Evening star., 1925-04-25
Voluntary Subscriptions Pour
in as Delegates Prepare
to Close Congress.
ANTHONY WAYNE COOK
WILL GIVE SIS, 900 MORE
Florida Tops All State Donations
With $2,000-Number Put
Down Names for 1000.

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! tfnental Hall the delegates TO the
| thirty-fourth Continental Congress OF
! the d. a. T. prepared to close their
| session today by raising the volun
| tary subscription TO the building fund
| for their new $4,000 900 auditorium
| to nearly $4,000.
| When Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
president general of the society,
opened the morning session of the
! final day of this congress, she was
confronted by scores of waving hands
/ of delegates who were trying to shout
dona tions, ranging from SO to $4,000
| each, all at once. Before this renewed
outburst of sift-giving had subsided,
| it was estimated that more than $50
900 had been subscribed in a little
more than an hour.
Gives $4,000 More.
Leading the list of big donors again
! today was Anthony Wayne Cook hus-
| band of the president general. Yester-
day he brought down great applause
when Immediately after the congress
had authorized the building of the new
| auditorium he contributed IS 900 in
| memory of his mother. Today he met
that sum as memorial to his wife
| mother
today with a gift of $4,000. A single
member of the D. A. r. gave s. 900
| toward South Dakota's quota, prefer
ring that the gift should appear in the
name Of her State rather than her
own name. There were nearly 10 other
personal gifts of $1,000 each, half a
dozen or more of $500 each, at least a
! score OF 500 each and so many con-
rlbutons ranging from $40 to SIS that
| Mrs. Cook found it literally impossible
TO announce them all from the plat
form as they were shouted to her by
the enthused delegates on the floor.
Gifts as Memorials.
In nearly every instance these gifts
came as memorials to Revolutionary
heroes from whom the donors had
aescended- one woman gave hun
ored dollars in the memory of a cap
tain in the Civil War. Mrs. Alfred 3.
Garges of the District of Columbia
gave $50 in honor of her little Irish
grandson"
Not TO be outdone by modern gen
erations. Mrs. J. y. La Sale of Mas
sachusetts rose and declared she
would subscribs $500 each for two
sets of twins. One hundred and fifty
years ago one of my Revolutionary
ancestors became the proud mother
OF twin daughters" she said
| Just a few months ago my own
/ udu usnler gave blrth to twins. | want
TO subscribe $500 in honor of those
Revolutionary babies and another $500
IN honor of our twentieth century
twins The congress roared with
laughter.
$500 From Banker.
George W. White, president of the
Metropolitan National Bank and
chairman of the advisory board to the
Daughters of the American Revolu.
ton, wrote letter to Mrs Cook this
morning in which he declared that
although he was barred from active
membership in the society, he wished
TO congratulate her and this con4ress
on its laudable action in deciding TO
build here an auditorium worthy of
| the heroes whose names it will per
petuate, and that he hoped the con.
gress would accept from him a gift of
5000. 1t took the congress just about
Two seconds to carry out Mr.. Whites
wishes, amid tumultuous applause
Some other outstanding donations
that could be heard above the uproar
that accompanied each announcement
were; Mable *. Richardson of South
Dakota, 1000; Mrs. Eleanor Hale of
Kentucky, 500, a dollar for each year
or her fathers age, he having lust
passed the century milestone in life:
Mrs. Harry L. Rust, 5000; Mrs. Lud-
wig of Connecticut, $500; Mrs. John
Hume of Ohio, 500 in honor of her
daughter Marjorie. who is a page at
this congress; Miss Broadhurst, sl25:
Mrs. a. Fisk Meritas. 500 in mem
DRY of a Minuteman; Mrs. Livingston
l.. Hunter, former treasurer general,
$1,000; the State of Kansas. $1,000.
Gifts Come Fast
In most of the other announce
ments, only the figures could be over
heard, but gifts of 500, $500 and
$1,000 and $50 were being shouted
back and forth across the dignified
old auditorium in Memorial Cont
mental Hall so fast they fairly made
one dizzy, and finally Mrs. Cook was
obliged to ask each donor to write
her gift on piece of paper and send
it to the platform by the pages. In
a few minutes a dozen pages were
standing in line waiting to reach Mrs
Cook with hands full of these written
announcements.
When the role of these donations
is finally inscribed it will bear the
name Of practically every State in the
Union and many names immortal in
the history of America s beginning
These are only preliminaries, dona.
tions from some of the comparatively
few delegates here who represent the
hundred and fifty thousand Daughters
of the American Revolution scattered
throughout the world who yet remain
to be heard from.
Due to Hit $4,000.
The donations received yesterday.
although still uncompletely tabulated,
passed the $40 900 mark and the gifts
this morning totaled better than
$4,000 on the pads of those who jotted
them down as they were called. 1t
was estimated that before the con.
gress adjourns this afternoon, S75, 900
will have been contributed by the few
delegates here.
All the while the congress was busy
taking in the donations toward ths
new auditorium, Secretary of Labor
|; Davis sat quietly on a chair just be.
hind the scenes, waiting to address
the delegates. He remained outsids
by preference. But nothing could stem
the food of checks and money that
kept pouring up to the president
generals platform until we'll on
toward the noon hour, and it was far
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