Evening star., 1921-05-20
MOVE TO ACQUIRE
MI. VERNON TOLD
Miss Comegys, Regent,
Reads Annual Reports at
Women'S Conference.

The reading Of the annual reports
OF the regent. Miss Harriet Clayton
Comegys of Dover, Del. occupied the
entire session Of the second day meet
ing of the Mount Vernon Ladies' As
sociation of the Union. now in confer
ence al Mount Vernon. Va. The regent
events which occurred in the early
history Of the association.
I'm March, 1850" said Miss Comesys.
six years after Miss Cunningham s
first appeal went to the country for
100000 required for The purchase OF
Mount Vernon. she invited both
houses OF Congress TO accompany the
association on the first official visit
TO the home and tomb of Washington.
The invitation was favorably accepted
and in the Senate a resolution WAS
passed to assemble an hour earlier
than usual and adjourn in season for
the excursion.
"On the afternoon OF the 7th OF
March this distinguished party. with
the Marine Band from the Navy Yard.
| left the wharf on the Thomas Coilyer.
which the steamboat company had
! patriotically placed at the command
, of the regents for this occasion.
Failing to Decay.
Mount Vernon was then in a state
decay In an address delivered hr
Hon. johnson Cochran of New York hA
said. The tomb in its delapidated
state VAS matter OF grief 10 every
philanthropist. and every patriot The
women of America have achieved their
desires. have accomplished their aims.
and Mount Vernon. with it's sacred
ashes. reposes under the custody of
the women of America-the property
of the American Union"
ten by an editor of the London Times
after his visit here last summer.
we have no place of national
pilgrimage in England which is SO
perfect in model as Washington's
home at Mount Vernon" il said. 1T
ure of the Washington that We have
| nothing TO compare with it, For
any parallel one must rather so to
Fontainebleau. But certain shrines
are ours and none of them incloses
quite such thoroughness as this. When
L think OF the completeness of the
preservation of Mount Vernon. where,
every day. through the piety of in
| dividuals. a thousand personal relics
have been reassembled SO that. save
for the sightseer. this serene and
simple and Virginia mansion is al
! most exactly as it was. l am flied
with admiration. For a young people,
largely in a hurry. to find time to he
SO proud and reverent is significant
thing.
With the flags half-mast in memory
of Chief Justice White. who had been
chairman of the advisory committee.
, the convention opened yesterday with
twenty-nine vice regents. represent
ing as many states in the Union, pres
ent. Miss Comegys was in the chair
and after reading the farewell ad-
dress of Miss Anne Pamela Cunning
ham. founder of the association. the
vice regents visited the tombs of
Gen. and Mrs. Washington and placed
wreaths on the sarcophagus.
Delegates in Attendance.
Among those attending the confer
ence are Miss Harriet clayton Com
eggs, regent: Miss Alice NJ. Long.
| fellow. vice regent for Massachusetts:
Mrs. Charles CuStis Harrison. vice
! regent for Pennsylrania; Mrs. Thorn
| as S. MaXey. vice regent for Texas:
! Mrs. Robert ID; Johnson. vice regent
| for Alabama: Mrs. John Julius Prin-
| gle, vice regent for South Carolina:
Mrs. Henry w. Rogers. vice regent
for Maryland: Mrs. Eliza Y. Leary.
| vice regent for Washington: Mrs. j.
Carter Brown vice regent for Rhode
Island: Miss Mary Evarts. vice re-
gent for Vermont: Mrs. Antoine Len
tilhon Foster. vice regent for Della
| ware; Miss Anne Rsgan King. vice
| regent for louisiana: Miss Jane A.
hlSSS, vice regent lot DlSlfict OF
Columbia: Mrs. Horace Mann Towner,
vice regent for Iowa; Mrs. Thomas
p Denham, vice regent for Florida:
Miss Harriet l.. HuntreSs, vice regent
! for New Hampshire: Mrs. Charles Ell
liott Furness. vice regent for Mime
sofa: Mrs Benjamin ID. Walcott. vice
regent for Indiana; Mrs. Lucien NJ.
Hanks. vice regent for Wisconsin;
Miss Annie B. Jennings. vice regent
for Connecticut; Mrs. William Hall
Bradford. vice regent for New Jersey:
Mrs George H. Carpenter vice re-
gent for Illinois; Miss Mary Govan
Billups. vice regent for Mississippi;
Mrs. Margaret Bushie Shipp. vice re-
gent for North Carolina: Mrs. Hor-
ton Pope, vice regent for Colorado;
Mrs. Charles ]. Livingood. vice re-
gent for Ohio; Mrs. CELSIUS Price Per-
rie, vice regent for Georgia; Mrs.
Horace Van Deventer. vice regent for
Tennessee: Mrs. Charles 5. Wheeler
vice regent for California. and Mrs.
Randolph Anderson, vice regent from
Georgia