Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
CONNECTICUT ). A. R. YEARS WORK
President Taft Praised the Good Done by the Guda- $15,59831 Spent in Different Lines of State Work What Vicinity Chapters Did,
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 Washington, April 1s.-Mrs. John LaidIaw Buel, state regent of the Connecticut Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, presented her report for the year last night to the Conu- mental congress of that organization. In submitting her report, Mrs. Buel said: During the past year the en- ergies of our chapters have been con ceptrated upon the development of cur work for the future publication, trans latlon and extension of our now fla mcus Guida, or Guide, for immigrants, for which, as slated in our last report, it was necessary to raise $9,0e0 With in the year. in order to carry on the propaganda with efficiency and fierce, as outlined in that report. That fund of ,s5.000 was raised within a year and seventeen days from December 3, 1910, the date on which the appeal for funds went put to the 4,5O0 Connecticut D. A. R. and at the time of this writ inV surplus of sS16 is in the bank to the credit of the Guida fund. In addition to this, over s150 was raised to cover tho cost of these circulars, and the proceeds from sales, amount ing to several hundred dollars, have, according to the agreement with MT. Carr, been turned back into the work.
 Every chapter in the state, wrth out two exceptions. contributed to the fund, Susan Darlington Clarke chap ter having been the banner chapter with donations amounting in all to $75o.
 Tn January the final payment of this fund of S5,000 was made to John Foster Carr, author of the Guida and our sole business representative, and a new agreement has since been en- tered into with him (nOt, however, calling for money) for the future con- duct of the business. The copyright is still owned by the Connecticut D. A R., and MT. Carr is to finance all future editions in Italian and other languages, paying us a certain per centage as royalty on sales, after de- ductIng all costs During the past year the work progressed simultane- ously with the raising of the funds, The second Italian edition of ten tnou- sand copies was issued and is nearly sold out and Yiddish and Polish trans lations of three thousand copies each are going through the press as rap idly as accurate work will allow.
 At this point. Mrs. Buel read large number of letters from promi- nent people endorsing the Guida, in cluding one from President Taft as follows
 The White House.
 Washington, Feb. 9, 1912.
 Dear Mrs. BueI: l want to thank you, and through you the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revelu- tioh, for a Beautifully bound copy of the citizenship guide for our Italian immigrants. I am told that it is one of the most useful books published Senator Dillingham;, chairman of the immigration committee. says 50. and he ought to know.
 Very sincerely yours,
 "WM. H. TAFT
 The book presented ts the president was a fac siAile of a copy which was some time age presented to the king of Italy.
 Over one thousand dollars, said Mrs. Buel was paid in toward the Connecticut bronze doors in Continen- tai hall at the last congress; and S600 h5s been expended on a marble bust and pedestal of Connecticut's great ju- rist and frameF of our national con stitution. Oliver Ellsworth, to be pre- scented to the hall az a tribute to our beloved honorary state regent. Mrs. Kinney.
 The Ellsworth homestead still re- mains the cherished possession of the Connecticut D. A. R., and is maintain ed at an annual cost of many hundred dollars, met by the general utility fund, 10 which the chapters voluntsT- fly contributed 25 cents a member,
 For the southern rlountaineers cur chapter have been almost as generous in their gifts of scholarships as in the past, in spite of the burden of the Guida. Eighteen chapters, one more than last year, are maintaining a slightly reduced number of scholar ships, nineteen full and four partial scholarships in the colleges at Mary vile, Berea, Rome, Georgia and other southern places. The total amount sent south is S1,2so. To the Cor necticut Literary institute was given S7s0 for scholarships there for boys of revolutionary descent"
 The chapters at SimSbury and Che shire are about to publish the history of their towns, and the chapter at Litchfield is preparing for immediate publication its Honor roll of Litch1ield County Revolutionary Soldiers. con- sisting of nearly 4,9e0 names and ref erences.
 The Connecticut Junior Republic and the public schools all continue to receive their share of attention. Near ly $2yo00 has been expended upon purely philanthropic work. Several chapters have successfully instituted a sane and safe observance of July Fourth. On miscellaneous objects too numerous to mention, over g. .20e has been expended. There has been ex- | pended in memorial work S6,600- Sarah WIsiiman chapter of West ! Hartford is the banner chapter fc1 memorial work. They have added dur ing the year $S.59o to it's $25,0O0 fund for the Noah Webster Memorial libra l ry. Esther Stanley chapter was 8 close second with sl,ats sYent on work | which wss mostly phiianthropic. The 1 total amount spent by the Connecticut l chapters on tbeir local and collective state work was $15, ,5sS3I.
 1 Connecticut mourns the loss of an other real Daughter, Mrs. Charlotte | R. Raymond of NorEaIk, also Of many other prominent members.
 The total membership or the Con- necGcut D. A. R. is 4.711, a net in- crease of 7s over last year The num- Der of chapters is 49-
 The work of the local chapters dur ing the year is given as follows:
 Anna Warner Bailey Chapter, 0, l Groton and Stonington QzS mem3ers) presented to the state of Connection the strip of land known as Martyrs Hill" connecting Slecunb terrace anC Monument street A guard railins has been placed on Martyrs hill at al expense of S21.28; a new concrete walk, costing $547S, has been laiC on the msTument gros nds. The chap. ter has contributed sZ5 to the Guid; fund: $50 for a scholarship for a stu dent at the Connecticut Literary in.