Evening star., 1918-02-22
Was in Exceptional Group.

indeed, a dedication complete, continuous
and consistent from start to finish
Was in Exceptional Group.
Within this last exceptional group
was DR.. Gallaudet He was born to his
career and his task; inherited them.
His father was a teacher of the deaf
and his mother one Of his fathers earli-
est pupils. The sons inheritance from
them included, therefore, the devotion
of the one to the solution of the prob
lem and the experience of the other IN
the infiction of it. His earliest con-
scious contacts were with it,and his
most intimate sympathies during his
most impressionable years. There are
many careers more vivid than his
careers of dramatic surprise. spectacu-
lar achievements. 1 can recall none for
which the man and the opportunity
and circumstances. nor in which a
lengthy, useful service was 50 httingly
achieved"
Paid Tribute to Dewey.
By act Of Congress the society serves
in an advisory and cooperative manner
toward the Secretary of War in the
custody, care and protection of the
Washington Monument. Last year the
society paid tribute to the memory of
Dewey, the hero of Manila bay,
who was a member Of the organization.
The society was organized in 1898
and chartered by Congress in 1859. The
rolls of the society contain the names
of many distinguished men who have
become famous in the history of the
country.
son, John Marshall, Thomas Carbery,
Commodore John Rodgers. U. S. N; Jo-
seph Gales, Peter Force. Philip r. Fen
dali. Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott. Gen.
Walter Jones. Walter Lenox, Commo-
dore NJ F. Maury. Benjamin Ogle Tay-
Kearney. W. W. Seaton. J. Bayard, H.
Smith, w. w. Corcoran. James NJ. Car
Isle, DR.. John D. Blake. James Dunlop,
Gen. U. S. Grant. Peter G. Washington.
Shepherd. James g. Berret. Edward
Clark, Walter S. Cox, Rear Admiral
Levin NJ. Powell. Robert C. Winthrop,
Prof. Joseph Henry. Gen. William Nc
Kee Dunn. Horatio King. Daniel D.
Clarke. Dr.. Joseph NJ. Toner, James G.
raj C. r. P. Rodgers. Hugh McCulloch,
John Sherman. Justice William Strong,
Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey. ]. C. Ban
croft Davis. Gen. c. c. Augur. Prof.
lin. Martin F. Morris, Gov. George s.
Boutwell,, Crosby S. Noyes. Samuel H.
Kaufman, Maj. Gen. John NJ Scho-
field. Rt. Rev. John T. Keane. Bishop
John F. Hurst, Prof. Samuel P. Langley
and Henry A. Willard.
Organized as Volunteers.
The society was organized as a vol
unteer association at the city hall in
this city September 26. 1898. to erect at
the federal capital a monument, ma
tional in character. to the memory of
George Washington. The resolution Of
gust Z, 1888 Unanimously. ten states
being present. providing that an
equestrian statue of Gen. Washington
be erected at the place where the resi-
dence Of Washington shall be estab-
lished," was amended by John Marshall
in the House Of Representatives De-
cember %, 1899, to read as follows:
That marble monument be erected
by the United States in the Capitol at
the. city Of Washington, and that the
family Of Gen. Washington be request
ed to permit his body to be deposited
under it. and that the monument be so
designed as to commemorate the great
events of his military and political
life"
Tho call for a meeting of citizens was
occasioned by the failure of resolutions
to carry the original resolution into
effect. moved in Congress May 9, 1900.
III lelO, 1Ssf anu 1O0I.
Marshall First President.
John Marshall. who was the great
chief justice, was the first president of
the socletv. On the death of John
former President James Madi-
son was elected president. On the death
of Mr.. Madison it was provided that
the President of 1.-The United States
should DC eN-otficio president of the
society, and such has been the case ever
since.
On October 2. 1888. Congress by law
eioa Of the sfs Win na the see
retary OF War. the act further provid-
ing that the Washington National
Monument Society is hereby continued
act Of August 2. 1876, creating the joint
commission" which had been created
for the completion Of the Monument.
Thus the society exists today. eighty
tion. the oldest organisation in the Dis
trict OF Columbia. with the exception
of a few secret orders.
Two important matters were taken up
at today's meeting. One was the pub
lication by the society of a short history
of the Monument and the achievements
and record of the organization. The other
related to the reprinting Of Senate docu-
ment No. 220, second session of the Fifty
seventh Congress. which is an official his
tory Of the Washington Monument and the
society.
= The following members were present:
Justice Willis Van Devanter, Charles
c. Glover. Henry B. F. Macfarland,
Henry Kirk Porter. David R. Mckee,
Theodore w. Noyes. James NJ johnson,
DR.. Herbert Putnam. Rev. DR.. Alfred
Harding, Bishop of Washington; Judge
William A. Maury,> Senator Jacob II.
Gallinger. and Frederick L Harvey.
Absent From Meeting.
President Wilson Is the ex-ofiicio
head of the organization. Those who
were compelled to be away from the
meeting are Brig. Gen. John M. Wilson,
q. s. A.. retired; Surgeon General
Francis NJ. Gunnell, U. s. N, retired:
Capt. William Corcoran Eustis and
Thomas Nelson Page, ambassador to
Italy.
Secretary Harvey reported that me-
mortal stones were yet to be furnished
for the Monument by Arisona. New
Mexico and Oklahoma The stone from
Texas has arrived, it was reported, and
appropriation has been made by the
Idaho legislature for . memorial stone
from that state.
At the conclusion OF the business ses-
sion the members OF the society were
the guests Of, Justice Van DevAntef At
a luncheon in hiR hori0