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DAUGHTERS

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AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
MAGAZINE

Vol. LI

JULY, 1917

No. 1

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VOL. LI

CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1917

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The New Columbia (Frontispiece) 2

American History in its Currency 3

Silhouettes of John Randolph of Roanoke 10

A "Real" Daughter of the Revolution 13

Balfour Takes Message to King George V 16

The 7th New York Regiment in 1810 18

Work of the Chapters 22

The Star Spangled Banner. Gelett Burgess 33

Support Hoover and His Food Conservation Campaign.

Porter Emerson Browne 34

Home Commissary in War-time 35

The Patriotic Soup Pot. Hildegard Hawthorne 40

Engraved Portraits of American Patriots 41

Genealogical Department 49

A Great War if We Don't Wteaken. Wallace Irwin .... 56

Kaiser Bill and the Devil. Rene Bache 57

National Board of Management, Official list of 58

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THE NEW COLUMBIA

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AMERICAN HISTORY IN ITS CURRENCY

It is estimated that ninety millions
of people handle United States cur-
rency. How many of these ninety mil-
lion people are familiar with the
histories and names of the men whose
portraits appear on the notes?

A financier was asked recently whose
portrait appeared on a $5 national
bank note, and after a moment's hesi-
tation he admitted that he did not
recollect, and added frankly that as the
portraits had nothing to do with the
buying quality of the money he had
never given them a thought.

While the financier attributed his lack
of interest in the portraits to a mer-
cenary motive, a busy man, even one
accustomed to dealing in large sums
of money, may be excused from not
recollecting each individual portrait,
for there are nineteen miscellaneous
portrait and historical designs appear-
ing upon the paper currency now in
use. These various designs have noth-
ing to do with the value of the money
on which they appear, and have not
been selected with any scheme of his-
toric balance.

Nor is there any uniformity in the
design of the same denomination. For
instance, the $5 silver certificate bears
the head of the Sioux Indian Chief

" Onepapa " ; the central figure on a $5
United States note is a woodsman
armed with an ax and rifle, a vignette
of Andrew Jackson is placed in one
corner; while on the $5 national bank
note is a portrait of Benjamin Harrison,
with the " Landing of the Pilgrims "
on the reverse ; and on the new $5 Fed-
eral Reserve note is a portrait of Abra-
ham Lincoln and " Discovery of Land "
on the reverse.

Perhaps some time in the future the
designs now in use will be systematized
and a similar design used for each de-
nomination, each to bear a distinctive
portrait, selected with some reference
to the importance and position of their
subjects in American history.

The designs and portraits to go upon
new issues of currency are decided upon
by the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Director of the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing. A man must either
have been a Secretary of the Treasury,
Treasurer of the United States, or have
performed some special public service
to entitle him to the distinction of hav-
ing his portrait appear on the currency.
There is generally no connection be-
tween the allegorical designs on the
reverse of the currency and the por-
traits, one being dictated by artistic

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merit and the other merited by public
service.

There are five different kinds of cur-
rency at present in circulation : silver

GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON

His portrait appears on the highest denomination of U. S.
Currency — the $ 10,000 gold certificates.

certificates, gold certificates, United
States notes, national bank notes, and
Federal Reserve banknotes.

To-day, Washington, " The Father
of his Country," appears on the $2 and
$20 silver and gold certificates respec-
tively. Abraham Lincoln, " The Eman-
cipator," is on the popular $1 silver
certificates, also the $100 United States
notes, and the handsome $500 gold
certificates.

Lincoln's vignette has been used
more continuously on currency than
that of any other American. It ap-
pears on the new $5 Federal Reserve
notes. Other Presidents whose por-
traits appear on the Federal Reserve
notes are Andrew Jackson, $10 notes ;
Grover Cleveland, $20 notes ; and U. S.

Grant, $50 notes. Benjamin Franklin
has the distinction of being on the $100
Federal Reserve notes.

The vignette of Andrew Jackson, the
doughty victor of the Battle of New
Orleans and later twice President of
the United States, is used on the high-
est denomination of United States cur-
rency issued — the $10,000 gold certifi-
cates. Another President, James Madi-
son, comes next in money value, being
on the $5000 gold certificates. The
famous DeWitt Clinton, Governor of
New York State and builder of the Erie
Canal, is reproduced on the $1000
United States notes ; while Alexander
Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treas-
ury, and to whom the country owes its
financial system, is on the $1000 gold
certificates.

Next in money valuation comes the
$500 United States notes, and the por-

PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON

(From Stuart's painting.) His portrait appears on the
$5000 gold certificates.

trait of General J. K. Mansfield, of
Civil War fame, appears on it ; while

AMERICAN HISTORY IN ITS CURRENCY

Lincoln is on the gold certificates of
similar denomination.

The $100 gold certificates bear a vig-
nette of Thomas H. Benton, one of the

GOVERNOR DE WITT CLINTON

Whose vignette appears on the Siooo United States

notes.
(Engraving donated by Judge Francis Kemper Adams.)

intellectual giants of the United States
Senate. In the War of 1812 he was
Jackson's aide-de-camp, and at the close
of the war he resigned from the army
and practised law. While in the Senate
Benton took up the question of finance
and urged the adoption of a gold and
silver currency with such persistency
and zeal that he was called " Old Bul-
lion." He did much to bring about the
present sub-treasury system of the
United States. Benton was born near
Hillsborough, N. C, March 14, 1782,
and died in Washington, April 10,
1858. His son-in-law was Gen. John
C. Fremont, the " Pathfinder,"

and Presidential candidate against
Buchanan.

John Jay Knox finishes the $100
group of portraits, his appearing on
the national bank notes of that denomi-
nation. Knox was Comptroller of the
Currency under three Presidents —
Grant, Hayes, and x\rthur ; and his re-
ports are considered standard authority
on financial questions relating to the
Civil War. He was a New Yorker,
having been born in Knoxboro, and was
the son of John Jay Knox, Sr., for
whom the village was named.

" Money talks " we are told, and if so,
it was a grim humor which selected Ed-
ward Everett, the silver-tongued orator,
to appear on the $50 silver certificates.
To that same silver tongue the country
owes the preservation of Mt. Vernon,

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

First Secretary of the Treasury. (Engraving donated,
by judge Francis Kemper Adams.)

for Everett toured the United States
just before the Civil War at the request

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of Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, who
originated the plan, and urged that all
Americans contribute to the fund to buy
Mt. Vernon. That was but one of many
acts which entitle him to a place in the
Hall of Fame. A Unitarian minister,
his eloquence gained him renown, and
on being elected to Congress his special
care was directed to obtaining pensions
for Revolutionary soldiers ; he was
afterward Governor of Massachusetts,
U. S. Minister to England, and upon
his return, elected to the U. S. Senate.

Grant and Franklin, who appear re-
spectively on the other $50 currency,
have already been spoken of. John
Sherman, U. S. Senator, appears on the
$50 national bank notes. While in Con-
gress Sherman secured a passage of a
bill authorizing the issue of the Treas-
ury notes of 1860. During most of his
career in the Senate he was chairman
of the Committee on Finance. .' His
most valuable services to the Union
were his efforts to maintain and
strengthen the public credit, and to
provide for the support of the armies
in the field. He was also instrumental
in the passage of the bill authorizing
the issue of United States notes ; in
other words making the " demand
notes " of earlier years legal tender.
Senator Sherman was a brother of Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman.

There is a $20 gold certificate bearing
Washington's vignette ; Hamilton, his
Secretary of the Treasury, is on the
same denomination of United States
notes, and Grover Cleveland, United
States President, appears on the $20
Federal Reserve notes. The reverse
of these notes is described as symboliz-
ing " Transportation on land, and
water, and air " — and an aeroplane and
an automobile are engraved thereon ;

it only lacks a submarine to be truly
up-to-date.

The portrait of Daniel Manning,
Secretary of the Treasury in the first
Cleveland administration, is engraved
on the $20 silver certificates. He and
his wife, who was President General of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, were extremely popular in
Washington society.

The national bank notes of $20 de-
nomination bear the portrait of Hugh
McCulloch, who acted as Secretary of
the Treasury under two administra-
tions. President Lincoln appointed
him at a time when the government
was in great financial embarrassment,
and McCulloch's most important duty
was raising by loans the sums needed
to pay the large amount due 500,000
soldiers and sailors. This was success-
fully accomplished, and he also quietly
effected the conversion of more than
$1,000,000,000, of short-term obligations
into a funded debt. In a little more
than two years the whole debt of the
country was put into satisfactory shape.
In 1884 McCulloch was again appointed
Secretary of the Treasury, this time by
President Arthur.

McCulloch was born in Kennebunk,
Me., and later moved to Fort Wayne,
Ind. He attained prominence in bank-
ing and financial circles, and his first
public office was that of Comptroller
of the Currency.

The $10 gold certificates carry the
vignette of Michael Hillegas, appointed
by the Continental Congress, first
Treasurer of the United States. Hille-
gas, at one time a prominent merchant
of Philadelphia, had the distinction of
having served as treasurer of the Com-
mittee of Safety of which Benjamin
Franklin was chairman. He was of

AMERICAN HISTORY IN ITS CURRENCY

German parentage, and a man of great
ability.

The portraits of William McKinley,
Andrew Jackson, Thomas A. Hen-

THOMAS HART BENTON

'Old Bullion" — his vignette was the first used on the
gold certificates.

dricks, and a buffalo are engraved on
$10 silver certificates, United States
notes, national bank notes, and Fed-
eral Reserve notes respectively. The
first two were Presidents of the United
States, while Thomas A. Hendricks was
elected Vice-president on the ticket
with Cleveland. He died shortly after
their inauguration.

It was not until seventy-five years
after the adoption of the Constitution
that Congress first authorized the issue
of notes intended to circulate as money.
When first issued they were not legal
tender, but were subsequently made
so, and also redeemable in coin.

The first issue of " Demand Notes,"
denominations $5, $10, and $20, carried
the portraits of Alexander Hamilton
and Abraham Lincoln, and a vignette
of " Liberty." The first United States
notes, issued the following year, 1862,
also used Hamilton's and Lincoln's por-
traits on $5 and $10 denominations ;
while Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the
Treasury, diplomat, and foremost finan-
cier of his day, and Robert Morris,
patriot and financier of the Revolution,
appeared on the $500 and $1000 notes
respectively.

The second issue of this series in-
cluded the portrait of Salmon P. Chase,
Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court and former Secretary of the
Treasury. Daniel Webster, famed as
a statesman and orator was on the $10
note of the fourth issue of United

DANIEL WEBSTER

Orator and statesman, whose vignette was used on the
fourth issue of $10 United States or "Legal Tender"
notes.

States or " Legal Tender " denomina-
tion, and Henry Clay, bitter opponent

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of Webster, was engraved on the notes
of $50 denomination of the same issue.

The first silver certificates ever issued
belonged to the series, of 1878 and 1880.
There is as much variety in the por-
traits of the series as in the demonina-
tions thereof. The navy is represented
by the vignette of Commodore Deca-
tur; the army by that of William L.
Marcy, Secretary of War and later
Secretary of State ; the Senate by
Charles Sumner ; the financial world by
Robert Morris, his portrait being on
the $10 silver certificates and the first
circulated ; and the presidency by James
Monroe — all famous men.

The Treasury or " Coin " notes,
series of 1890 and 1891, used exclu-
sively portraits of Civil War heroes —
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
figured on the $1 notes, and Secretary
of State William H. Seward on the $50;
and the generals on the remaining de-
nominations of the series were Mc-
Pherson, Thomas, Sheridan, Sherman,
Meade ; while Admiral Farragut repre-
sented the gallant navy. John Mar-
shall's vignette was used on the $20
notes. He was the first Chief Justice
of the United States, and one of the
great men of that period.

The first portrait used on a gold cer-
tificate was that of Thomas H. Benton,
and his vignette still appears on the
currency in use to-day.

Martha Washington is the only
woman who has figured on the cur-
rency ; her portrait was on the $1 silver
certificate of the series of 1886-1908.
Two small vignettes of herself and her
husband were used on later currency
of the same denomination.

The famous pioneers, Lewis and
Clark, are pictured on the currency in
small vignettes. Lincoln's and Grant's

small-sized vignettes appear on the
silver certificates in circulation now.

The portraits of Gen. Hancock and
William Windom, appointed Secretary
of the Treasury by Garfield, are on the
silver certificate's second issue.

National bank notes were issued
under the acts of Congress, February
25, 1863, and June 3, 1864. The re-
verses of these national bank notes
represented historical scenes copied
from paintings hanging in the Capitol
in Washington. These scenes were
" The Landing of the Pilgrims," " Sir
Walter Raleigh Exhibiting Corn and
Tobacco from America," " Columbus
in Sight of Land," " The Battle of Lex-
ington," " Washington Crossing the
Delaware," " Commodore Perry Leav-
ing His Flag-ship," " Genius of the
American Navy," and " General Win-
field Scott Entering the City of
Mexico."

The portrait of James A. Garfield,
the second President to be assassinated,
was the first used on national bank
notes in the series of 1882.

The fractional currency, issued dur-
ing the Civil War to meet the scarcity
of the gold, silver, and copper money
in circulation, comprised denomina-
tions ranging from five cents to fifty
cents, and the portraits used thereon
were chifly those of Washington, Jef-
ferson, Clark, Fessenden, and Spinner,
the later, while Treasurer of the United
States, having invented the first use
of fractional currency.

Each war in which the United States
has participated has brought with it a
tightening of the money market, and
Congress has had to legislate to relieve
the threatened financial shortage.

The Bureau of Engraving and Print-
ing in Washington was organized under
act of July 11, 1862, and as Hon. Joseph

AMERICAN HISTORY IN ITS CURRENCY

E. Ralph, Director of the Bureau, states
in his " Story of Uncle Sam's Money
Making Plant " :

" The Bureau is the Government fac-
tory for producing its paper money,
bonds, revenue, postage, and custom
stamps, checks, drafts, and all im-
portant documents printed from en-
graved plates. The output in the fiscal
year just ended, June 30, 1916, had a
value of approximately three and one-
half billions of dollars.

" Putting it in a more concrete form,
the daily output of United States notes,
gold and silver certificates, and national
bank notes, is two and one-quarter
million notes, having a face value of
nine million dollars, and weighing over

three and one-half tons. If laid out
flat they would cover nine acres, and
if placed end to end the daily output
would make a chain two hundred and
fifty miles long.

" It is a notable fact that such enor-
mous quantities of securities are pro-
duced year after year at this establish-
ment without the loss of one cent to the
Government, and is a testimonial to the
integrity and ability of the employees,
not one of whom is bonded, as well as
the efficiency of the system under
which they operate. Be it further said
to the credit of these employees that
not one has ever engaged in the coun-
terfeiting of the securities manufac-
tured by the Bureau."

WAR DEPARTMENT FLAG REGULATIONS

Many inquiries concerning the proper
method of displaying, hanging, and saluting
the United States flag are being received at
the War Department in Washington, and in
response to them the Adjutant General of the
Army has issued a "Flag circular," from
which the following rules and regulations are
taken :

The hanging of the United States flag
should be restricted to suspending it from
a flag pole, in the regular way, and not to
displaying it otherwise. For purposes of deco-
ration only, the national colors should be ar-
ranged in the form of bunting and not used in
the form of a flag. If it is, nevertheless, the
desire to use the flag for decorative purposes,
it should always be hung flat whether on the
inside or the outside of buildings, with the
union to the north or east, so that there will
be a general uniformity in the position of the
union of each flag thus displayed.

The flag should rarely be displayed in a
horizontal position or laid flat; under no cir-
cumstances should it be hung where it can
easily be contaminated or soiled ; or draped
over chairs or benches to be used for seating
purposes, and no object or emblem of any
kind should be placed above or upon it. The
War Department has no objection to the flag
flying at night on civilian property, provided
it is not so flown for advertising purposes.

Where several flags or emblems are dis-
played on a pole, or otherwise, the United

States flag should always be hoisted first and
hung, or displayed, at the top. In any parade
the United States flag should always have the
place of honor, and it should never be hung
or displayed with the union side down, except
as a signal of distress at sea.

Old or worn out flags should not be used
either for banners or for any secondary pur-
pose. When a flag is in such a condition that
it is no longer a fitting emblem for display,
it should not be cast aside, nor used in any
way which might be viewed as disrespectful
to the National colors, but should be destroyed
as a whole, privately, preferably by burning
or by some other method lacking in any sug-
gestion of irreverence or disrespect due the
emblem representing our country.

The colors red, white and blue have, in
themselves, no meaning which includes the
United States flag. These colors are used
as well in the flags of England, France, The
Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, and several
other countries. It is the arrangement of
these colors into a particular design that con-
stitutes our national flag. The manner, there-
fore, in which bunting should be displayed
would seem to be a question of taste or effect,
and it seems to be generally considered that
the arrangement with red at the top presents
the better appearance. The national flags of
both The Netherlands and Paraguay are so
arranged.

SILHOUETTES OF JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE

John Randolph of Roanoke — gener-
ations have passed away, but the name,
famous in the early days of the Repub-
lic, has lost none of its power to arouse
interest and command attention.

Acknowledged to be one of the fore-
most statesmen of his day, Randolph
lived very simply on his estate in
Virginia, and his habit of signing him-

Randolph would have been designated
as " John 2d," or " John 3d," and his
picturesque signature would have been
lost to posterity.

Randolph of Roanoke was seventh
in descent from Pocahontas and John
Rolfe. His father, Richard, died in
1775, and nearly three years later his
mother, Frances Bland Randolph,

Photos — Edmondson, Washington.

JOHN RANDOLPH ON HORSEBACK AS THE CARTOONIST SAW HIM

self " John Randolph of Roanoke "
was not from arrogance but from his
desire to make a distinction between
himself and a number of relatives who
also bore the name of John Randolph.
If he had lived in these prosaic days
10

married St. George Tucker who took
devoted care of his four step-children.
Lack of space prevents a detailed
description of Randolph's achieve-
ments. He never desired public office,
but was called upon to represent Vir-

SILHOUETTES OF JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE

ginia in the United States House of
Representatives and later in the United
States Senate. His poetic eloquence
and scathing wit, directed unsparingly
against every corrupt scheme, made
him a national figure in Congress, and
he became the idol of Virginia.

Randolph had the courage of his con-
victions and the even greater courage
of acknowledging when he was wrong,
and his career was stormy in those
days of political passion. He accepted
the post of United States Minister to
Russia, tendered him by President
Jackson, and it was on the eve of his
departure on that mission that the large
silhouette was made of him.

Randolph's appearance was striking.
He was six feet in height and very
slender, with long skinny fingers, which

JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE

Silhouette made on his embarkation for Russia on board
ship "Coward." Randolph was U. S. Minister to Russia.

JOHN RANDOLPH, CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS
COMMITTEE

From the painting by Stuart — Corcoran Gallery of Art.

he frequently pointed and shook at his
opponent in the heat of argument or
debate. While Randolph's shoulders
were broad, his figure was not well
proportioned, and the artists in making
the silhouettes have depicted his long
and slender legs with minute exactness.
The silhouettes were made by different
artists and at different times.

Dr. Randolph Bryan Carmichael,
of Washington, great-great-nephew of
John Randolph, owns the original sil-
houettes, and it is through his kindness
that they are published to-day. The
silhouettes were inherited by his great-
grandfather, John Randolph Bryan, a
ward of John Randolph, who married
Randolph's favorite niece, Elizabeth
Coalter.

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The Stuart portrait of Randolph does
full justice to his handsome features.
He looks partic-
u 1 a r 1 y youthful,
and it hardly seems
possible that Stuart
painted the portrait
when Randolph
was thirty-three
years of age and
chairman of the
Ways and Means
Cornmittee of the
United States
House of Repre-
sentatives. The
portrait is loaned
to the Corcoran
Gallery of Art in
Washington by
Charles Coleman,
great-nephew of

ANOTHER SILHOUETTE fe r

of john Randolph John Randolph.

The one romance of Randolph's life
ended in the tragic breaking of his en-
gagement to Maria
Ward. Miss Ward
was celebrated for
her beauty; she af-
terward married
Peyton, son of Ed-
m u n d Randolph.
John Randolph
never married.

Randolph, w h o
was born at Caw-
sons, Virginia, in
1773, died at Phil-
adelphia in his
sixty-first year,
and was one of
the best known and
most picturesque
Americans of his

d a v and genera -
. another silhouette of

"On. JOHN RANDOLPH

HIS BIT

By Thornton W. Burgess
(of the Vigilantes)

He stood at the teller's gilded gate ;

Feeble was he and old.
His coat was worn and his trousers frayed

And he shivered a bit with cold.
He shivered a bit though the day was warm,

For the blood in his veins was thin,
And the pass-book shook in the withered hand

That he slowly thrust within.

"It isn't much, but it's all I have,

And it's every cent my own.
I want that ye shall take it all

For a share in the nation's loan.
It's all I have and it's cost me dear ;

God knows how I've worked for it !
But I've heard the call and my answer's here ;

It's a way I can do my bit."

The old man fingered the parchment stiff —

The bond for his hoard of gold.
A pitiful sum it seemed, forsooth,

As a nation's wealth is told.
A light leaped up in his dim blue eyes

And his threadbare shoulders squared.
There was strength of pride in his very step

As into the street he fared.

And who shall belittle that old man's bit?

There is none can surpass his all.
He gave of the strength of his long lost youth

When he answered the nation's call.
And the heart of a patriot beat beneath

That coat that was ill of fit.
Have you of your competence done as much?

Have you answered and "done your bit"?

A "REAL" DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION

Mrs. Jane Squire Deane, daughter
of a soldier of the American Revolution,
now a resident of Binghamton, N. Y.,
was born at Matteawan, N. Y., on July
4, 1831. Her autobiography, as pre-
pared by herself, follows :

" According to genealogical records,
one of my father's ancestors, William
Squire, was a member of the Queen's
Horse in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ;
he sailed with Sir Francis Drake on his
last voyage ; was made prisoner by the
Spaniards and taken to Spain but later

MRS. JANE SQUIRE DEANE, " REAL DAUGHTER"

Who celebrates her eighty-sixth birthday on July 4, 1917.

was among the prisoners exchanged.
He returned to Court; was implicated
in a plot against Queen Elizabeth and
the Earl of Sussex, and was beheaded.
His grandson, Samuel Squire, was a
Roundhead and a Cornet in one of
Cromwell's regiments. Upon the res-
toration of the Stuarts, he fled with
his family to America and changed the
family name from Squier to Squire.
" The first home of the Squire family

in America was in Concord, Mass.
Later they joined the settlement at
Hartford, Conn. Finally Samuel's
son, George, took land in Fairfield
County, Conn., where his descendants
(among them my father and grand-
father, Jonathan Squire, Sr. and Jr.)
were living at the time of the
Revolution.

" My father, although only a lad of
twelve years at the beginning of the
wrar, drove one of the wagons carrying
provisions for the American soldiers
from Fishkill Landing (Fishkill-on-the-
Hudson) to Danbury, Conn. It was a
long, lonely, rough trail in those days,
and one of his choicest recollections
was of one of the few farm houses on the
way where the face of a buxom lassie
was wont to peep bashfully from above
one of the half doors, the upper half
being open. One of his often repeated
tales was the burning of Danbury by
the British which he and his father saw.
Grandfather Squire was a lieutenant in
the Fourth Regiment, Connecticut
Militia, but my father enlisted in the
First Regiment, New York Line, under
Col. Goose Van Schaick. To amuse
his children, father would sometimes
play ' Goose.' Off he would start
with an imaginary 'goose,' saying,
' Goose! goose! Who stole the goose?
Van Schaick stole the goose and away
he ran.' Then he would remind them
that Van Schaick was his colonel, a
very good colonel, and all his ' boys '
(my father was fifteen years old) liked
him.

" When the war was ended, the lonely
Fishkill Mountains proved attractive to
my father. For in one of their quiet

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valleys he bought a farm, and here he
brought his bride, Esther Truesdale,
and here their eight children were born.
The eldest son, Lewis, served in the
War of 1812, and on his return at the
close of this war courted and married
Neighbor Holmes' daughter Patty.
Neighbor John Holmes and his father,
Peter Holmes, had also served in the
Revolution. As Father Jonathan's wife
had been laid in the country church-
yard, he, too, tarried often at Neighbor
Holmes' and soon took his young
daughter Katherine or Catee to be step-
mother to her sister's husband and his
seven brothers and sisters. Seven more
children were added to the family, of
whom I, the youngest, am the only one
living.

" Early in 1648, one of my mother's
ancestors, Francis Holmes, brought his
wife and four children from Beverley,
Yorkshire, England, to Stamford, Conn.
In 1681, the second son John with
twenty-three others became Proprietors
of the Bedford Patent, now a part of
Westchester County, New York. Six
sons and two daughters made up his
small family, and the many Holmes
families of Westchester, Putnam and
Dutchess Counties are their descend-
ants. One son James was a colonel
and another son Richard a lieutenant
in the British army in 1737. Forty
years later Richard's son Peter and
grandsons were fighting against the
British. Peter Holmes, my grand-
father, married his cousin, Mary
Holmes. Their friends made a rhyme
characteristic of that period :

Peter Holmes and here he comes ; he is a man

of fame;
He married a wife to save her life, and never

changed her name.

" Six children were born to them, of
whom the second son John enlisted in

the Westchester County Militia and
later in the Fourth Regiment, New
York Line, under his brother, Col.
James Holmes. John Holmes, my
grandfather, married Catherine Slau-
son, whose father, Ebenezer Slauson,
was also a Revolutionary patriot. The
Spirit of Patriotism was the rightful
inheritance of this couple, and Grand-
mother Catee did not lack her share.
She bore eleven lusty young Americans
for the young Republic — four sons and
seven daughters. Daughter Catee was
my mother.

" That my father did not forget the
wife of his early manhood was evi-
denced by the name Esther, the first
child of his second marriage ; and the
name Esther is still a favorite among
the descendants of the first family of
children. Among these descendants
are the Squire and Newbury families
of the lower Hudson valley, and also
the Squire and Wood families near
Cleveland, Ohio ; as three of my half-
brothers — William, Samuel and Brad-
ley Squire — and one half-sister — Betsey
Squire Wood — left the little farm
among the hills for the advantages of
the growing settlement at Cleveland.
As this was before the days of the
Empire State Express, Brother Samuel
made his business trips to the East by
Lake Erie, thence by slow passage on
the Erie Canal, and down the Hudson,
the great highway of that time.

" Father, too, left the farm and moved
his family to Matteawan, one of the
growing factory villages overlooking
the Hudson. Here I was born ; and
here, too, when I was eleven years old,
my father died and was buried in the
Old Dutch Burying Ground at Fishkill
Landing. A few years later, we moved
to Paterson, N. J. Here I had my very
first sight of a railway and first ride on a

A "REAL" DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION

railway train from Jersey City to Pater-
son. The coaches were like the old-
fashioned stage coaches fastened to-
gether and drawn by a queer little loco-
motive of the primitive type. The New
York Central was not built until later
and then, at first, had only a single track
and doubtful service. Early one morn-
ing we started to attend my cousin's
wedding fifteen miles away. The train
had to stop because of a slight accident
to the track, and there we waited until
nearly midnight. The wedding was
over and the bride and groom had de-
parted. It was about this time that
my sister Abigail went with her hus-
band, Bailey Youmans, and their little
son to the distant prairie land of Illinois.
Later they moved to Iowa and in these
States, her children, grandchildren, and
great-grandchildren still live.

" Returning with my mother and
sisters to the Hudson Valley from
Prtcrson, I lived there until I was mar-
ried and left for Binghamton, N. Y.,
which has been my home for nearly half

a century. My husband, Oliver Deane,
was the youngest brother of my sister
Catherine's husband. His boyhood
home had been in the Fishkill Moun-
tains and his grandfathers, John Deane
and Stephen Northrup, had also fought
for Liberty and Independence. Three
of our children lie on the hillside with
their father, but one daughter is left
with me.

" My father, uncles, grandfathers,
and great-grandfathers fought for In-
dependence. My grandmothers and
great-aunts served no less at home, —
spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing for
the soldiers as well as caring for their
families and even working in the fields,
suffering anxiety and privations and
enduring the hardships of war. The
spirit of remembrance is strong in our
family. I was born on Independence
Day and will celebrate my eighty-sixth
birthday with the Nation's one hun-
dred and forty-first birthday next
Fourth of July."

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WAR RELIEF SERVICE COMMITTEE

Individuals or Chapters desiring to
adopt a French orphan can secure the
child's name and address by writing to
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott or Mrs. Albert
S. Burleson, Chairman and Vice Chair-
man of the National Committee on War
Relief Service.

Thirty-six dollars and fifty cents will
support a French orphan. Money con
tributed to the French orphan should be
sent to the Treasurer General, Memorial
Continental Hall, Washington, D. C,
through Chapter Regents.

BALFOUR TAKES MESSAGE TO KING GEORGE V

When the Right Honorable Arthur contained in a letter addressed to

Balfour returned to Great Britain he Air. Balfour by Airs. Lockwood and

bore with him a message to King signed as a Founder of the National

George V expressing the appreciation, Society.

as voiced by Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Mr. Balfour, in a cordial letter of

of the Daughters of the American Revo- reply, said that he would deliver the

lution, for the tribute paid George letter with great pleasure.

Washington by the British Mission to Mrs. Lockwood's letter to Mr. Bal-

the United States. This message is four and his reply are as follows :

May 7, 1917.
The Right Honorable Arthur James Balfour,

On Mission to the United States,

Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Balfour:

A quarter of a century ago I sent out over this Country a Call to the Women of
America who were descendants of our Revolutionary forefathers, with the idea of organ-
izing a Society that would perpetuate the memories of their great deeds and do honor to
their patriotism.

The result was the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The
"Daughters" now number over one hundred thousand women whose homes are scattered
all over the United States and whose influence is equally far-reaching.

It must be that all of these women have been deeply affected, as I have been, by our
relatives from across the sea by their generous and thoughtful homage to the great Leader
of our Republic, also " citizen of Great Britain," George Washington, and that they would
be glad of an opportunity to tell you of the gratification over your act.

The world's upheaval, which now involves our countries, has brought to us at least one
grateful thought — Great Britain and America, who gave to us the great soul of Wash-
ington, are now standing together, sword in hand, in defence of democracy and liberty.

In my capacity of "Little Mother" to all these Daughters, my desire is to extend to
you, and through you to send to Mother England's King the welcome and appreciation
of a hundred thousand patriotic women of America. It would have been a great gratifica-
tion to have had an opportunity to take you by the hand in our Memorial Continental
Hall, where we could send a hand clasp through you over the sea, to our relatives who
are still singing their National Anthems to the same tune, which shows that we have
never been very far apart.

Very sincerely,

Mary S. Lockwood,
Founder, National Society,

Daughters of the American Revolution.
The Columbia,
14th and Girard Streets,
Washington, D. C.
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BALFOUR TAKES MESSAGE TO KING GEORGE V 17

BRITISH EMBASSY,
WASHINGTON.

May 10, 1917.

