Evening star., 1916-12-24
BIG CHORUS tossing
At TREASURY TODAY
Forty Thousand Give Carols;
Will Visit Institutions-Miss
Wilson As SoIoist.
MARINE BAND A FEATURE

Christmas carols will be sung at the
south end of the Treasury building this
afternoon by what is expected to be
the biggest chorus ever assembled in
Washington
Forty thousand singers are expected
by the District Fairgrounds depart
ment, which is arranging the affair, to
join in the anthems of Yuletide praise.
After the program is concluded they
will disband into groups and march
through every section of the city. Wis
iting hospitals and institutions to
spread the Christmas cheer.
Miss Margaret Wilson will sing and
the Marine Band will play the accom-
paniments. DR.. Hamlin E. Coggswell.
director of music in the public schools.
will lead the chorus.
While the people are assembling the
Marine Band will play Celeste
America First " and other selections,
and Arthur S. Whitcomb, cornetist of
the band. will play cornet solo, Can
tique de Noel" by Adams
Signals For the Singers.
The singing will begin promptly at
o'clock, and Dr. Cogswell has re-
quested that the following instructions
be observed: When the director beats
time with both hands. then all the
chorus will join in the singing; when
the director beats time with one hand
only, then only that group which is di-
rectly facing him will sing. Singers
before beginning.
Members of scores of organizations,
including schools. colleges. churches,
settlement and social centers. Sunday
schools. church choirs. choral societies
and Girl Scouts are expected TO partici-
pate. Four hundred Girl Scouts. under
the leadership of Miss Katherine Har-
low, plan to attend.
The crowd will assemble on the steps
and plaza at the south front of the
Treasury building and will be provided
with leaflets containing the words of
the carols. Among the songs to be
sung embodying the Christmas spirit
are Joy to the World" 1T Came Upon
the Midnight Clear" 'Hark. the Her
aid Angels Sing; While Shepherds
of Bethlehem Silent Night, Holy
Night" "Oh. Come All Ye Faithful"
Boy Scouts to Patrol.
Fifteen hundred Boy Scouts. under
the direction Of Scout Master Herbert
Bennett, will patrol the crowd and dis
tribute the leaflets and programs.
Among the hospitals and institutions
to be visited after the assembly dis
bands are: Children's Hospital, Epi-
phany Church Home for the Aged,
Emergency Hospital, Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital. Florence
Crittenton Home and Help Mission,
Friendship House. Garfield Memorial
Hospital, Georgetown University Hos
pital, George Washington University
Hospital. Girls Friendly Society Lodge,
National Homeopathic Hospital. Neigh
borhood House, Providence Hospital
Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington
City Orphan Asylum, Washington Home
Washington Home for
Incurab bles, Washington Asylum Hos
pital and Freedmen's Hospital.
90 To convey the singers to these places
numerous persons and business estab-
lishments have offered the use Of their
omobi1es and motor trucks. Miss
Ella Gardner of the Fairgrounds de-
partment, who is in charge of arrange
mentS, expects transportation facilities
to be provided for large groups of sing
ers, besides those who will go on foot
to the various institutions where the
city's sick and unfortunates are housed.