Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-23
D. A. R. TO DEDICATE
AUDITORIUM TODAY
i'm CEREMONY HERE
Elaborate Program Arranged
for Conservation of New
Building.
PRESIDENT GENERAL
TO DIRECT MEETING
Officials Come From Afar to Attend
Gathering at Constitution
Hall.

Colorful ceremonies will mark the
conservation late today of Constitution
Hall, the monumental building at
Eighteenth and D streets housing the
auditorium and library of the National
Society of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution.
The building will be consecrated in
memory of the founders of the republic
by the Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Episcopal Bishop of Washington. His
words will dedicate the structure to the
uses and purposes of the society in up
holding the principles of the Constitu-
ton.
The program will open with a pro-
cessional played on the pipe organ by
Mrs Thomas Kite of Cincinnati, an
honorary vice president general. Mrs.
Lowell Fletcher Hobart, president gen.
Jenkins of Mount Airy, Pa, bearing the
flag, and Mrs. Jean Labat of Washing
ton, with the D. A. r. emblem.
Dedication Program.
Members of the building committee,
the advisory committee and the ma
tional officers will be seated on the
be pronounced by Mrs William Rock
Painter of Missouri, national chaplain.
This will DE followed by the salute to
the flag and the singing of America. "
Mrs James Shera Montgomery will
direct the singing of a hymn of con-
secration. DR.. Joseph r. Sizoo will
pronounce the benediction.
The regents, bearing their standards,
will represent the States in the pro-
cession. The first State will be Della
ware folled by Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey, Georgia, Connecticut, MasSachu-
sets, Maryland, South Carolina, New
Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North
Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ken
diana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama,
Maine, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan,
Florida, Texas, low, Wisconsin, Cali
fornia, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West
Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska. Colorado,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,
Washington, Wyoming Utah. Okla
homa, New Mexico and Arizona.
Next in line will be the vice presi-
dents general: Mrs. William Sherman
Walker, Washington; Mrs. John p.
Mosher, New York; Miss Isabel Wy
man Gordon, Massachusetts,; Mrs. Will
liam B. Burney, South Carolina: Mrs.
Samuel Preston Davis, Arkansas: Mrs.
Clarence S. Paine, Nebraska; Mrs. Her.
bert Backus, Ohio; Mrs. Charles Bur-
ton Jones, Texas; Mrs. James Lathrop
Gavin, Indiana; Mrs. Henry B. Joy,
Michigan; Mrs. H. Eugene Chubbuck,
Illinois: Mrs. Waterman H. Conway,
West Virginia; Mrs. Robert Howe Mum
ger, Iowa; Mrs. Brooke G. White, jr.,
Florida Mrs. Daniel Mershon Garri-
son. Maryland; Mrs. Ralph Van Land
ingham, North Carolina: Mrs. William
Leonard Manchester, Rhode Island;
Mrs. Katherine White Kittridge, YER
mont; Mrs. William Smith Shaw,
Maine; Mrs. Robert Bruce Campbell,
Kansas, and Mrs. N. Rowland Brown,
Pennsylvania.
Guard of Honor.
The vice presidents group will act as
guard Of honor for the honorary presi-
dents and vice presidents general, Mrs
William Cumming Story, Mrs. George
nard Minor, Mrs. Anthony Wayne
Cook and Mrs. Alfred j. BroSseau, for
mer presidents general, and Mrs. Mil
dred Mathes, Mrs. William Lindsay
Mrs. j. Morgan Smith, Mrs. Theodore
Bates, Mrs. Wallace Delafield. Mrs
Drayton w. Bushnell, Mrs. John New
man Carey, Mrs. George S. Sternberg
Mrs. William Butterworth. Mrs. Julius
]. Estey. Mrs. John Campbell and Mrs
Eleanor Washington Howard.
The national officers participating
will be Mrs William Rock Painter
chaplain general; Mrs. Charles Humph-
rey Bissell, recording secretary general;
Miss Margaret B. Barnett, organizing
secretary general; Mrs. Harriet Vaughn
Rigdon, treasurer general; Mrs Josiah
A. Van Orsdel, registrar general; Mrs
Flora Myers Gillentine, historian gen.
eral; Miss Anne Margaret Lang, re-
porter general to the Smithsonian In
stitution; Mrs. Russell William Magma,
librarian general. and Mrs. Samuel
Jackson Kramer, curator general.
Escorts for the national officers will
include the following members of the
advisory committee to the board OF
management: George Whitney White
Mai. Gist Blair, Alfred j. BrosSeau, H
Ralph Burton, Justice Josiah A. Van
Orsdel, DR.. L. S. Rowe, Col. Walter
Scott, Rev. Joseph r. Sizoo, D. D.; Will
liam Walker Smith, Adam M. Wyant
and the Right Rev. James e. Freeman
D. D., Bishop of Washington.
1000 Seating Capacity.
The interior of the new hall resembles
a stadium, with tiers of seats rising
on three sides from the auditorium
1000 persons. Sound absorbing mate
rial used in the interior construction
result in perfect acoustic conditions.
The equipment includes an expensive
organ contributed by Mrs. William M
Reynolds of Winston-Salem, N. C. All
of the furnishings and the building itself
already have been paid for. District
chapters donated $4,000.
Mrs. John M. Beavers Of Washington
is chairman of the buildings and
grounds committee. while Mrs. Rhett
Goode of this city is in charge of
the arrangements for the conservation
program