversary Of peace among
the English Speaking Peoples, 1914
1915. and at the same time word came
from the British committee in charge
of the celebration of plan to place
monument to George Washington
in Westminster Abbey or in West
Minister Hall adjoining the House Of
Commons.
Messages of congratdlation and
good will were cabled from the
American to the British committee.
London dispatches cell Of messages
received from members Of the British
Cabinet, including Premier Asquith,
and from the mayors Of many cities.
Colonel Roosevelt, Judge Alton B.
Parker, VIM. B. Rowland and John
A. Stewart, were among the Ameri-
cans who sent messages.
The programme o. the British
COMMITTEES announced in London in
cludes besides the Washington monu-
ment plan the proposal that Sulgrave
Manor, Northamptonshire, the an
csstral home OF Washington, should
be purchased and that good will
campaign be started among all people
of British descent. Lectureships at
the provincial universities, prizes
for essays on Anglo-American rela-
tions and new school readers are in
cluded in the educational plan. The
British committee has begun the
collection OF a fund to carry out its
plans. ABOUT $500, 900 is needed
and many subscriptions already have
been received.
The announcements on the British
side were made Wednesday by Earl
Grey at meeting pre- sided over
by the Lord Mayor of London. Some
of those present were Emile Braun,
the Burgomaster of Client, Lord
Blyth, Lord Reay, Lord Courtney,
of Penwith, Lord Weardale and
several members Of the House OF
Commons, as we'll as the American
Consul General, j. L. Griffiths, and
Sri 7. vesey Strong, former Lord
Mayor Of London.
On this side the American COM
mittee sent TO Earl Grey copy of
resolutions inviting che Earl and rep
resentatives of the British committee
to be the guests of the American
committee at conference in New
York during the first week Of April,
at which the general plah and scope
of the celebration will be defined.
The conference will consider repre-
sentation at the ceremonies to be held
in Client on Christmas eve, 1914,
and in January, 1916, and will pass
upon Senator Roots suggestion that
on February II, 1915, sll human ac-
tivity, so far as practicable, shall
cease for five minutes throughout the
English speaking world.
The British committee, cable
from London says, passed resolution
of sympathy with the family Of the
late Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, and
Earl Grey read message written by
Mr.. Reid a short time before his
death. in which he spoke of his re-
gret that his physician bad forbidden
him to attend the meeting.
Emile Braun, the Burgomaster Of
Client, who met with the British
committee, announced that his city
would assist in the celebration by re-
storing the room ia which the Anglo
American treaty was signed to its
original state and by holding there a
banquet which would be as nearly as
possible like the one held by the del
egates = century ago.