Dear Mrs. Lockwood:

It gave me very great pleasure to receive
your letter of the 7th of May, and I much appreciate
the kind and friendly sentiments which you have been so
good as to express on behalf of the Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution. The tribute
which I had the honor to pay to the memory of George
Washington was, I know, but an echo of the feelings
of my fellow countrymen who rejoice to see the whole
English speaking race united in a common struggle
against the enemies of humanity, democracy and li-
berty.

I shall be proud on my return to England
to deliver the message with which you have been
good enough to entrust me»

Yours very truly

The Columbia,

14th and Girard Streets,

Washington, D.O*

Mrs. Mary S. lockwood, / U

THE 7TH NEW YORK REGIMENT IN 1810

Down Fifth Avenue came the sound
of tramping feet, and rank upon rank
of gray uniformed figures, stern of
face, erect, bayonets and cross belts
glittering, swung swiftly along, the
lines moving as one man.

" Hurrah for the Seventh ! "

So shouted the multitude when the
crack regiment of New York responded
to the country's need, first in 1861 and
first in 1898; so shouted the multitude
last summer when the Seventh Regi-
ment again responded to the call to the
Colors, but this time khaki had replaced
gray, just as in the past gray replaced
the picturesque dark blue coats, with
scarlet facings, and white trousers —
the uniform worn by the Seventh Regi-
ment in 1810. But whatever the uni-
form and whatever the generation, the
spirit animating the regiment is identi-
cal in patriotic loyalty.

The portrait of Major Myers,
painted by Jarvis in 1810, shows him
wearing the uniform of the Seventh
New York Regiment. It is the only
portrait of its kind in existence, and the
officers of the Seventh Regiment hope
some day to have a copy of the orig-
inal portrait to hang in their armory
in New York City. The portrait is
owned by Mrs. Julian James of Wash-
ington, Major Myers' grand-daughter.

Major Myers' commission in the regi-
ment is dated June, 1810, and is signed
by Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of
New York.

Major Myers was born in Newport,
R. I., on May 1, 1776, two months be-
fore the Declaration of Independence.
His father was a distinguished scholar,
speaking and writing most of the liv-
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ing languages. In 1777 he died, leaving
a widow and several children.

Young Myers, left fatherless, gave
early evidence of possessing marked
character and ability. When but a lad
of thirteen he witnessed a memorable
event in American history. One of the
dense crowds before the City Hall in
Wall Street, he saw Chancellor Living-
ston administer the oath of office which
made General George Washington first
President of the United States.

West Point Academy was not then
in existence, so young Myers studied
under Colonel de la Croix, a French
officer who had served with Napoleon.
After six years' practical experience in
the Seventh New York Regiment he
attained the rank of senior captain and
acting major.

In 1812 Captain Myers accepted a
captain's commission in the regular
army, 13th Regiment, U. S. Infantry,
commanded by Col. Peter P. Schuyler.
In one of his letters to his son he writes :
" I buckled on my sword to advance to
my station at Charlotte, Lake Cham-
plain, as one of the defenders of my
country." This sword may be seen in
the National Museum, Washington,
and on its broad belt are traces of blood
from a wound which nearly cost him
his life.

It was during a successful engage-
ment with the British at Crysler's Field
that Major Myers was so severely
wounded. Thirty splinters were re-
moved from his shoulder, and he was
taken to Plattsburg, N. Y., on a horse
led by his faithful servant, William
Williams, who had searched for his

THE 7TH NEW YORK REGIMENT IN 1810

Engraved from the portrait by Jarvis.

LIEUT. M. MYERS
In uniform of 7th Regiment in 1810.

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THE 7TH NEW YORK REGIMENT IN 1810

master among the dead and dying.
He was taken to the house of Dr. Mann,
where he remained for four months,
and where he met a charming young
girl, Miss Charlotte Bailey, who soon
afterwards became his wife. She was a
daughter of Judge William Bailey, of
Plattsburg, and a sister of Theodorus
Bailey, afterward Rear Admiral in the
United States Navy, distinguished for
his gallant service in the Civil War.

Beside distinction as a soldier, Major
Myers won laurels as a legislator, be-
ing five times elected to the New York
Assembly and in 1832 to the U. S.
House of Representatives. He gained

the lasting gratitude of the Quakers of
his State by securing them the right to
decline all military service, which was
contrary to their religious principles.

Among other prominent positions he
was made Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of the State of New York by the
Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a
distinguished member.

Major Myers died in his ninety-sixth
year, and is buried in Vale Cemetery,
Schenectady, N. Y., where a beautiful
monument bears his name and that of
his wife and his ten children. His
motto, " Do right, and fear not," is an
epitome of his upright life.

BALTIMORE'S PATRIOTIC PRIZE CONTEST

Baltimore, Md., the birthplace of "The
Star Spangled Banner," has offered a
prize of $iooo for a "National Citizens'
Creed" which embodies the ideals and be-
liefs of the United States.

The contest is open to all who have
been born in, or who have become natu-
ralized citizens of, the United States. Any
contestant may submit more than one
creed. The author is to use only a private
mark on the manuscripts submitted, and
a sealed envelope containing the author's
full name and address and the private
mark must accompany the manuscripts.

The envelopes will be opened only when
the judges have made their decision.
Manuscripts should be typewritten on
one side of the paper only. The creed
should not exceed 300 words.

The one hundred and third contest is
now open and will continue until Septem-
ber 14, 191 7, the anniversary of the writ-
ing of the "Star Spangled Banner."

All manuscripts are to be sent to the
Committee on Manuscripts, Citizens'
Creed Contest, care of Educational Foun-
dations, 31-33 East 27th Street, New
York City.

WORK OF THE CHAPTERS

To Insure Accuracy in the Reading of Names and Promptness in
Publication, Chapter Reports must be Typewritten.

EDITOR.

Monroe Chapter (New York). The
year just passed has been one of normal
progress. There have been held ten regu-
lar meetings, seven board meetings and
one special meeting. There has been one
death, two resignations and one transfer.

Of those newly elected. Mrs. Charles
Johnson is the only one who has qualified
and attained membership. The average
attendance has been twenty-five. ( )ur
Regent has been present at every meeting
of the year.

The year-book program has been fol-
lowed with few exceptions.

Doubtless the most important meeting
of the year marked the occasion of the
visit to us of the State Regent, Mrs.
Spraker. On October 19 our Regent had
a most delightful luncheon in Mrs.
Spraker's honor at which the other guests
were the members of the program com-
mittee, and later Mrs. Caswell received
the members of the Chapter. The Chapter
was addressed by the State Regent upon
appropriate subjects and in a most inspir-
ing and charming manner.

At the November meeting the Regent,
Mrs. Caswell, gave a most interesting
report of the State conference held at
Albany to which she and Mrs. Hiler were
delegates.

On April 12, at Airs. Rapalee's, Dr.
Hazen gave the members much valuable
and appreciated information concerning
the Red Cross, its work and its needs.
Public social events held during the year
were the card party and Annual Ball,
both of which were decidedly successful.
22

Notable accomplishments of the year
were the adoption of Mrs. Adams' " Flag
Code," the placing of it in the schools
of Brockport, Elmira, and St. Johnsville,
and provision for the equipment and fur-
nishing of a Red Cross box to be sent
to the Base Hospital Supply Station at
Rochester.

(Mrs. James) Carrie P. Mann,

Secretary.

The Stars and Stripes Chapter ( Bur-
lington, Iowa ) has just ended a most
gratifying year's work. The subject of
the program for the year was " Iowa,"
and the themes and early history of the
State most interestingly discussed. The
Chapter is in a flourishing condition, and
eight members have been accepted during
the year. The principal work accom-
plished was : $25 given to the remaining
debt on the Memorial Continental Hall ;
$10 donated to local Red Cross work; $5
to marking Camp McClelland, which is
beautifully located on the bank of the
Mississippi River facing Rock Island, 111.,
and $5 to the G. A. R. towards buying the
flags for decorating graves on May 30.
We have also given a large bunting flag
to float from the new bridge that spans
the Mississippi River at this point, and a
field flag to Company I of the Iowa Na-
tional Guard. The Chapter was repre-
sented in a patriotic celebration recently
in this city by a handsomely decorated
float with bunting and flags. The impor-
tant personages represented in the float
were George and Martha Washington,

WORK OF THE CHAPTERS

and thirteen girls from the James Wilson
Grimes School, who represented the thir-
teen original Colonies.

Abbie MacFlynn,

Historian.

Gaviota Chapter (Long Beach, Cal.)
is just closing its ninth year, and those
whose privilege it has been to know the
Chapter for the entire time of its existence
can truly say that we are steadily going
forward, that the spirit of the Chapter
and the sincere feeling of its members for
one another and for the work we are
trying to do is growing stronger every
year.

Beside our regular monthly meetings,
which have been very well attended and
full of interest to all, many of the Chapter
members are meeting weekly to work for
the Red Cross, or working at home for
the same object.

Our Committee on Patriotic Education
has put framed copies of the California
Flag Law into all the city schools and we
have contributed the money for a bronze
bell to mark the point where the old
Camino Real — the " King's Highway " of
the Mission Days — comes nearest to Long
Beach.

In November we had the pleasure of
entertaining the State Regent and Vice-
Regent, and in January the regular meet-
ing was prefaced by a luncheon at which
the members-to-be of the new Chapter
now being formed here were our guests.
Gertrude W. Merwin,
Historian.

Rebecca Weston Chapter (Dexter,
Me.) was organized May 16, 1916, and
has just completed a year of entertaining
and patriotic endeavor.

Flag Day was observed at the home of
the Regent, Mrs. Carrie Brewster, and
through the kindness of Mrs. Brewster
they secured a moving-picture slide of the

flag which is shown at the beginning of
each performance.

Upon the departure of Company A,
Second Infantry, N. G. S. M., for Texas,
the Regent, in behalf of the Chapter,
presented the troops with a State flag.

A field day was held at the cottage of
Mrs. Edna Emery Hutchins at Lake Se-
basticook (Newport, Me.), where we had
the pleasure of entertaining the State
Regent, Mrs. Alice Steele, and Mrs.
George Thacher Guernsey of Kansas.
Mrs. Guernsey, now President General,
gave a very interesting talk upon the work
of the National Society and of the relief
work done by the Society and various
local Chapters.

Cooperating with the Trustees of the
Public Library, the Chapter had a com-
plete set of seventeen volumes of the
Massachusetts Records of Revolutionary
Soldiers and Sailors placed in the library.

Desiring to show our appreciation of
her enthusiasm in organizing the Chapter
and leading us in our work, at the Novem-
ber meeting we presented our Regent
with a gavel and ballot box. Have con-
tributed to various National and State
causes and added twelve new members to
our original forty-two.

At the Annual Meeting, May, 1917, the
Regent presented the Chapter with a
handsome silk Flag and Standard. The
1916 Board of Officers was reelected.
Eleanor Tewksbury Lincoln,

Historian.

Knickerbocker Chapter (New York).
Patriotic work of Knickerbocker Chap-
ter during the past two years has been
along many widely different lines ; 1916
and 1917 have produced new problems,
many beyond the Chapter's resources and
treasury.

Patriotic work has been done in the
presentation of two stands of colors to

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the Junior Naval Reserve, and another
United States' emblem honored and re-
vered, was presented to the Washington
Headquarters Association, who protect
the Jumel Mansion in its historic atmos-
phere. In the past few years, Knicker-
bocker Chapter has had under its charge
one room at this Jumel Mansion ; and two
of our most active members, Mrs. William
R. Stewart, our Honorary Regent, and
Mrs. N. Taylor Phillips, a Chapter ex-
officer of many years' service, have each
served her term as President of the Wash-
ington Headquarters Association, and
many members have also served on com-
mittee.

Civic and Educational interests have
also been considered. A contribution to
the " Safe and Sane Fourth-of-July " is
an annual forethought. The memory-
book of a D. A. R. friend of our Regent
in South Carolina ; the reinstatement of a
young Naval Reservist, who temporarily
lost an honorable position through lack
of funds; the " D. A. R. Magazine"
deficit, for which Chapter cooperation
was asked for relief; boxes of books to
Berry School, Rome, Georgia; and the
Hinman School, Kentucky ; Contribu-
tions to the New York Daily Vacation
Bible Schools Association ; a scholarship
endowment in the Dark Corner School
of South Carolina ; and a small contribu-
tion to a D. A. R. scholarship in a George-
town, S. C, country school. All these
prove our enthusiastic appreciation as a
Chapter of the needs, personal, of those
who would be patriotic citizens and " good
Americans."

Our honored Regent, Mrs. Simon
Baruch, has generously offered her sum-
mer home in New Jersey for a base-hos-
pital for the New Jersey Coast Guard
Service.

• (Miss) Grace E. Taft,

Historian.

Wendell Wolfe Chapter (District of
Columbia). With the celebration of its
seventh birthday anniversary on April
12, Wendell Wolfe Chapter, closed a suc-
cessful year of work. The celebration
took the form of a guest meeting at which,
owing to the near approach of Con-
tinental Congress, a number of prominent
Daughters were present.

The subject of study by the Chapter
during the past year has been " The
History of the Northwest Territory,"
following its previous studies in Revolu-
tionary and Colonial history, and also that
of the National Capital. The papers this
year have maintained an unusually high
standard of excellence.

For several years the Chapter has had
as its educational work the financing of
a young girl of the North Carolina moun-
tains, she having attended both the Lees-
McCrae Institute at Banner Elk, N. C,
and Davenport College, Lenoir, N. C.
She is teaching at present and the Chapter
has another protege from the same
region attending the Lees-McCrae Insti-
tute. In order to meet this financial obli-
gation, the Chapter By-laws have been
amended, levying a tax of $1.00 per year
on each member.

During the year nine meetings have
been held, and a large reception given,
the latter event taking place on the even-
ing of November 18, 1916, in honor of
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, an hon-
orary member of the Chapter.

Fifteen dollars was contributed to the
Elizabeth V. Brown Scholarship Fund of
the George Washington University in
honor of the Regent who holds the degree
of M. A. from that university. Ten
dollars was voted toward the six hundred
dollars for a hospital bed to be given by
the District D. A. R., and contributions to
Friendship House, a neighborhood settle-
ment house, the Association for the Blind,

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and the Emily Nelson McLean Scholar-
ship Fund for the non-sectarian school
at St. Mary's, Maryland, have been made.

One of the charter members and the
Vice-Regent, Mrs. Harry C. Oberholser,
has been honored in being' selected for the
office of Corresponding- Secretary for the
District Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, and another member, the Corre-
sponding Secretary, Miss Eva Elizabeth
Luke, was chosen by the State Historian
to write one of the fourteen historical
papers on the early land grants to the
District of Columbia. Her subject was
" Cerne Abbey Manor," the grant on
which the Capitol building is located.
These papers are to be bound and placed
in the Library at Continental Memorial
Hall.

A beautiful silk flag was given to the
Beginners' Department of the Petworth
Methodist-Episcopal Sunday School, and
a book, Volume I of the History of the
National Capital by B. Bryan, was given
to the library at Continental Memorial
Hall. As is its annual custom, the
Chapter laid a wreath on the statue of
Benjamin Franklin on Decoration Day.

There is a remarkable spirit of coop-
eration in the members, much patriotic
enthusiasm, and to a marked degree, loyal
devotion to the highest and best ideals of
our great and beloved organization.
Eva Elizabeth Luke,
Corresponding Secretary.

Fort Phoenix Chapter (New Bedford,
Mass.) is nearing the. close of its fourth
season. We have had the regular busi-
ness and social meeting once a month for
eight months each year, and always close
the season with an outing. We have en-
joyed entertainments of both educational
and historical value, listened to able ad-

dresses by many public speakers, and on
several occasions we were delightfully en-
tertained with readings and musical selec-
tions far above the average in quality and
talent. We have held one "Colonial Tea,"
which was a great success in every way.

The Chapter has donated many sub-
stantial sums to different charities and
schools. On King Albert's birthday, we
sold tags amounting to over $200 for the
relief of the Belgium sufferers. We have
placed markers at the graves of twenty-
four Revolutionary soldiers, sent a box of
comforts to the soldiers on the Texas
border, contributed $10 toward the
" Chimes " at Valley Forge, and have
placed a tablet on a very old house, in
Acushnet (a suburb of our city), a house
raided by the British in Revolutionary
days, and fortunately left standing. We
have now pledged ourselves to each earn
a dollar, the sum total to be given to the
New Bedford branch of the Red Cross
Society for comforts for soldiers and
sailors of our own State. Our ex-Regent,
Mrs. Olive B. Sherman, was one of the
1000 ladies chosen by the National Society
to raise $25 to help cancel the debt on
Continental Hall, which she did, and sent
the contribution in the name of our
Chapter.

So, you see, we are accepting the re-
sponsibilities and honors with the social
affairs, helping to do our part as a patri-
otic society in the present time of war and
strife.

(Mrs. D. Edw.) Josephine F. Bliss,

Historian.

Granite Chapter (Newmarket and
Newfields, N. H.). The Daughters of
this Chapter have recently received in
honorary membership Mrs. Mary R. Pike,
widow of Rev. James Pike, D.D., of
Newfields.

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Mrs. Pike was born September 11,
1815, the daughter of Rev. John and
Mary ( Dodge) Brodhead. Her grand-
father Capt. Luke Brodhead was a soldier
of the Revolution and served on the staff
of General Lafayette. Her ancestor,
Daniel Brodhead, was born in Royston,
England, and served as an officer under
King Charles II. He came to America
with the expedition under Col. Richard
Nichols in 1644 and was the ancestor of
the Pennsylvania and New England
Brodheads.

Mrs. Pike has retained her interest and
enjoyment in life and keeps well informed
on current events which are so rapidly
making the history of our time.

Granite Chapter is pleased and honored
in the membership of Mrs. Pike.

Nellie Palmer George,

Historian.

Gouverneur Morris Chapter (Gouv-
erneur, N. Y.) is soon to celebrate its
nineteenth birthday anniversary. During
the nineteen years the Chapter has de-
veloped into a large and flourishing or-
ganization, active and interested in all
patriotic work. In the past year $50 has
been contributed towards a Building
Fund for a future home for the Chapter,
in memory of Mrs. Anna Wolfe, our first
Regent and organizer of our Chapter,
who died within the past year.

The Chapter recently received a gift
called the Susan Hildreth Hilts Collection
of Household Antiquities, including a
spinning wheel, deerskin-covered trunk ;
hammered-silver teaspoons, etc.

There are many old burying grounds in
St. Lawrence County and the committee
for locating Revolutionary soldiers'
graves has made an extensive search for
these graves and placed government
markers on several with appropriate ex-

ercises by the Chapter. Some of the
epitaphs on the old soldiers' graves are
very quaint. One reads :

Deny me not this little spot

My weary limbs to rest,
Till I shall rise above the skies

To be forever blest.

We are planning to place a marker on
this grave, so this old soldier who was
born in 1754 can always hold his little
spot "to rest his weary limbs."

Our Chapter work at present is to
raise money for a community flag to be
raised on Memorial Day by the veterans.
We are also interested in Red Cross work
in connection with the Women's Relief
Corps. We realize that the Daughters
of the American Revolution now have
their work to do in this war by assisting in
maintaining the principles of freedom and
Democracy for which our ancestors
fought in 1776.

Emily Hagar York,

Historian.

The Alamo Chapter (San Antonio,
Texas). By courtesy of the management
of the St. Anthony Hotel, the Alamo
Chapter has had a delightful meeting
place for the year 1916-1917. Many new
members have been added and we have
had a happy and successful year.

Our Chapter contributed $25 to the
Continental Hall fund and Mrs. Dibrell, a
member, added $25, making $50 to this
fund.

The Alamo Chapter has also contrib-
uted to the Panel Fund at Valley Forge,
Washington Memorial Chapter. We also
pledged $25 to the State Normal School
fund.

Mrs. Harry Hyman, the Regent, Mrs.
J. Kendrick Collins, the Historian, Mrs.
Frank Bell, the Recording Secretary, and

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Mrs. T. P. McCampbell, the Chaplain of
the Chapter attended the State Confer-
ence at Fort Worth.

The Alamo Chapter endorsed the pas-
sage of a bill making Palo Duro Canyon a
National Park.

The Alamo Chapter voted for the pre-
sentation of attractively framed copies of
the Declaration of Independence, and
other patriotic pictures, to be presented
to the city schools from time to time.

The Alamo Chapter has worked indus-
triously and successfully in Red Cross
work for the American fund, also in the
selling of American flags on Washing-
ton's Birthday.

The Alamo Chapter is devotedly at-
tached to the present Regent, Mrs. Harry
Hyman, and in compliment to her as a
fitting close to the year's work, an amend-
ment to Article 9 of the Constitution ex-
tending the term of office for the Regent,
was offered and unanimously carried.

The chapter has suffered a great loss in
the death of one of the oldest members,
Mrs. J. M. Bennett, Sr. She was the first
Honorary Regent.

The Chapter placed on record some
bright verses expressing thanks for a
baby spoon in the name of the mascot,
William Kenyon Jackson, of New York
City.

Many fine papers have been read this
year. One specially defining American-
ism brought up the question of honoring
the American flag and a discussion of its
use and forbidden abuse, and from every
loyal heart, aching and throbbing with
sympathy for the world-wide conflict of
Nations, went up a prayer.

From fire and brand and hostile hand,
God save our own.

Mrs. J. Kendrick Collins,

Historian.

The Elizabeth Jackson Chapter
(Washington, D. C.) was organized Jan-
uary 11, 1898, and named for the mother
of General Andrew Jackson, who, with
her husband Andrew and two young sons,
left Ireland in 1765 and emigrated to
South Carolina and purchased a tract of
land in what was then called the Waxhaw
settlement about forty-five miles from
Camden. It was here in March, 1767,
their third son, Andrew, was born, and
before the end of the year his father died,
leaving the three boys to the care of their
mother, a woman possessed of courage,
industry, and much strength of character.
In 1780 the war was brought to their very
door and the wounded survivors were
taken to the Waxhaw meeting house and
there Elizabeth Jackson was among the
most active and humane in this labor of
love and patriotism. After the battle of
Camden she and her family fled with
others to a distant part of the State, as
they were determined not to become
British subjects; this voluntary exile is
among the numerous evidences of resolu-
tion and spirit shown by this brave
woman. Later Elizabeth, learning of the
capture and imprisonment of her two
sons (her eldest son Hugh had died from
heat and exhaustion after the battle of
Stono), hastened to Camden and found
them sleeping on the floor and their only
food a scanty supply of stale bread ; they
had been robbed of most of their clothing
and were in a pitiable state, as they were
infected with smallpox. By energy and
perseverance she effected an exchange of
prisoners, her sons included in the num-
ber, and immediately started for home.
They had but two horses ; Elizabeth was
given one and on the other her son Rob-
ert, too ill to walk, was held by his com-
panions, while Andrew walked barefoot
and half clad ; thus journeyed forty miles
in the rain. Robert only survived a few
days and Andrew was delirious and in a

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hopeless condition, but through the de-
voted care of his mother he recovered.

This unselfish woman was not content
with helping her own sons, but went to
Charleston in 1782 to nurse her sick coun-
trymen— prisoners on the ships — and
worn by grief and fatigue she contracted
the ship fever and died on her way home
and was buried in an unmarked grave.
Her son Andrew was unable to find the
place, so no monument marks the grave
of this brave, patriotic woman.

Alice H. Heaton,

Regent.

Daniel Morgan Chapter (Gaffney,
S. C.) Two years ago this Chapter, under
the regency of Mrs. Pratt Pierson, moved
the remains of Colonel James Williams,
a hero of the battle of King's Mountain,
from an old field to this place, and on
April 6, 1917, under the regency of Miss
Ray Macomson, a suitable marker has
been placed over that spot. Two brass
mountain howitzer cannon are mounted
on granite with a pyramid of 40 balls be-
tween a bronze tablet with this inscrip-
tion:

Col. James Williams,

Hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain, 1781.

Erected by the Daniel Morgan Chapter,

D. A. R. 1917.

The unveiling was patriotic and inspir-
ing. The two children of Colonel Will-
iams who dropped the veil are direct de-
scendants of Colonel Williams — Isabel
Witherspoon and Walter Mcintosh. The
State Regent, Mrs. F. H. H. Calhoun
was present and made a splendid speech.
Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, of Limestone Col-
lege, closed the exercises with an inspir-
ing address.

An informal reception was given by the
Chapter to the invited guests in the club
room of the city library.

Mrs. Pratt Pierson,
Chairman Monument Committee.

The George Washington Chapter
(Galveston, Texas) was organized at the
residence of Mrs. George Seligson on
June 17, 1895, the anniversary of the Bat-
tle of Bunker Hill.

The following are charter members of
the Chapter : Mesdames Sydney T. Fon-
taine, Allen J. Smith, George Seligson, Ed-
ward Harris, Edwin Bruce, Thomas J.
Groce, M. V. Judson, William Pitt Bal-
linger, Edward Randall, Andrew Mills,
Theodore Thompson, John Harrington,
Misses Shirley V. W. Fontaine, Lillian
Seligson, Eloise Noble, Bettie Ballinger
and Maggie Jones. The Chapter was or-
ganized by Mrs. Sydney T. Fontaine, as-
sisted by Mrs. Allen J. Smith, and it was
the first Chapter organized in the State of
Texas.

Mrs. Fontaine was appointed from
Washington, Regent for Galveston, and
bears the distinction of being the first
member of the D. A. R. to join from
Texas.

The first sorrow of our Chapter was the
death of our Vice Regent, Mrs. Allen J.
Smith — a woman of rare attainments of
mind and heart.

The most honored name in our history
was given our infant Chapter for the
reason that it had the distinction of hav-
ing as its first Regent a great-grand-
daughter of Samuel Washington, brother
of George Washington. Miss Eugenia
Washington, one of the founders of the
organization and whose National num-
ber was No. i, honored us by becoming a
member.

The George Washington Chapter is the
fortunate possessor of an historic gavel.
The mallet is made of wood, polished with
age, from one of the posts of the old
North Concord Bridge at Concord, Mass.,
where "the shot that was heard around
the world" was fired. The handle of the
gavel was made of a piece of the flooring

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of a little house at Valley Forge where
Washington had his headquarters. The
ends are banded with silver from a table-
spoon used in Washington's household.
The end of the handle is tipped with the
end of the spoon on which "W" is en-
graved.

The name and date of organization of
the Chapter is engraved in old English
and on the other silver band around the
mallet is engraved the chapter motto
"Ubi Libertas ibi P atria' (where liberty
dwells there is my country). This in-
scription was taken from the seal of Gen-
eral Lafayette, given to Mrs. Fontaine's
father by the General.

The gavel was presented to the Chap-
ter by its first Regent, Mrs. Sydney T.
Fontaine.

Mrs. Fontaine was regent for three
years. Mrs. George Seligson was then
elected regent but declined the Regency.
Since that time the following members
have made most capable and successful
Regents: Mrs. T. J. Groce, Mrs. L. J.
Polk, Mrs. Edward F. Harris, Mrs. Ed-
ward Randall, Mrs. Edwin Bruce, Mrs.
Maco Stewart, Mrs. James Thompson,
and Mrs. Walter Ayers, the present Re-
gent.

The Chapter now has a large member-
ship and has lived up to its high standard.
Being the first Chapter in the State, it
leads in all patriotic work and is now
first in the Red Cross and preparedness
work for our beloved country.

Marie Ralston,

Secretary.

Merion Chapter (Merion, Pa.). Mer-
ion Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, unveiled a tablet marking one
of the original milestones at the old Lan-
caster Road, or Blockley and Merion
Turnpike (laid out in 1690), on Satur-
day afternoon, April 14, 1917. The day

was bright and clear, and representatives
from the Colonial Dames, Sons of the
American Revolution, Sons of the Revo-
lution, and Children of the American
Revolution, also representatives from all
nearby D. A. R. Chapters were present.
The inscription is as follows :

Original mile-stone marking old
Lancaster Road, or Blockley and
Merion Turnpike, laid out in 1690.
Tablet erected by Merion Chapter,
D. A. R., 1917.

The opening patriotic address was made
by the Rev. Henry A. F. Hoyt, D.D.,
Chaplain Major (retired), N. G. Pa.,
rector of St. John's P. E. Church, Lower
Merion. This was followed by the Salute
to the Flag. "America" was then sung by
all present. An historic paper, giving the
history of the old road, was read by Dora
Harvey Develin, Regent of the Chapter.
The Tablet was unveiled by Beulah Har-
vey and Louis H. Bueck, Jr., of the Mar-
tha Williams Society, D. A. R. "The
Red, White, and Blue," followed by the
benediction completed the exercises.
This section of Pennsylvania was settled
by the Welsh Friends, or Quakers, and is
known as the "Welsh Tract." Merion
Meeting House, the oldest church in this
State, was built in 1695, on the site of a
still older log meeting house, built in
1683. The land on the west bank of the
Schuylkill, at the Middle Ferry (where
Market Street bridge now stands) be-
longed to the Welsh Friends. Very soon
after the city of Philadelphia was founded
a Quaker meeting house known as
"Schuylkill meeting" stood near the pres-
ent site of the abattoir. In 1690 the
Welsh Merion laid out a road from Meri-
on Meeting House to the Middle Ferry.
The ferry was under the care of the
Friends and they had their own boat.
This road is now Lancaster Avenue be-
low Fifty-second Street. (It was con-

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itinued all the way to Lancaster at a
later period.)

On the Blockley and Merion Turnpike,
as upon all early roads, the miles were in-
dicated by milestones. The one marked
by Merion Chapter was the sixth on this
old roadway. Merion Chapter placed a
tablet there because the city has grown
up all about it, and we feared that, in a
few years, the old Lancaster Road, or
Blockley and Merion Turnpike, would be
entirely lost and forgotten in the unro-
mantic and prosaic name of Fifty-fourth
Street — the name it bears at Wynnefield
to-day.

Dora Harvey Develin,

Regent.

The Susana Randolph Chapter (Van-
dalia, Mo.) was organized February 10,
1917, by our State Regent, Mrs. William
R. Painter. We have seventeen active
and one associate members, and five
papers pending. When the Chapter was
organized we had with us members from
the following Chapters : Col. Jonathan
Pettibone Chapter, Louisiana, Mo. ; The
Nancy Robbin Chapter, Frankford, Mo. ;
and the Mexico, Missouri Chapter,
Mexico, Mo. From these three Chapters
we drew our charter members. Follow-
ing the organization ceremony a course
luncheon was served.

Our first regular meeting was with
30

Miss Ruby Turner, our Regent, when the
Chapter voted to give flags for Baby
Week to every home having a baby under
three and a half years of age.

At our last meeting the Chapter voted
to make and give comfort bags to all boys
going to war from Vandalia, Missouri.

The Susana Randolph Chapter is in its
infancy, but we hope to grow and accom-
plish much good.

(Mrs. J. M.) Ione Irvine Biggs,

Secretary.

Margaret Gaston Chapter (Lebanon,
Tenn. ) organized in 1897, is enthusiastic
in its study of history, and the welfare of
our country. Flag Day is always ob-
served patriotically. The Historic Sites
Committee is now raising a fund to place
a Revolutionary memorial drinking foun-
tain at the old spring around which our
city was built. The committee in Patri-
otic Education is placing a flag and a copy
of the flag laws in every room in the pub-
lic schools.

