New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Leonard Wood
To Help Restore
t. RS Birthplace
General Will Speak Here
Friday at Carnegie Hall,
When Women Open Cam
paign to RaiseSl 900, 900

General Leonard Wood, Colonel
Roosevelts comrade in arms in 1898,
will come here Friday to assist in the
movement of the Woman's Roosevelt
Memorial Association to raise $l,OO0,-
600 for the restoration of the former
Presidents birthplace. % East Twen-
tieth Street, as Roosevelt House, a
centre of Americanism. He will mako
the principal address at the Carnegie
Hall mass meeting Friday evening,
which will inaugurate a national can
vass for the fund.
Restoration of the Roosevelt home
is the special mission of the womans
memorial association, and it's presi-,
dent, Mrs. John Henry Hammond, and
other officials will explain at the
meeting how the organization proposes
to carry out the plan,
M,s Douglas Robinson, Colonel
Roos4 elt's sister. will read her poem
."SaGsmore" at the. meeting. Twenty
mempers of the Roosevelt Rough
.Rio~rs, led by Captain Arthur Cosby,
w present a large American flag to
the association, and william Webster
Ellsworth, former president of the
Century Company, in an illustrated
with the former President during the
SOS when Colonel Roosevelt pub
lshed his first book, "Ranch Life and
the Hunting Trails The 22d Infantry
Band, from Fort Jsy, will render y
musical programme
There also will be motion pictures of
"Theodore Roosevelt in Action" with
comments by Professor ". A. Braun,
of Columbia
The membership campaign, which is
not a drive for funds. will be from
mated IS Roosevelt Week. There will
be no ''stunts' to feature the campaign,
and the only outdoor displays will be
the decorations individual owners of
buildings or stores may desire. The
progress OF the campaign Will be shown
by the flight Of the flag" across the
state from Buffalo to 0 ster Bay.
The memorial association has ar
ranged 70 record the names Of all
donors Of 81 or more in book of
donors which will be kept for all time
in Roosevelt House. The association
was founded few days after Colonel
Roosevelt's death, and has already en-
rolled 5000 members who have con-
tributed $4,000. Headquarters have
been established at l East Fifty-sev-
enth Street.
1t is proposed to restore the interior
of the building at % East Twentieth
Street with the original furnishings,
family portraits and heirlooms, wn,c
will be assembled with the permission
and cooperation of the Roosevelt fam
lily. Tae building adjoining will be
purchased to house not only Roose
welt museum and library, but class
rooms for the teaching of English the
language of America, and the princi-
pies of Amcrcanism for which Colonel
Roosevelt stood
Mrs. Leonard Wood is the honorary
president of the association, and the
honorary vice presidents are Mrs.
Robert Bacon, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate
Mrs. Eiihu Root, Mrs. William Bayard
Cutting, Mrs. James 7. Leavitt. Mrs
Thomas Jex Preston, jr., Mrs. White
law Reid, Mrs. James Roosevelt, Miss
Louisa Lee Schuyler and Mrs. Robert
Winthrop.
On the board of directors are Mrs.
John Henry Hammond, president; Mrs.
Henry A. Alexander. Mrs. William
Curtis Demorest, Mrs sames Russell
Parsons Mrs. Henry A. Wi c Wood and
Mrs. Vladimir Simkhovitch, vice-presi
dents; Mrs. Charles A. Bryan, secre-
tary. and Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn,
treasurer.
Tickets for the Carnegie Hall meet
ing may be obtained from national
headquarters of the Woman's Roose-
Welt Memorial Association, / East
Fifty-seventh street.