The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-12
Daughters of American
 Revolution Celebrate
 25th Anniversary Today

1 The 10000 members of the 1 Daughters of the American Revolu- tion celebrated yesterday the 1 twenty-ffth anniversary of the launching of that organization, as it was on October Il. 1890, that the "Daughters'' held their first meeting l in. Washington and completed the or ganization of their now famous so>- ciety. In the quarter of the cent.1ry which has elapsed since the inisia1 convention the association has flour ished and spread until now it 4as about 1,5O0 local chapters, with mem- bers in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, China and the Philippines as well as eWsry state of the Union.
 The ID. A. R.'' numbers among it's adherents many of the social leaders in nearly every large city, but xI1s charge of aristocratic exc1usivenuss, sometimes made against it, is untrue. Many women in humble walks of life 1 have sought and gained admission to the circle, and although the society reserves the right to pass upon she acceptabiIfty of candidates, aside must be descended from revolution sists, this reservation is. not used to exclude those. women whose husbands or fathers are not favorably rated siRl Dun or Bradstreet.
 From the first the e'Daughtel4s''
 
 acteristics of their ancestors, ana their national conventions have ofIen had some of the peculiarities of tf1N Donnybrook Fair. Within a fsw months after the organization of tJ1A ID. A. R." a rival body, called the Daughters of the Revolution, vaJ formed in New York. The older zsrA ganization adopted as it's mark ox eligibility descent from an ances1or who with unfai1ing loyalty, rendssr- ed material aid to the cause of inae- pendence as a recognized patriot, aE soldier or sailor. os as a civil officer i of the several Colonies or States, OF of the United Colonies or States" asa also restricted membership to Won4R who had passed their eighteenth birthday The rival "Daughtefs' required of candidates that they De 1fnea1 descendants of revolutionary soldiers, sailors or marines, or og others who actually assisted in tne establishment of American indepenJ- ence by service rendered during tue war of the Revolution, becomiksg thereby liable to conviction of treA.- son against the government of Great Britain
 In 1896 there was another split among the ''Daughters'' and a tIikd organization, called the Danes of the Revolution was launched In 1892
 
 Ia somewhat similar society, but de the United States Daughters formed a somewhat similar society, but de- scendents of veterans of the war of 1872 were also eligible. The Colonial Danes of America and the National Society Colonial Danes of America, which are distinct organizations, also, strive to perpetuate the name and fame of revolutionary heroes The National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, founded in 1898, has a somewhat similar purpose. The Daughters of Holland Danes. the United Daughters of the Confectionery and the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic per petuate other phases of American his tory.
 The Daughters of the American Revolution, in spite of rivalry and internal dissension. remains the foremost body of it's kind Tn 1900 there were 492' chapters and about 27,oO0 members, or about one-fourth as many members and one-third as
 many chapters are are now enrolled. The ttDaughters' have a fine home in the Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, where headquarters are maintained. At the national conven- ton this year there was the custom ary fight over the election of officers, but it ended taTnicably./