The county was settled in 1799 and
formed part of the " North Carolina
Military Reserve."

The following is a list of Revolutionary
soldiers buried in Wilson County: Col.
Benj. Searrell, Edward Morris, Col. David
Campbell, John Foster, Benj. Tarver,

Nathaniel Powell, John Wynn,

Burton, Arthur Derr, George Avery,

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Abraham Vaughn, Dennis Kelley, Robert
Edwards.

Lebanon, the county seat, was laid out
in 1802. Andrew Jackson purchased
two town lots here in 1808. General Sam
Houston practised law here in 1818-1819.
The first marriage license recorded was
on November 8, 1805, for John Cawthon
and Parthenia W. Rutland ; John Allen,
clerk.

Maud Merriman Huffman,

Historian.

The Colonel John Evans Chapter
(Morgantown, W. Va.) reports a steady
growth in membership during the last
three years. Since its organization in
1909, sixty-eight members have been en-
rolled. Of these members five have died.

Our Chapter has made excellent prog-
ress along various lines during the past
year. Our meetings have been held on
the second Wednesday of every month
at the homes of the members. At the
October meeting we had the pleasure of
hearing a most interesting paper, "Wo-
men in the Founding of America," by
Mrs. Parks Fisher, Honorary Life State
Regent, and Honorary Life Regent of the
Colonel John Evans Chapter. Much
credit is due our Regent, Mrs. Stephen
G. Jackson, whose untiring efforts have
made the Chapter so successful. The
Year Book, which is the work of Miss
Emma Boughner, deserves special men-
tion.

Through the efforts of Mrs. Joseph H.
McDermott, Registrar and Chapter
Charity Officer, and the members of the
Col. Zacquil Morgan Chapter, Child-
ren of the American Revolution, have
done a great deal of charitable work, es-
pecially at Christmas times. Mrs. Mc-
Dermott has also made it very pleasant
for the children by permitting them to use

her gymnasium every month for their
meetings.

A committee to prevent desecration of
the flag has had State Flag Codes placed
in conspicuous places about the city.
Each year we have given prizes to the
seventh and eighth grade pupils of the
public schools making the highest average
in United States history. At present the
members of our Chapter are actively en-
gaged in Red Cross work, co-operating
with the Elizabeth Ludington Hagans
Chapter, D. A. R.

Our Chapter is named in honor of
Colonel John Evans, a soldier of the
Revolution and one of the early settlers
of our country, and the children's Chapter
is named in honor of Colonel Zacquil
Morgan, a soldier of the Revolution and
founder of our city. Both served through
the Revolution with the rank of lieuten-
ant colonel.

Morgantown is a beautiful city of
15,000 people and is one of the oldest cities
in West Virginia. It was incorporated in
1785 by Act of the Virginia Legislature
and named Morgan's Town in honor of
Colonel Morgan, who settled here in 1762.
The site of Colonel Evans' home has been
marked by our chapter with a memorial
tablet and the old Morgan homestead is
still in possession of members of the
family.

Mrs. Max Mathers,

Historian.

Lone Tree Chapter (Greensburg,
Ind. ) in October, 1916, unveiled a large
boulder marking the old Michigan trail
which runs through this city. The stone
bears a bronze tablet inscribed as follows :
"To Commemorate the Michigan State
Road Surveyed 1828-1830; Completed
1837. Though the Pathfinders Die, the
Paths Remain Open. Placed by Lone

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Tree Chapter, D. A. R., Greensburg, Ind.,
1916." The ceremony of unveiling the
marker and its presentation to the city of
Greensburg was witnessed by a large as-
sembly, among whom was the Governor
of Indiana. Mrs. Chas. Johnston, Regent
of Lone Tree Chapter, in a graceful
speech, stated the purpose which prompted

Ham's address she unveiled the tablet and
Mrs. Johnston formally presented it to
the city. Mayor Mendenhali accepted it
in behalf of the city, thanking the
D. A. R. Chapter for- its generous gift.

Governor Ralston paid high tribute
to the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution and commended the local Chapter

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the Chapter to place the marker, and
Miss Pearl Williams gave the history of
the old Michigan road which was first
surveyed in 1828 and again in 1830. The
road was constructed from Michigan
City to Indianapolis, and from there
through Greensburg to Madison, and was
a tremendous enterprise for pioneer
days. At the conclusion of Miss Wil-

for its help in commemorating the old
trail which was of such great value to
the pioneers of the State. The program
closed with the benediction pronounced
by Rev. J. B. Lathrop, and the singing
of "America" by the audience.

Sadie Baker,
Historian.

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER

By Gelett Burgess
(of the Vigilantes)

There are some People, at least, who have
Waked Up to the fact that we are at War ;
and they are hard at Work doing their Bit —
for Themselves.

They are the Dollar Patriots.

All they see in this national crisis is : What
is there In it for Me? Three Cheers for the
Red, White and Blue — there's Money in it !
For them, the best Get-Rich-Quick proposition
of the year is the Star Spangled Banner.

Are You going to help them or let them
Get Away with it?

Do You believe in Wiping your Nose on the
American Flag?

*$*$*$*$*$*$*

All this was what I said to myself when I
saw in a Fifth Avenue window, on May the
first, a handkerchief on which was printed the
Stars and Stripes.

I went to a lawyer and had him look up the
Penal Code of the State of New York. There
he read :

" It is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine
not exceeding $100, or by imprisonment for not
more than thirty days or both ... to ex-
pose to public view, manufacture, sell, expose
for sale, etc., any article of merchandise upon
which shall have been printed, painted, at-
tached or otherwise placed, a representation of
. . . . any flag, standard, color or ensign
the United States of America or State flag of
this State, or ensign ... to advertise, call
attention to, decorate, mark or distinguish the
article."

*$*$*$*$*$*$*

The next day, I called at the shop and noti-
fied the proprietor that by his misuse of the
flag he was committing a misdemeanor. As
the next day the handkerchief was not re-
moved, I notified the police. Summoned to
appear the merchant did appear at the Jeffer-
son Market Court for a hearing, and, upon
my complaint was, after giving $100 bail, sum-
moned to appear for trial at the Court of Spe-
cial Sessions.

The only defense offered was that no possi-
ble purchaser could afford to blow his nose
upon a 75c. silk handkerchief. But it wasn't
the customer's, it was the merchant's misuse
of the flag that I was fighting. I was pro-
testing against Dollar Patriotism.

*$*$*$*$*$*$*

At another shop on Broadway I found a
still larger exhibit of silk handkerchiefs — all
decorated with the American Flag.

The merchant told me that, although they
were illegal, he had a small stock and would
have to sell them — or he'd lose money.

I warned him that he was liable to arrest
at any minute, but he only smiled. Next
morning I saw him rearranging his goods
in the window — Then I was the one who
smiled, through the plate glass. Those hand-
kerchiefs were missing. He had already been
visited by the police — at my request.
*$*$*$*$*$*$*
How far was this sort of thing going, I
wondered.

I took a walk through the retail section,
looking for the Star Spangled Banner.
This is what I found :

Handkerchiefs, paper napkins, neckties, hos-
iery, stationery, parasols, candy boxes, hats,
cigars, dinner "crackers," rattles.

The flag was pasted on the "crackers" so
that when you pulled the ends to get the paper
cap inside, you were forced to tear the flag.

The rattle was so made that at each sound
a hammer knocked the flag.

Do You think that these are proper uses
for the Flag of your Country?

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You are not a Sentimentalist. You are not
a Perfunctory Patriot. Your Country's flag
is a Symbol, not a Fetish. But still, you are
a little more earnest than you were a year
ago. The Flag means more to you since it
began to side activity with World Civilization
and National Equality. You don't believe in
using that symbol for the purpose of Adver-
tising Goods.

The Dollar Patriots see nothing but Dollar
Marks on the Flag — make them see Stars !
Isn't it Up to You to teach them a Lesson?
Yes, You !

Get After the Star Spangled Banner — the
Shops are Full of them. Put the Fear of
God and the Police into the hearts of the
Dollar Patriots who are Commercializing Old
Glory. Keep your Flag Clean !

That's just One little Way to Wake Up
America to the Realization that we're at War,
we're in Danger, and we're in a whole lot
deeper than most people think. We're going
to Catch it — endways and sideways and head
over heels and the Germans will Get us if we
don't Watch Out !

*$*$*$*$*$*$*
What are you going to do about the Star
Spangled Banner in Your Town?
I'll tell you.

You are first going to look up the Penal
Code of your State and make sure that such
uses of the flag as I have mentioned are
against the law. And then — ■
You are going to Get Busy.
Now, aren't You?

SUPPORT HOOVER AND HIS FOOD CONSERVATION

CAMPAIGN

By Porter Emerson Browne
(of the Vigilantes)

What makes Herbert Clark Hoover a
popular leader is the adventurous quality
which he can give to the humdrum busi-
ness of feeding the world. It isn't only
because he fed Belgium, but the way
he did it that appeals ; the way he stood
off the Germans, persuaded the Pope,
dodged the Eng-
lish, picked up
ships in unlikely
ports, loaded them
under the nose of
bureaucratic pro-
hibitions, went
over, around, and
through the biggest
war that was ever
waged without
once falling afoul
of it. This is
what appeals, the
genuine American
manner of the
American people.

It is perhaps be-
cause he shows
signs of becoming
a great popular
leader that oppo-
sition has devel-
oped in certain
quarters.

And what bu-
reaucrat could be
blamed for quak-
ing a little before
the swift forward
rush of this young
world adventurer?
Hoover facing the Boxer Rebellion, hold-
ing himself the rank of Mandarin, Hoov-
er in South Africa, Hoover handling a
whole Russian province with as much
ease as the average man runs a farm ;
Hoover in Belgium — any one of these
pictures is enough to make the everlast-
ing reputation of an average man. No
wonder the people feel him the represen-
34

HERBERT C. HOOVER

Selected by President Wilson to be Food Administrator.

tative of their own urgent need to express
the genius of Democracy in the medium
in which we as people commonly work.
Hoover is the man who more than any
other redeems us from the common mis-
apprehension as a people incurably
material. All the old ideals make it
necessary to ex-
press national vir-
tue in military
terms, but here is
a man who can put
greatness into the
buying of a ship-
load of wheat, into
•corn and onions
and potatoes.

I n appointing
him Mr. Wilson
has again demon-
strated how close-
ly he is in touch
with the instinc-
tive choice of the
people.

Most of the
work of this war
has got to be done
in just such crude
materials as wheat
and onions and po-
tatoes ; most of its
victories must be
won by harvesters
and planters, by
shipping clerks and
manufacturers of
canned goods and
breakfast foods.
The man who can make campaigns
of that kind worth while to the men
who fight them is the man for America.
Hoover is such a man.
And Hoover is the man whom certain
sinister forces in Congress and the nation
are trying to push aside.

Are the American people going to
let them do it?

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Housewives : Make economy fashionable lest
it become obligatory.

The Secretary of Agriculture.

The Government is urging Americans to
practise economy in living and simplicity in
dress, and all true American women, by co-
operating with the Government in this move-
ment, will le'ssen the food shortage and reduce
the high cost of living.

The Department of Agriculture has per-
fected a series of practical lessons in home
gardening, planting, canning, and preserving
fruits, vegetables, and meats. These lessons
will be given in this Magazine for the benefit
of housewives desiring to learn the latest and
most practical methods of growing and pre-
serving food. The Department's canning sys-
tem applies to all varieties of vegetables and
fruits, and does not require either particular
receipts or expensive cooking utensils. Can
the food you have, with what you have.

Readers desiring further information on any
particular lesson can apply to the Editor.

Iceless Refrigerator

A companion convenience to the fireless
cooker for the hot summer days is the ice-
less refrigerator, or milk cooler. This con-
sists of a wooden frame, covered with canton
flannel or some similar material. It is de-
sirable that the frame be screened, although
this is not absolutely necessary. Wicks made
of the same material as the covering rest in
a pan of water on top of the refrigerator, al-
lowing the water to seep down the sides. When
evaporation takes place the heat is taken from
the inside, with a consequent lowering of the
temperature. On dry, hot days a temperature
of 50° can be obtained in this refrigerator.
The following description will aid in the con-
struction of this device :

Make a screened case 3% feet high with
the other dimensions 12 by 15 inches. If a
solid top is used, simply place the water pan
on this. Otherwise fit the pan closely into
the opening of the top frame and support it
by 1-inch cleats fastened to the inside of the
frame. Place two movable shelves in the
frame, 12 to 15 inches apart. Use a biscuit pan
12 inches square on the top to hold the water,
and where the refrigerator is to be used in-
doors have the whole thing standing in a large
pan to catch any drip. The pans and case may
be painted white, allowed to dry, and then
enameled. A covering of white canton flannel

should be made to fit the frame. Have the
smooth side out and button the covering on the
frame with buggy or automobile curtain hooks
and eyes, arranged so that the door may be
opened without unfastening these hooks. This
can easily be done by putting one row of hooks
on the edge of the door near the latch and
the other just opposite the opening with the
hem on each side extended far enough to
cover the crack at the edge of the door, so
as to keep out the warm, outside air and
retain the cooled air. This dress or covering
will have to be hooked around the top edge
also. Two double strips one-half the width of
each side should be sewed on the top of each
side and allowed to extend over about 2V-i
or 3 inches in the pan of water. The bottom
of the covering should extend to the lower
edge of the case.

Place the refrigerator in a shady place where
air will circulate around it freely. If buttons
and buttonholes are used on the canton flannel
instead of buggy hooks, the cost should not
exceed 85 cents.

To Can Fruit Without Sugar

Fruit for use in pies or salads or as stewed
fruit can be canned without the use of sugar,
according to the canning specialists of the de-
partment. Any fruit, they say, may be success-
fully sterilized and retained in the pack by
simply adding boiling water instead of the hot
syrup.

Canning Fruits Without Syrup

Can the product the same day it is picked.
Cull, steam, or seed, and clean the fruit by
placing it in a strainer and pouring water over
it until it is clean. Pack the product thor-
oughly in glass jars or tin cans until they are
full ; use the handle of a tablespoon, wooden
ladle, or table knife for packing purposes.
Pour over the fruit boiling water from a
kettle, place rubbers and caps in position, par-
tially seal if using glass jars, seal completely if
using tin cans. Place the containers in a
sterilizing vat, such as a wash boiler with false
bottom, or other receptacle improvised for the
purpose. If using a hot- water bath outfit, proc-
ess for 30 minutes ; count time after the water
has reached the boiling point : the water must
cover the highest jar in container. After
sterilizing remove packs, seal glass jars, wrap

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in paper to prevent bleaching, and store in a
dry, cool place.

If you are canning in tin cans it will im-
prove the product to plunge the cans quickly
into cold water immediately after sterilization.
When using a steam pressure canner instead of
the hot-water bath, sterilize for 10 minutes
with 5 pounds of steam pressure. Never allow
the pressure to go over 10 pounds.

Home Made Fruit and Vegetable Driers

Types of Driers

1. The first type of drier is the ordinary sun
drier made up in the form of a cold frame,
and should have a window sash top and venti-
lating holes or arrangements for the ready
escape of the saturated air. The bottom of the
drier should be tight so as to prevent the satu-
ration of food products by evaporation from
the soil. The inside rack for holding the dry-
ing trays should be so made that there will be
a free circulation of air around, under, and
above the product. The front and two ends
should be covered with cheese-cloth to provide
for the escape of air and prevent dust and in-
sects from entering the drier. Artificial heat
may be applied by way of an alcohol stove or
other device which will heat and force the cir-
culation of air through the drier and yet avoid
saturating the food product with unpleasant
odors from the kerosene lamp or other heat-
ing device. This same drier may be provided
with a metal bottom so as to be placed over
an ordinary stove or wood fire working out of
doors. As a substitute for the applied heat
beneath the drier, a fan system of some kind
may be used for the purpose of stirring and
circulating the air through the drier.

2. The second type of drier is one that has
been made especially for use on the kitchen
stove and may be denominated as the home
stove drier. It should be constructed largely
of metal, containing jacket and tiers of mov-
able drying trays which can be readily inter-
changed to insure equal drying of all trays at
one and the same time. The top should be left
open so as to permit the free escape of satu-
rated air. This drier may be placed directly
upon the stove and free circulation of air
should be provided within the drier. If con-
venient to the housewife, it would be wise to
provide a crane or arm arrangement by way
of a clamp attached to the edge of the stove
or range. The drier hung by a rope or cord
over a small wheel or pulley will make it pos-
sible to raise the drier from the stove and
swing the drier off the stove while the stove
is used for the preparation of a meal.

3. A third type of drier may be made on the
same plan as the ones described above, but in-

stead of using sun, artificial or stove heat, the
fan system should be used for drying the prod-
uct. A small electric fan would be successful,
or other fan system similar to the ones used in
automobiles or in different types of fanning
silos. It may be operated by hand and run only
a few seconds several times during the day or
may be attached to some motor power from
without. A small boys' windmill may be so
constructed with a belt wheel that it could run
from a house top down to the drier and run
the little fan within the drying box.

4. A fourth type of drier is the rectangular
frame arrangement made of metal or wood or
even of mesh wire. On one of the sides
a door should be arranged to open on hinges
through which two, three, or four trays of food
products may be placed. These trays may be
hung within the drier and should be so con-
structed as to permit them to revolve freely
with the drier which is hung at both ends on an
axle. An electric fan may be placed at the
end and will force the dry air through the
drier and remove the filled air and make room
for the dry air from without.

Note: The old-fashioned sun drier which
depends entirely upon the sun to perform the
work of drying is usually constructed simply,
as a board tray or even a metal tray with
mosquito netting over the same, and exposing
the food product to the sun. This type does
not provide for the sash cover nor does it pro-
vide for the free circulation of air around,
under, and through the food product.

This method of drying is the least efficient
of all, and should not be used.

Canning of Fruit Juices in Narrow-neck
Bottles

A very economical way to make available al-
most all of the fruits for winter use is by turn-
ing them into fruit juices and concentrating
this by cooking into a thick syrup. This prod-
uct may be put up in the narrow-neck bottles
of every conceivable type, such as grape juice
bottles, cider bottles, pop bottles, and other
large bottles from a pint to two quarts in size.
They, of course, should be thoroughly cleaned
and sterilized to make sure no medicine or
poisons of any kind will contaminate the fruit
juices.

Directions for Canning Fruit Juices

Warm the fruit juices, pour into hot glass
bottles up to within an inch of the top; place
a wad of cotton batten firmly in the neck of the
bottle, sterilize this product in boiling hot
water in wash boiler upon the rack thirty
minutes, at 165° of heat. Then place the cork
in the neck of the bottle, then dip the cork
end into a vessel containing melted paraffin.

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All fruit juices thus put away will have prac-
tically all food products contained in the fruit
itself and at the same time can be put up in con-
centrated form in these otherwise unusable
containers. This fruit juice may be served as
a fruit dish diluted for beverages and used in
many other ways for seasoning, flavoring, and
for fruit punches.

Preparing Products for Drying

Vegetables and fruits will dry better if
sliced. They should be cut into slices one-
eighth to one-fourth of an inch thick. If
thicker, they may not dry thoroughly. While
drying, the products should be turned or
stirred from time to time. Dried products
should be packed temporarily for three or
four days and poured each day from one box
to another to bring about thorough mixing, and
so that the whole mass will have a uniform
degree of moisture. If during this " condi-
tioning " any pieces of the products are found
to be too moist, they should be returned to
the trays and dried further. WTien in condi-
tion, the products may be packed permanently
in tight paper bags, insect-proof paper boxes
or cartons, or glass or tin containers.

Recipes
spinach and parsley
Spinach that is in prime condition for greens
should be prepared by careful washing and
removing the leaves from the roots. Spread
the leaves on trays to dry thoroughly. They
will dry much more promptly if sliced or
chopped.

BEET TOPS, SWISS CHARD, CELERY, AND RHUBARB

Beet Tops. — Tops of young beets in suitable
condition for greens should be selected and
washed carefully. Both the leaf stalk and
blade should be cut into sections about one-
fourth inch long and spread on screens and
dried.

Swiss chard and celery should be prepared
in the same way as beet tops.

Rhubarb. — Choose young and succulent
growth. Prepare as for stewing by skinning
the stalks and cutting into pieces about one-
fourth inch to one-half inch in length and
dry on trays.

All the products under this heading should
be " conditioned " as described.

RASPBERRIES

Sort out imperfect berries, spread select
berries on trays, and dry. Do not dry so long
that they become hard enough to rattle. The
drying should be stopped as soon as the berries
fail to stain the hand when pressed. Pack
and " condition."

Can Food at Home

Don't let valuable surplus fruits and vege-
tables go to waste. Adults and children, in
a very few hours, with little other home equip-
ment than a wash boiler and cans and jars, can
preserve much valuable perishable food for
next winter's use. Succulent vegetables and
fruits are important to health the year round.
See that your table is supplied.

The simple one-period cold-pack method de-
scribed is that taught by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. With this method

GARDEN BEETS, ONIONS, CARROTS, TURNIPS,
PARSNIPS AND CABBAGE

Beets. — Select young, quickly grown, tender
beets, which should be washed, peeled, sliced
about an eighth of an inch thick, and dried.

Turnips should be treated in the same way
as beets.

Carrots should be well grown, but varieties
having a large woody core should be avoided.
Wash, peel, and slice crosswise into pieces
about an eighth of an inch thick.

Parsnips should be treated in the same way
as carrots.

Onions. — Remove the outside papery cover-
ing. Cut off tops and roots. Slice into one-
eighth-inch pieces and dry.

Cabbage. — Select well-developed heads of
cabbage and remove all loose outside leaves.
Split the cabbage, remove the hard, woody
core, and slice the remainder of the head with
a kraut cutter, or other hand slicing machine.

All the products under this heading should
be " conditioned " as described above.

Blanch in hot water or live steam for five minutes and
dip in cold water. Use cheese cloth or blanching bag.

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practically every vegetable and fruit grown in
this section can be canned.

The wash-boiler method described below is
entirely effective. Those who desire may pur-
chase home-sized water-seal, steam-pressure,
or pressure-cooker canning outfits, which save
time and fuel.

Preliminary Preparation for Canning
Provide a false bottom of wooden lattice-
work, cross-pieces of wood, or coarse wire
netting for your clean wash boiler or other
large, deep vessel to be used for sterilizing.
Fill the vessel with clean water, so that the
boiling water will cover the tops of the jars
or cans. Begin heating the water so that it
will be boiling violently by the time the con-
tainers are packed.

See that all cans or jars are in good condi-
tion and absolutely clean. Scald them thor-
oughly. Use new rubber rings and scald them
just before putting them on the jars.

Preparing Fruits and Vegetables
Start with clean hands, clean utensils, and
clean, sound, fresh products.

After blanching and cold dipping, cut out core and re-
move, as above.

Throw out all vegetables and fruits which
are withered or unsound. Wash out all grit
and dirt. If possible, use only fruits and vege-
tables picked the same day, and never can peas
and corn picked more than five hours.

Prepare fruits and large-sized vegetables for
blanching. Remove all spots from apples.

Prepare beans and greens as for cooking.
Be especially careful to remove all foreign
plants from the greens.

Blanch vegetables and all fruits except ber-

ries by leaving them from three to five minutes
in clean boiling water.

Remove the blanched products from the
boiling water and plunge them quickly into
cold water, the colder the better. Take them
out immediately and let them drain. Don't let
them soak in the cold water.

Pack vegetables at once in hot glass jars.

From this point on speed is highly important.
The blanched vegetables and fruits, which are
slightly warm, must not be allowed to remain
out of the jars a moment longer than is
necessary.

Remove skins when required, and as each
article is pared cut it up in to proper size and

Fill with hot water and little salt, then seal partially.
For glass top jars, leave clamp spring up during process
period.

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pack directly into the clean, scalded cans or
jars.

Pack as solidly as possible, being careful not
to bruise or mash soft products.

In the case of fruit, fill the containers at once
with boiling hot syrup.

In the case of vegetables, fill the containers

Sterilize tomatoes for 22 minutes in wash boiler or other
hot water device — 16 minutes in steam pressure canner
at 10 lbs. steam.

with boiling hot water to which a little salt
has been added.

Place scalded rubber rings on the glass jars
and screw down the tops.

Seal tin cans completely. Watch them for
leaks. As the preliminary treatment has taken
care of expansion it is not necessary to ex-
haust the cans.

Put the jars or cans as soon as possible into

boiling water in a wash boiler or into your
canning device. Let them process for the time
specified in the table, counting from the time
the water begins to boil again, or the gauge
on the canning outfit registers the proper
pressure.

Time schedule given is based upon the 1-
quart pack and upon fresh-picked products.

When processing fruits in steam-pressure
canners, not over 5 pounds of steam pressure
should be used.

When processing vegetables and meats do
not use over 15 pounds of pressure.

After processing, remove the containers.

Tighten the tops of jars immediately and
stand the containers upside down in a cool
place, being careful that no draft strikes the
hot jars. Watch for leakage and screw covers
down tighter when necessary. Store in a cool,
dry place, not exposed to freezing temperature.

Use band labels for cans, being careful not
to let tbe glue get on the can itself, as it may
cause rust.

From time to time, especially in very hot
weather, examine jars and cans, making cer-
tain that there are no leaks, swellings, or other
signs of fermentation.

There will be no spoilage if the directions
are followed implicitly and the containers are
sealed up tight.

Fruits which are put up with heavy syrups
can be kept under cork and paraffin seal. Save
all wide-necked bottles, glasses, and jars for
putting uo fruits.

Vegetables, meats, and fish, however, can
not be kept safely unless they are hermetically
sealed. Reserve regular jars for products that
can not be packed in other wavs.

As there may be some difficulty in secur-
ing cans and jars, dry or keep in other ways
everything that need not be canned.

"THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" SUNG IN ST. PAUL'S
CATHEDRAL, LONDON

St. Paul's has witnessed many solemn serv-
ices, but never one of such momentous import,
or so charged with historic memories and
racial aspirations, as that which was held
there on Friday, April 20, 1917, — called the
"Solemn Service to Almighty God on the oc-
casion of the entry of the United States of
America into the Great War for Freedom."

The King and Queen of England, the Amer-
ican Ambassador, and other famous men and
women were present, and an impressive ser-
mon was preached by a distinguished Ameri-
can divine, the Right Reverend Dr. Charles
Henry Brent, Bishop of the Philippine Islands.

The following was one of the special pray-
ers : "O, Almighty God, we humbly thank

Thee that Thou hast put it into the hearts
of the President and people of the United
States of America to join with the Allied
Nations in this great war in defence of Lib-
erty, Humanity, and Justice, and we pray
Thee to grant victory to our forces that we
may be brought through strife to a lasting
peace, to the good of all mankind, and the
Glory of Thy Holy Name."

Later the entire congregation joined in
singing Mrs. Howe's "Battle Hymn of the
Republic." The service closed with verses
from the "Star Spangled Banner" and the
British National Anthem. — Illustrated London
News.

THE PATRIOTIC SOUP POT

By Hildegard Hawthorne
(of the Vigilantes)

Our hearts have been thrilled by the
visit of Papa JofTre, with all he repre-
sents of French heroism, courage and
steadfastness. Not one of us but wants
to help him win this war of freedom.
And as we look about for ways to do
so, we find that patriotism, like many
another good quality, begins at home.

It can even begin in the soup pot!

Long before this year of probable
scarcity and hardship for all the world
the French have been known for their
economy; not parsimony, but strict and
sweet wisdom in refusing to waste what-
ever is fit and good for human con-
sumption. To throw away half or a
quarter of a loaf of stale bread would
be thought a crime in France. How
often have American housewives thrown
away as much each week?

That stale loaf, in France, cut into
thick slices and toasted or browned in
the oven, is laid in the bottom of soup
plates, and over it is poured a generous
portion of the great national dish of the
country, pot-au-feu. A better or more
satisfying meal does not exist.

And this pot-au-feu is made of scraps
and bits of food that with us are thrown
away. Let every housekeeper in this
country set up her own pot-au-feu this
year as a patriotic act ; as a distinct as-
sistance to Papa JofTre and his fighting
countrymen, as a help to England in her
struggle against the U-boats, as a prime
effort to do her bit behind the President.

The only requisite is an earthenware
pot or pipkin of a size commensurate
with the family it is to feed. This must
have a tight-fitting lid, and find its place
on the range where it can cook slowly
40

and steadily, hour after hour, all day
long.

Into this pot, as a starter, goes about
two pounds of soup meat, scored deeply
across and across. Also any bones that
may be handy. Three quarts of water
cover this meat. Let it come to a boil,
skim, then add pepper and salt to taste
and set it back closely covered where it
is to stay all day. To it add an onion or
two, peeled and sliced. A potato or more
cut up. Slices and tops from any vege-
tables you may be using, a couple of
tablespoonfuls of shredded parsley, a
little barley if you like, chicken feet that
have been parboiled and scraped, necks
of the same useful fowl, in fact any little
odds and ends that turn up during the
day's cooking and that would be thrown
away without the haven of the pot-au-
feu for their succulent refuge.

When evening comes take off the soup
and remove the bones and such pieces
of vegetables as have been put in only for
flavor. Cut up the meat small, and re-
move from it most of the fat. Put it
back in the soup, and stand the whole
where it will get thoroughly chilled
through the night. In the morning skim
carefully from the top the sheet of fat
that will have risen. The soup should
be thick and rich. When you want to
serve it heat it quickly and pour over
the toast in each plate. Nothing else is
required to make a perfect luncheon ex-
cept a little fruit as dessert, and for
dinner it will take the place of a roast.
With skill in seasoning you will find it
to be one of the most delicious dishes on
your menu.

ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTS*

Made by Saint Memin in 1796-1810
By Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Few, few shall part where many meet !

The snow shall be their winding sheet !
And every turf beneath their feet

Shall be a soldier's sepulchre —

Every school child is familiar with
Campbell's immortal poem of " Hohen-
linden," but not every child knows that
General Jean Victor Moreau, in su-
preme command of the French forces
at that battle, later in his career came
to the United States and, when war
with England seemed imminent, was
offered the command of the United
States army in 1812 by President Madi-

GEN. JEAN VICTOR MOKEAU

son. He was willing to accept, but the
events of the Russian campaign de-
cided him to return to Europe. While

living in a country place on the banks
of the Delaware River near Trenton,
N. J., Moreau renewed his acquaint-
ance with the artist, Saint Memin, and
had a profile likeness made by his
compatriot. It is one of the few por-
traits which Saint Memin, in reducing
from life size, made oval instead of
round. It is an excellent likeness of the
celebrated Frenchman.

Moreau, the greatest general of the
French Republic after Napoleon and
Hoche, was born at Morlaix in Brit-
tany, in 1763, and died in Laun, Bo-
hemia, on September 2, 1813. He be-
gan his career at Rennes as a lawyer
and had applied for admission to the
Bar, when he was elected in 1791 chief
of battalion of the Rennois Volunteers,
was made Lieutenant General in 1794,
and led a successful campaign in
Flanders.

