The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-19

mains the proud possession of the Con nect1cut Daughters
 This year the Connecticut Daughters have honored themselves in presenting to the Homestead a fine, life-size DOT trait by the already noted young art ist, Eugene Speicher, of their beloved honorary State regent and honorary vice president general of the National Society, Mrs. Sara Thomson Kinney. In memorial work of various kinds, the Connecticut Daughters have sur passed, I am safe in saying, all pre- vious records of any one year, over $11, GOO having been pledged and ex-
 pended by the chapters in this form
 of work alone, s10,OOO of it by two chapters and small ones at that. Eu- nice Donnie Burr Chapter, of Fairfield,
 with only fifty members has made herself the banner chapter for expen- ditures this year by completely re- storing the Old Burying Ground of that place at a cost of $5,195, and did it in one year; and Sarah Hooker Chapter, of West Hartford, has add ed over $4,8o0 to it's $30,000 fund for the Noah Webster Memorial Library which now lacks only $1,800 of com pIetion.
 There have, however been no mem orials erected in the state this year, but most of the chapters have contri- buted towards replacing the 'Connec- ticut Stone on the inside of the Wash tngton Monument.
 In literary work the Connecticut Daughters have had their share, two notable books having been published at a combined cost of $1,200 by two chapters in the state, viZ History of The Town of Cheshire, by Lady Fenwick Chapter, of Cheshire, and The Honor Roll of Litchfeld County Revolutionary Soldiers, by Mary Floyd Tal1madge Chapter, of Litch- field, the latter being the list of four thousand names of Revolutionary soldiers enItsting from that county alone with references to other works and records where their services may be found.
 A conservative estimate places the total amount of expenditures of the Connecticut chapters on concerted State work and individual Chapter work at $1a,S40.37, which is 1000 larg- CT than last years total
 The call to the life beyond has sounded this year for many prominent Daughters of our State in the ranks of both active and honorary officers and members. One more real daugh- ter has passed forward, leaving us with but four survivors of the 1o2 daughters of patriots which once honored our rolls. This was Mrs Findley M Fox. of Anna Warner Bailey Chapter, of Groton and Ston- ington. Others who have died during the year are Mrs Mary aepDuLn Smith, Regent Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter. of Milford; Mrs. De- Bonneville Randolph Kein, Connec- ticut's first State Regent; Mrs. Tracy Bronson warren of Bridgeport; Miss Cornelia Rolf Pomeroy of Southport; Mrs. Henry Webb, of Greenwich; Mrs John H. Marcy, of Litchfeld; Miss Elizabeth Belcher Bu1lard of Litch- field; Mrs. Emma J. Powe of An sonia; Mrs. Martha Watson Pinney, of Derby; Miss Ellen D. Larned of Putnam; Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth Cof- fin, wife of ex-Governor Coffin, of Middletown.
 Our losses in membership for the year have about equalled the gains, leaving the society with 47oo members, the same as last year less two. The number of Chapters Is still 49, though there is a prospect of at least one more being added.