Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-20
Washington National Monu-
ment Society to Name Sue
cessor to Justice Lamar.
RECEPTION IS TO FOLLOW
LUNCHEON AFTER SESSION
Gathering to Take Place at Home Of
Theodore W. Noyes in Celebration
Of Washington's Birthday.

The eishty-second annual meeting
Of the Washington National Monument
Society will be held Tuesday, Wash
ington's birthday anniversary. at
o'clock at the residence Of Theodore
w. Noyes. 1880 New Hampshire avenue
northwest. Owing to the recent death
Of Justice Joseph R. Lamar of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, who
was first vice president of the society,
Judge William A. Maury. second vice
president Of the organization. will pre-
side. The President of the United
States is ex-officio president of the So
ciety. Following the meeting Mr. Noyes
will entertain the members of the So
ciety at luncheon. and from until
o'clock he will entertain many promi-
nent Washingtonians, official and I'M
official, at a reception in honor of the
members of the society.
. The society, which was organized in
1888. and chartered by Congress in
1859. at this years meeting will take
,ction upon the death during the year
# three Of its members, it is expected,
and elect their successors. Those who
have died, in addition to Justice Lamar,
are r. Ross Perry and F. B. Mcguire. 1t
Justice Lamar as first vice president
will be selected. The other officers of
the organization are: Judge William
A. Maury, second vice president; Theo-
dore W. Noyes. treasurer, and Fred
erick L. Harvey. secretary. Mr.. Har-
vey said yesterday afternoon that other
business may come before the meeting
OF which he has not yet been advised.
The limited membership of the or
ganization is as follows: William A.
T.
George Dewey, U. S. N; Brig Gen. John
NJ: Wilson. U. s. A. retired; Charles D.
Walcott, Edward M. Gallaudet, Charles
e. Glover. Surgeon General Francis NJ.
Mcfarland. Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding,
Theodore w. Noyes, Thomas Nelson
Page, Herbert Putnam. William Cor
coran Eustis and Henry Kirke Porter,
with the three vacancies mentioned.
The governors of the several states
are vice presidents ex officio.
The rolls OF the society contain the
names OF many men that have been dis
tlnguished in the history of the coun-
try. Among the number are John Mar
shall. James Madison, Thomas Carbery,
Commodore John Rodgers, u s. N: 10.
seph Gales. Peter Force, Philip r. Fen
dali, Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott, Gen. Wal
ter Jones, Walter Lenox: Commodore NJ.
Carroll Brent, Col James Kearney, W.
W. Seaton, ]. Bayard. H. Smith, w. w.
Corcoran. James NJ. Carlisle, DR.. John
y: BIake. James Dunlop. Gen. U. S.
liam 7. Sherman, Alexander r. Shep-
nerd, James G. Berret, Edward Clark,
Walter s. Cox. Rear Admiral Levin M.
PoWe1I, Robert c. Winthrop. Prof. Jo-
Horatio King. Daniel u. Clarke. Dr. Jo-
seph M. Toner, James c. yelling.
George Bancroft, Rear Admiral C. r. F.
Rodgers. Hugh McCulloch. John sher-
man. Justice William Strong, Gen.
Davis. Gen. c. C. Augur. Prof Asaph
Hall, Rear Admiral S. r. Franklin.
Martin F. Morris. Gov. George S. Bout
Wen. Crosby s. Noyes. Samuel H. Kaufr-
mann, Maj. Gen: John NJ. Schofield. Ri
tev. John T. Keane. Bishop John F.
Hurst. Prof. Samuel P. Langley and
Henry A. Willard.
The society was organized as a yoIun-
lary association at the city hall. in this
;lty. September rs. 1888. to erect at the
ederaL capital a monument, national in
character, to the memory of Washing
on. The society resulted from a para
graph in the National Intelligencer. the
zen leading paper of Washington, call
.ng fora public meeting Of the citizens
II Washington to take up the redemp-
ZION of the resolution of the Continental
congress adopted August Z, 1888
unanimously, ten states being presently
hat an equestrian statue of Gen.
WI oS eieeIeu at the place
where the residence of Congress shall be
established" as. amended and proposed
by John Marshall in the House of Rem
resentatives December 20. 1893. on
whose motion the Congress resolved.
with other things. that q marble monu-
ment be erected by the United States
in the Capitol at the city of Washington.
md that the family of Gen. Washington
3e requested to permit his body to be
deposited under 1t. and that the monu-
nent be so designed as to commemorate
the great events Of his military and. DO
itical life"
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