Taking command of the Army of the
Rhine and Moselle, he defeated the
Archduke Charles of Austria in many
engagements, but one of his most
famous achievements was his retreat
of twenty-six days between three hos-
tile armies without losing a gun and
returning with 7000 prisoners. This
military achievement finds a parallel
in Marshal Joffre's masterly retreat be-
fore the on-rushing German armies at
the commencement of the World War

* Copyright, 1917, by Corcoran Gallery of Art.

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in which we are now engaged. Thus
events of the past repeat themselves.

Napoleon, then First Consul, becom-
ing jealous of Moreau's popularity,
caused him to be accused of overtures
to the Royalists, and he was exiled in
1804. He returned to Russia in 1813
and was welcomed with delight by
Czar Alexander, and in directing a
movement at the Battle of Dresden,
August 27, 1813, was mortally wounded.

Saint Memin made many profile like-
nesses of his compatriots, some of
whom came to the United States as
refugees from the " Terror," while
others arived with Lafayette and fought
gallantly to assist the Colonies to ob-
tain their freedom. By a strange coin-
cidence, three of the French officers
who are in Washington to-day to help
train American troops for fighting in
France went to the Library of Con-
gress and by means of the Saint Memin
portraits traced their great-great-
uncles who had fought with George
Washington !

One of the distinguished French-
men who served on Washington's staff
was Chevalier Louis de Toussard. He
came to this country with Chevalier de
Loyante through funds supplied by
Baron de Beaumarchais. Later he was
aide-de-camp to Lafayette, took part
in the Battle of the Brandywine, and
lost an arm during the retreat from
Rhode Island in the autumn of 1778.
He was afterward brevetted lieutenant
colonel and received a pension from
Congress for life. In 1784 he was made
a knight of St. Louis, a colonel in the
French service, and appointed inspector
of artillery of the French West Indies.
After the insurrection in Santo Do-
mingo, from which he just escaped with
his life, he petitioned Congress to rein-
state him in the United States army,

which was done, and upon attaining the
rank of lieutenant colonel, he retired
to private life, and became French Con-
sul at New Orleans, La. He died there
in 1821.

Saint Memin's portrait of Toussard
was marked " Captain Daniel Car-
mick," but the one at the Corcoran
Gallery of Art was corrected to read
" General Toussard." There was a
Captain Carmack in the Marine Corps,
according to the army and navy records
of that day, who served with great
gallantry at the Battle of New Orleans.

" Levin Powell, a gallant officer of
the American Revolution," so reads an
old record, which further states that
the said Levin Powell was born in
Prince William County in 1737, and
died at Bedford, Pa., on July 23, 1810,
and was buried there. In 1765 Powell
married Sarah Harrison, daughter of
Burr Harrison of Chappawamsic. She
was born about 1740. Their children
were Sally, Emily, William H., Burr,
Levin, Jr., Alfred H., and Harrison.

Levin Powell, one of the first patriots
to take the field, was the friend and
intimate of the great men of that day.
He was a member of the Committee of
Safety in 1775, and with the Commit-
tee condemned the action of Lord Dun-
more, while approving that of Patrick
Henry, of whom he was a staunch sup-
porter. He was a major of the Loudoun
Minute Men who hastened to Norfolk
and Hampton in the popular rising
against Dunmore in 1775; was ap-
pointed, January, 1777, lieutenant
colonel of the 16th Regiment, Vir-
ginia ; raised and equipped his regi-
ment, and in the fall of that year joined
General Washington at W7hite Marsh
Plains. The rigorous climate of Valley
Forge proved too much for him and
he was obliged to return to Virginia.

ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTS

Photo — Rice Studio, Washington.

Si. Memin's Engraved Portraits of American Patriots : Left to right, top row: Mme.de St. Memin, Charles de St.
Memin; 2d row: J. H. Hurst, William Hurst; 3d row: Van Polanen, William White.

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Washington sent him a furlough and
told him to use it as long as his health
required it.

Powell was a member of the Virginia
convention that ratified the United
States Constitution, and in 1798 was
elected to Congress as a Federalist. It
is recorded in the newspapers of that
date that " Gen. Washington, on the
day of election, mounted his old iron-
gray charger and rode ten miles to the
county court house to vote for his brave
fellow soldier, Lieut. Col. Powell, who
is happily elected."

Levin Powell was a lineal descend-
ant of Dr. David Powell, vicar of Rhi-
waden, Wales, who was born in 1522
and died in 1598. Dr. Powell's grand-
son, William, Jr., great-great-grand-
father of Levin Powell, came to Vir-
ginia in 1607 — the first of his family
in America.

Through the kindness of Miss Nina
B. Read, of Norristown, Pa., permission
was given to publish the commission of
her great-great-grandfather, Jonathan
Harvey Hurst, of Philadelphia, as Bri-
gade Inspector in the Pennsylvania
Militia. The commission is dated 1798
and signed by Governor Mifflin of
Pennsylvania. Miss Read has also
kindly furnished the genealogical data
which refer to her ancestors, Jonathan
Harvey Hurst, his brother William,
Major Robert Westcott, and his
mother, Mrs. Patience Story Westcott,
whose profile likenesses were all made
by Saint Memin.

Jonathan and William Hurst were
the sons of Timothy Hurst who came
to New York in 1761 in the ship "New
Edward," William Davis, master. Jona-
than Hurst of Hinckley, in the county
of Leicester, England, was Timothy's
father. The old record reads:

" Timothy Hurst and Mary Brown-

john, of New York, having been pub-
lished in St. George's Chapel during the
enforcement of the Stamp Act, were
on Sunday, the 22d day of March, 1766,
married by the Rev. John Ogilvie, As-
sistant Minister of Trinity Church in
said city, as will appear by the records
thereof."

The Hursts are among the dozen
American families which can prove
direct royal descent.

Saint Memin made the portrait of
Jonathan Harvey Hurst when Hurst
was twenty-three years old. He was
admitted to the Philadelphia Bar on
September 16, 1794, and was a member
of the First City Troop of Philadelphia.
One old chronicle states that he fought
a duel with E. Tilghman, but gives no
further particulars. William Hurst,
his brother, was said to have married
the sister of Commodore Stephen Deca-
tur, but the records do not mention the
name of his wife.

The portrait of Mrs. Patience Story
Westcott is one of the quaintest done
by Saint Memin, and his artistic skill
is well shown in depicting her benign
expression and picturesque cap and
'kerchief. Mrs. Westcott was a de-
scendant of Robert Story, of New York,
and his wife, Patience Gardiner.
Patience Story married George West-
cott for his second wife. Their daugh-
ter, Patience, named for her mother,
married on April 25, 1797, Jonathan
Harvey Hurst.

Major Robert Westcott, third son of
Patience and George Westcott, and
brother of Patience Hurst, married on
January 1, 1806, Catherine DeVisme
Browne, who was born November 19,
1787, and died November 26, 1833.
Robert Westcott was born in 1769 and
died in 1851

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have a particular appeal just now with
the men of to-day patrolling our " first
line defence " as vigilantly as did their
ancestors in the Revolution and the
War of 1812.

The naval career of John Trippe com-
prised but eleven years, but in that
time he won imperishable fame. He

was appointed a midshipman in the
United States navy on April 5, 1799;
master, May 6, 1803 ; lieutenant, Jan-
uary 9, 1807, and three years later,
while in command of the U. S. S. " En-
terprise," died at sea off Havana, July
9, 1810.

Trippe was in command of " The

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Vixen," under Commodore Preble, in
the attack on Tripoli. Commodore
Preble in his report to the Hon. Robert
Smith, Secretary of the Navy, stated :

" Lieutenant Trippe of the ' Vixen,'
in Gunboat No. 6, ran alongside of one
of the enemy's large boats, which he
boarded with only Midshipman John
D. Henley and nine men, his boat pull-
ing off before any more could get on
board ; thus he was left, compelled to
conquer or perish, with the odds thirty-
six to eleven. The Turks could not
withstand the ardor of this brave officer
and his assistants ; in a few minutes the
decks were cleared and her colors
hauled down. On board of this boat
fourteen of the enemy were killed and
twenty-two made prisoners, seven of
whom were badly wounded. Lieut.
Trippe received eleven sabre wounds,
some of which were very severe."

Trippe's boatswain's mate and two
marines were also wounded, but none
killed. A more extraordinary action
has never been recorded in naval
annals. Lieutenant Trippe for his gal-
lant conduct received a vote of thanks
and a sword from Congress.

A torpedo-boat destroyer has been
named after this gallent officer.

Rev. Andrew Lounds states that
Lieutenant Trippe was from Maryland,
and a nephew of Mrs. James Kemp,
the latter a daughter of Edward Noel
of Dorchester County, Md.

One of the distinguished patriots livr
ing in Boston, Mass., during the Revo-
lution was William White, a prom-
inent merchant. He was born on
August 1, 1754, and died January 31,
1825. White married on October 26,
1775, his cousin, Mary Chandler,
daughter of the Rev. John Chandler
of Billerica. She died in Boston on
February 21, 1794.

Beside the Saint Memin engraving
there is a portrait of William White
by Trumbull, which is owned by one
of White's descendants.

The artist's engravings of his parents,
Charles Balthazar Julien Fevre de
Saint Memin and Victoire-Marie de
Notmans, differ somewhat from his
usual work-in that the portraits are
cut square and not inclosed in the small
circle which is characteristic of the
others.

Mine, de Saint Memin was a beauti-
ful Creole from Santo Domingo, and
after the " Terror," her husband, a
counsellor of the parliament of Dijon,
whose property had been confiscated
on account of his loyalty to the Crown,
accompanied by their son, came to the
United States. After many reverses
young Saint Memin made a rapidly in-
creasing income by introducing his pro-
file portrait engravings in New York
City, and then he sent for his mother
and sister. They remained with him
during his long stay in the United
States, Saint Memin, Sr., having died
in Santo Domingo, where he had gone
to look after his wife's property.

One of the Saint Memin portraits
marked " Unknown " is published also,
in the hope that some reader may be
able to identify it.

Among the foreigners who sat for
Saint Memin was Roger Gerard Van
Polanen, whose record, traced upon a
marble monument in the burial ground
at Bridgeport, Conn., reads thus:

" This marble covers the remains of
Roger Gerard Van Polanen, born at
Rotterdam, Holland, May 3, 1757; an
accomplished scholar, a learned civilian,
an honest man, and a sincere Christian.
He served his country with fidelity and
reputation in various important trusts,
in each of the four quarters of the world,

ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN PATRIOTS

Photo — Rice Studio, Washington.

St. Memin's Engraved Portraits of American Patriots: Left to right, top row: Gen. Toussard, Levin Powell;
3d row: Robert Westcott, Mrs. George Westcott; 3d row; Name unknown, Capt. John Trippe.

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at Batavia, in the Island of Java, during
many years in different parts of Europe,
and in Africa at the Cape of Good Hope,
he was high in the confidence and em-
ployment of his Government ; and from
the years 1795 to 1802 he filled the
appointment of Minister Resident of
the Batavian Republic at the Court of
the United States.

" At the advanced age of seventy-
four he was again called by his country
to preside over her councils in her East
India possessions ; but the burden of
those years did not allow him to add to
it the cares of office. He died in this
place on the 7th of September, 1833,
after a residence in this country of
thirty-four years.

" If he is entitled to an honorable

memory for the useful and distin-
guished course of his public life, they
who knew him with the familiarity of
friendship will always prefer to remem-
ber him for his amiable disposition, the
Christian virtues, and practical wis-
dom which won the love and respect of
all who enjoyed the privilege of his
society. He lived and died in the faith
and hope of a disciple of Jesus Christ.
" This monument is not erected so
much to record the honors of the dead,
or in the vain hope to rescue from obliv-
ion that which must inevitably be for-
gotten, as to relieve and gratify the
affection of one now solitary and dis-
consolate— the widow, Bernardina Ade-
laide Van Polanen."

(This series to be continued.)

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WAR RELIEF SERVICE COMMITTEE

Thirty-six dollars and fifty cents will
support a French orphan. Money con-
tributed to the French orphan should be
sent to the Treasurer General, Memorial
Continental Hall, Washington, D. C,
through Chapter Regents.

DESECRATION OF THE FLAG PROHIBITED

Warning against desecration of the Ameri-
can flag by aliens has been issued by the De-
partment of Justice, which has sent the fol-
lowing notice to Federal attorneys and mar-
shals :

abusing, or desecrating the United States flag
in any way will be regarded as a danger to
the public peace or safety within the mean-
ing of Regulation 12 of the Proclamation of
the President issued April 6, 1917, and will

"Any alien enemy tearing down, mutilating, be subject to summary arrest and punishment."

GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT

Mrs. Margaret Roberts Hodges, Editor, Annapolis, Maryland

On entering the service of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, as Genealogical Editor, I most earnestly plead for cooperation in collecting
unpublished Revolutionary Records, Bible Records, Affidavits from the Local Court
Records, unpublished Church Records, Tombstone Records and Final Accounts. In
the ten pages allotted to this Department, it is your privilege and mine to be History
Builders, under Liber and Folio for this, and coming generations.

Margaret Roberts Hodges.

By order of the Continental Congress, all queries received from now to January 1,
1918, will be returned to sender. This action was rendered necessary owing to the
accumulation of unprinted data on hand.

2. Answers or partial answers are earnestly desired, and full credit will be given.
The Editor is not responsible for any statements, except given over her signature.
In answering queries please give the date of the magazine and the number of the
query; also state under Liber and Folio where the answer was procured.

3. All letters to be forwarded to contributors must be unsealed and sent in blank,
stamped envelope, accompanied with the number of the query and its signature. The
Genealogical Editor reserves the right to print anything contained in the communication
and will then forward the letter to the one sending the query.

It is my pleasure to present through the Ann Arundel Chapter, D. A. R., of Anne
Arundel County, Maryland, Mrs. Robert A. Welsh, Regent, this unpublished list of
the " Oath of Allegiance for the State of Maryland, 1778," unearthed in the vaults of the
Maryland Historical Society. The courtesy of publication is extended me by the Council
of said Historical Society (original Record Historical Society of Maryland, Baltimore,
Maryland).

An alphabetical list of the persons' names who have taken the Oath of Fidelity
and Support to the State of Maryland in Anne Arundel County, 1778:

John Allien
Nathaniel Akers
George Adams
John Annis
Charles Appleby
Joseph Ashmead
Michael Askien
James Anderson, Sen.
Andrew Anderson
William Anderson
James Anderson, Jr.
William Anderson
Bignet Appleby
Joshua Adams
William Andrews
Henry Ayton
Adam Ankus
Joseph Auley
Snowden Anchors
John Atkinson
Zachariah Aldridge
Nicholas Aldridge
Absalom Anderson

Jonathan Allien
Samuel Atwell
Joseph Atwell
Daniel Atwell
William Arnold
William Armiger
Robert Atwell
Benjamin Atwell
John Atwell
Adam Allen
Charles Boone
John Burn
Thomas Boone
Thomas Bonner
Leyborn Barry
Thomas Fowler

Basford
Henry Brewer
Richard Beard
Alexander Banning
John Beall Bordley
Thomas Brannon
Philip Brown

William Bishop
John Bosorworth
Clinch Blinco
Daniel Brigdal
John Boone
William Brown, Son

John
Thomas Brown
Robert Band
Constantine Bull
Richard Benson
Joshua Brown
Richard Benland
Robert Berry
Adam Bash
Charles Barber
John Ball
John Baker
Patrick Burk
Thomas Ballin
Ralph Basil
John Beard
John Brewer

Samuel Brogden
William Brown
Joseph Brewer, Sen.
Joseph Brewer, Jr.
John Brewer, Son
of Joseph

Nicholas Brewer
William Brewer, Sen,
John Bishop
Samuel Bergess
Richard Beard, Jr.
Ferdinand Battee
Thomas Basford
John Basford
Benjamin Basford
Mordecai Barry
Matthew Beard
Richard Beard
Thomas Beard
Stephen Beard
Jacob Barry
John Brogden
Cornelius Barry
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Richard Brannon

James Benton

Henry Bateman, Sen.

John Burgess

Thomas Burgess

Francis Belmear

Henry Bateman, Jr.

William B riant

John Briant

Stephen Bell Basford

Thomas Benson

Edmund Benton

John Benton

James Baldwin

John Brown

Caleb Burgess

Thomas Benson

John Benson

William Barry

Gilbert Bland

Robert Barnes

Thomas Bissett

Dorsey Barnes

Nathan Barnes, of Na-
thaniel

William Butler

Jacob Bingore

Samuel Brown, of Ben-
jamin

John Bingoor

Jacob Birgoor, Jr.

Robert Bingoor

John Barlow

Joshua Brerer

John Bloom

John Bowling

Zachariah Barlon

Peter Barnes

Greenbury Bishop

Solomon Bishop

Robert Brown

James Beedgood

James Barnes

James Barnes, of Adam

Abednego Baker
Moses Behore
Michael Barnes

James Barnes (Balti-
more City)
Richard Barnes (Balti-
more City)
Adam Barnes
Thomas Barnes
John Barnes, of Adam

John Barnes, of Na-
thaniel (Baltimore
City)

Philemon Barnes (of
Baltimore City)

Joseph Burgess

Richard Burgess

James Brown

Zebediah Baker

Basil Burgess

John Brown

Zachariah Brown

William Bateman

Charles Brown

James Britton

James Bartley

Valentine Brown

Bartholomew Balderton

John Brewer, Sen.

George Bryant

Basil Barry

Abraham Becraft

Michael Burgess

Russell Belt

John Brown, of John

Thomas Baker

Waymarck Brashears

Charles Brashears

Benjamin Brashears

Jonathan Brashears

Dowell Brashears

John Brown

Wilkinson Brashears

Thomas Barrot

William Beacham

William Bollison

Seaborn Birkhead

Richard Brown

Allen Ball

Nehemiah Birkhead

Francis Birkhead

Matthew Birkhead

Nehemiah Berkhead

Francis Berkhead

Joseph Berkhead

Benjamin Bergess

Ferdenando Batter

John Brown

John Browne
Philip Boney
Richard Bryant
Edward Blount

James Sayer Bennet

James Babbs
John Brewer

Nicholas Brewer, Jr.
Sutlifife Brown
John Boone, Sen.
William Bostock
William Benton
Barton Bostick
Nicholas Brewer, Sen.
John Bray
Mark Barton
John Bincher
Robert Barnett
Nathan Brashears.
Thomas Birkhead
William Barnby
Zadock Brashears
James Butler
John Burket
William Brogden
John Brice
James Brice
John Bullien
John Burgess
Basil Burgess
Richard Burgess
Stephen Boone
John Burgess
Thomas Brown
James Boyle
James Bonneby
Thomas Baliey
John Berkhead, Sen.
James Callahan
Robert Collet
John Carman
William Caldwell
Robert Conway
Lawrence Callahan
Cornelius Chaed
Hazel Crouch
Peter Callahan
Benjamin Comely
Samuel Crain
William Caples
Joseph Cowman
Joseph Cowman, Jr.
Abraham Claude
A. F. Cheney
Thomas Callahan
James Cooper
John Crisall
John Christian
Benjamin Chambers
Robert Couden
John Cahe
Alexander Carvell

William Carvell

John Carvell

John Cleavo

John Connoway

William Clarke

Robert Cross

Zachariah Cheney

Archibald Chisholm

Samuel Cheney

Joseph Cheney

Benjamin Cheney

James Cadhe

George Crox

James Cann

Thomas Chapman

Samuel Cadhe

Benjamin Cadhe

John Connor

Charles Carroll

James Cord

James Carr

John Connor

Jacob Cramblick

Paul Cooper (Balti-
more City)

Jacob Cramblick

Robert Colson

Daniel Carr (Baltimore
City)

James Connor (Balti-
more City)

John Cornelius

William Cannon

Francis Coale

John Chaplen

Zepheniah Cheney

Samuel Cappuck

Alexander Cahoon

John Cox

Thomas Cooper

George Cann

Francis Conner

David Cumming

Thomas Curtis

William Coale

Joseph Coale

Thomas Coale

William Cox

Joseph Craycraft

John Camp

Edward Cooper

Edward Clarke

Timothy Carty

Walter Cann

John Carr

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John Carr, Jr.

John Curray

John Casier

Adam Crandell

James Cumming

William Conner

Samuel Chew

Richard Chew

Samuel Chew

Lock Chew

John Chew

Nathaniel Chew

Edward Collinson

Zachariah Child

Samuel Childs

Francis Crandall

William Child

Cephas Childs

John Childs

George Crandle

James Crowley

Joseph Crutchley

John Chew

Thomas Crutchley

James Carey

Patrick Conner

William Cooley

Thomas Clarke

Benjamin Clarrey, Sen.
(Baltimore City)

Walter Chase

Henry Cutsael

Peter Cutsael

David Clary (Balti-
more City)

John Cullen (Baltimore
City)

Tohn Clary (Baltimore

" City)

John Cain

Benjamin Carr, Jr.

Benjamin Cheney

Benjamin Carr, Sen.

William Carey

Jacob Culler

Thomas Crandell

Robert Cragg

William Crandell, of
Francis

Joseph Crandell

Benjamin Cheney

Richard Crutchley

Thomas Cooley

John Coale

Samuel Chase

John Campbell

John Callahan

Jeremiah P. Chase

Daniel Campbell

Arthur Coffin

William Cooley

John Crox

John Crapper

John Chavear

Joshua Carroll

Vachel Connoway

John Davis

Ephraim Duvall

George Davis

George Denny

John Dodson

George Davelyn

James Dick

William Devenish

Henry Dawson

Emanuel Dadd

John Darr

George Davies

Richard Disney

Robert Davidge

Ezekiel Desney

John Davidson

Daniel Dorsey

Dowlin Dowlin

Joseph Dowson

Robert Davis

Daniel Davis

Robert Pain Davis

Zachariah Duvall

William Davis

William Davis, Jr.

James Disney, of Wil-
liam

John Davis

Azel Davidge

Patrick Doherty

Joseph Donaldson

Moses Donaldson

Moses Donaldson, Jr.

Caleb Dorsey, of
Thomas

Ely Dorsey

John W. Dorsey

Amos Dorsey

Nicholas Dorsey, of
Henry

Ezekiel I. Dorsey

Joseph Dorsey

Robert Davis, Jr.

Robert Davis, Sen.

Thomas Day

Elias Dorsey (Balti-
more City)

Philemon Dorsey

Drawater

Stephen Deaver

Joseph Deaver

John Davis (Baltimore
City)

Walter Dent

I. Dorsey, of Michael

Lancelot Dorsey, of
Michael

Edward Disney

James Disney

Ely Dorsey, Jr.

Joseph Daw

Henry Hall Dorsey

Caleb Dorsey

Joshua Dorsey, Sen.

Michael Dorsey

Enos Duvall

Alexander Daffy

C. Dorsey

Richard Duffineld

Edward Dorsey, of Ed-
ward

John Dyson

Lancelot Dorsey

John Dabbs

Thomas Dorsey, of
Henry

Vachel Dorsey, of
Henry

William Davy

Amos Davis

Joseph Davis

Robert Davis

James Donnington

Walter Davis

John Davis

Gilbert Davis

Richard Dine

Samuel Diggens

James Dells

Joseph Deaver

Thomas Duvall, Jr.

Stephen Deaver

Ichabod Davis

Michael Dorsey

Thomas Davis

John Darringham

Charles Drury

Samuel Drury

Bennet Darnall

John Dove
Richard Deale
John Dorsey, Jr.
Benjamin Dorsey
William Denny
Thomas Disney
Samuel Dixon
Richard Disney
Thomas Dowell
Gidion Dare
John Dowell
Mark Dove
William Devenport
Henry Darnall (P.

Manor)
Philip Darnall
Richard Darnall
Philip Darnall, Jr.
Thomas Ditty
William Deale
William Drury
James Davidson
Robert Dillingham
Joshua Desher
Gerrard Davis (F.

Coty)
James Dier
William Dove
John Deale
Thomas Deale
John Dorsey
Thomas Dorsey
Edward Dorsey, of

John
John Dorsey, of John
Gabriel Duvall
Lewis Duvall
Thomas Donaldson
Conrad Eisden
John Ewright
Joseph Eastman
Alexander Elder
John Ettham
Thomas Elliott
Richard Elliott
Robert Welch Elliott
John Elliott
Matthew Elliott
Aquila Edwards
Thomas Elliott
William Elliott
Robert Elliott
Edward Edwards
Paul Earle
Peticoat Earpe

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Joshua Earpe

William Earpe

Thomas Earpe

Edward Earpe

Thomas Elisha

Richard Easton

Joseph Ellicott

Andrew Ellicott, Jr.

Joseph Evans

David Ellicott

Joseph Ellicott, Jr.

Lewis Evans

John Evans

Jonathan Ellicott

William Evans

William Eason

John Eddings

James Ellicott

Jacob Ettiley

Philip Francis

Richard Flemming

John Fowler

William Fowler

James Fox

Joshua Frazier

Francis Fanfisther

Benjamin Fairbairn

Jubb Fowler

James Freeland

Cornelius Fenton

Daniel Fowler

Richard Fogget

Thomas Fowler

Otho French

William French

Samuel Fowler

Thomas Fowler, of
John

William Foster

Samuel Foster, of John

John Forsyth

Charles Fox

John Frost

John Fisher, Sen.

John Fisher

Edward Talbot (of
Baltimore County)

Charles Fenton, Mu-
latto

Basil Fisher

John Flattery

James Frost

Patrick Fahey

John Figencer

William Faris

Robert Fennell
Thomas Fowler
William Fry
William Franklin
Joseph Ford
Ralph Flowers
Nathan Forster
John Forbes
Joseph Frazier
John Frazier
William Frazier
William Fisher
John Franklin
Jacob Franklin
William Fish
Benjamin Fish
William Forrister
Wooldrick Fulk
Jacob Field
William Fisher, Sen.
William Fisher, Jr.
Roger Fipps
John Franklin
William Frost
Joseph Foard
Levin Frazier
David Ferguson
Joseph Fowman
Richard Gaither
John Green
James Gaither
Steven Gambrill
Augustine Gambrill
Thomas Graham
Benjamin Gardner
John Geary
Mark Geary
William Goldsmith
John Green
William Gordon
Samuel Green
Frederick Green
John Gordon
George Garsten
Cornelius Garretson
John Glover
Thomas Gibbs
John Givens
Benjamin Gravels
Francis Given
John Nelson Gray
Nicholas Gassaway
James Gleheart
Vachel Gaither
Robert Geoghegan

Joshua Gaither
Gideon Gary
Benjamin Gaither
Thomas Grinnoe
Joshua Gambrill
Edward Gaither, of Ed-
ward
Zachariah Gaither
John H. Gaither
Elizah Green
Seth Gaither
Rezin Gaither
Francis Gordon
Charles Griffith, Jr.
Edward Gaither, Jr.
James Graham
John Gillis
Thomas Gassaway
Francis Godman
John Gardner
Samuel Godfrey
James Gaither
Rezin Gaither
John Green, of Richard
John Gaither
Samuel Greenup
William Green
John Brice Gassaway
D. Griffith
Richard Glover
Thomas Gaither
Ezekiel Gott
John Gardner
George Gardner, Sen.
Richard Green
John Gatten
Joshua Griffith
Joseph Griffith
Elijah Gaither
William Gardner
Gidion Gary
William Griffith
John Griffis, Jr.
Littleton Griffis
Hugh Griffis
John Griffis
John Gardiner
Marshall Griffis
Friderick Griffin
Henry Griffin
Joseph Gilbert
David Griffiths
Richard Gott
James Gatwood
Samuel Gallaway

John Gray
Zachariah Gray
William Gaither
John Greenwell
Brian Gounly
James Grimes, Sen.

(Baltimore City)
James Grimes, Jr.
Rawlins Gartrell
William Grimes
Greenbury Grimes
Enoch Glass
Beale Gaither
Jonas Galwith
Thomas Gassaway
Benjamin Galloway
John Gray
Richard Goodwin
Rezin Gambrill
Samuel Godmans
Edward Godman
Jabez Godman
Thomas Hyde
John Howell
John Hammond
Thomas Hammond
John Hesselius
William Harrison
William Herring
Samuel Horris
Joseph Hill
William Harris
Samuel Howard
Robert Heath
John Hall
Michael Hammond
Gerrard Hopkins
Isaac Harris
William Howard
Thomas H. Howard
Charles W. Howard
Nicholas Hannah
Samuel H. Howard
Charles Hogg
Samuel Hutton
Thomas Hunon
Jessie Hall
John Howard
John Howard
Robert Hawker
Henry Hall
William Hall, 3d.
Thomas Henry Hall
Thomas Harwood, Sen
John Houghton

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James Hunter

Benoni Holliday

William Harwood

Edward Hall, of Henry

Greenbury Hammond

Joseph Howard, Jr.

Joseph Howard

Philip Hammond

John Hall, of Edward

Matthias Hammond

Henry B. Hood

Robert Hood

John Hood

George Haden

Dennis Howard

Richard Haynes

Vachel Howard

Edward Holland

John Hammond

Benjamin Hood

William Harris

Joseph Hobbs, Sen.

William Hawkins

Thomas Hobbs

John Hatherly

Philip Howard

Charles Hipsley

John Hagar

John Hagar, Jr.

Benjamin Hatherly

Joseph Higgins

John Hood, Jr.

Noah Hobbs

Anthony Holland

John Hood, Sen.

Joseph Higgins, Jr.

John B. Howard

Philip Hammond, Jr.

Jacob Heins (Mont-
gomery County)

Henry Cornelius Hobbs

Joseph Hobbs, Jr.

Elie Hyatt

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A GREAT WAR IF WE DONT WEAKEN

By Wallace Irwin
(of the Vigilantes)

A month ago a public demonstration
was held in Madison Square Garden to
honor the crews of visiting French war-
ships. That night was truly inspiring
to loyalty and to brotherhood in arms.
The twelve thousand who beat the
other twelve thousand to the door
and stormed the auditorium were on
their feet most of the evening, shak-
ing the girdered ceiling with Yankee
cheers and Rebel yells. At one dramatic
point a French Lieutenant-Commander
leaped over the ropes into the central
arena and whipped out his sword, a
tongue of flame, to signal many hundred
French bayonets which sprouted sud-
denly skyward, a cornfield of steel,
raised to the glory of a new Ally. The
ensuing din was terrific and I — on
the tide of a young enthusiasm — helped
knock off the hat of the only pacifist
present.

It was out of the contrasting silence
which followed that I heard the warn-
ing spoken softly by the little man just
behind me.

"It'll be a great war," he said, "if
we don't weaken."

If we don't weaken — there's the point
of a sermon ! Nobody likes to preach
on the elderly subject of prohibition; but
we are now launched as a Nation upon
the business of killing and being killed
and at such a time none of us can afford
to trifle with the truth. We mustn't
weaken and we must cut out the rotten
roots of weakness.

Sane America wants the manufacture
of alcoholic beverages stopped for a
reason that has nothing to do with sen-
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timental twaddle. The manufacture of
alcoholic beverages, if continued with
us, would amount to a deadly German
plot in our midst. This is a matter of
plain business fact. The world is facing
starvation, America must feed herself
and the world ; and she cannot sit by and
see millions of tons of good clean grain
being poured into vats to make a rather
expensive, somewhat poisonous, entirely
useless liquid.

