Evening star., 1924-05-18
OLY LAND TOURIST
raven FUND SOUGHT
we for $4,000 to Erect Com
zlunity Center in Palestine to
Be Launched Tonight.
.IrE GIVEN BY CARMELITES
IL Sects to Participate in D. C.
Campaign.

Members of all religious faiths are
',jtfng in the local drive for $4,000
/, aid in the erection of a $SO0,O00
spice and community center for
nerican tourists on Mount Carmel,
/; Palestine. The campaign will be
'p@mally launched at public meet
= at SIS tonight in the small ball
, ON of the New willard Hotel.
Prominent Protestant, Catholic and
wish clergymen and laymen and
DresentativeS of numerous fraternal
iers. including the MasonS, knights
.. Columbus and the ElkS, are behind
: . movement, the object of which is
establish rallying center for the
200 Americans who every year visit
i'y Holy Land.
The site for the hospice. at Haifa,
the gateway to the Holy Land, has
Zen donated by the Carmelite Faith
30 years. and who wouldn't think of
lling u foot of the sacred ground.
lans have already been prepared by
Gorge Oakley Totten. jr, Washing
100000 for the project is being in
3gurated with the local campaign
,ur $4,000.
ID. c. Woman Is Founder.
The founder of the movement is
Mrs. Catherine Kennedy Antonius,
traveller and lecturer, of 1867 Rhode
sland avenue northwest, who has
'uade three extended visits to the
oily Land. and who is the wife of
Michel J. Antonius. a linguist and in
'@rpreter. who was born in Syria and
hose influence in that country was
,Irgely responsible for the donation
ii the hospice site and the indorse-
tlent of the movement by prominent
officials of the Holy Land.
Mrs AntoniuS, who is native OF
Marion, Ohio, but who has lived until
recently for seven years in California,
t:rst visited the Holy Land in 1914,
then she became acquainted with
relativeS of her future husband. who
Constitute one of the oldest Christian
antilles in the Holy Land, and who
own valuable cotton plantations along
he Nile.
On returning from her second trip
TO Palestine Mrs. Antonius met her
future husband in California, and
here Sprang up the romance that
resulted in their marriage and in the
Ir. and Mrs. AntoniuS returned to
PALESTINE in 1920. remaining for two
%ears. and it was during. this visit
that the community center idea ger
minated. Mrs. Antonius was cha
Srined at the fact that while practi-
ally every nation had accommoda-
ions for its citizens when they visited
the Holy Land, not a single American
hotel or rallying center was to be
round in Haifa. the great gateway.
Following the donation of the hospice
site, Mrs. Antonius put the project
before prominent officials of the Holy
Land at a specially called meeting at
Damascus, the first gathering of
Moslems ever to be addressed by a
Christian woman, and received their
fullest Endorsement.
Meeting At Willard.
The meeting tonight at the New
willard will be addressed by MRS.
master of the Masonic fraternity and
president of the American Mount Car
mel Hospice Corporation: Mgr. G. F.
Thomas of St. Patrick's Catholic
Church. Rabbi Abram Simon Of
Noble Pierce. pastor of First Congre-
gational Church and first vice presi-
dent of the hospice corporation; per-
sonal representative of Bishop Free
man of the Episcopal Church, who
Richards, well known lecturer: Isaac
Cans. Senators Samuel NJ. Shortridge
of California and David l. Walsh of
Massa chusetts, and Representatives
NJ. Mead of New York. Mrs. Antonius
will show views of Jerusalem, the
town of Haifa, Mount Carmel, the
proposed hospice building and the
cred mountain. The musical program
will be under direction of Sonora Rose
Pallio of the Washington Opera Com
pany. The patronesses will include
Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, wife of the
president of the Southern railroad,
and Mrs. Thomas H. Carter, widow of
the Montana senator.
The board of directors of the hos
pice corporation is complsed of Mr.
Roberts, president; DR.. s'ierce, first
ce-president: Mrs. Howtrd L. Hodg-
kins, second vice presidsnt; Peter A.
Drury, third vice president; Anthony
j. Barrett. treasurer; John Malone,
recording secretary; Mrs NJ. de Glare
NJ. Berry. executive secretary; Mgr.
Thomas, P. Paschasius Heriz, o. c. D.; /;
Mrs. Antonius, campaign director;
Peter A. Drury, Rear Admiral w. S.
Benson, U. s. N; Michel J. Antonius,
George A. Kicker DR.. Charles I. Grif-
fifth, Mrs. Cabot Stevens. Mrs. Ellen S.
Mussey, Maj. Gen. Frank M. McIntire,
y. S. A; Mrs. Peter A. Drury, Estelle
J. Philibert, Mansaur Samaha, Milton
Strasburger, ]. A. Balderson, and Mrs.
a. +. Murphy.
Although the drive does not formal
ly begin until tonight, Emile Berliner
and Peter A. Drury already have sub
scribed to the fund.