New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
City to Honor
Washington in
2-Day Tribute
Distribution of the French
Memorials to Kin of u. S.
War Dead Will Feature
Armory Exercises To-day
Observance in Churches
The ,188th Anniversary of
Birth Will Be Marked as
Legal Holiday Tomorrow

Issth anniversary of George Washing
ton's birth with two days of cerc-
monies, beginning this morning.
a feature of to-day's exercises will
bt the distribution through the New
York Community Service in four OF
tho greater city's armories of 5000
engraved certificates signed by the
President of the French Republic to
ia the war.
The American Legion, which is hand
ling the distribution of the certificates
throughout the country, announces that
l3S,409 will be given out. The nations
honor roll is comprised Of EO7,952 SOL
diers, $500 sailors and 1857 marines
The ceremonies VIII begin at o'clock
this afternoon at the seth Regiment
!Armosy, Twenty-fifth Street and Lex
ifgton Avenue; the 7th Regiment
Armory, Sixty-sixth Street and Park
i6Sth Street and Fort Washington
avenue, and the 18th Regiment Armory,
Sumner, Putnam and Jefferson avenues,
Brooklyn.
Noted singers will sing the national
anthems Of France and the United
States, we'll known speakers will de-
liver short addresses in which the
sacrifice of the soldier dead and the
life OF Washington will be emphasized,
and at each armory bands will play the
national airs of France and America.
The speakers will be f. H. La Guar
dia. President of the Board of Alder
men, at the 22d Regiment Armory;
General John F. Organ at the 7th, and
Borough President Henry F. Curran
at the 69th. The French High Com
mission also will have representatives
At the various armories.
Certificates also will be distributed
By the American Legion at the Morris
High School, in the Bronx, where the
Bronx County exercises will be held.
It was announced yesterday by the
Movement Of North America that all
the churches which are members of
that organization will lobserve Washing.
tons Birthday, which has been desig.
mated as Nationwide Stewardship Ac-
Acknowledgement Day"
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia University, will ad-
dress the congregation of the Institu-
tional Synago que. at 1890 A. NJ. at the
Regent Theatre. 116th Street and Fifth
Avenue. In the evening Dr. Butler
will be the chief speaker at the pa
trlotic service, to be held at st. Luke's
Episcopal Church, 141st Street and Am
sterdam Avenue.
Sons OF the Revolution will hold their
annual church service at 4 P. M. in
the Brick Presbyterian Church, 37th
Street and Fifth Avenue. The sermon
will be preached by the Rev. William
Piersor Merrill.
Marshall Among Speakers
The Tammany Society will hold an
AUGMENTATION meeting at Cooper
Union az 2:3o p NJ, at which John r.
Voorhis. grand sachem of the society,
will preside. Representatives Of 1870
patriotic societies and ITO pastors of
all denominations will be present. The
meeting will be non-political and the
speakers will include Vice President
Thomas f. Marshall, the Rev. DR.. Jo-
seph sivermaa, Augustus Thomas and
Ogden Mills.
Tomorrow. which will be observed
throughout the city as a legal holiday,
the Sons of the Revolution will hold
meeting in honor of Washington's
Birthday at 1920 A. M. at Carnegie
Hall. United States Senator Charles S.
Thomas, of Colorado, will be the prin-
cipal speaker and he will talk on
Americanism." James M. Beck will
preside and the Damrosch orchestra
will provide the music.
Among the societies which will par
ticipate in the meeting are the Danes
of the Cincinnati, Colonial Danes of
America, Daughters of the American
Revolution, Daughters of the Revolt
ton, Society Of Colonial Wars, Sons of
the American Revolution and Veteran
Corps Of Artillery.
The annual banquet Of the Sons Of
the Revolution will be held at the
Plaza Hotel tomorrow evening at
o'clock. The speakers will be Lieuten-
ant General Robert L. Bullard, COM
mauding the Department of the East;
Rear Admiral Ralph Earle, u. 8. NJ, chief
Of the Bureau of Ordnance of the NAVY
Department. and Job E. Hedges.
Mass Meeting Tomorrow Night
The Law and Order Union Of New
York State will hold a mass meeting
tomorrow night at Cooper Union in
observance of Washington's birthday,
and Senator Hiram w. johnson, of Cali
fornia; Governor Gardner Of Missouri,
Senator Sherman, of Illinois. and Henry
A. Wise Wood are expected to speak.
Governor Smith, former Secretary Of
the interior Franklin X. Lane, DR..
Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Insti-
tnte, and Augustus Thomas will speak
at the annual dinner to be held to-mor-
row night at the Hotel Pennsylvania Of
the Young Mems Bible Class of the