The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-02
GETTING READY FOR.
IR MEMORIAL DRIVE
West virginian to Be Rep
resented at Conferences
in New York City.

conference under the auspices OF
me Roosevelt Memorial Association
vii be held IN the Hotel Waldorf
Astoria, New York city, on Wednes-
day September 3, at which delegates
from Connecticut, New York state,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland. Virginia, West Virginia,
and the District of Columbia will per-
fect plans for the campaign TO be
conducted In the week Of October
2oe27. The Roosevelt Memorial As
sociation will raise S5,O0O,000 by
popular subscription throughout the
United States to. erect monument
10 the late Theodore Roosevelt at
Washington, and to establish a park
81 his honor at oyster Bay.
This gathering at the Waldorf
Astoria Is one Of a series held by the
Roosevelt Memorial Association in
different parts OF the United States
Ia preparation for the campaign fl
October,
George w Perkins, who will direct
the campaign for the Roosevelt
Memorial Association in New York
state will preside at the New York
conference. Addresses will be made
by William Boyce Thompson, presi-
dent Of the association, and by a
prominent Democrat Among others
expected to attend are: Colonel
George Harvey, Elihu Root, William
Loeb, Jr, Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. c.
Grant La Fargo, John Mitchell, Harry
. Sinclair, Albert H. Wiggin, Alton
B Parker, and Herman A. Metz.
William H. Taft, an honorary presi-
dent OF the association, is honorary
chairman of the state campaign COM
mittee in Connecticut. The campaign
chairmen in the other states which
will be represented at the New York
conference are: For Connecticut
William H. Putnam, Of Hartford; for
Pennsylvania, George Wharton Pep
per, of Philadelphia; for Delaware,
exrG Governor Charles R. Miller OF
Wilmington; for Maryland, Judge
John G. Rose, Of Baltimore; for New
Jersey, Colonel Austen Colgate, Oh
Orange; for Virginia, Percy S. Ste
phenson, OF Norfolk; for West Vir-
gtnia, Grant P. Hall, mayor of Charles
Ton; and for the District of Columbia,
Frank ]. Hogan, of Washington.
Governor William G. Sproul Is
honorary chairman Of the campaign
committee IN Pennsylvania. Among
those who are expected to attend the
conference are e. A. Van Yalken-
hurgh, publisher OF the Philadelphia
North American; Clifford Pinchot, and
Effilgham B. Morris, president of the
Girard Trust company of Philadel-
phia, who WILDE treasurer for Penn
sylyania,
Thomas Patterson, of Pittsburgh,
win be in charge OF the campaign in
Western Pennsylvania.
Assisting Colonel Colgate in New
Jersey will be United States Sena-
tors Walter E. Edge and Joseph S.
Frelinghuysen; former Governors
James F. Fielder, j. Franklin Fort,
.Jr. and Edward c. Stokes; Presidents
John Grier Hibben, of Princeton; W.
III S. Demarest, of Rutgers, and Alex
andertc Humphreys, of Stevens Insti-
tute; Dwight w. Morrow, OF ]. P.
Morgan G Co., Moses Taylor Pyne, and
Thomas A. Edison.
General Coleman du Pont is a
member of the National executive
committee from Delaware. Among the
members of the Maryland Campaign
committee are Cardinal Gibbons; for
mer Governor Phillips Lee Goldsbor-
ough; Charles ]. Bonaparte, former
Secretary of the Navy and Attorney
General; Daniel Willard, president OF
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad; Felix
Agnus, publisher of tho Baltimore
American; United States Senator
Joseph l. France, and William F.
Broening, mayor of Baltimore.
Governor John c. Cornwell, OF
West Virginia, will be member Of
the executive committee of the Roose-
Feit campaign of that state, and DR..
Alexander Graham Bell OF Washing
ton, will be honorary chairman in the
District Of Columbia.