Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-07
WORK Of II YEARS
DONE BY LOCAL D. A. R.
A Resume Of Work Accomplished
by Peggy Stewart Tea Party
Chapter.
BUILDINGS MARKED.
The Work Of the Chapter Cannot be
Estimated in Money, But in
Influnce.

The members of the Peggy Stewart
Tea Party Chapter, d. A. r.. have re-
ceived an invitation to be present on
the occasion OF the celebration of the
seventy-Rfth anniversary of the Ma
ional Society Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution. at Memorial Cont
mental Hall, on Monday Octiber II, at
, o'clock in the afternoon. and at .
o'clock in the evening.
In preparation for this celebration
each Chapter in the National Society
has been requested TO forward an ae-
count of its Chapter work since its
organization, and, i'm it's report. the
local Chapter has much to ne proud of
The Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter,
D. A. r.. was organized December s,
1888, and named for the stirring his
torical event of which all Marylanders
are justly proud It was the fourth
Chapter to be formed in the State, and
has the honor of holding it's meetings i'm
tho old Senate Chamber. where Wash
! ington resigned his commission as the
| commander-in-chi of the Continental
Army The late Miss Alice Lloyd Buch-
anan was its first Regent.
Situated in city so replete with his
tory, its chief work has been the pres
| 2rNation oftfat history, although il has
been ready to respond to other appeals
whenever possible. The old Liberty
! Tree on the campus at st. Johns Col
| lege. the largest tree in the United
States outside the redwood belt and one
| Of tho very Oldest has beer marked
with a handsome bronze tablet, stating
that a treaty with the Susquehannock
| Indians was made beneath it's branch
IS and that Washington and Lafayette
| had visited it.
A tablet has also been placed on the
old Assembly Rooms, where Washing
| ton was entertained at dinner by the
| Congress of the United States when he
came here to resign his commission.
covers being laid for two hundrd per-
sons. Through the efforts of tlp
| Chapter, the State of Maryland mount
ed the old colonial cannon in front of
the State House the Chapter placed
tablet thereon. stating that 1t was
| brought to Maryland by the first set
tiers DIN the Ark and the Dove in 1884.
1t also secured one of the old cannon
used in the bombardment of Fort Nc
Henry, on September 13, 1914, present
| ed ii to st. Johns College, and placed
/ tablet upon it, commemorating the
| centennial of the birth of the Star
| Spangled Banner. 1t assisted in the
marking of Fort McHenry, Baltimore,
and also assisted in placing the beauti-
| full memorial tablet in Continental Hall
to our late State Regent, Mrs. J. Penn
| broke Thorn. Two hundred and fifty
volumes have been presented to the
| Leakin Memorial Library at Arundel
| Academy, Millersville, and a dozen or
more rare volumes to the library
| Memorial Continental Hall
| II has aided il c)mpiling unpublished
Revolutionary records of Maryland now
soon to be given to the printer II has
aided in the preservation of over three
| hundred volumes of old court records
of Anne Arundel county as far back as
| 1902. by having them removed to a
| place of safety from fire and damp
ness. 1t has contributed So toward the
preservation of marriage records of
somerset county, and presented a copy
to the Maryland Historical Society. of
Baltimore. anG one to Memorial Con-
tinental Hall. 1t has presented a
framed copy of the Declaration of In
dependence to the public school of
Annapolis, and to st. Mary's r. G..
school II has contributed toward the
handsome silk Maryland flag for Memo
rial Continental Hall presented large
flag TO St. Johns College. and through
the Chapters interest, a granddaught-
er of Francis Scott Key presented a
handsome flag TO st. Johns College. the
Alma Mater of that distinguished pa
triot and poet
The Chapter also formulated the idea.
OF having Old Glory and the flags of
1912 repaired; this was afterward Ia
ken over by the Star-Spangled Banner
Commission. 1t has presented a IS gold
piece to the student of the Annapolis
Grammar School for the best essay on
the historic naming of the streets of
Annapolis, Tan idea afterwards taken
up in Baltimore) and also presented a
s5 gold piece to the students of Baden
High School, Prince Georges county.
for the best essay on Famous Men Of
Maryland, their Homes and Manners.
1t has also aided in establishing the
Francis Scott Key Scholarship" in st
Mary's Female Seminary. ST. Mary's
county, Md. Since 1902 I has support
ed a room at the Emergency Hospital
cf this city. anc has contributed gener-
ously as individuals to the Red Cross
land tuberculosis work.
| Through its efforts the State OF
Maryland has had four portraits of IA
nous Marylanders painted to adorn the
State House, that of the Hon. Matthew
Tnghman, who voted for the Declara-
ton of independence, but who was un-
able. on account of his patriotic duties
as president of the Convention of Mary
land. to he present when it was signed
that of Governor Robert Bowie. four
times Governor OF Maryland. and War
T I y.,,,-arnor of 1912. that of lanes RYDER