Already they are talking of giving us
war bread. Your grocer has learned to
say "Food shortage," as he doubles the
price of every edible, and in the saloon
next door the workman — who would
surely serve our Industrial Army a little
better were he sticking to cold water — is
cheating somebody out of a square meal
every time a glass of "the same" is
shoved at him over the bar.

It's up to the banker and the baker,
the pub and the club. We are struggling
desperately to make food-ships, a large
percentage of which are destined to feed
Von Capelle's ruinous and cowardly
sharks. War is becoming something hell
never dreamed of. And if we're going
to out-face hell we can't do it by getting
drunk at the expense of soldiers abroad
and children at home. Uncle Sam has
got to go in training for the big fight.
If he's going to win he mustn't be starved
or drugged. Patriotic brewers and dis-
tillers know this and are diverting their
business into channels useful to the Gov-
ernment. Those who are not patriotic
must be compelled into decency — and
your influence will help, if you don't
weaken.

KAISER BILL AND THE DEVIL

By Rene Bache

When Kaiser Bill arrived in hell,
The Devil welcomed him with, "Well '
You surely ought to feel 'to hum'
In this old Pandemonium.
It's given me such cause for mirth
To see the hell you've raised on earth.
Your methods were so new and frightful,
They struck me as quite too delightful.
I've felt like playing second fiddle,
Just toasting folks upon the griddle.
This hell of mine is out of date;
You've made me see it's second-rate.
I'm tempted to resign and let you
Take on my job. You'd make, I'll bet you,
A vastly more efficient devil
Than I, with greater range of evil.
I feel we are old friends. Your prayers,
Though misaddressed, have come down-
stairs.
I've answered some. But really, Kaiser,
Where devilment's concerned, you're wiser
Than I can claim to be. Your knack
For novelties in horrors puts me back
So far, I feel myself outclassed,
Gone-by, extinct, a relic of the past.
I do not flatter you. For where
In history can any one compare
With you as sorrow-maker for mankind ?
The groans of dying men ; the blind
Whose sight you took away; the tears
Of countless women (it appears
That making war on children was with you
A notion quite original and new) —
These things all testify your greatness;

but to me
Your most amazing talent is hypocrisy.
I used to think that I could lie a few,
But in this line I yield the palm to you.
I've made of this a fairly horrid hell,
But you could run it fully twice as well.
If loth to take my place, then share my

throne.
Now you are here, I would not reign
alone."

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700 West St., Wilmington.

MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

Newark.

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905 Massachusetts Ave , Washington.

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Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (Frontispiece)

Van Rensselaers of Rensselaerwyck. Jeanie Gould Lincoln . 67

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KILIAEN VAN RENSSELAER, 2d
Third Patroon and First Lord of the Manor.

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WHOLE NO. 301

VAN RENSSELAERS OF RENSSELAERWYCK

By Jeanie Gould Lincoln
Author of " Marjorie's Quest," "An Unwilling Maid," etc.

Among the fine old Manor Houses in
America, that of the Van Rensselaers of
Rensselaerwyck stands pre-eminent not
only for its extensive landed estate and
far-reaching influence, but for its gra-
cious and stately hospitality maintained
through many generations.

For two hundred and eighty-seven
years the Van Rensselaers have been
prominent in America. They were
Jonkheers, or noblemen, in Holland.
Their original estate, about three miles
southeast of Nykerk, was a Redder-
gold, the possession of which conferred
nobility.

Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a merchant
prince of Amsterdam, Holland, a di-
rector of the Dutch West India Com-
pany, and a member of the college of
nine commissioners empowered to con-
duct the affairs of the New Nether-
lands, made his first purchase of land
from the American Indians in 1630, and
seven years later his estate in America
comprised over 700,000 acres, now the
Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, and
part of Columbia. The property was
twenty-four miles wide and forty-eight
miles long. At his own expense Van

Rensselaer sent over one hundred and
fifty men and women to colonize this
enormous tract of land in the wilder-
ness.

Van Rensselaer's position remains
unique in the history of the coloniza-
tion of the New World. He acknowl-
edged, as founder of his extensive col-
ony, no superior power on this side of
the ocean, and was virtually a sovereign
on his own domain, for the title "Pa-
troon" conferred by the W'est India
Charter to Van Rensselaer, was analo-
gous to that of the old feudal barons.
Only recognizing the States General
of Holland as his superior, Kiliaen Van
Rensselaer administered justice within
his own estate, built his own fortress,
owned the cannon (still in the posses-
sion of the Manor House family),
maintained, commissioned, and enlisted
his own army, and had a flag of his
own.

Kiliaen, the first Patroon, was twice
married and had nine children, five
sons and four daughters, all of whom
survived him and shared his estate. He
died in 1646. His first wife was Helle-
gonda Van Bylet, by whom he had one

68 DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

son, Johannes, who married his cousin, Haeckins. It was to protect Madam

Elizabeth Van Twiller. This Johannes Van Rensselaer's dainty fingers that

was the second Patroon ; however, he the humble thimble was invented. This

never came to this country, his brother, first thimble was made by a goldsmith,

Photo — Edmonton, Washington.

KILIAEN VAN RENSSELAER
Founder of the Colony of Rensselaerw yck in America and the First Patroon.

Jan Baptist, representing him at Rens- Nicholas Van Benschoten, who pre-

selaerwyck. sented it to the Patroon's wife, begging

The first Patroon's second wife was her to accept the "covering" for the

Anna Van Wely, daughter of Johan protection of her diligent finger, as a

Van ,Wely and his wife, Leonora token of his esteem.

VAN RENSSELAERS OF RENSSELAERWYCK 69

When Jan Baptist Van Rensselaer, Holland in 1658, his place being taken

second son of the first Patroon, arrived by his younger brother Jeremias.

in America to represent his brother Jo- Jeremias Van Rensselaer, who was

hannes, he brought with him massive born in Amsterdam about 1632, and

4L-

Photo — Edmonston, Washington.

ANNE VAN WELY
Wife of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the First Patroon. The thimble was invented for her use.

carved furniture, large quantities of sil-
ver plate, and family portraits, and
built on the feudal estate a Manor
House resembling in appearance the
homestead in Holland. He retired to

died in Rensselaerwyck in October,
1674, was Director of the Manor of
Rensselaer for sixteen years, during the
minority of his nephew, little Kiliaen,
named for his grandfather. When the

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Photo — Edmonston, Washington. __„ . „„

JEREMIAS VAN RENSSELAER

Third son of the First Patroon, was Director of the Colony for sixteen years.

VAN KENSSELAERS OE RENSSELAEIIWYCK

STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER, ist
Sixth Patroon, born 1707, died 1747, married Elizabeth Groesbeck in 1729.

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British gained possession of the New
Netherlands in 1664 Jeremias swore al-
legiance to the Duke of York, and ac-
cording to the terms of surrender he
was left in possession of the Van Rens-
selaer estate, with privileges and baron-
ial rights unimpaired. The village of
Beverwyck, which had grown up under
the shadow of old Fort Orange, was de-
t a c h e d from the
Manor and incorpo-
rated into the city of
Albany.

Jere m i a s was
greatly beloved by his
tenantry and neigh-
boring Indians, who
guarded his estate as
if it was their own.
He married Maria
Van Cortlandt.

Kiliaen Van Rens-
selaer, 2d, received
his patent in 1685
under the title of first
Lord of the Manor
and Third Patroon,
and was expressly
given authority to ad-
minister justice with-
in his own domain,
" in both kinds, in his
own court-leet and
court baron," and to
a separate representa-
tion in the Colonial
Assembly. These
rights remained with the family until the
Revolution.

Kiliaen married his cousin, Anne Van
Rensselaer, and died in 1687 at Water-
vliet, N. Y. They had no children.
His widow married William Nichol.
Following the law of primogeniture,
the vast Van Rensselaer estate reverted
to the son of Jeremias, who also bore
the family name of Kiliaen.

The latter's grandson, Stephen Van
Rensselaer, 2d, and seventh Patroon,
upon inheriting the ancestral estate, re-
moved the old Manor House, within
whose walls the great men and women
of Colonial days had been entertained,
and erected a new Manor House, which
was completed in 1765. Stephen mar-
ried Catherine Livingston, daughter of
Philip Livingston,
Signer of the Decla-
ration of Indepen-
dence, and Christiana
Ten Broec k. To
quote an old biog-
raphy: "Stephen Van
Rensselaer, with his
father-in-law, Philip
Livingston, sternly op-
posed the encroach-
ments of the Crown."
Philip, second son
of Stephen and Cath-
erine Livingston Van
Rensselaer, was born
in 1766 and died Sep-
tember 25, 1824. He
married, in 1787,
Anne de Peyster Van
Cortlandt, daughter
of General Philip Van
Cortlandt. They had
no issue. Philip be-
came mayor of Al-
banv in 1799 and held
for nineteen
years, the longest
service of any mayor of that city. He
was noted for his benevolence and public
spirit.

His brother, Stephen, 3d, was ap-
pointed major general of militia in 1801,
and in the War of 1812 commanded
the United States forces on the north-
ern frontier. His second wife was Cor-
nelia Patterson, daughter of William
Patterson, Governor of New Jersey,

CHRISTIANA TEN BROECK

Wife of Philip Livingston, Signer of the Declaration
of Independence, and mother of Mrs. Stephen Van riffirp
Renssalaer, 2d. UlllCC

VAN RENSSELAERS OF RENSSELAERWYCK

Photo — Edmonslon, Washington.

PHILIP VAN RENSSELAER
Mayor of Albany for nineteen years. From portrait owned by Mrs. Theodore Vernon Boynton.

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and later Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.

The last Van Rensselaer to bear the

CATHERINE LIVINGSTON

Wife of Stephen Van Rensselaer, 2d, and daughter of

Philip Livingston.

title of Patroon was Stephen, 4th, born
in Albany March 29, 1789; died there
on May 25, 1868. He was a man of
great distinction and major general of
militia. He married Harriet Elizabeth,
daughter of William Bayard, of New
York.

"The last Patroon," by which title
Stephen Van Rensselaer, 4th, was al-
ways known,, had many stormy hours
during almost two decades — the " For-
ties and Fifties" — occasioned by the re-
fusal of his tenants to render him the
ground-rents which had been accorded
the former Patroons. The refusal pro-
voked riots to such an extent that both
the police and militia had to be called
out; houses were burned, and some of

the property destroyed. Getting into
the political arena, this was the seed of
a party known as "Anti-renters, or
Know-nothings." Colonel Church, a
prominent citizen of Albany, General
Van Rensselaer's friend and attorney,
was attacked viciously by rioters on
several occasions and once seriously in-
jured. Feeling ran high for years, while
the legal battle was fought in the courts,
until finally Judge George Gould, of
the Supreme Court Bench, and later the
presiding Justice of the Court of Ap-
peals of the State of New York, gave
the decision in General Van Rensse-
laer's favor.

One of the occasions when the stately
doors of the Manor House were hos-
pitably thrown open occurred in 1863,

Photo — Edmonston, Washington — from a painting by
Malbone.

CORNELIA PATTERSON
Wife of Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer.

during the Civil War, when the Pa-
troon's youngest daughter, Harriet
Van Rensselaer, married John Schuyler
Crosby, of Albany, afterwards colonel

VAN RENSSELAERS OF RENSSELAERWYCK

Photo — Edmonston, Washington, from original portrait owned by Mrs. Theodore Vernon Boynton.

WILLIAM BAYARD, OF NEW YORK

His daughter, Harriet Elizabeth, married the Last Patroon, Stephen Van Rensselaer, 4th.

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on the staff of General Philip Sheridan, to mount the beautiful drawing-room

That evening and the wedding will long table, from whence, over the heads of

be remembered by the writer, who, by the other guests, she gazed admiringly

virtue of her small stature, was assisted at the bride and groom.

■\

Photo — Edmonston, Washington.

THE MANOR HOUSE OF RENSSELAEKWVCK
Built in 1765 by Stephen Van Rensselaer, 2d. From painting owned by Mrs. Theodore Vernon Boynton.

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FRANCE REMEMBERS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
IN HER WAR DIPLOMA

Designed Before the United States Joined the Allies

The French diploma bestowed upon tone dates 1776-1783 underneath, and

the gallant men of the American Am- over the dates 1914-1917 is drawn the

bulance Field Service during the pres- American soldier in khaki and the Poilu

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ACTA MANENT

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American Ambulance Field Service from
191.. to 191..

Faithful to the ancient friendship of
France and the United States, he has
allied himself to the French army, car-
rying help in the line of battle to the
wounded in the war for the right.

The diploma was first published in
the April L' Illustration, a French mag-
azine, with the accompanying article,
which is a translation :

" At this time, when America joins
herself with the Allies, a special hom-
age is due to her sons who, during two
years and a half, have shared the dan-
gers and the glories of our troops.

" Among them the American Am-
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diploma which will be accorded to the
American Ambulance Field Service of
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into the war, has to-day a special and
symbolic value."

AMERICA TO HER ALLIES

Congress Provides Battleplanes and Fliers.

— Newspaper Headline .

By Theodosia Garrison
(of The Vigilantes)

I send my men in khaki

With singing on their lips —
My engineers and artisans,

My captains and their ships ;
But yet another sending

Shall greet your lifted glance,
When the eagles of America

Are on the wing to France.

My fierce, white eagles.

They shall gather in their might,
In hundreds and in thousands

They shall circle for the flight
With wings that bear the lightning.

With eyes that pierce the night.

My soldiers and my sailors

Shall prove their wrath and will,
My engineers and artisans

Shall serve you of their skill ;
But yet a greater service

The four winds shall advance,
When the eagles of America

Are on the wing to France.

My fierce, white eagles —

They shall gather for the feast,

Like a swift cloud of judgment
They shall turn them to the East,

And God shall steel their talons
For rending of the beast.

WORK OF THE CHAPTERS

To Insure Accuracy in the Reading of Names and Promptness in
Publication, Chapter Reports must be Typewritten.

EDITOR.

Anne Brewster Fanning Chapter (Con-
necticut). The exercises in connection with
the unveiling of the Ancient North East Corn-
er mound stone, situated on Miss Mary Har-
vey's farm near Jewett City, were held under
the auspices of this Chapter in the Baptist
Church on Wednesday afternoon. May 16,
1917.

Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Vice President
General from Connecticut ; Mrs. John Laidlaw
Buel, State Regent of Connecticut, and other

UNVEILING BOULDER MARKING NORWICH BOUND

Left to right: Mrs. A. M. Brown, Regent, Anne Brew-
ster Fanning Chapter; Mrs. John L. Buel, State Regent
of Connecticut; and Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Vice
President General from Connecticut.

distinguished guests of the Chapter went after-
ward to the Harvey farm. Miss Alice Brown
and Miss Martha Brewster, both descendants
of former owners of the land lying in a south-
erly direction from the stone, unveiled the
boulder, and the former placed a laurel wreath
upon it. As Miss Brewster unfurled the Ameri-
can flag, the salute to the flag was given, and
she then placed the flag in the holder prepared
for it on the boulder.

With the lapse of a century and a quarter the
old boundary stone had been almost forgotten,
but its traditions still lingered in the minds of

the neighboring landowners, and a year ago the
Anne Brewster Fanning Chapter undertook its
restoration.

The inscription on the stone reads :

Ye Ancient Norwich N. E. Corner Bound
1659-1917
D. A. R.

Helen Burrall Bliss,

Historian.

Samuel Adams Chapter (Methuen, Mass.)
in these days of peril to our beloved country
and to the young men who are her defenders,
feels that every effort must be made to meet
the needs of the hour. There is no longer time
to recount what we have done, but high time
that we strive zealously to find the avenue of
activity wherein each and every member may
best serve her country and avert the threat-
ened food shortage which may develop into a
national calamity.

We should pledge ourselves to indulge in no
extravagances, to dress plainly, and to conserve
every ounce of food. The wife of the President
has set us an example in economy, and we
should follow her leadership ; buy nothing
which is not needed, and provide foodstuffs by
every possible means, either by raising vegeta-
bles and fruits in gardens, or preserving them.

During the year just closed, the Chapter
meetings have been well attended and much
work has been accomplished. The summer
school was conducted by the Chapter in the
Italian district from July io to July 24 in the
Bradley School, seventeen girls and sixteen
boys being enrolled. After two weeks, the
school was discontinued and was opened in
the Pleasant Valley school, thirty-one boys
and twenty-five girls enrolled. During three
weeks there was an average attendance of
forty.

The benevolences of the year include a con-
tribution to the Florence Crittendon League,
the Lawrence Boys' Club, the Martha Berry
School and the International College at Spring-
field.

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In February, Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, our
State Regent, was the guest of the Chapter.
The literary exercises have been of a high
order and the Chapter is to be congratulated
in having secured the services of distinguished
speakers.

Camelia A. Howe,
Historian.

Council Bluffs Chapter (Iowa) has held
eight regular meetings. Our Regent has pre-
sided at all.

The Board has held three regular and five
called meetings.

The Chapter has had an average attendance
of twenty-seven members. A most successful
year in all ways has been enjoyed.

Madge H. Cinney,
Secretary.

Fort Nelson Chapter (Portsmouth, Va.)
erected a tablet to commemorate the deeds of
Commodore Richard Dale, who " added im-
perishable glory to the American Navy."

TRIBUTE PAID BY THE FORT NELSON CHAPTER
TO RICHARD DALE

On May 9, 1917— the thirty-eighth annivers-
ary of the Battle of Fort Nelson, fought on
the site af the present Naval Hospital in
Portsmouth, the tablet was unveiled, a beau-
tiful monument of granite and bronze.

Commodore Richard Dale, a gallant naval
officer of the Revolutionary War, was second
in command under John Paul Jones in the fa-
mous fight between the " Bon Homme Rich-
ard " and the British frigate, " Serapis.''

The present day crisis, when the liberties
of the people and the world's civilization are
threatened, seemed a peculiarly fitting time for
the Daughters of the American Revolution to
honor Richard Dale — a Portsmouth man, a
pioneer of the illustrous line of brave men
who have gone forth from this city at duty's
call to uphold the honor and rights of their
country.

A battalion of sailors from the Naval Train-
ing Station, with the Post band from the Navy
Yard, and the Training Station band gave a
distinctly military aspect to the unveiling cere-
monies.

The monument, which is about ten feet high,
has the bronze tablet which shows a vessel
in a rough sea with the Goddess of Liberty as
the figurehead, with two men kneeling on
either „ side, one watchful for danger, the
other ready for defense — typical of the sailors
and soldiers who won honor defending their
country. On the reverse of the monument is
a smaller bronze tablet bearing this inscrip-
tion :

" In honor of the memory of Commodore
Richard Dale, a native of this place, born
November 6, 1756, died in Philadelphia. Pa.,
February 26, 1826. Erected by Fort Nelson
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, May 9, 1917."

Annie Emmerson,
Historian.

Pilgrim Chapter (Iowa City) has completed
its nineteenth year of patriotic work with a
membership of seventy.

The course of study outlined by the program
committee proved very instructive and intense-
ly interesting. Although not allowed a part in
the work, we know " How our cities are gov-
erned." One meeting was especially appro-
priate.

The -Saturday before the City Manager form
of city government was voted upon in our city,
Miss Hastings gave us an enthusiastic talk on
the subject.

Last September we were able to place a
marker on the grave of a real daughter, Mrs.
Eliza Melvin Shrader, a former member.

WORK OF THE CHAPTERS

Through the untiring efforts of our Red
Cross committee, the Chapter had the honor of
sending nearly $250 to the French Relief
Fund. A patriotic movie was given and out-
side interest aroused until $73 were raised;
enough to support a French orphan for two
years. We have a picture of little Paul Mar-
con and receive interesting but pathetic let-
ters from him and his mother.

Later the husband of one of our members
gave us a New Year's present of $100 for the
worthy cause and others have generously
contributed. At our last meeting, the Chapter
voted to adopt another orphan — each member
pledging $1 or more for the fund.

We have held two patriotic services during
the year, July 2 and February 18. To these
we invited the G.A.R., W.R.C., S.O.V., the
National Guard, and the University cadets ;
and also accepted the invitation of the W.R.C.
to join them in the services May 27th and
May 30th.

The usual custom of presenting a medal to
the young girl who had the highest standing
in American history during her Senior year
in the university was continued.

Two of our members have been rewarded
for their good work in our Chapter by ap-
pointment to chairmanship on State commit-
tees ; Mrs. Elinor E. Biggs is chairman of the
Red Cross committee and Mrs. Lue B. Pren-
tiss, of the Protection of the Flag and the
D.A.R. insignia. Through the energetic efforts
of Mrs. Prentiss and her committee a new
flag law was passed by our last legislature.

Pilgrim Chapter has followed the sugges-
tion of our State Regent and next year, be-
ginning with July 1, will meet the first Satur-
day of every month in the Red Cross rooms
and work under the supervision of trained
leaders for the soldiers and sailors, who are
fighting to help Europe win and maintain the
principles of liberty and democracy which our
forefathers won for us in the Revolutionary
War.

Jessie L. Arms,
Historian.

John Paul Chapter (Madison, Ind.). Indi-
ana's Centennial was celebrated in 1916 and
the John Paul Chapter chose as its commem-
orative part in the observance the erection of
a boulder to mark the beginning of the old
historic Michigan Road. This road traverses

the state from Madison on the Ohio River to
Michigan City on Lake Michigan.

The Jefferson County Celebration took place
September 28th. The day's exercises began
with the dedication of the boulder, program as

BOULDER ERECTED BY JOHN PAUL CHAPTER

follows : Star Spangled Banner, Elks Band ;
Invocation, Rev. B. E. Antrobus ; Presentation
of Boulder to Chapter, Mrs. S. M. Strader ;
Unveiling, Mrs. S. M. Ford, Mrs. E. R. Trow;
Acceptance of Boulder, and Presentation to
Mayor, J. E. Crozier, Miss Caroline Blankin-
ship, Regent; Display of Chapter Colors, Mrs.
R. L. Ireland, Mrs. M. S. Wyatt; Address,
" From Byway to Highway," Mrs. M. C.
Garber; " History of the Michigan Road,"
Miss Drusilla Cravens.

On the face of the boulder is a bronze plate
bearing this inscription :

The Beginning of the Michigan Road.

Erected by the John Paul Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1832 1916.

After the exercises, the assembly formed in
line and marched to Chautauqua Park. The
Chapter furnished a float for the parade, decked
in blue and white and festooned with vines,
bearing a D.A.R. flag at each corner and in
the center a cannon, manned by young men
representing Revolutionary soldiers.

Our first work as a Chapter was local ; we
made and maintained a park for the benefit of
the public, later we extended our work into
the county; providing copies of "The Dec-
laration of Independence " for all schools and
marking all known graves of Revolutionary

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soldiers throughout Jefferson County. Next
we responded to many calls for aid from other
chapters and for different state purposes, al-
ways remembering Memorial Continental Hall.
Now we are doing our bit in Relief and Red
Cross work, which is world wide.

Henrietta Griggs Rogers,
Historian.

Sarah Bradlee Fulton Chapter (Medford,
Mass.). Our past year has been one of prog-
ress and success. We have given many dona-
tions to charities, and contributed to a new
cause, the Heath School in the Western part of
our State.

At the twenty-sixth Continental Congress we
were represented by our Regent and four other
Chapter members, delegates and alternates.

We have pledged ourselves to do what we
can for the Allies, and our Chapter holds meet-
ings each week in the Slave Quarters, Royal
House, to prepare surgical dressings.

In May our Chapter entertained the State
officers and chapters at the Colonial House,
Boston ; this was the last meeting held there
this season. Two meetings each month from
October to May are held, and so the Chapters
of the Bay State keep in touch with each
other.

In January one of our members presented
us with five large silk United States flags, and
we are the happy owner of a large thirteen-star
flag.

Our Chapter Officers are : Regent, Mrs.
Ellen L. Tisdale; Vice Regent, Miss Maria
W. Wait; Recording Secretary, Miss Olive L.
Hinckley ; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Eliza M. Gill ; Registrar. Mrs. Emma W. Good-
win; Treasurer, Miss Jessie M. Dinsmore;
Chaplain, Miss Annie L. Goodrich ; Historian,
Miss Rhoda C. Slate.

Eliza M. Gill,
Corresponding Secretary.

Ironedqoit Chapter (New York). The past
year marks a period of great activity in the
Chapter ; activities social, educational, and pa-
triotic; to say nothing of the philanthropic
work which is noted in another report.

One of the earliest patriotic celebrations of
the year was that of Flag Day; these exercises
were held on Mrs. McMasters' lawn. National
airs were played by the fife and drum corps ;
a male quartette rendered several patriotic
selections ; Mrs. John Miller Horton, Regent

of the Buffalo Chapter, was the guest of
honor, and gave a talk on patriotism.

Prior to this was the Preparedness Parade,
in which many Daughters of the American
Revolution marched. Luncheon was served
that day at the Chapter House. During June
also occurred the Shakespearean Pageant at
Exposition Park.

The monthly meetings of the Chapter pre-
sented some fine programs.

This report would be incomplete without
mentioning the work done at the Chapter
House for the Red Cross. Classes in First Aid
have been held in various rooms during the
winter and now nearly all the unused space in
the Chapter House is occupied by different
groups doing Red Cross work. This work
must be a gratification to the Daughters of
the Revolution, whose watchword has been
and always will be— PATRIOTISM.

Katharine S. Snow,
Corresponding Secretary.

Denver Chapter (Denver, Colorado).
Monuments have been erected extolling the
noble deeds of man, but to Denver Chapter it
seems eminently fitting that tribute be paid to a
woman for her deed of loyalty and patriotism,
— a woman who had the distinction of being
the first white woman in Denver, and the still
greater distinction of making the first United
States flag in Colorado. To commemorate her
services a boulder of silver plume granite has
been placed on her grave, bearing the in-
scription :

" In memory of

the maker of the first United States Flag

in Colorado

Katrina Wolf Murat

1824-1910

Erected by Denver Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution."

There was legend, romance and history
interwoven with the colors of that first flag.
The inspiration came from the region of the
Rhine and the land of the Dakotahs, and it
came from a red merino petticoat.

It was in the winter of 1858-1859 that Ka-
trina Murat, assisted by Wapolah, a Sioux
Indian, lovingly sewed the seams of that
flag. Mrs. Murat purchased blue and
white muslin, but, lacking red material, cut
up a rich red merino petticoat, which she had
brought from France. We started with a
petticoat in our first flag, which presaged
woman's electoral equality. It was in our
first banner and has come to stay.

WORK OF THE CHAPTERS

Wapolah aided in sewing the stripes, while
Mrs. Murat arranged the placing of the stars.
The significance of the flag was grasped only
partially by Wapolah. She thought it applied
more to the President than to the country, for
she often said, while regarding it: "for the
great Father at Washington." Later Wapolah
heeded the call of her own people, returned to
the Dakotahs, and was lost sight of.

A pole was brought from the foothills and
the flag raised by means of rope and pully,
amidst a throng of spectators. Three hearty
cheers made a fitting climax to the ceremony.

Katrina Wolf was born in Heidelsheim,
Baden, August 20, 1824. She married a wealthy
German and came to this country with him in
1848. After his death she married Count
Henry Murat, of a distinguished French fam-
ily. Shortly after their marriage Count and

BOULDER ERECTED BY CHAPTER IN MEMORY OF
KATRINA WOLF MURAT

Countess Murat went to Europe, and while
there purchased the petticoat which was des-
tined to become famous. During these days
they lived a life of luxury, but Count Murat,
kind, generous and spendthrift, experienced
vicissitudes of fortune, and led a vagrant ex-
istence for several years before his death in
the County Hospital in Denver. Mrs. Murat,
or Countess Murat, as she was known in the
pioneer days of Colorado, was thrown upon
her own resources and eventually followed the
humble life of a washerwoman. With her
own earnings she built the little white fram
cottage which was her last home.

The heart of this woman held neither sad-
ness nor bitterness. There was a tranquillity

of sweetness and resignation which made her
happy.

When asked, in her old age, how she made
the flag without a pattern, her answer, simple
and direct, was : " How could anyone who has
seen that flag and loves liberty and freedom
forget what it is like? I knew there must be
a star for every State and I counted the
States at that time. When you love America,
you love the American flag."

Grace Deisher,
Historian.

Wadsworth Chapter (Middletown, Conn.),
the oldest Chapter of the society in Connecti-
cut, and the second oldest in New England,
has just celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday.
The hostess of the occasion was a Charter
member, and she was assisted in receiving by
the other Charter members.

The program consisted of reminiscences by
Charter members. One paper gave a very in-
teresting and amusing account of the strug-
gles incident to the founding of the Na-
tional Society. Another paper on " The Mak-
ing and Adoption of the By-Laws of Wads-
worth Chapter" was of especial interest, as
the same By-Laws with few changes are in
force in our Chapter to-day. We all felt
pride in hearing of the work of our first
members in a paper entitled " The Earliest
Labors and Leaders of Our Society." The
beautiful old burying ground, reclaimed
through the untiring efforts of these loyal
women, is a splendid monument to their pa-
triotic zeal.

The musical part of the program was very
enjoyable, and so was the Social hour.

Wadsworth Chapter has one hundred and
twenty-three members. During the past year
it has accomplished much in patriotic and
philanthropic work. We have made two hun-
dred pillows for the French wounded and
sent much clothing to France. We are
pledged to support a French orphan the com-
ing year, also the Chapter has taken an active
part in Red Cross work — both in securing
membership and in doing practical work. We
have helped many other organizations — the
Middlesex Hospital Aid, the Social Service
League, the Day Nursery, the District Nurse
Association, etc. We have taken a practical
interest in the Ellsworth Memorial, the prop-
erty of the Connecticut D. A. R. We have
also assisted the work among the Southern
mountain whites. We are, in short, endeav-
oring to make the Chapter an effective force
for good.

(Mrs. W. E.) Sarah W. C. Terrill,

Historian.

GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT

Mrs. Margaret Roberts Hodges, Editor, Annapolis, Maryland

On entering the service of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, as Genealogical Editor, I most earnestly plead for cooperation in collecting
unpublished Revolutionary Records, Bible Records, Affidavits from the Local Court
Records, unpublished Church Records, Tombstone Records and Final Accounts. In
the pages allotted to this Department, it is your privilege and mine, to be History Builders,
under Liber and Folio for this, and coming generations.

Margaret Roberts Hodges.

An alphabetical list of those who took the Oath of Fidelity and Support to the State
of Maryland in Anne Arundel County, 1778.

Continued from July Magazine

Augustine Randall
David Roboson
Benjamin Riton
Robert Reynolds
James Reid
Thomas Rutland
John Randall
Adam Richardson
Absalom Ridgely
Robert Ruth
James Ringgold
Charles Ratchiffe
Robert Ridge
Richard Richardson
Francis Rawlings, Jr.
Stephen Rawlings
John Rawlings
John Ridout
Isaac Rawlings
William Roberts
Francis Ridgely
Nathaniel Ross
Ezekiel Ross
John Rhodes
Charles Robertson
Levin Ross
John Risten
84

Covington Rickets
Philip Richardson
Joseph Richardson
William Reed
Stephen Rawlings
Aaron Rawlius, of Wil-
liam
William Rawlings
Richard Rawlings
Aaron Rawlings
William Ryan
William Roberts
William Rawlings
Richard Robison
William Reynolds
Francis Rawlings
William Rawlings
William Ridgely
Joshua Ridgely
Lawrence Robinson
Charles Ridgely
Thomas Ricketts
Aquila Randall
Greenbury Randall
Jacob Riffle
John Randall
William Russell

John Rowden (Balti-
more County)

William Reynolds
(Baltimore County)

Joseph Ratcliffe

Robert Reynolds

William Ridgely (Elk-
ridge)

Charles Ridgely

William Ridgely, Jr.

