The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-12
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
SERVANCES HERE
Many Organizations to Cclc.
brate the Anniversary
This Year.
GOV. WHITMAN TO SPEAK

Lincoln's Birthday will he celebrated
by many organizations throughout the
city with dinners and other entertain.
ments tonight.
The Republican Club viii hold lis
twenty-ninth Lincoln dinner at the Wal.
dorf, with Gov Whitman, Senator.
elect wadsworth, Congressman simeon
d. Fess Of ohio and ]. Adam Bsde o,
Minnesota as speakers
DR. Woods Hutchinson will he tia
speaker before the Peoples Institute
at Cooper Union, his subj~a L-.s
Hereditary Democracy"
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and Admiral Schley Squadron. SO. ls
U. S. w. ", will give a testimonial
concert, reception and ball at the
Twenty-third Regiment Armory. Red.
ford and Atlantic avenues. Brooklyn
The New York Fire Department Band
and six Brooklyn choral societies hav.
volunteered their services. The IN.
tertalnment is for the benefit OF IN,
relief fund OF the post Secretary OF
the Navy Daniels and Admiral George
Dewey are among those who have been
invited
Mrs. Mary Fels, widow OF Joseph
Fels the soap manufacturer and single
taxer, Is to be the guest Of honor and
one of the speakers at the annual Lin
coin dinner Of the Womcns Henry
George League at the Fifth Avenue
Restaurant, Broadway and Twenty.
third street. The other speakers viii
include Bolton Hall. Mrs Mary Ware
Bennett and Frederick Cyrus Leubu.
scher Miss Amy Mali Hicks, pres.
dent of the League, will preside
An entertainment and reception for
the benefit of ST. Malachy's Church In
West Forty-ninth street will be held
at the Amsterdam Opera House In West
Forty-fourth street between Eighth and
Ninth avenues. The church recently has
been designate. AS the Actors Church,
and its rector, the Rev. Joseph r.
Deltny, has been named as chaplain Of
the Catholic Actors Guild Of America
Gov. Whitman will make an address
and award the Spingarn medal at the
annual meeting OF the National Assocla-
ton for the Advancement Of Colored
People in the Ethical Culture Hall at
Sixty-fourth street and Central Park
west. Inc medal, which is awarded Tor
the first time this year IL to be offered
annually by DR.. ]. T.. Spingarn, chair
man OF the board of directors OF the
association, 10 the man or woman Of
African descent and American citizen
ship who has made the highest achieve
ment In the preceding year In any field
of honorable human eudeaVor
In the series OF free public lectures
prepared by the Board Of Education Dr
William Starr Myers will speak on The
Education of Lincoln" AT Public School
&c, in Eighty eighth street east Of First
avenue Edward 5 Ralston Lincoln
and the Southern Mountaineers" at Pub
lie School 1871, st. Nicholas avenue and
127th street, and John II. Morgan on
Lincoln" at Public School 100. Suffolk
and Rivington streets.
Inc state Education department mas
sent 10000 bulletins to the schools
throughout the State telling the children
OF Lincoln's journey through New York
state in 1861 and OF his funeral In
1855.
At the meeting Of the w mems Peace
'rcle at the Hotel McAlpin yesterday
Mrs NJ, A. Benedict, the pres dent. read
a paper on Lincoln and Mrs FtI
Gerald read another on the Pres dents
since Washington who had stood for
peaCe.