Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-02-27

MAYOR FISHER ACTS.
Accepts Cordial Invitation to Assist in
Celebrating Anslo-Ameriean Peace
of Client.

Alexandria has been invited to joir
the monster celebration of the lOC
Anniversary of the Anglo-Americar
Peace which will be celebrated during
the week of February 1915, and May.
or Fisher on the part fthe city has
accepted the invitation and named a
committee of prominent citizens to
act in conjunction with the committee
of 100 from Washington.
The members of the committee, al
named by Mayor Fisher, are as fol-
lows:
John NJ. Johnson, ]. X. M Norton,
Rev. w. J. Morton, DR.. Edgar Snow
den, DR.. S. 3. Moore, George E. War
field, E. L. Daingerfield, T. c. Smith,
Henry X. Field, J. r. Zimmerman, Ar
thur Herbert, Jr., Robert S. Barrett,
Fred Birrell, John A. Marshall, and
Samuel p Fisher.
The Mayor has suggested John NJ.
Johnson as chairman of the committee
and the central committee has asked
Mr.. Fisher to become the honorary
chairman.
The celebration promises to be the
most important to take place in this
section of the country in many years.
The signing of the treaty of Client
marked the end of the war between
the United States and England, an
event in which Alexandria was great
ly interested.
The celebration will consist of meet
ings, concerts, festivals, and many
other features which have not yet
been planned.
James Brown Scott, chairman Of
the Committee of Washington wrote
Mayor Fisher as follows:
81 have the honor to inform you
that at a meeting on November %,
1872, of the Committee of 100 ap-
pointed blythe Board of Commission
ers of the District of Columbia to
arrange for the celebration of the
Centenary of Anglo-American Peace
at the National Capital, the follow
ing resolution, recommended by the
fnnmittee on the plan and Scope OF
celebration, was unanimously
It is recommended that the mayor
of Alexandria be invited to appoint
representatives of that city to serve
and to cooperate with it in arrang-
ing for joint celebration. AleXan-
dria was virtually concerned in the
events of 1914, growing out of the
same campaign, and the opportunity
seems fitting one in which to recog-
nize the neighborly ties which bind
the two communities together"
ain accordance with this action, it
affords me great pleasure to ask you
to designate committee of from sew
en- to- eleven citizens of Alexandra, OF
which 1 hope that you will consent
to act as chairman, to cooperative with
the Washington committee, in arrang-
ing and acrrying out an appropriate
Joint celebration of the Centenary of
A.,. A-,or;oor poarpV
In his, reply Mayor Fisher said:
"I now express in the name Of
Alexandria and its citizens apprecla-
tion of your desire to have US JOIN
the people of Washington in a proper
celebration of what has thus Tar
proven a lasting peace between the
United States and Great Britain.
"Whila the date for the proposed
celebration is two years off, January
1920, 1915, yet will without further
delay select John NJ. johnson, j n. NJ.
Norton, Rev. W. J. Morton, DR.. Ed
gar Snowden, DR.. S. B. Moore, Geo.
E. Warfeld, E. L. Daingerfield, T. C.
Smith, H. X. Field, ] R. Zimmerman,
Arthur Herbert, Jr., Robert. S. Bar
rett, J. Fred Birrell, John A. Mar
shall, S. P. Fisher, and myself, but
I do think that some older person than
I should act as chairman and | sug-
gest the name of John NJ johnson fol-
that position" ~.