Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-04
MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
NAMED BY GOVERNOR
Plans For Suitable Memorial To
Maryland War Martyrs Being
Worked Out
PLANS FOR HOMECOMING

Marylands soldiers, sailors, Red
Cross nurses, and other war workers
who died in the service of their coup-
try during the world war Governor
Harrington pressed the button that
started the machinery in motion, so to
speak.
simultaneously Gen. Francis Z. Wa
ters, chairman of the state committee
to welcome home returning soldiers
and sailors of Maryland announced
the personnel of the executive and
finance committees of that body.
The new memorial committee is
built with the Homecoming welcome
committee as basis, with several
hundred additional names added.
/ In announcing the new body the
governor said he was acting in re-
sponse to appeals from the War Moth
ers, the state Council of Defense,
women's section, and patriotic organi-
cations of the city and state.
The new committee includes repre-
\ sentatives of all organizations that
participated in war work and of all
patriotic organizations of the state
/ The reason for a state memorial
committee is fully set forth in the gov
ernor's statement, in which he said:
Some time ago representatives of
/ the War Mothers, the state Council of
! Defense, Women's Section, and the
different patriotic organizations of the
state requested me to appoint a COM
mittee to devise or recommend some
plan. for a state memorial to the SOL
diers and sailors. and. perhaps Red
Cross nurses, who died in the service
of their country during the late war.
1t may be some time to come before
we may be in a position to build such a
memorial or to determine exactly the
kind of a memorial which should be
built. But when | was called upon to
appoint a committee on reception to
appeared to me that it would be just
as we'll to make the committee thus
constituted a committee on a state
memorial, and this was so announced
at our meeting at the Stafford hotel
on December %. but the notice thereof
was overlooked in the newspapers
Il therefore, have added to the re-
/ ception committee and constituted the
same a state memorial committee
Every state in the union is preparing
/ to establish or construct a state me-
mortal, and the different governors,
/ have appointed committees to take the
matter under proper consideration.
! Whatever form of memorial they may
decide upon l feel that / shall be able
/ fully to indorse
I'm the appointment of this COM
mittee / desire in no way to interfere
with any local memorial that any city
/ or county may feel warranted in es-
/ tablishing, but will render any aid
within my power that may be called
upon to render, but l would feel dere-
1 lict if / did not. take some prelimi-
nary steps, as the executive of the
state, and respond to the demand of
the different organizations and the
press in looking forward to a state
memorial
Il have appointed this committee
with free hand, without any sugges-
/ tions or restrictions as to the form of
a memorial. This committee includes
among its members many of those who
weer foremost from the very first
in standing back of our government in
this war and have devoted themselves
4 practically to war work while there
was war work to do"
The personnel of the two special
subcommittee of the reorganized well
coming committee as named by Gen.
raj Waters is:
I Executive Committee - Gen. Henry
NJ. Warfield (chairman), Gen. Charles
ID. Gather, Admiral Yates Stirling,
Judge Morris A. Soper, Mr.. William
H. Morriss, Mr. Jacob Epstein. Mr..
John X. Shaw, Mr. Van Lear Black.
Mrs. Edward Shoemaker, Mrs. t.
Parkin Scott.
Finance Committee - Charles c.
/ Homer, Jr., A. H. S. Post, Henry F.
Baker, Max Hochschild, j. ]. Nelligan.
William H. Matthai, P. l.. Goldsbor-
ough, Mrs. B. W. Cochran, Jr, Mrs.
Franklin Gator. Mrs Sidney NJ. Cone.
! In addition the governor designated
tnS 1OliOMlHS DIS du executive commit
tee for the memorial body:
General Francis E. Waters, General
Henry NJ Warfield. w. H. Dec.
Wright. George L. Radcliffe, Van Lear
Black, Hon. P. l. Goldsborough, Mrs.
Edward Shoemaker, Mrs. T. Parkin
Scott, Jacob Epstein, John K. Shaw,
James W. Chapman, Jr., Judge N
Charles Burke, General Felix Agnus.
Frank A. Furst, William H. Matthai.
L. W. Gunby, Mrs. Wilbur Hubbard,
Hon. Stevenson A Williams, Judge
Hammond Urner, DR.. H. NJ. Fitzhugh,
Mrs. H. ]. Patterson, Charles S. Gra-
son, Daniel AMMAN, Colonel Charles A
Little. Mrs. James Findlay.
Each county unit has been asked
to increase its committee for the me-
mortal and take charge of the work
for all local communities within the
county. 1t is understood that men,
bers of the draft boards in each coun-