The citizen., 1914-12-25
ANNAPOLIS NEWS
STATE TO SHINE AT FAIR.
Many Valuable Relics For Panama
Exposition.

mahy valuable Relics for Panama
Exposition.
That the desires of the Maryland
! Commission for the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition to make the
Maryland Building the most interest
ing State building at the exposition bid
fair to be realized is evident from the
response of those who have been in
vited to be represented historically or
ancestrally through loans of family
possessions.
Roberdeau A. Mccormick, chairman
of the Maryland commission; James
McC. Trippe. chairman Of the execu-
tive committee; Henry F. Baker, of
the building committee; Edmund S.
Dickey, chairman of the exhibits COM
mittee; w. Fl. Boykin and J. G. Rou-
lette, of the exhibits committee, and
Mrs. Hester Dorsey Richardson, his
torical director to the Maryland COM
mission, with Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Trippe
and Miss Hemsley, are cooperating to
make the Maryland Building one of
SURPRISING beauty and interest.
Mrs. Phillips Lee Goldsborough has
promised her cooperation. Like her
husband, Governor Goldsborough, she
is of old and prominent Maryland an
| cestry, and is deeply interested In all
that pertains to her native State.
Mrs. James H. Preston, wife of
Mayor Preston, has accepted Mrs.
Richardson's invitation to aid as chair
man of a special committee, to which
all who are willing to lend historical
pictures or relics connected with Bal
timore, past or present, may send
list. Mrs. William Reed, president OF
the Maryland Society Colonial Danes
of America, is cooperating with Mrs.
Richardson, and, through her, with the
Maryland commission, in having q
Colonial Danes exhibit in the Mary
land Building, with the result that the
entire collection from Colonial Danes
House will be sent to San Francisco.
Former Gov. Edwin Warfield, presi-
dent Of the Maryland Historical So
ciety, has pledged his personal relics
and the collections from the Historical
Society, which was exhibited at the
jamestown Exposition, with some ad
ditions. The Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, Mrs. Robert G.. Hogan,
regent, have appointed special COM
mittee to collect historical relics Of In
terest. Mrs. James D. Iglehart, presi-
dent of the Daughters Of the War Of
1912, will be chairman of special
committee to collect relics for the War
of 1872 and Francis Scott Key room.
Mayor Preston, who is vice-presi-
dent of the Sons of the American ReEo-
luton, and Gen. Lawrason Riggs. presi-
dent Of the society, are interested in
the success of the Maryland Build
ing, and to that end introduced reso-
luton at the last meeting that let
ter be sent to each member asking his
cooperation by lending historical
relics. The Mayor has promised,
among other things of Importance, a
| Baltimore flag for the Baltimore room.
| Marylanders all over the country are
responding to Mrs. Richardson's letter
| of invitation for relics. Colonial
Danes in San Francisco have offered
original Peale portraits, original com
missions and other rare heirlooms.
Miss Florence Maccubbin has promised
her collection of portraits of dis
tinguished Marylanders, including one
of Francis Scott Key; Mrs. John Eager
Howard, after Robert Pine; Barrister
/ Carroll, also collection of her
famous miniatures and an old silver
tankard dated 1718, originally owned
by her Observation-Disclosures
Nicholas Maccubbin, High Sheriff of
Anne Arundel county. Cardinal Glib
bons and Bishop Murray are lending
{ portrait reproductions