Nicholas Ridgely

Thomas Riley

Jacob Ryan

William Ridgely, of
William

Mark Ridgely

Richard Ray

William Ray, Sen.

John Ray, Jr.

Nathan Ryan

Basil Ridgely

William Ridgely

Aquila Randall, Sen.

James Reynolds

Joseph Roberts

C. Ridgely, of John

Robert Ryan

William Ray, Jr.
John Rogers
Henry Ridgely
Greenbury Ridgely
Thomas Reynolds
Joseph Ray
James Rowland
John Randall
John Grant Rencher
James Riggs
William Roberts
Benjamin Russell
Joseph Richardson
Henry Riston
John Randall
Greenbury Ridgely
Nicholas Ridgely
John Ridgely
Linon Riggs
George Rait
John Reed
Richard Randall
George Ross
Samuel Rawlings
John Robson
Samuel Rusbatch
Charles Rockhold

GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT

Thomas Robosson
Obed Robosson
Richard Robosson
Oneal Robosson
William Richards, Sen.
Benjamin Raner
John Raner
James Raner
Robert Reynolds
Richard Ridgely
G. Charles Ridgely
James T. Rigby
Hampton Robinson
Thomas Robinson, of

Charles
John Reynolds
Joseph Richardson,

Dorchester County
Francis Robosson
Samuel Robasson
Luke Robasson
George Robinson
Clarke Rockhold, Sen.
Henry Ridgely
Vachel Robinson
John Rockhold
Clarke Rockhold, Jr.
George Robinson
John Reves
John Richards
Jonathan Rawlings
Richard Rawlings
Gassaway Rawlings
Robert Richards
Elijah Robosson
John Small
Bright Sellivir
Jonathan Sampson
Joseph Selby
Thomas Cooper Sarson
Vachill Stevens
Dennis Stevens
John Smith
Elijah Stocker
Philip Smith
Thomas Stinchcomb
Sennet Sanders
John Semson
Charles Steuart
John Short
Joseph Smith
William Sears
John Shepherd
Nathaniel Stephen
George Schelhamer

William Schume
Thomas Sparrow
John Sears
John Shaw
Charles Steuart
William Sands
John Justus Seibert
John Sands
William Skerrett
Jeremiah Satchwell
James Sanders, Sen.
Robert Steuart
James Steuart
John Thomas Swan
Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart, Jr.
Edward Sefton
John Sefton
William Sefton
John Sorrell
James Sanders, Jr.
John Sappington
Abraham Short
John Stel
Henry Sibell
Jonathan Sands
Joseph Stevens
Thomas Smith
Thomas Noble Stockett
John Sellman
Caleb Stewart
Jonathan Sellman
Lewis Stockett
William Sanders
I. Robert Smith
Isaac Swann
Anthony Smith
David Stewart
John Smith
Robert Scrivenor
George Stalker
Benjamin Selby
Jonathan Selby
John Sappington
William Sappington
Nathaniel Sappington
Richard Sappington
Vachiel Sewell
John Sewell
Leonard Sellman
Augustine Sewell
Joseph Simon
Edward Stewart
David Stewart
Elisha Stansbury

Joseph Sewell

Joseph Sewell, Jr.

Philip Sewell

Benjamin Sewell

Greenbury Sewell

Aaron Spurrier

Benjamin Shipley

George Smith

Carman Smith

Benjamin Stevens

John Salway

John Stations

Rezin Stevens, Balti-
more County

Vachel Shipley

Mordecai Selby, Jr.

Jabert Shipley

Adams Shipley (Balti-
more County)

John Scrivener

Richard Stringer

Thomas Spurrier, Jr.

Benjamin Simpson

Amos Simpson

Greenbury Simpson

Adam Shipley

John Shipley

Greenbury Shipley,
Baltimore County

Benjamin Shipley, Bal-
timore County

Peter Shipley, Balti-
more County

Samuel Shipley, Balti-
more County

Henry Shipley

Robert Shipley

John Shipley

William Shipley, Jr.

George Shipley, Jr.

Samuel Shipley, Jr.
(Baltimore County)

William Shipley

William Sykes (Balti-
more County)

Nicholas Selby

Dawson Steuart

William Sellman

David Scott

Samuel Shipley

Vachel Stevens

David Shaddows

John Swanard

William Stevens

Charles Simpson

Thomas Sappington
Joseph Spurrier
Martin Shuts
Thomas Spurrier, Sen.
William Simpson
William Skeile
Samuel Stoner
Thomas Shepherd
John Stockster
Samuel Stack
Adam Scott
Francis Simpson
Thomas Snowden
Benjamin Battle Shear-

bertt
Henry Shepherd
William Simmonds
George Simmons
Abraham Sollars
Peter Seith
John Scrivenor
Richard Scrivener
Francis Scrivener
William Scrivener
William Spicknell
John Smith
Lewis Scrivenor
John Scrivinor
Stephen Steuart
Abraham Simmons
John Stone
William Simmons
Jeremiah Chapman

Simmons
William Simmons, Jr.
Christopher Sholde
Robert Sollars
Samuel Sheckell
John Shipley
William Spurrier
William Savage
Richard Scott
George Scott
Richard Shipley, Sen.
Stephen Steward
Thomas Sutton
H. Gilbert Smith
Isaac Simmons
Stephen Steward, Jr.
Charles Spencer
Richard Sawyer
William Scrivinor
Nicholas Seeke
Thomas Sheets
Edward Sanders

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Robert Sands

Richard Sawyer

Philemon Smith

Gassaway Sellman

Thomas Smith

John Shard

Henry Selby

Samuel Smith

Richard Smith

John Stevens

Charles Stevens

Thomas Smith

Rezin Smith

Green Spurier, Balti-
more County

Michael Shivery

Levin Spurrier, Balti-
more County

Henry Sheets

Thomas Sprigg

William Sellman, Jr.

Isaac Simmons

Samuel Smith

John Sheketts

John Scott

John Sheketts

Richard Shekett

Francis Shekett

Samuel Shekett

Solomon Storey

George Sank

Daniel Steward

William Spicer

Thomas Snowden

Nicholas Shepherd

Edward Smith

George Sank

Edward Timmons

Sele Tucker

Thomas Tucker

William Thornton

Zachariah Thacknel

William Tomlinson

John Thackrel

Rezin Thackrel

Simon Tilor

Edward Thompson

Thomas Thompson

Alexander Thompson

John Thompson

William Tuck

Richard Thompson

James Taylor

Richard Tiers

Philip Thomas

Richard Tidings, Jr.

John Tydings

William Turner

Richard Tydings

Jeremiah Thomas

James Tootell

Joseph Thackroll

Caleb Taylor

Thomas Taft

Thomas Tawy

Nicholas Thackrell

Rhesa Todd

Alexander Todd

James Talbot (Balti-
more County)

William Thompson

Joseph Turner

Joseph Thornton (Bal-
timore County)

William Tydie (Balti-
more County)

Lance Todd, Sen.

Richard Talbot

Richard Talbot, Jr.

William Taylor

John Topping

Thomas Todd

Philip Thomas, Jr.

William Tucker

John Tucker

Benjamin Talbot

Charles Prigg

Richard Todd

John Thomas

Richard Tootell

John Todd

William Thomas

Thomas Tongue

Zachariah Tucker

G. Thomas

William Townshend

Samuel Thornton

Jervis Tyler

William Tillard

John Turner

Thomas Turner

John Tims

Sabritt Trott

Abraham Targuary

Thompson Trott

John Trott

Abraham Turner

Isaac Tucker

John Unsworth

Samuel Vernell

James Vineyard
John Vernell
Richard Vernell
Ray Vennon
Joseph Williams
John Wilmot, Jr.
James Williams
Jacob Wright
Samuel Wilson
Daniel Wells
John Wilmott
Daniel Wells
John Wilmott
Daniel Wells
Martin Waters
William Warren
Thomas Williams
Joshua Watts
Samuel Watts
Gassaway Wilus
William Warden
John Warfield
Isaac Watts
William Williams
William W'orthington
Joseph Williamson
Robert Welch, of John
Robert Welch
William Williams
Joseph Williams
Samuel W'atkins
C. Gassaway Watkins
John Watkins, of John
William Wyvell
Joseph Watkins
Thomas Watkins, Jr.
Edmund Wayman
Joseph Williams, of Jo-
seph
John Welch
William Ward
John Walmsley
Charles Wright
Anthony Woodfield
William Wren
William Womsley
Francis Wayman
William Woodward, Jr.
Nathan Waters
Thomas Wilson
Henry Woodcock
John Wells
James West
Oliver Whiddon
William Walton

Richard Wells

Edward White

Joseph Williams, of
Richard

Aaron Watkins

John Weems

Thomas Watkins

Richard Watkins

Benjamin Welch

Robert Whitecomb

William Woodward, Jr.

Philemon Warfield

John Warfield, of Rich-
ard

Henry O'Neal Welch

Nicholas Worthington

Silvanus Warfield

Luke Warfield

Thomas Warfield

Samuel Watson

Vachel White

William Watson

Thomas Wootton

William Weaklin

Charles Weaklin

Charles White

Joshua Warfield

Joshua Warfield, Jr.

William Williams

Benjamin Williams

Edward Wilson

Charles Warfield, of
John

John Whips, Sen.

Samuel Whips

William Whetleroft

James Walker

Nicholas Ridgely War-
field

Nicholas Watkins

Thomas Ward

Philip Warfield

Edmund Warfield

Thomas White

Luke Wheeler

James White

Joseph Warfield

Vachel Worthington

Thomas White

T. B. Brice Worthing-
ton

John Worthington, Jr.

Benjamin Worthington

Henry Worthington

Robert Warfield

GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT

Bani Warfield
Benjamin Warfield
Philip Warfield
A. Charles Warfield
John W. Warfield
Thomas White
Joseph Watkins
Joseph Watson
Joseph White, Sen.
Gideon White
Joseph White, Jr.
William Willing
Daridge Warfield
Califf Warfield
Henry Warfield
Henry Wheeler
Nathan Waters
Ezekiel Waters
Ezel Warfield
James Wilson
Elisha Warfield
Charles Worthington
Richard Warfield
Richard Wells
Vachel Warfield (of

Benjamin)
Edward Warfield
Seth Warfield
James Warfield
Seth Warfield
Brice Warfield
John Woodein
William Wyllbe
Henry Waters
WTilliam Ward

Zeb Wood
Thomas Woodward
John Whittle
Thomas Wright
John Williss
David Wems, Jr.
John Whittington
Thomas Whittington
Morgan Wood
William Wood
John Wastiness
Andrew Wein
Henry Wilson
Benjamin Ward
Zachariah Welch
Absolom White
James Walker
Charles Watkins
Richard Wells
John Watts
Horatis White
Richard Warfield
Daniel Wells
Charles White
John White
William Wood
Samuel Warfield
Josephus Waters
Samuel Warfield, Jr.
David Watson
John Welch
John Ward
Thomas Whittington
John Whittington
Joseph Warner

Richard Welch
Hopewell Wood
Jacob Welch
David Weems
George Wallace
William Weems, Jr.
James Whittington
Richard Wells
Francis White
William Westley
John Wason
Nathaniel Wells
Lancelot Warfield
Thomas Weakle
John Walker
Joseph Waters
Thomas Wright
Jacob Warters
Richard Welsh
Ephraim Wrarfield
Seth Warfield, Jr.
Bela Warfield
Jeremiah Watkins
John Welsh
William Wells
Samuel Ward
Nicholas Worthington
John Weems
Duke Wyvil
Elisha Warfield
George Watts
Charles Wallace
Thomas Watkins
James Wilson

Thomas Worthington
(of Nick)

John Waters

John Williams

Thomas WTilson

John Welsh, Sen.

Levin Warfield (Mont-
gomery County)

Stephen Watkins

Aaron Welch

John Watkins, Jr.

John Watkins, Sen.

John Welch (of Rob-
ert)

Benjamin Wells

Benjamin Watkins

Richard Wells

Samuel Ward, Jr.

John Ward

Willoughby Wherrett

William Yietdell

Nehemiah Younger

Joshua Yeates

Thomas Yieldell

William Yieldhell, Jr.

William Yieldhell

George Yieldhell

Benjamin Yieldhell

Samuel Yieldhell

William Young

Joshua Young

Joshua Young, Jr.

Robert Yieldhell

Richard Young

Robert Young

John Young

GIFTS CONTRIBUTED TO THE NATIONAL SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

At the meeting of the National Board of
Management in Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, on June 20th, announcement was
made by the President General of the can-
celling of the debt on the Block certificates,
amounting to $7,555.61, through the generosity
of Messrs. J. E. Caldwell and Company of
Philadelphia, Pa.

The announcement caused a sensation and
received prolonged applause, the members of
the Board giving the donors a rising vote of
thanks.

The President General also stated that the
" Illustrated Lecture " on Memorial Conti-

nental Hall by Mrs. Samuel A. Ammon and
Miss Eliza O. Denniston, had been presented
to the National Society by Mrs. Ammon and
Miss Denniston. The lecture and slides,
which contain one hundred and ten valuable
views, will be kept at Memorial Continental
Hall and can be obtained by Chapters through
the International Bureau on Slides and Lec-
tures.

Two " State Spoons," the gifts of Mrs.
Sheppard W. Foster, Vice President General
from Georgia, and Miss Emma L. Crowell,
Recording Secretary General, were added to
the interesting collection in the Banquet Hall.

HOME COMMISSARY IN WAR-TIME

Housewives : Make economy fashionable lest
it become obligatory.

The Secretary of Agriculture.

The Department of Agriculture has per-
fected a series of practical lessons in home
gardening, planting, canning, and preserving
fruits, vegetables, and meats. These lessons
will be given in this Magazine for the benefit
of housewives desiring to learn the latest and
most practical methods of growing and pre-
serving food. The Department's canning sys-
tem applies to all varieties of vegetables and
fruits, and does not require either particular
recipes or expensive cooking utensils. Can
the food you have, zvith what you have.

Readers desiring further information on any
particular lesson can apply to the Editor.

Vegetables Preserved by Fermentation
Method

MAKE CONTAINERS AIR-TIGHT.

Sauer kraut and pickles put up by the fer-
mentation method used abroad are fairly well
known in this country, but comparatively few
persons have thought of trying it as a house-
hold measure for preserving these and other
vegetables. Those who like acid foods and
who have too few canning containers to hold
their surplus products may find this method
useful. The following description of the
method of fermenting vegetables has been
prepared by one of the bacteriologists in the
Bureau of Chemistry, who has been experi-
menting with this process.

The vegetables are not cooked, but are put
down in a salt brine in any non-metal water-
tight container and are sealed up with par-
affin and are otherwise made air-tight. Under
this treatment lactic acid will develop, and
this acid, the value of which as food has been
recognized, acts as a preservative.

TO PRESERVE CUCUMBERS.

Wash the fruit if necessary and pack into a
clean, water-tight barrel, keg, or crock. On
the bottom of the barrel place a layer of dill
and a handful of mixed spice. Add another
layer of dill and another handful of spice
when the barrel is half full, and when almost
full add a third layer. If a keg or crock is
used, the amount of dill and spice can be
reduced in proportion to the size of the
receptacle. When the container has been
filled within a few inches of the top, add a

layer of covering material — beet tops or
grape leaves — about an inch thick. If any
spoilage should occur on the surface, this
layer will protect the vegetables beneath.
Press down with a clean board weighted
with bricks or stone. Do not use limestone
or sandstone.

Make a brine by adding 1 pound of salt to
10 quarts of water. To each 10 quarts of
brine so made add two-thirds of a quart of
vinegar. The vinegar is used primarily to
keep down the growth of injurious bacteria
until the lactic-acid ferment starts, but it
also adds to the flavor. Add sufficient brine
to cover the material and allow to stand 24
hours. Then make air-tight, as described be-
low. The time necessary for complete fer-
mentation to occur depends upon the temper-
ature. In a warm place only five days to a
week may be necessary ; in a cool cellar three
to four weeks.

BEETS AND STRING BEANS.

The strings should be removed from string
beans before they are put up. Beets, of
course, require careful washing to remove
all dirt before brining. If it is desired, when
finally the beets or string beans are to be
eaten, to wash out the brine and serve them
as fresh vegetables, the addition of spice
when they are put up is not necessary. Pro-
ceed as with cucumbers.

MAKE THE CONTAINERS AIR-TIGHT.

There always will be more or less bubbling
and foaming of the brine during the first
stages of fermentation. After this ceases a
thin film will appear which will spread
rapidly over the whole surface and develop
quickly into a heavy, folded membrane. This
scum is a growth of yeast-like organisms
which feed upon the acid formed by fermen-
tation. If allowed to grow undisturbed it
will eventually destroy all the acid and the
fermented material will spoil. To prevent
this scum from forming it is necessary to
exclude the air from the surface of the brine.
This should be done by either of two meth-
ods, 24 hours after the vegetables have been
packed.

Perhaps the best method is to cover the

THE PLANTING OF THE GREEN

surface — over the board and around the
weight — with very hot, melted paraffin. If
the paraffin is sufficiently hot to make the
brine boil when poured upon it, the paraffin
will form a smooth, even layer before harden-
ing. Upon solidifying, it effects an air-
tight seal. Oils, such as cottonseed oil or
the tasteless liquid petroleum, may also be
used for this purpose. As a measure of
safety with crocks, it is advisable to cover
the top with a cloth soaked in melted par-
affin. Put the cover in place before the par-
affin hardens.

The second method, which may be used
with barrels or kegs, is to pack the container
as full as possible and then replace the head.
In using this method for fermentation of
beets, cucumbers, or string beans, add the
board and weights as described above and
allow to stand for 24 hours before heading.
During this period most of the gas first
formed escapes and the container then may
be headed up tight, first removing the board
and weights. Then bore an inch hole in the
head and fill the barrel with brine, allowing

no air space. Allow bubbles to escape. Add
more brine, if possible, and plug the vent
tight. If the barrel does not leak, fermented
products put up in this manner will keep in-
definitely.

After sealing with paraffin the containers
should be set where they will not be dis-
turbed until the contents are to be used.
Any attempt to remove them from one place
to another may break the paraffin seal and
necessitate resealing. If the containers are
not opened until cold winter weather, the
vegetables should keep without spoilage until
they are used up. If opened in warm weather,
they are likely to spoil quite rapidly unless
the paraffin is reheated and the container re-
sealed immediately. In the case of cucumbers
and chayotes, it is preferable, if enough ma-
terial is available, to use the method of pack-
ing in kegs or barrels, as described above.

Only those vegetables which can not be
kept by storing or early ones that are not
available later in the season should be pre-
served. Late beets, for example, can be bet-
ter kept in the cellar.

THE PLANTING OF THE GREEN

By Alice Corbin

(of the Vigilantes)

Oh, Woody, dear, and did ye hear
The noise that's going round?
We are rising by ten thousands
And we're ploughin' of the ground !
We are droppin' in the corn and beans,
We are plantin' wheat for all.
We are mobilizin' turnips, too,
An' answering the call !

Your Auntie Sam is makin' jam
For all the boys to eat,
And when she gets her dander up,
You know she can't be beat !
She's bossin' all the folks about,
The farm's no home at all !
It's just a mobilizin' camp
For answerin' the call !

So, Woody, dear, ye need not fear.
The country's coming strong ;
You can hear the factories' whistles,
You can hear the dummy's gong,
You can hear the crops a-sproutin',
You can hear the seedlings say,
" We're pushing up for freedom, too-
We'll do our bit today ! "

Your Uncle Sam says, " Here I am !

We're marching everywhere ;

We are planting beets an' bayonets,

Oh, we've hayseeds in our hair !

But we're marching to the music

Of a lasting peace for all —

With our reapers and our muskets

We are answering the call !

WAR RELIEF COMMITTEE PERFECTS PLANS FOR
NATIONAL SERVICE

Mrs. William H. Wait
Director of Publicity

At the meeting of the committee on War
Relief Service at Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, June 21st, plans were perfected
hy means of which Daughters of the American
Revolution can be of great assistance to their
country. These plans comprise four branches
of usefulness, all of which eliminate the dan-
ger of misdirected energy, and bear the stamp
of Government approval. The four branches
are classified briefly :

Knitting necessary garments for sailors on
United States vessels named for Revolutionary
heroes.

Clipping Bureau, by means of which sailors
will be supplied with magazines and news
articles.

Preparing jellies to be stored for hospitals.

The adoption of French orphans — innocent
victims of war's relentless harvest.

The Secretary of the Navy has endorsed the
making of knitted garments for sailors, and
commanders of vessels patrolling the coast
have sent an urgent plea for a large supply
to outfit the sailors this coming winter.

The Navy League has published especially
for the Daughters of the American Revolution
a pamphlet containing the biographies of the
Revolutionary heroes for whom the United
States destroyers have been named, a descrip-
tion of the vessels, and the number of the
crew manning each vessel.

Mrs. William H. Wait, Director of Pub-
licity, has sent the State Regents a letter for
distribution to the Chapters, enclosing the
Navy League bulletin, No. 162, and stating
the method to be followed by Chapters in
selecting a vessel and in forwarding the com-
pleted garments, consisting of sweater, muf-
fler, wristlet, and helmet, to the Navy League
for distribution to the commander of the ves-
sel designated.

Another undertaking of the Navy League,
occasioned by the need of the sailors, is the

establishment of a clipping and magazine
bureau. The War Service Committee at its
last meeting heartily recommended that mem-
bers of the society cooperate with the Navy
League in gathering clippings from news-
papers and magazines. It was suggested that
stories from magazines be taken out and the
edges stitched together to make them less
bulky. Illustrated articles, current, political,
religious, scientific, and comic, are desired,
The Navy League, 1201 16th Street, Wash-
ington, D. C, will, upon request, furnish ad-
dressed envelopes in which to enclose these
clippings and magazine stories.

The third activity which the War Relief
Committee especially urges Chapters to under-
take is the making of jelly for hospital use in
the event of food shortage. The jelly can be
stored, the Chapter Regent notifying her State
Regent of the number of jars; she in turn to
keep record of all Chapter supplies, and in-
form the District Chairman the amount her
State can furnish. The latter will report to
the National chairman, who will notify the
proper authorities, and the Chapter nearest the
hospital requiring the jelly will be called upon
to furnish it when the emergency arises.

There are no more pathetic figures in Europe
to-day than the little orphans of France who
have lost all, and stand on the threshold of
starvation, facing a death horrible to contem-
plate.

1776 saw the birth of a new nation — let 1776
French orphans be rejuvenated by the gener-
osity of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution who will thus repay in part the coun-
try's debt to gallant France. $36.50 will sup-
port a child for one year.

The names and addresses of French orphans
can be secured by applying to Mrs. Matthew T.
Scott, Chairman of War Relief Service Com-
mittee, Memorial Continental Hall, Washing-
ton, D. C.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

HEADQUARTERS
MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL

SEVENTEENTH AND D STREETS, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
1917-1918

President General

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

Vice- Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1918.)
MRS. J. F. MAUPIN, MRS. C. B. LETTON,

42 N. Court St., Portsmouth, Va. 1910 E St., Lincoln, Neb.

MRS. JOSEPH S. WOOD, MRS. EDMUND P. MOODY,

135 S. 2nd Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 1106 Jackson St., Wilmington, Del.

MRS. ELIZA FERRY LEARY, MRS. G. WALLACE W. HANGER,

1551 ioth Ave. N., Seattle, Wash. 2344 Mass. Ave., Washington, D. C.

MRS. WILLIAM C. ROBINSON, North Anson, Maine.

(Term of office expires 1919.)

MRS. GEORGE MAYNARD MINOR, MRS. HAROLD R. HOWELL,

Waterford, Conn. 630 41 st St., Des Moines, Iowa.

MRS. WILLIAM G. SPENCER, MRS. C. HAMILTON TEBAULT,

Nashville, Tenn. 623 North St., New Orleans, La.

MRS. WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH, MRS. ALVIN V. LANE,

Hillcrest, Moline, III. 2505 Maple Ave., Dallas, Texas.

MRS. GEORGE W. GEDNEY, 50 Montclair Ave., Montclair, N. J.

(Term of office expires 1920.)

MRS. JAMES BENTON GRANT, MISS JEANIE D. BLACKBURN,

770 Penna. Ave., Denver, Colo. 718 Upper iith St., Bowling Green, Ky.

MRS. FRED H. H. CALHOUN, MRS. SAMUEL McKNIGHT GREEN,

Clemson College, S. C. 3815 Magnolia Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

MRS. CHARLES E. LONGLEY, MRS. SHEPPARD W. FOSTER,

87 Walcott St., Pawtucket, R. I. 711 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.
MRS. WILLIAM H. TALBOTT, Rockville, Md.

Chaplain General

MISS ELISABETH F. PIERCE,
The Portner Apartments, Washington, D. C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

MISS EMMA L. CROWELL, MRS. WOODBURY PULSIFER,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

MRS. DUNCAN U. FLETCHER, MISS GRACE M. PIERCE,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

MRS. ROBERT J. JOHNSTON, MRS. GEORGE K. CLARKE,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Director General in Charge of Report to Smithsonian Institution

MRS. BENJAMIN D. HEATH,
Heathcote, Charlotte, N. C.

Librarian General Curator General

MRS. JAMES M. FOWLER, MISS CATHERINE BRITTIN BARLOW,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1917-18

ALABAMA

MRS. JOHN LEWIS COBBS,

124 Mobile St., Montgomery.
MRS. WM. GRAY,

Dadeville.

ALASKA

ARIZONA

MRS. GEO. F. FREEMAN,
641 N. Park Ave., Tucson.

ARKANSAS

MRS. SAMUEL P. DAVIS,

523 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock.
MRS. FRANK TOMLINSON,

P. O. Box 584, " Pinehurst," Pine Bluff.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. JOHN C. LYNCH,

1845 University Ave., Berkeley.
MRS. CASSIUS C. COTTLE,

1408 Victoria Pake, Los Angeles.

COLORADO

MRS. GERALD L. SCHUYLER,

1244 Detroit St., Denver.
MRS. NORMAN M. CAMPBELL,

17 East Espanola, Colorado Springs.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. JOHN LAIDLAW BUEL,

East Meadows, Litchfield.
MRS. CHARLES H. BISSELL,

SOUTHINGTON.

DELAWARE

MRS. GEO. C. HALL,

706 West St., Wilmington.
MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

Newark.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. GAIUS M. BRUMBAUGH,

905 Massachusetts Ate., Washington.
MRS. M. CLYDE KELLY,

1608 17th St., N. W., Washington.

FLORIDA

MRS. ARTHUR B. GILKES,

Riverside Ave., Jacksonville.
MRS. WM. MARK BROWN,

Miami.

GEORGIA

MRS. HOWARD H. McCALL,

301 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta.
MRS. CHARLES C. HOLT,

115 Culver St., Macon.

HAWAII

MRS. WILLIAM ALANSON BRYAN,
1013 Punahou St., Honolulu.

IDAHO

MRS. CHARLES W. PURSELL,

1515 Ada St., Boise.
MRS. WARD STONE,

1410 Albany St., Caldwell.

ILLINOIS

MRS. FRANK WM. BAHNSEN,

1720 22nd St., Rock Island.
MRS. JOHN HAMILTON HANLEY,
724 W. Broadway, Monmouth.

INDIANA

MRS. HENRY A. BECK,

1907 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis.
MISS EMMA A. DONNELL,
Greensburg.

IOWA

MRS. DIXIE CORNELL GEBHARDT,

1205 2nd St., Knoxville.
MRS. FRANK E. AUSTIN,

1542 Bever Ave., Cedar Rapids.

KANSAS

MISS CATHERINE CAMPBELL,

316 Willow St., Ottawa.
MRS. WM. H. SIMONTON,

750 S. Judson St., Ft. Scott.

KENTUCKY

MRS. ELI GAITHER BOONE,

140y Broadway, Paducah.
MRS. SAMUEL J. SHACKELFORD,

Shelby St., Frankfort.

LOUISIANA

MRS. TALIAFERRO ALEXANDER,

853 Cotton St., Siiueveport.
MRS. GEORGE H. MILLS,
418 Milan St., Siiueveport.

MAINE

MRS. W. G. CHAPMAN,

4n2 Cl MBERLAND Ave., W. End Sta., Por
MRS. SAMUEL L. BOARDMAN,

241 State St., Augusta.

MARYLAND

MRS. ARUTHUR LEE BOSLEY,

1406 Mr. ROTAL Ave., Baltimore.
MRS. WEEMS RIDOUT,

200 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANK DEXTER ELLISON,

44 Clark St.. Belmont.
MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bellevue Ave., Melrose.

MICHIGAN

MRS. WM. HENRY WAIT,

1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor.
MISS ALICE LOUISE McDUFFEE,

1012 West Main St., Kalamazoo.

MINNESOTA

MRS. JAMES T. MORRIS,

2109 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis.
MRS. A. E. WALKER,

2103 East 1st St., Dulutii.

MISSISSIPPI

MRS. E. F. NOEL,

Lexington.
MRS. JOHN MORRIS MORGAN,

Columbus.

MISSOURI

MRS. WM. R. PAINTER,
Jefferson City.

mrs. arch McGregor,

577 St. Louis St., Springfield.

MONTANA

MRS. CHARLES A. BLACKBURN,

809 W. Silver St., Butte.
DR. MARY BABCOCK ATWATER,

516 Hayes Ave., Helena.

NEBRASKA

MRS. ELLET GRANT DRAKE,

606 N. 6th St., Beatrice.
MRS. FRANK I. RINGER,
935 D St., Lincoln.

NEVADA

MRS. CHARLES SILVEY SPRAGUE,

GOLDFIELD.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MRS. WILL BERNARD HOWE,

35 South St., Concord.
MRS. CHARLES WATSON BARRETT,
99 Sullivan St., Claremont.

OFFICIAL

NEW JERSEY

MRS. WILLIAM DUSENBERRY SHERRERD,

Highland Ave., Haddonfield.
MRS. JAMES FAIRMAN FIELDER,

139 Gifford Ave., Jersey City Heights.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. SINGLETON M. ASHENFELTER,
702 Bayard St., Silver City.

NEW YORK

MRS. BENJ. F. SPEAKER,

Palatine Bridge.
MRS. DAVID B. PAGE,

157 West 3rd St., Oswego.

NORTH CAROLINA

MRS. THEODORE S. MORRISON,

287 Pearson Drive, Asheville.
MRS. WM. PARKER MERCER,

Elm City.

NORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEO. M. YOUNG,

Valley City.
MISS HELEN M. CRANE,
Valley City.

