Evening star., 1927-10-21
D. A. R. ENROLLS
2,30O MEMBERS
illinois Woman, 81, Heads
List-s1, 600, 600 in Treas
ury Seen by 1923.

Miss Katherine Draft, 81 years old,
Of Illinois, daughter Of a Revolution
airy soldier by his third wife, heads the
list of 1900 new members admitted
to the Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution at a meeting of
the national board of mana cement
yesterday. Eight new chapters of the
society were confirmed at this meet
ing.
The board approved the naming of
the mountain stream which flows from
Harvey Range, in front of the South
Dakota State Lodge. where President
and Mrs. Coolidge spent the past Sum-
mer, the Grace Coolidge Greek. 1t
also moved TO accept a number of val
liable antiques which were presented
by friends to the museum of historical
collections. The meeting, held in Me
mortal Continental Hall. was presided
over by Mrs. Alfred Brosseau, presi-
dent general of the society.
At a meeting Wednesday ofsthe Con-
stitutional Hall committee Mrs. Rus
sell William Magma, chairman of the
finance division, announced in her
report that $471,901.38 in cash has
been received, and additional pay
ments accrued will bring the sum up
to S700000 soon. Plans were made
to raise money through sources of
potential donors, penny-a-day boxes
and Christmas gifts of $3.50 in an at
tempt to bring the total to a million
dollars before the annual congress
thousand is offered by an interested
friend if the sum reaches that amount
by that time, it was announced.
The following members were present
at the meeting yesterday:
President General Mrs. Brosseau
presiding, Vice Presidents General
Mrs. Robert J. Reed, West Virginia;
Mrs. John Hamilton Hanley, Illinois;
Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, Georgia;
MS. John Brown Heron, Pennsyl-
vania; Mrs. Charles Read Banks, New
Jersey; Mrs. w. o. Spencer, North
Carolina; Mrs. Eugene II. Ray, Ken
lucky; Mrs. William Sherman Walker,
Washington; Mrs. Charles H. Bissell,
Connecticut; Mrs. John p. Mosher,
New York; Miss Isabel Wyman Cor
dan, Massachusetts; Mrs. William r.
Burney, South Carolina; Chaplain Gen
eral Mrs. Matthew Brewster, Lou
isiana: Recording Secretary General
Mrs. Samuel Williams Earle, Illinois;
Corresponding Secretary General Mrs.
Herbert NJ. Lord, Maine: Organizing
Secretary General Mrs. Lowell +.
Hobart, Ohio; Treasurer General Mrs.
Adam NJ. Wyant, Pennsylvania; Regis
trar General Mrs. Eli A. Helmick,
District of Columbia Historian Gen
eral Miss Alice Louise McDuffee,
Michigan: Librarian General Mrs. Hor-
ace NJ. Farnfan, Vermont; Curator
General Mrs. Joseph S. Frelinhuysen,
New Jersey.
State regents-Mrs. Allen Cox,
Arkansas; Miss Katherine Nettleton,
Connecticut; Mrs. John Pearce Cam,
Delaware; Mrs. James M. Wiley, Dis
trict of Columbia; Mrs. William J.
Sweeney, Illinois; Mrs. Charles w.
Ross, Indiana; Mrs. Charles George
Saunders. Iowa; Mrs. r. B. Campbell,
Kansas; Mrs. w. S. Shaw, Maine; Mrs.
Daniel Mershon Garrison, Maryland;
Mrs. James Charles Peabody, Massa-
chusetts; Mrs. w. H. Hoyt. Minnesota;
Alice NJ. Chesley, M. D., New Hamp-
shire; Mrs. William A. Becker, New
Jersey; Mrs. Samuel J. Kramer, New
York; Mrs. Herbert Backus, Ohio; Mrs.
Harry c. Ashby, Oklahoma: Mrs. N.
Howland Brown, Pennsylvania; Mrs.
Oscar K. Mauldin, South Carolina;
Mrs Katherine White Kittredge, Ver-
mont; Mrs. James Reese Schick, Vir-
ginia: Mrs. John Wallace. Washing
ton; Mrs. William Leonard Manches-
ter, r. T.; State Vice Regent Miss
Mary Elizabeth Springer, Cuba, and
Mrs. Henry Hoover Hanger, France.