Evening star., 1919-04-28
LIBERAL RESPONSE
TO PLEA FOR FUNDS
BeIasco Theater Meeting
Gives impetus to George
Washington Memorial.
PRESIDENT SENDS CABLE


The first national meeting in the in
terests of $4,000, 900 fund to be raised
for the construction in Washington of
a memorial to George Washington and
the soldiers, sailors and marines of 1916
and 1917 was held yesterday afternoon
at the Belasco Theater, under the aus
pices of the George Washington Ne
mortal Association.
Appeals for support of the proposed
plan resulted in the contribution of
$4,000 in liberty bonds by persons in the
audience. This sum added to what al
ready has been subscribed has brought
the total to $3.50 for the District.
David Jayne Hill former ambassador
were Gen. w. NJ. Black, L. S A: Ad-
miral Henry T. Mayo, L. S. N; Henry
b. F. Macfarland. former District Com
missioner, and Mrs. Henry +. Dimaek,
president of the memorial association.
Views of the Speakers.
Each of the speakers declared that
some memorial should be erected to the
soldiers and sailors. attention being
called to the fact that throughout
Washington there are a number of me-
MORALS in honor of heroic leaders, but
no attention has been paid to the rank
and file in army and naval services.
Mrs. Dimock outlined the plans of
the association and she asserted that
it was no more than fitting that there
be erected by citizens of the country
a memorial to the men who have par
ticipated in the hiStory-making wars
in which the United States has en-
gagged.
1t was explained by Mrs. Dimock
that the structure proposed would
contain a large auditorium, with a
seating capacity of 1000. and two
wings. One fthe wings would be in
memory of the men of 1916 and the
torium, she said, would serve as
huge conference hall.
Message From President Wilson.
Mr.. Hill read a cablegram from
President Wilson and several teIe-
grams from Secretary Baker of the
War Department and governors of the
country in which the proposed plan to
remember the soldiers and sailors was
approved.
Admiral Mayo told of what the Navy
did in the war of 1917. He said the
personnel never for s. moment shirked
in it's duty. He said it was both "a
duty to the country and to all of
these men who have fought for our
country" that such a memorial should
be erected.
Lest we forget" was the slogan of
Gen. Black. He said that Washington
was logically the place in which such
a memorial shuld be erected.
n ri
ion that Washington would do its
share toward the construction of such
memorial and he suggested that
those in the audience who desired
might contribute liberty bands which
they had already purchased. These
tions in view of the fact that the vic
tory loan drive Is on.
Listsof the Subscribers.
Subscribers were: William NJ Rit-
ter, $1,000; through DR.. Charles d.
Walcott of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, for an unnamed person, $500; the
minister from the Netherlands, $1,000:
Mrs. A NJ. Dodge, $1,000; Miss Elsie
Adams, $500; Edward H. Everett,
$1,000; Maj. William E. Fowler. $500;
Essex Chapter. D. A. R., of Orange,
N. j., 500; Miss Elizabeth Gunilus.
Mayo Wadler played group of
violin solos and Miss Marguerite
Fontresse, mezZo soprano, and James
Goddard. basso. gave solos. Patron
esses were: Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin,
Mrs. William Miller Collier. Mrs.
George Thacher Guernsey. Mrs. John
Hays Hammond, Mrs. Julian James,
Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins. Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs. Charles
]. Bell, Mrs. willard H. Brownson,
Mrs. Augustus P. Gardner. Miss Anna
ryllis Gillett, Mrs. Frederick II. Gill
lett, Mrs. Ilavid Jayne Hill, Miss
Bessie J. Kibbey. Mrs. Henry B. F.
Mcfarland, Mrs. William Belden
Noble, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes. Mrs.
Theodore W. Noyes, Mrs. James
Parmelee. Mrs Charles w. Richard
son, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman and
Mrs. Charles Warren.
Flower Girls and Ushers.
Flower girls were: Miss L. W. New
lin. chairman: Misses Polly Brooks.
Margaret Deeble. Betty Burnett. Ma
talie Fisher. Ruth Hitchcock. Lydia
de Ford. Ruth Wilson. Antoinette
Graves, Mildred Bromwell, Enid
Sims, Marie Sims. Leila Gordon,
Katherine Fess, Kathleen Lester.
Louisa Littauer, Courtney Let's and
Miss Low.
Ushers were: William Bowie Clarke
chairman; Charles +. P. Richardson,