OHIO

MRS. EDWARD LANSING HARRIS,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland.
MRS. JOHN TOLMAN MACK,

712 Wayne St., Sandusky.

OKLAHOMA

MRS. WALTER D. ELROD,

400 N. Grand Ave.j Okmulgee.
MRS. EDWARD LYMAN WORKMAN,
1108 E. Hobson, Sapulpa.

OREGON

MRS. ISAAC L. PATTERSON,

Eola Road, Salem.
MRS. F. M. WILKINS,
91 West 9th St., Eugene.

PENNSYLVANIA

MRS. ANTHONY WAYNE COOK,

Hotel Schenley, Pittsburgh.
MRS. H. GRANT DREISBACH,
Lewisburg.

RHODE ISLAND

MRS. ALBERT L. CALDER, 2nd,

35 South Angell St., Providence.
MISS EDITH MAY TILLEY,

P. O. Box 315, Hope St., Newport.

SOUTH CAROLINA

MRS. E. WALKER DUVALL,

Cher aw.
MRS. HUGH L. McCOLL,

Bennettsville.

SOUTH DAKOTA

MRS. E. ST. CLAIRE SNYDER,

617 2ND St., Watertown.
MRS. ROLVIX HARLAN,

1603 S. Prairie Ave., Sioux Falls.

TENNESSEE

MRS. THOMAS POLK,

583 E. Main St., Jackson.
MRS. EDWARD MARK GRANT,

Morristown.

TEXAS

MRS. JAMES LOWRY SMITH,

1101 Taylor St., Amarillo.
MRS. JOHN J. STEVENS,
311 Martin St., San Antonio.

UTAH

MRS. L. C. MILLER,

943 East 1st South St., Salt Lake City.
MRS. S. W. MORRISON,

32 7th East St., Salt Lake City.

VERMONT

MRS. EDWARD SPRAGUE MARSH,

Brandon.
MRS. E. R. PEMBER,

Wells.

VIRGINIA

MISS ALETHEA SERPELL,

902 Westover Ave., Norfolk.
MRS. JOHN ADAM ALEXANDER,

1310 N. Augusta St., Staunton.

WASHINGTON

MRS. OVERTON GENTRY ELLIS,

1609 Water St.., Olympia.
MRS. STERLING PRICE KEITHLY,
2624 Rucker Ave., Everett.

WEST VIRGINIA

MRS. LINN BRANNON,

236 Center Ave., Weston.
MRS. JAMES S. PHILLIPS,
Box 1, Shepherdstown.

WISCONSIN

MRS. JOHN P. HUME,

539 Terrace Ave., Milwaukee.
MRS. RUDOLPH BEESE HARTMAN,

4001 Highland Park, Milwaukee.

WYOMING

MRS. EDWARD GILLETTE,

Sheridan.
MRS. BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS,

Cheyenne.

ORIENT

MRS. CHARLES SUMNER LOBINGIER,

Shanghai, China.
MRS. TRUMAN SLAYTON HOLT,
Manila, Philippine Islands.

HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE

MRS. JOHN W. FOSTER,
MRS. DANIEL MANNING,

MRS. A. HOWARD CLARK, 1895.
MRS. MILDRED S. MATHES, 1899.
MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD, 1905.
MRS. WILLIAM LINDSAY, 1906.
MRS. HELEN M. BOYNTON, 1906.
MRS. SARA T. KINNEY, 1910.

Honorary Presidents General

MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT,
MRS. WILLIAM CUMMING STORY.

Honorary President Presiding
MRS. MARY V. E. CABELL.

Honorary Chaplain General
MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD

Honorary Vice-Presidents General

MRS. J. MORGAN SMITH, 1911.

MRS. THEODORE C. BATES, 1913.

MRS. E. GAYLORD PUTNAM, 1913.

MRS. WALLACE DELAFIELD, 1914.

MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSHNELL, 1914.

MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, 1916.

MRS. GEORGE M. STERNBERG, 1917.

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

Regular Meeting, June 20, 1917

A regular meeting of the National Board of
Management was called to order by the Presi-
dent General, Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey
in the Board Room of Memorial Continental
Hall, Wednesday, June 20, 1917, at 10 a.m.

The Chaplain General, Miss Elisabeth F.
Pierce, spoke of the many occasions in May
and June that served to inspire, among them
the President's speech on Flag Day, the inter-
est and enthusiasm and patriotism called out
by the sale of the Liberty Bonds, the massing
of the women for the dedication of the Red
Cross Building, and then the Registration Day
when the flower of the land was numbered, all
of which must have inspired every one to bet-
ter and further work for the Master, and she
had found many things in the Scriptures along
the lines of the thought and work of the
Daughters, the references to the numbering of
the men, of banners, standards, insignia, and
emblems : Numbers ii, 2 : Every man of the
children of Israel shall pitch by his own stand-
ard, with the ensign of their father's house, far
off (or over against) about the tabernacle of
the congregation shall they pitch. Psalms xx,
5: We will rejoice in Thy salvation, in the
name of our God we will set up our banners,
the Lord fulfil all thy petitions. Psalms lx, 4 :
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear
thee, that it may be displayed because of the
truth. Isaiah xiii, 2 : Lift ye up a banner upon
the high mountains, exalt the voice unto them.
Isaiah xlix, 22 : Thus saith the Lord God,
Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people. Miss
Pierce quoted the following definition of a
patriot, from George Fred Knowles : " Who is
the Patriot? It is he Who knows no boundary,
race, or creed, Whose Nation is Humanity
Whose Countrymen all Souls that need."

From Paul's letter to his beloved Timothy,
two or three phrases from the second chapter,
ii Timothy; Thou therefore, my son, be strong
in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the
things that thou hast heard of me among
many witnesses, the same commit thou to faith-
ful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good
soldier of Jesus Christ.
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Following the prayer of the Chaplain Gen-
eral, the Board united in repeating the Lord's
Prayer.

The roll call resulted as follows, with the
addition of several who came in during the
morning: Active officers, Mesdames Guern-
sey, Maupin, Wood, Hanger, Minor, Grant,
Longley, Foster, Talbott, Miss Elisabeth F.
Pierce, Miss Crowell, Mesdames Pulsifer,
Fletcher, Miss Grace M. Pierce, Mesdames
Johnston, Heath, Fowler, Miss Barlow; State
Regents, Mesdames Buel, Hall, Brumbaugh,
Pursell, Bosley, Ellison, Wait, Sherrerd.
Spraker, Morrison, Young, Harris, Cook, Du-
vall, Smith, Miss Serpell, Mrs. Hume; State
I'ice Regents, Mesdames Phillips and Holt.

The President General stated that she had a
letter from Mrs. Clarke, Historian General,
giving the information that her brother was
very ill, which would prevent her from attend-
ing the Board meeting, and also a letter from
Mrs. Morris, State Regent of Minnesota, re-
gretting that the illness of her husband would
make it impossible for her to attend. Mrs.
Foster moved that a note of sympathy be sent
from this Board to these members, which mo-
tion was seconded, and the Secretary was re-
quested to write expressing the sympathy of
the members of the board.

The President General read her report as
follows :

Report of President General.

Members of the National Board of Manage-
ment :

Since our last meeting two months ago,
we have been busy getting our affairs in order
and not one of us has been idle, I am sure,
for many of us have been confronted by the
duties of a new office, and no matter how fa-
miliar we may be with the work — when it
comes to actually directing it there are many
problems to be solved which take time and
consideration, once we actually assume au-
thority.

One of the first things I did as your Presi-
dent General was to go to New York where
the Chairman of the Magazine Committee,
Mrs. George M. Minor, and I got in touch with
the affairs of our official organ and made ar-
rangements for closing the existing publica-
tion plans. All this will be embodied in Mrs.

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Minor's report to you so I shall not take your
time for what will be given later in detail. At
present the Magazine appears to be in a fair
way to become a source of great pride in-
stead of a burden — the subscriptions are
mounting up and many of our State Regents
are carrying on a systematic campaign in the
interests of our official organ. Some of the
letters I have received are most encouraging
and the spirit of these letters sent to the
Chapters by enthusiastic women is sure to
bring satisfactory results.

It is a matter of importance in your State
work, to bring to your Chapter members the
necessity of supporting the Magazine, and I
hope you will encourage your State committees
on the Magazine to put all their energies to
work and send in subscriptions from every
member.

With the standing committees appointed and
their work running smoothly, I spent a few
days at home, and it may interest you to know
that I had a royal welcome in Independence.
A reception was given in my honor which was
attended by Daughters from all over the State
of Kansas. I returned to Washington on May
21 and on the 24th a meeting of the Executive
Committee was held, the action of which will
be covered by the report of the Recording
Secretary General. One of the matters we de-
cided at that meeting was to grant permission
to Messrs. Kreisel and Dickey of Kansas City,
Mo., to furnish a eulogy to the Flag entitled
" Behold the Flag " to our Chapters to be sold
for the benefit of the Society, and to sell
these cards elsewhere, giving the Society a per-
centage on each card. The firm is known to
me and entirely responsible and the Committee
decided unanimously that the proposition,
which in no way involved the Society, was a
good one. I have received a letter from the
firm stating that a copy of my letter and of the
eulogy had been sent to all State Regents but
the distribution of the eulogy was delayed
owing to some delay in finishing the plates,
which had to conform to certain specifications.

Since the meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee I have remained in Washington making
up committee lists and attending to the routine
business of my office, experiencing much pleas-
ure in the willing assistance from all depart-
ments. In appointing the committees I have
decided on a new plan. There will be a chair-
man and vice chairman or vice chairmen — ac-
cording to the work of the committee, — and
six members appointed from different districts
after the plan of our War Relief Committee — ■
to act from the various sections of the country,
with the State chairmen who will be the only
other members of the committees. This will
reduce the size of our committees and place
them on a more active working basis. There
are some exceptions to this rule — as for in-

stance Memorial Continental Hall Committee
— but in the majority of cases I have followed
my plan, and feel confident that it will suc-
ceed in creating greater efficiency.

I have gone over the building with the
Chairman of Building and Grounds and have
found there is need of immediate repairs. For
several years the building has been neglected
— the woodwork in many places has rotted for
lack of paint, the walls need repointing out-
side, and the inside walls are badly stained
and the entire equipment shows the effect of
wear and tear. A building like this should be
kept in perfect repair, since letting it run
down means to incur a heavy expense.

Naturally the present great National crisis
is first in our thoughts and the work of our
War Relief Service Committee has required
much thought on the part of its members and
your President General. Secretary McAdoo
honored me with an appointment on the Wo-
man's Committee on the Liberty Loan and I
sent a personal letter to every member of the
Society urging the purchase of these War
Bonds. In many cases the purchase had al-
ready been made as the committee came to
its decision to send out the personal appeal
rather late, but it is gratifying to know the
members had responded liberally and while
many subscriptions were sent directly to me
and to the Treasurer General, I received and
am still receiving letters from all over the
country telling me that our members had al-
ready subscribed through their local banks.

In sending out the personal letter to our
members, which was done by the Government,
the list made for the Belgian Relief Fund was
used, and this I find is neither complete nor
correct, therefore, I would suggest that before
carrying out the order of Congress in regard
to the new Directory, all Chapter Regents
should be notified to send in a complete list
of Chapter members and correct addresses im-
mediately after the June elections in order
that our records may be brought up to date.
It is not the fault of our offices here that these
records are not perfect — it is because the
Chapters do not send in corrections and
changes of address. Until we get these lists
right up to date there will be no use in going
to the heavy expense of issuing a new direc-
tory. My plan would be to have a blank pre-
pared which will be sent to each Chapter Re-
gent to be filled out with the full name and
address of each member of the Chapter — these
blanks will be perforated at one side and each
page may be inserted in a loose leaf filing
case in the Organizing Secretary's office — the
card index can be made from these lists. With
the need of reaching each member facing us at
any time, this work should be done at once.
It will save time and expense if a systematic
revision of our lists is made as it will be very

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easy to impress upon the Chapter Regents the
convenience and absolute necessity of keeping
their records up to date once we have proved
that a little care and thought will greatly facili-
tate our work, and save much postage to say
nothing of the time which re-addressing, or
notifying postmasters as to correct address
consumes.

In our War Relief work this need is urgent.
This war will in all probability last a long
time — and as I have said, we must be pre-
pared to meet emergencies. If we do not plan
our work of preparedness upon a practical ba-
sis— if we are not ready to meet a demand that
will test every ounce of our strength promptly
— then we are not prepared — we shall fail to
live up to our promises : so it is the duty of
each of us to use her power to the utmost in
order to perfect the organization of this great
body of women whom we represent. If each
State Regent will make it a point — a special
effort — to see that her Chapters respond to the
request for a complete list of membership, she
will be doing her " bit " to bring about what
we must secure — if we are to be really effi-
cient— a perfect registration of our member-
ship. No matter what we may do, no matter
what tremendous work we may pledge our-
selves to carry through, we cannot do it unless
we begin without the drag of lost motion.

There has been some doubt as to just how we
should work with other organizations ; many
Chapters do not want their work to be credited
elsewhere when they themselves have been the
means of organizing groups of women to carry
on the work of assisting organizations whose
existence was brought about by the need of re-
lief in time of war. Our Society is sufficiently
large and strong to maintain its own line of
work in any direction, but with all these other
societies regularly organized for a specific pur-
pose— it would seem that our Society carried
out the traditions upon which it is based by
taking hold and helping whenever it can while
it is being organized for a call from the Gov-
ernment to which it is pledged. But remember
we cannot affiliate. As I understand it, we
are an incorporated body with fixed liabilities
and to affiliate with any other society would be
violation of our Constitution.

I have personally interviewed representa-
tives of the American Red Cross and the Navy
League — two organizations which have re-
ceived and are receiving great assistance from
our Society. The Navy League will give us
full credit for work done, and, by a special
arrangement, yarn will be sent from the Com-
forts Committee to any Daughter without the
necessity of prepayment; the material to be
paid for as used. If you will send your orders
to Miss Denniston, Memorial Continental Hall,
they will be turned over at once to the Com-

forts Committee of the Navy League. The
Red Cross is not so accommodating, but sug-
gests that arrangements for credit be made
with the local Chapters as the headquarters
cannot interfere.

I have also talked with the Woman's Com-
mittee of the Council of Defense and have
given the Secretary a list of our National
Board of Management and have requested that
all D.A.R. appointments on State committees
be made upon consultation with the State
Regent, the official representative of the So-
ciety in each State. The Council has assured
me that it in no way desires to interfere with
the work of any organization, its object being
to form State committees of representatives
from all organizations in each State — these
committees to meet and discuss the work of
these societies in order that a complete record
may be kept, overlapping prevented, and a
knowledge acquired of just where to call in
case of need. I think that this has been made
clear by the Council lately, but I wish to re-
port to you my personal understanding with
that body.

On June 14, by invitation, I attended a con-
ference of the National Committee on Patri-
otic and Defense Societies a* the New Willard
Hotel. Our Society is not officially represented
on the list of the organization registered with
that committee, as the matter was never pre-
sented to our Board and I could find no record
of any action taken in the matter of represen-
tation. Upon the request of the Committee
through its Executive Secretary, Mr. William
Mather Lewis, I attended the meeting, accom-
panied by Mrs. Matthew T. Scott as a delegate,
and was much interested in the proceedings.
In giving a brief report of the plan of our
War Relief work, I was able to publicly correct
a statement which began before my election
and which had recently been repeated to mem-
bers of this committee, namely, that I am
against preparedness and universal military
training, in fact that I am an avowed pacifist.
As a rule one ignores campaign gossip but in
this case, especially when the rumor was de-
liberately forced, I felt it incumbent upon me
as your representative to make my position
as a staunch upholder of universal military
training, something I have always believed in,
in preparedness and in every form of war re-
lief work which may aid us in this great crisis
perfectly clear, and I hope I succeeded !

There is one great feature in prepared-
ness which I feel cannot be too forcefully
impressed and that is food conservation.
That is where we women may be of im-
mense assistance and it is a subject which
we may and should study very carefully.
Why, if each of us would use her influence
to bring about a systematic abstinence from

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certain food products, for instance wheat
bread, at stated intervals, think what we
might accomplish! These experts who have
studied the problem have experimented and
know the value of what they advocate — are
only too glad to furnish all who desire them
with facts and I urge you all to take home
to your Chapters the message of Mr.
Hoover and his food commission and urge
them to take some concerted action which
will serve as an example to those who are
perfectly willing, but do not quite know
how to go about conserving our food re-
sources. Women will be enrolled during
period of registration from July 1 to 15
through the National Council of Defense
and I sincerely hope that the D. A. R. en-
rollment will be large.

Since the last meeting I have paid two
official visits — one to St. Mary's City, Mary-
land, where a tablet was unveiled by the
Major William Thomas Chapter, on St.
Mary's Female Seminary, which marks the
site of the Birthplace of Maryland, the
place where Lord Baltimore made the treaty
with the Indians. The unveiling was pre-
ceded by the commencement exercises of
the Seminary and the whole day was a most
delightful experience. The other visit was
to East Orange, N. J., where I was the
guest of the former State Regent, Mrs.
Charles B. Yardley, and was also guest of
honor at a reception which was given to
meet the members of the Chapters of the
four Oranges. I have been obliged to de-
cline a number of invitations owing to the
necessity of remaining in Washington at
present.

It gives me much pleasure to present to
the Society in the name of Mrs. Samuel A.
Ammon and Miss Eliza O. Denniston, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., an illustrated lecture on
Memorial Continental Hall. This lecture
includes two sets of slides — 110 in each set
— most of them colored, and shows not only
the interior and exterior of our building,
but many of the interesting surroundings
of our property. Assessed value of this
lecture is over $400.

Guyasuta Place, June 6, 1917.
Mrs. George T. Guernsey,

President General and National Board,

D. A. R., Memorial Continental Hall,

Washington, D. C.
Dear Madam and Members:

The year before last Miss Eliza O. Den-
niston and I prepared an illustrated lecture
on Memorial Continental Hall and have two
copies of the lecture and two sets of slides.
These pictures, 110 in number, illustrate the
hall, exterior and interior, also the places

and scenery to be seen by persons on their
way to the hall. Miss Denniston and I
have rented this lecture to Chapters of the
National Society during the past two
winters, the rental being $5.00 for each pre-
sentation. We now desire to present this
lecture with the two sets of slides and
shipping cases to the National Society
D. A. R. Hoping that you will find this
gift acceptable, I am,

Very truly yours,
Edith Darlington Ammon.

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE

Memorial Continental Hall
washington, d. c.

The members of the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution
have built a white marble memorial hall
in honor of their ancestors who served in
the war of the American Revolution.

Thousands of our members have seen this
great memorial building, thousands of our
members have not yet seen it, and thous-
ands of our members may never see it.

A lecture, illustrated by upwards of one
hundred lantern slides, most of which are
in color, describing this Memorial Hall dur-
ing the process of building and when com-
pleted ; the interior — including a number of
the special memorial rooms with the clerical
force at work has been written by Miss
Eliza Olver Denniston. There are pictures
of special memorials in the Hall and of
the beautiful buildings which line the streets
and driveways leading to the Hall, showing
its wonderfully beautiful and advantageous
location in the most beautiful city in the
world.

The lecture itself includes a brief out-
line of the history of the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, with the incidents which led to the
building of the Hall; a description of the
rooms and of work accomplished in the
various offices.

This lecture, which has been included in
ihe programs of the conferences of the
Daughters of the American Revolution in
the States of Kansas, Nebraska and Penn-
sylvania, and of Chapters in Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York,
Pennsylvania and South Dakota, can be
rented by any Chapter or member of the
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution for the sum of five
dollars and expressage on copy of lecture
and slides to and from Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania.

If a stereopticon lantern is not available
for the lecture and a moving picture house

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can be secured, these slides can be used
there if handled by an experienced operator.

Last, but not least, let me tell you that
Caldwell and Company have cancelled the
debt on the Block certificates.

Their letter is as follows :
" Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey,

President General, N. S., D. A. R.,
Hotel Rochambeau,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Madam :

The question of the disposition of the re-
mainder of the Memorial Continental Hall
Liquidation and Endowment Fund Certificates
has given us a great deal of thought, and, after
due consideration, we have decided to cancel
the balance of the charge, $7,555.61, and thus
present the Society with the certificates.

This opportunity to make a contribution to
the Society affords us great pleasure, and we
trust our action may meet with favorable con-
sideration.

Assuring you of our interest in the Society,
and trusting the business relations which have
been so pleasant in the past shall continue in
the future, and awaiting with pleasure your
reply, we remain,

Very truly yours,

J. E. Caldwell & Co."

This will please you all, I am sure, as much
as it has delighted me. Caldwell & Co. have
always been loyal to the National Society, and
I think that this generous act is a final proof
of the genuineness of the feeling they have
always expressed.

Sarah Elizabeth Guernsey,
President General.

The announcement that J. E. Caldwell & Co.
had, as a contribution to the Society, cancelled
the debt remaining on the Liquidation and
Endowment certificates was greeted with ap-
plause, as was the announcement of the presen-
tation to the Society of the illustrated lecture
on Memorial Continental Hall by Mrs. Am-
nion and Miss Denniston, and it was moved
by Mrs. Brumbaugh, as a Pennsylvanian, sec-
onded by Mrs. Cook, and carried by unani-
mous rising vote, that letters of thanks be sent
Mrs. Amnion and Miss Denniston and also
Caldwell & Co. The acceptance with appre-
ciation of the report of the President General
was moved by Miss Grace M. Pierce, seconded
by Miss Barlow, and carried.

Miss Crowell then read her report.

Report of Recording Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board :
Your Recording Secretary General has a
brief record to submit to you of the work
done in her office beginning with April 23.

The minutes of the Board meetings just be-
fore Congress and the one following Congress
were written up, proof read, and published in
the Magazine, and rulings sent to all the of-
fices, and the official notices with regard to
motions passed sent to all those concerned.

The new official list was typewritten imme-
diately following the Congress, and the list
so far as complete was at once sent to the
Magazine. The printing of this list for dis-
tribution was somewhat delayed by the failure
of one or two States to report the result of
their elections. The number who failed this
year was smaller than ever before, and it is
to be hoped that another year all of the States
will be ready to report to Congress for con-
firmation of their State Regents and State Vice
Regents, and there will be no delay in the
printing of the lists of the new National Board
for distribution.

The work of sending out notices of appoint-
ment on the various committees has progressed
as rapidly as the replies from the State Re-
gents with their lists of State chairmen would
admit.

Your Recording Secretary General has been
pleased to have the opportunity to advise with
the various Chapters in the revision of their
By-Laws to conform to those of the National
Society, and would announce that all inquiries
on this subject are to be referred to this office
in the future.

As no members have been admitted to the
Society since the Congress, I have no certifi-
cates to report the issue of for this adminis-
tration, but 104 certificates have been issued
since the last report to members admitted dur-
ing the last administration, and there are over
11,000 certificates still to issue awaiting the
signature of Mrs. Story. Your Recording Sec-
retary General wishes the advice of the Board
as to the possibility of expediting the issue of
the 11,000 certificates in arrears.

Motions adopted at meeting of Executive
Committee, May 24, 1917.

That the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution enter into a con-
tract with the J. B. Lippincott Company to
publish the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine.

That the Supplemental List of the Histori-
cal and Genealogical Works in the Library,
N. S. D. A. R., be referred to the Printing
Committee, to report to the Board at June
meeting.

That the engraving of membership certifi-
cates be given to J. E. Caldwell & Co.

That enough certificates be made from our
present plate to complete the number required
for the past administration.

That the words "Supposed Portrait" and the
name Mary Washington be removed from our
membership certificates.

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That the contract as Official Photographer
be entered into with Ernest L. Crandall.

That the Executive Committee indorse the
proposition for the sale of the flag card "Be-
hold the Flag" which has been dedicated to
the D. A. R.

Respectfully submitted,

Emma L. Crowell,
Recording Secretary General.

The adoption of my report and the confirma-
tion of the action of the Executive Committee
was moved by Miss Crowell, seconded by Miss
Grace M. Pierce, and carried.

Miss Grace M. Pierce presented her report
as Registrar General, stating that she would
have a supplementary report later in the day.

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General, Members of the
Board of Management:
I have the honor to report 1,200 applications
presented to the Board and 368 supplemental
papers verified ; permits issued for insignia
699, ancestral bars 229, and recognition pins
798. Papers examined and not yet verified,
original 460, supplemental 829. Supplemental
papers received prior to October 1, 1916, for
which additional information has been re-
quested, but not yet received, 375 ; papers re-
turned unverified, original, 270 ; supplemental,
193. New records verified, 300.
Respectfully,

Grace M. Pierce,
Registrar General.

The acceptance of my report and that the
Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot for
1,200 applicants for membership, was moved
by Miss Grace M. Pierce, seconded by Miss
Crowell, and carried. The Recording Secre-
tary General announced she had cast the ballot
for the 1,200 applicants recommended by the
Registrar General, and President General de-
clared them members of the National Society.

Mrs. Fletcher read her report as Organizing
Secretary General.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I wish to present the names of the State and
State Vice Regent of Louisiana, Mrs. Talia-
ferro Alexander and Mrs. George H. Mills,
of Shreveport, La. The report for the con-
firmation of these officers was not received in
time to present their names to Congress.

Through their respective State Regents the
following members at large ask for authoriza-
tion to organize chapters :

Mrs. Urada Rosamond Garrett, El Dorado,

Ark.; Mrs. Julia Mygatt Powell, San Fer-
nando, Cal. ; Mrs. Julia S. G. Porter, Delta,
Colo. ; Mrs. Georgia Sampson Brown, Kellogg,
Idaho; Mrs. Anna May Bowman, Sterling, and
Mrs. Edna Louise Strader Adams, Paris, 111. ;
Mrs. Martha Tucker Morris, Salem, Ind. ; Mrs.
Florence Shepherd Little, Minneapolis, Minn. ;
and Mrs. Mary Adelia K. Caldwell, Billings,
Mont. ; Mrs. Lelia Thomas Grimes, Pond
Creek, Okla. ; Mrs. Virginia Barclay Moody,
Huron, South Dakota ; and Miss Anna M. Rid-
dick, Suffolk, Virginia.

The re-appointment of the following Organ-
izing Regents is requested by their respective
State Regents :

Mrs. Lucy Lumpkin Hall, Douglas, Ga. ; and
Miss Mary McKeen, Moorestown, N. J.

The Board is asked to authorize Chapters
at the following places : Washington, D. C. ;
Columbus and Rising Sun, Indiana.

The resignation of Mrs. Estelle J. Stephen-
son, of Burley, Idaho, has been reported.

The Organizing Regency of Mrs. Ethel M.
Kirwan Rood, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has ex-
pired by time limitation.

The following Chapters have been organized
since the April 14, 1917, Board meeting:

"Arrowhead," Redlands, Cal. ; "Capt. Joseph
Magruder," Washington, D. C. ; "John Clarke,"
Social Circle, Ga. ; Chapter at Newton, Iowa ;
"Beaverkill," Rockland, and "Beulah Patter-
son Brown," Newark Valley, N. Y. ; "Marga-
retta Painter," Ellensburg, Washington ; and
"Capt. William Buckner," Coleman, Texas.

There have been six Regents' lists given
for patriotic purposes without charge.
The admitted membership April 23,

1917 131,744

The actual membership April 23,

1917 97,376

Respectfully submitted,

Anna Louise Fletcher,
Organizing Secretary General.

Moved by Miss Crowell, seconded by Miss
Grace M. Pierce, and carried, that the election
of State Regent and State Vice Regent of
Louisiana be confirmed by this Board. Moved
by Mrs. Brumbaugh, seconded by Mrs. Foster,
and carried, that the Organizing Secretary Gen-
eral's report be accepted.

The Organizing Secretary General read a let-
ter from Mrs. Win. Alanson Bryan, State Re-
gent of Hawaii, in which she stated that the
election of the State Regent would be held on
June 18, and that she was the only candidate
on the ticket for State Regent, and on motion
it was carried that the Board confirm the elec-
tion of Mrs. Bryan as State Regent for Hawaii.

Mrs. Fletcher read also the following supple-
mentary report :

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Supplemental Report of Organizing
Secretary General

The State Regent of New York requests the
National Board to authorize a Chapter at
Greater New York.

She also requests the confirmation of the
following Organizing Regents :

Miss Laura E. Becker, Stamford, and Mrs.
Susan Maud Stone Hudler, Mt. Vernon, New
York.

Respectfully submitted,

Anna Louise Fletcher,
Organizing Secretary General.

Following a discussion on the report, it was
announced by the President General that she
had invited Mrs. Scott, Honorary President
General, as Chairman of the War Relief Com-
mittee, to appear before the Board and speak
to the members on the various phases of that
work, and, having just received word that Mrs.
Scott was in the building, the President Gen-
eral requested that a recess be taken at that
time in order to hear Mrs. Scott. Mrs. Scott
was received with applause, the members ris-
ing to greet her. The condition the country
was in, the need of the work of the women
in the conservation of food, the elimination of
all waste, and the preparation of women to
serve in many and varied occupations, were
touched on by Mrs. Scott, who appealed par-
ticularly to the State Regents to do the work

required of their States, with their chapter re-
gents, and through them to reach the individual
members of the chapters. A vote of thanks
to our Honorary President General for her
inspiring words was moved by Miss Elisabeth
F. Pierce, seconded, and carried by rising vote.

On motion of Miss Elisabeth F. Pierce,
seconded by Mrs. Heath, it was carried, that
the Board resolve itself into an informal Com-
mittee of the Whole for the purpose of dis-
cussing the organization of a second Chapter
at Mt. Vernon, X. )'. Mrs. Maupin was re-
quested by the President General to act as
Chairman of the Committee of the Whole.

Moved by Mrs. Foster, seconded by Mrs.
Wait, and carried, that zee rise from the Com-
mittee of the Whole and report. Moved by
Mrs. Fletcher, seconded by Mrs. Heath, and
carried, that the name of Mrs. Hudler be elim-
inated from my supplementary report for fu-
ture action. A motion to accept the supple-
mentary report of the Organizing Secretary
General, as amended, making it read : Through
the State Regent of New York, the National
Board of Management is requested to author-
ize the formation of a Chapter in Greater
New York, and to confirm the appointment of
the following Organizing Regent, Miss Laura
E. Becker, Stamford, N. Y., was then put and
carried.

The Treasurer General presented her finan-
cial statement, with the permission of the
Board reading only the totals.

Report of Treasurer General

Madam President General and Members of the National Board of Management :

I have the honor to submit the following report of receipts and disbursements from
April 1 to May 31, 1917.

CURRENT FUND.
Balance in Bank at last report, March 31, 1917 $45,558.30

Annual dues, $15,252; initiation fees, $1,705; certificate $1; copying
lineage, $2.30 ; D. A. R. report to Smithsonian Institution, $26.42 ;
directory, $2; duplicate papers and lists, $53.88; exchange, $1.18;
hand books, $7.30 ; index books in Library, $2.48 ; interest,
$131.51 ; lineage books, $145.40; Magazine — subscriptions, $410.25,
contributions, $432.69, single copies, $18.05 ; exchange, $.20 ; Re-
membrance Book, $.50; cut, $4.46; through former Chairman,
$70; through former Chairman, single copies, $48; Proceedings,
$31.52; ribbon, $32.87; rosette, $1.45; slot machine, $2.75; slides,
$9; stationery, $5.39; statute books, $3.75; telephone, $77.76; sale
envelopes, Madam de Tavara, $32.30 ; waste paper, $3.40 ; Re-
funds, Committees — Children and Sons of the Republic, $40.65 ;
Program, 26th Congress, $50 ; Reception, 26th Congress, $3 ;
Transportation, 26th Congress, $92.15: Auditorium events — D. C.
Chapter, American Red Cross, $26.50 ; Girls Friendly Society,
$100; National Geographic Society, $150; Navy League of the
United States, $100. Total receipts

19,029.59

$64,587.89

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DISBURSEMENTS.

Refunds: annual dues, $312; initiation fees, $36 $348.00

President General : * clerical service, $63 ; postage and telegrams,

$41.44 104.44

Organizing Secretary General : clerical service, $396.06 ; blanks,

engrossing and sharpening erasers, $16.20 412.26

Recording Secretary General : clerical service, $459.03 ; postage,

binding, telegrams, $25.01 484.04

Certificate: clerical service, $150; postage, expressage and engross-
ing, $236.48 386.48

Corresponding Secretary General : clerical service, $208.90 ; postage,

application blanks, telegram and bonding clerk, $75.07 283.97

Registrar General: clerical service, $1,372.52; postage, binding

records, bonding clerks, permit books and rent of typewriter, $115 1,487.52

Treasurer General: clerical service, $1,5/4.96; Treasurers Uuides,
bonding Treasurer General, bookkeeper and assistant, rent de-
posit box, rent typewriter and sharpening erasers, $85.35 1,660.31

Historian General: clerical service, $375.92; postage, telegram, $5.64 381.56

Director General, Charge of Report to Smithsonian Institution :

clerical service, $40 40.00

Librarian General : clerical service, $188.29 ; postage, expressage,
accessions and binding, $40.65 ; Genealogical Research Depart-
ment— clerical service, $150; adjusting typewriter, $.25 379.19

Curator General: clerical service, $150; postage, $.50 150.50

General Office: clerical service, $171.29; messenger, $47.85; postage
and stamped envelopes, $424.62 ; supplies, $34.40 ; bonding clerks,
telegram, expressage, drayage, repairing typewriter and bicycle,
$8.13 ; paper, envelopes and printing, Military training, $21 ;
engrossing Remembrance Book, $40 ; President General's pin
and insurance, $65 ; Flowers, Admiral Dewey, Mrs. Goddard
and Mount Vernon, $20; professional service, $894.36 1,726.65

Committees : Auditing — postage, $.88 ; Building and Grounds — cleri-
cal service, postage and stamped envelopes, adjusting typewriter
and telegram, $155.05; Conservation — postage, $7.68; Finance —
postage and telegrams, $.79; Historic Spots — printing, postage
and messenger, $2.75; interchangeable Bureau of Slides — typing
report, $.30; Liquidation and Endowment Fund — Engrossing
and postage, $3.47; National Old Trails Road — postage and
tubes, $30 ; Patriotic Education — 200 copies report 25th Con-
gress, $117.50; Philippine Scholarship Fund — 200 copies report
25th Congress, $24; Printing — postage, $.50; Publication — post-
age and telegrams, $.94; State and Chapter By-Laws — clerical
service, postage and rent typewriter, $16.50; War Relief — postage,
blanks, telegrams, stamped envelopes, $231.72 592.08

Expense Continental Hall : Employees' pay roll, $783.64 ; electric
current, coal and hauling trash, $359.91 ; supplies, laundry, re-
pairs, bonding superintendent, cutting door, glass sign, and pre-
mium on accident policy, $384.12 1,527.67

Magazine : Committee, Chairman — clerical service, postage and
stamped envelopes, $119.57; Editor — salary, postage, stamped en-
velopes, and telegram, $215.34; expense "Notes and Queries,"
$75 ; printing and mailing April number, cash for Post
Office, photos, return postage March, and photos April and June
numbers, $8,273.52 ; packing and drayage furniture, New York
to Waterford, Conn., and Washington, D. C. ; expressage old
magazines and telegram, $104.26; notes payable and interest,
$15,206.25 23,993.94

Auditing Accounts : Audit March, $50 50.00

Auditorium Events : Expense, $124.79 ; refunds, $39.21 164.00

D. A. R. Report to Smithsonian Institution: postage, $10 ' 10.00

Lineage: postage, expressage, refund and 500 copies errata, $70.58.- 70.58

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Printing and duplicating machine; printer and ink, $59.30 $59.30

Proceedings of Congress : postage, $5 5.00

Ribbon : 5 bolts and refund, $26.85 26.85

State Regent's Postage : Arkansas, California, District of Columbia,
Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington,

$171.70 171.70

Statute Books : postage, $2 2.00

Support Real Daughters : support 36 for April and 34 for May, $560 560.00

Telephone : service and toll, $138.1 1 138.1 1

Twenty-sixth Congress ; Committees : Credential — clerical service
and telegram, $150.63; sandwiches, etc., for Tellers, $137.10; rent
and freight voting machine and expense of representative,
$275.93; Hospitality — tickets, placards and telegram, $10.77;
House — clerical service and ushers, $274.25 ; labor, $315.43 ; sup-
plies, telegrams, postage, chairs, coat racks, and carriage man,
$110.73; Page — telegrams and pads, $5.21; Program — taxi, tele-
grams and postage, $14.65; Publicity — clerical service, $8.10;
Reception — invitations and postage, $14.03 ; Transportation —
official guide, $79.85; Decorations, $18; Music, $175; Official
Reader, $100; Parliamentarian, $150; Reporting Proceedings,
$500 : Treasurer General's annual report, $126.25 2,465.93

Total Disbursements $37,682.08

Balance, Current Fund, May 31, 1917 $26,905.81

Preservation of Historic Spots Fund.

Balance at last report, March 31, 1917 $23400

Receipts 16.00

$250.00
Disbursements 12.00

Balance, May 31, 1917 238.00

Red Cross.

Receipts $644.80

Disbursements 612.80

Balance, May 31. 1917 32.00

American International College D. A. R. Building Fund.
As at last report, March 31, 1917 $1,197.23 1,197.23

Emily Nelson Ritchie McLean Historical Fund.

As at last report, March 31, 1917 $54.60 54.60

Cash Balance, National Metropolitan Bank $54.60

Investment: Permanent Fund 5 per cent 1,517.79

Total, Cash and Investment $1,572.39

Franco-American Fund.
As at last report, March 31, 1917 $211.02 211.02

Patriots' Memorial D. A. R. School Fund.
As at last report, March 31, 1917 $715.07 715.07

On deposit National Metropolitan Bank, May 31, 1917 $29,353.73

Petty Cash Fund $500.00

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Philippine Scholarship Fund.

Balance at last report, March 31, 1917 $2,234.63

Receipts 303.67

Cash Balance, National Metropolitan Bank, May 31, 1917 $2,538.30

On deposit, National Metropolitan Bank $2,538.30

Investment : Permanent Fund 5 per cent 1,130.00

Total, Cash and Investment $3,668.30

Patriotic Education Fund.

Receipts $1,174.41

Disbursements 1,174.41

Liberty Loan Fund.

Receipts $194.25

Disbursements 194.25

(This represents a Bond value of $4,250.00)

War Relief Fund.

Receipts $350.00

Disbursements ... 350.00

Permanent Fund.
Balance in Bank at last report, March 31, 1917 $5,242.17

receipts.

Charter Fees $20.00

Life Membership Fees 125.00

Continental Hall Contributions 1,331.46

Finalj Payment on Debt Contributions 12,474.18

Land Contributions 691.21

Liquidation and Endowment Fund 35.35

Commission on Recognition Pins 76.70

Sale of Souvenirs 10.50

Interest on Bonds 45.00

Total Receipts 14,80940

$20,051.57
disbursements.

Bills Payable, Building $15,000.00

Interest, Bills Payable, Building 274.31

Velour rope, Board Room 3.25

Painting, Illinois Room 95.00

Furniture, Missouri Room 208.48

Painting, Missouri Room 43.00

Curtains, Ohio Room 4.50

Hand rail and plate, Stairway, Vermont 120.00

Total Disbursements 15,748.54

Balance, May 31, 1917 $4,303.03

Balance, American Security & Trust Co. Bank, May 31, 1917 $4,303.03

Permanent Investment, Chicago and Alton Bonds 2,314.84

Total Permanent Fund, Cash and Investment $6,617.87

Respectfully,

(Mrs. Robert J.) Mary H. S. Johnston,

Treasurer General.
* According to the books of the Treasurer General, none of the amount listed to office
of President General is chargeable to the present President General, Mrs. Guernsey.

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Mrs. Johnston also reported total deceased
since last report 158, resigned 135, reinstated
2,2. Moved by Miss Grace M. Pierce, seconded
by Miss Banow and carried, that the report
of the Treasurer General for the reinstate-
ment of members be accepted. Moved by Aliss
Elisabeth F. Pierce, seconded by Mrs. Wait,
and carried, that the Board stand in memory
of deceased members, as by the list, ijti, pre-
sented by the Treasurer General.

The Treasurer General stated that she had a
number of matters with regard to her office
which she wished to bring to the Board for
action, but as they were in the nature of new
business she had not incorporated them in her
report and would defer presenting them until
the consideration of new business.

In the absence of Mrs. Clarke, Miss Crowell
read the report of the Historian General.

Report of Historian General

Madam President Uenerai and Members of
the National .Board ot Management:

I nave tne nonor to repurt tnai the vvoik in
my ornce is progressing in a satistactory man-
ner. Une-halt of tne records tor tne -4otn
Volume ot the Lineage .book has been ex-
amined by the Editor and we trust to have
the entire volume in the hands of the printer
early in the Fall.

The following gifts have been received for
the Historical Research Department since the
April Board meeting: Brief Biographies and
war records of ancestors loyal to the American
Cause of Independence; presented by Miss
Nettie E. Pearsall for Ketewamoke Chapter,
Huntington, New York. Quenette Chapter,
Oregon, " Origin and Sources of its Name/'
from Mrs. F. W. Bayley. Historical Wilson
County, Tenn., Mrs. C. W. Huffman, Leba-
non, Tenn. Account of unveiling of Savage
Marker. Presented by Mrs. Maude Roberts,
Huntington, W. Va. The Early History of
Houston County, Ga., Mrs. Cooper, Perry, Ga.
Historian's annual report of Old South Chap-
ter, Mass., Mrs. Louise C. Perry. Early
settlements of South Carolina and Proprietary
Governments, Leading Men of South Caro-
lina from 1775-1783, Washington Regime and
Brief History of South Carolina, donated by
Mrs. J. A. Wiggins. Denmark, S. C. Five
hundred seventy-two marriages, Peoria Co.,
111., copied and presented by Mrs. Ida S. To-
bias, Peoria, 111. First deed of Jefferson Co.,
Indiana, first will of Jefferson Co., Ind., Mar-
riages in Switzerland, Ind., when Indiana
was a Territory, and contents of a paper be-
longing to Mr. J. A. Matthews, Madison, Ind.,
from John Paul Chapter through Mrs. Carrie
S. Clark.

Respectfully submitted,

Ellen Dudley Clarke,

Historian General.

Moved by Miss Barlow, seconded by Mrs.
Hume, and carried, that the report of His-
torian General be accepted.

The Director General in Charge of Report
to Smithsonian Institution stated she had no
report to make at that time.

Mrs. Fowler presented her report as Li-
brarian General, reading only the summary.

Report of Librarian General

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management :

Very few of us have fully realized the needs
and importance of our library.

The Historian General, the Registrar Gen-
eral and the Genealogist depend upon the
library for information and therefore the
" Daughters " have a common interest in
making ours one of the best historical and
genealogical libraries in the country.

On April 23rd, 1917, we had 8,000 books in
the library, beside pamphlets, periodicals, maps
and charts. Of those 8,000 books, 280 really
do not belong in a library that should be purely
historical and genealogical and we can only
make it so by concerted effort.

My plan is to ask each State Regent, and
through her each Chapter Regent, to urge
the Chapters to present at least one book a
year to the library. The State Regent of the
District, Mrs. Brumbaugh, inaugurated this
plan last year and has secured 33 books.

Our Historian General, Mrs. Clarke, has
not only shown a deep interest in the library,
but has interested her husband as well and to
them we are indebted for ten books and
pamphlets.

Since April 23rd, 1917, I have the honor to
report the following accessions to the library :

Books.

Archives of Maryland. Proceedings and
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
October, 1724- August, 1/29. Volumes 35 and
36. Baltimore, 1915, 1916.

Sketch of the history of Attlcborough, Mas-
sachusetts, from its settlement to the division.
By John Daggett. Boston, 1894. Presented
by Mrs. George St. John Sheffield.

History of Durham. Maine. By Everett S.
Stackpole. Presented by the " Oberlin " Chap-
ter.

Baptisms and admissions from records of
the First Church of Falmouth (Maine). Com-
piled by Marquis F. King. Portland, 1898.
Presented by " Elizabeth Wadsworth " Chap-
ter.

History of Gorham, Maine. By Josiah
Pierce. Portland, 1862. Presented by Mrs.
Edward H. Colcord.

History of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-

1911. By George Kuhn Clarke. Cambridge,

1912. Presented by the author.

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New Harlem past and present. By Carl
Horton Pierce. New York, 1903. Presented
by Mrs. Albert H. Van Deusen, through
" Manor House " Chapter.

Record of the inscriptions in iJie Old Town
Burying Ground of Newburgh, New York.
Presented by " Quassaick " Chapter.

Norwalk, Connecticut. By Rev. C. M. Sel-
leck. Norwalk, 1896. Presented by " Louisa
Adams " Chapter.

History of Rowan County, North Carolina.
By Jethro Rumple. Republished, 1916, by the
" Elizabeth Maxwell Steele " Chapter, Salis-
bury, North Carolina. Presented by the Chap-
ter.

Annals of an old parish. Historical sketches
of Trinity Parish, Southport, Connecticut,
1725-1898. By Rev. Edmund Guilbert. New
York, 1898. Gift of " Louisa Adams " Chapter.

Geography, history of civil government of
Vermont. By Edward Conant. Rutland, 1890.
Presented by the Librarian General.

History of the DeHavcn Family. By How-
ard DeHaven Ross. 3rd edition. Wilmington,
1914. Presented by the author.

Descendants of Nathaniel Clarke and his
wife, Elizabeth Somerby, of Newbury, Massa-
chusetts. By George Kuhn Clarke. Boston,
1902. The gift of the author.

History of William Teeter, a soldier in the
war of American Independence, and of his
father, Lucas J'etter, ancestor of the Fccter,
Feder, Teadcr, Fader families. Compiled by
John B. Foetteritz for James Feeter, Little
Falls, 1901. Presented by Mrs. James D.
Feeter.

Genealogy of Thomas Pope (1608-1683)
and his descendants. By Dora Pope Worden,
William F. Langworthy, and Blanche Page
Burch, with preliminary list by Franklin
Leonard Pope. Hamilton, New York, 1917.
Presented by Mrs. Dora Pope Worden.

Genealogy of a branch of the Johnson family
and connections. Incidents and legends. Com-
piled by A. M. Johnson. Chattanooga, 1893.
Presented through the Historical Research
Committee.

Reynolds Family Association, iSg?-igi6.
25th annual report. Compiled by Marion H.
Reynolds. Revolutionary Soldiers' Number.
Boston, 1916. Presented by the Association.

Heroic Willards of '76. Life and Ti)nes of
Captain Reuben Ji'illard, of Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts. And his lineal descendants, from
1775 to date. Compiled by James Andrew
Phelps.

Received in Exchange.

Washington and his generals. By J. T.
Headley.

Story of the marking of the Santa Fe Trail,

by the D. A. R. in Kansas and the State of
Kansas. Topeka, 1915.

175th Anniversary of the First Congrega-
tional Church, Meridcn, Connecticut, 1904.

Report of the work of the National Society
of United States Daughters of 1812, from 1897
to 1915, during presidency of Mrs. William
Gerry Slade. Compiled by Beatrice Larned
Whitney. The last four presented by Mrs.
Amos G. Draper.

The Red Man as Soldier. By Willard E.
Yager. Oneonta, 1912.

Llistory of the Flag of the United States of
America. By George H. Preble, Boston, 1880.

Washington the Soldier. By Henry B. Car-
rington. Boston, 1898.

The last three presented by Mrs. R. H. C.
Kelton.

Year Book of the Sons of the Revolution in
the District of Columbia. Presented by the
Society.

Ecclesiastical records of the State of New
York. Edited by Edward T. Erwin. Volume
7, index. Albany. 1916.

Index of the Rolls of Honor (Ancestors'
Index) in the Lineage Book, N. S. D. A. R.,
Volumes 1-40. Compiled by the Pennsylvania
Daughters of the American Revolution, and
published by Mrs. Samuel Aramon. Pitts-
burgh, 1916. Presented by Mrs. Samuel
Amnion.

Chapter Year Books, 1916-1917. 6 volumes.

Quilts, their story and how to make them.
By Marie D. Webster. New York, 1915. Pre-
sented by " General Francis Marion " Chap-
ter for the collection of Indiana authors in the
Indiana room.

Lineage Book, N. S. D. A. R., Volume 43.
Washington, 1917. 2 copies. Presented by the
Society.

Pension papers; being abstracts of original
pension applications on file in Pension Office.
Compiled in office of the Registrar General.
1917. Volumes 39 and 41. Typewritten.

Mayflower Descendant. Boston, 1916. Vol-
ume 18.

Historic Shepherdstown. By Danske Dand-
ridgc. Index by Anna L. C. Phillips. Char-
lottesville, 1910. Presented by Miss Violet
Dandridge.

American orders and societies and their dec-
orations. Published by Bailey, Banks and
Biddle. Philadelphia, 1917. Presented by the
publishers.

Most popular songs of patriotism. Published
by Hinds, Hayden and Eldridge. New York,
1916. Presented by the publishers.

Proceedings of the State conference of the
Virginia D. A. R., October, 1916. Presented
by the Virginia Daughters of the American
Revolution.

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Year Books and other publications of the
Michigan Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, 1914-1916. Presented by Mrs. William
H. Wait, State Regent.

Washington's expeditions and Braddock's
expeditions. By James Hadden. Uniontown,
1910. Presented by Miss Eliza B. Lynn.

Early silver of Connecticut and its makers.
By George Munson Curtiss. Meriden, 1913.
Presented by " Ruth Hart " Chapter.

The Irvins, Doaks, Logans and McCamp-
bclls. By Margaret Logan Morris. 1916.
Presented by the author.

Descendants of Isaac Bradley. Compiled by
Leonard Abram Bradley. New York, 1917.
Presented by Mr. J. M. Andreini.

Exiles in Virginia. Philadelphia, 1848.

Report of the trial of "Friends." Steuben-
ville, October, 1828.

Pennsylvania Chronicle from May, 1768-
1/69. The last three presented by Mrs. Mary
G. Powell.

Dedham Historical Register. Dedham, 1S97-
1903. Three numbers of Volume 8 and Vol-
umes 9-14 complete. Presented by Mr. George
Kuhn Clarke.

Original portraits of Washington, including
statues, monuments and medals. By Elizabeth
Bryant Johnston. Boston, 1882. Presented.

History of Uniontown, the county seat of
Fayette County, Pennsylvania. By James
Hadden. 1913.

The Raritan. Notes on a river and a family.
By John C. Van Dyke. New Brunswick, New
Jersey, 1915. Presented by the author.

Life of Captain Natlia)i Hale, the martyr spy
of the American Revolution. By I. W. Stuart.
Hartford, 1856. Presented by Mr. James W.
Barker to Mrs. Caroline E. McWilliams, Or-
ganizing Regent of the " Nathan Hale " Chap-
ter of St. Paul. Minnesota, November 25, 1895,
and now presented by her to the D. A. R.
Library.

Pamphlets.

Alexander family, I'irginia-Priiiceton-New
York branch. Compiled by Charles Beatty
Alexander. New York, 1914. Presented by
the author.

Cohan genealogy, 1914.

McCourtie family chart.

McCourtie genealogy, 1914.

The last three presented by the author, Wil-
liam H. L. McCourtie.

Jacob Kuhn and his descendants. By George
Kuhn Clarke. Presented by the author.

Genealogy and descendants of the Rev. David
Ward, through Andrew Ward. Compiled by
Mrs. Teunis E. Hamlin. Presented by Mrs.
Perlie M. Tallman and sisters, through the
" Patriots' Memorial " Chapter.

Report of the Daughters of the Cincinnati,
1917. Presented by the Society.

Official publications of the state of New
York relating to its history as colony and
State. Compiled by Alice Louise Jewett. Al-
bany, 1917.

Year Book of the Michigan Society, S. A. R.
Detroit, 1916. Presented by the Society.

A list of the Revolutionary soldiers who
served in Dedham in the Revolutionary War,
I775-I7S3- Presented by Mrs. George Kuhn
Clarke.

American National Red Cross. Its origin
and history — as shown by official documents.
Washington, 1898.

Our Sea Forces in the Revolution. Pub-
lished by American History League.

An Historic Church. Makemie Memorial
Presbyterian Church. Snow Hill, Maryland.
By Mary M. North. 1904.

The James River Tourist. A brief account
of historical localities on the James River, and
sketches of Richmond, Norfolk, and Ports-
mouth. Richmond, 1885.

George Washington. Statement of Richard
Parkinson. Baltimore, 1909.

The last six presented by Mrs. Amos G.
Draper.

Star Spangled Banner Association of the
United States of America, n. d. Presented.

The Capitols of the South. By Henry A.
Boynton. Philadelphia, 1917. Presented by
the author.

Bulletin of the Tioga Point Museum.
Athens, Pennsylvania, 1917. Presented by
Mrs. Louise W. Murray.

Proceedings of the Bangor Historical So-
ciety, 1864-1914, 1914-1915. 2 volumes. Pre-
sented by the " Frances Dighton Williams "
Chapter.

Beginning of the First Church, Cambridge,
Mass. By Hollis R. Bailey. Presented by
Mrs. George Kuhn Clarke, who also gave the
April and July, 1903, numbers of the Genea-
logical Quarterly Magazine.

The Heroine of Red Bank, New Jersey.
By Isabella C. McGeorge, Woodbury, New
Jersey, 1917. Presented by Mrs. Clement R.
Ogden.

Homer, Michigan — '94. By P. W. Heath
and others. Homer, 1895. Presented by Mrs.
A. J. Ogden, of " Charity Cook " Chapter.

History of the Seal and Flag of New Hamp-
shire. By Otis Grant Hammond. 1916. Pre-
sented by Mrs. Charles C. Abbott.

Periodicals
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine May, June.

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History Teacher's Magazine March.

Illinois Slate Historical Society
Journal .October.

Kentucky State Historical Society
Register May.

Maryland Historical Magazine ....March.

Massachusetts Magazine January.

New England Historical and Genea-
logical Register April and

supplement.

New York Public Library Bulletin .April.

New York Historical Society Bul-
letin April.

Ohio Archaeological and Historical
Quarterly April.

Pilgrim Notes and Queries April, May.

Proceedings of the New Jersey His-
torical Society January.

Somerset County New Jersey His-
torical Quarterly April.

South Carolina Historical and
Genealogical Magazine April.

Vermonter, The April.

Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography April.

William and Mary College Quar-
terly April.

The above list comprises 62 books, 24 pam-
phlets, and 18 periodicals ; 60 books were pre-
sented. 1 purchased, and 2 received in ex-
change ; 23 pamphlets were presented, 1 re-
ceived in exchange.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. James M.) Eva Gross Fowler,
Librarian General.
Moved by Mrs. Wait, seconded by Mrs.
Hume, and carried, that the report of the Li-
brarian General be accepted.

Miss Barlow then read her report as Cura-
tor General.

Report of Curator General

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management:

I have the honor to report on the following
accessions to the Museum during the last two
months :

Bronze medal, presented to the National So-
ciety, D. A. R., by the Belgian Relief Com-
mission.

Glass salt cellar, presented by Mrs. Robt.
Harrison, D. C.

Autograph copy of the words of "America,"
presented by Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey.

Pewter lamp, presented by Mrs. Charles W.
Brown, D. C.

Beaded bag, presented by Miss Olive
Thomas, D. C.

Two fans and blue glass perfume bottle,
formerly owned by the wife of Capt. James
Foster, one of the soldiers who crossed the

Delaware with Gen. Washington, presented by
his great-great-granddaughter, Miss Jane
Adams Foster, D. C.

Antique Chinese embroidery, presented by
Mrs. Charles S. Lobingier, Shanghai, China, a
part of the gifts from the Orient already re-
ported.

Embroidered collar of pina cloth, presented
by Mrs. Truman S. Holt, Manila, P. I.
Respectfully submitted,
Catherine Brittin Barlow,

Curator General.

Miss Barlow urged the members of the
Board to go to the Museum after the close of
the meeting and see for themselves the beauty
and charm of the medal, and the exquisite
quality of art, and stated that the medal was
so arranged in the case in the Museum that
both the obverse and the reverse could be seen.
The President General said that she was ex-
ceedingly regretful that the medal arrived
after the close of the last Congress, as it was
the intention of the Commissioners to have it
reach the Society in time for Mrs. Story to
present to the Congress, as the contribution
for the Belgian Relief was raised during the
administration of Mrs. Story. In her accept-
ance and thanks to the Commissioners the
President General expressed her sorrow that
the medal was not received in time for Mrs.
Story to present to the Congress for the
Museum, inasmuch as this medal had been
given to the Society in recognition of the won-
derful gift raised by the Daughters through
the efforts of Mrs. Story.

Miss Barlow stated also that the collection
in the Museum was rapidly increasing, and ac-
ceptable as were the gifts they had begun to
crowd the cases, and it was not possible to
continue to carry out the arrangement of re-
serving certain cases for certain classes of
relics, and it was her hope that other cases
would be presented before very long. Miss
Barlow outlined a plan she had in mind,
whereby cases would be given in memory or in
honor of all of the Presidents General of the
Society — if Indiana would present a case for
the Presidents General from that State, Mrs.
Harrison, Mrs. Foster, and Mrs. Fairbanks ;
Illinois for Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs. Scott,
New York for Mrs. Manning and Mrs. Story
— these three cases, with the two already
promised, would give the necessary five still
needed for the Museum. Through a personal
gift a case in memory of Mrs. McLean had
already been installed, and another case in
honor of Mrs. Guernsey was given by the
Daughters of Kansas.

Miss Barlow also referred to the suggestion
of the Arts Committee that something be done
with the model of the ship " Constitution."

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This model is slowly disintegrating, and there
is no fund for its repair. With the idea that
it might be placed where it would have an
educational value, such as at a naval station
where the young men and boys could ex-
amine and study it, she had written the Super-
intendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
and had his reply that the Academy would be
very glad to accept the model, but they had
no funds to transport it to Annapo.is. She
thereupon interviewed several business firms
and found that the best terms possible for
the crating and delivery to the Academy was
$55. Miss Barlow moved that the report of
the Curator General be accepted. This was
seconded by Miss Crowell and carried.

Mrs. Foster presented two photostat copies
of the parole of Lord Cornwallis and stated
that these copies were made by the Govern-
ment ; the original of one of the copies would
be found in the University of Virginia and
the other in the State Library at Richmond,
Va. A vote of thanks to Mrs. Foster for licr
generous gift was moved by Miss Serpell, sec-
onded by Mrs. Fowler, and carried by a rising
vote.

Mrs. Pulsifer read her report as follows :

Report of Corresponding Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management:
I have the honor to report that during the
months of April and May we have received
in the office nine hundred and thirteen letters
and eight hundred and nineteen have been
written. Six hundred and twenty-four orders
for supplies have been filled, consisting of :

Application blanks 1 1,349

Leaflets on " How to Become a

Member " 890

General information 819

Constitutions 776

Miniature blanks 764

Transfer cards 810

In making a comparison of the work for the
same period last year I find a considerable in-
crease, both in correspondence and the num-
ber of supplies sent out. This no doubt is
true of all of the offices, showing the con-
tinued growth of the Society.

It has been necessary to have some tem-
porary assistance in the office to bring up to
date work which accumulated during the rush
of Congress. I am glad to report we are now
quite up to date.

A bill was presented to me to O.K. for ap-
plication blanks, 16,500, but as these had not
been ordered by the Corresponding Secretary
General, I did not feel the bill should be
O.K.'d by me. Upon investigation it developed

these in addition to 50,000 ordered by the of-
fice were ordered by the former President
General, and when counted a shortage of over
4«00 was discovered, also that many of the
blanks were not in a condition to use at all
because of soil, imperfect print and typo-
graphical errors. It seemed only right to ad-
vise the printers of the shortage and the con-
dition of these blanks. A letter was sent to
them to which no reply has been made. I
object to the amount of this bill being charged
to my office.

The mail for the building has been cared for
and in addition to the above, the clerical work
of the Finance Committee has been done in
this office.

Respectfully submitted,

( Mrs. Woodbury) Adelaide P. Pulsifer.

Moved by Mrs. Pulsifer, seconded by Mrs.
Hall, and carried, that we accept the report of
the Corresponding Secretary General.

The President General announced that
Rauscher would serve the luncheon in the
banquet hall — a war time luncheon — at one
o'clock, to which the members of the Board
were invited as her guests, and at two o'clock
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, of the Woman's
Committee on National Defense, had been in-
vited to speak to the Board on the work of
that Committee. Moved by Miss Crowell, sec-
onded by Mrs. Holt, and carried, that on re-
assembling zee hear Mrs. Carrie Chapman Calf
on the question of the Woman's Committee on
National Defense, this to be follozccd by the
report of Mrs. Wait.

The statement being made that the various
organizations working together for war relief
and kindred patriotic purposes did not have on
their files the list of our Xa'ional officers, it
was moved by Miss Grace M. Pierce, seconded
by Mrs. Brumbaugh, and carried, that the Re-
cording Secretary be instructed to send to all
organizations a list of all National Officers.

Mrs. Foster presented for the banquet hall
a beautiful spoon from Georgia which the
President General accepted with the thanks of
the Society and the hope that every State
would have its own spoon there before the
close of her administration. Miss Crowell an-
nounced that she would take pleasure in pre-
senting Pennsylvania's spoon.

Mrs. Brumbaugh, as Chairman of Finance
Committee, read her report as follows :

Report of Finance Committee

Madame President General and Members of
the National Board of Management:
I have the honor to report that the Finance
Committee held three meetings to transact the
business that presented itself for considera-
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each of the meetings and we feel a great deal
has heen accomplished.

Insurance has been placed with the Mary-
land Casualty Company for general liability
and upon the President General's pin with the
U. S. Lloyds. The premium on the former
was $202(23 and upon the pin $5. At the last
Board meeting it was moved " That Accident
Policy be renewed for three years at an ex-
pense of $188.79." (Accident Policy and Gen-
eral Liability are the same.) Owing to a
slight increase in the payroll the premium on
this policy also slightly increased. Therefore
the Committee finds it necessary to recom-
mend to the Board —

(1.) "That the amount of $202.23 be sub-
stituted for $188.79 for the premium on lia-
bility insurance with the Maryland Casualty
Company."

After the insurance had been placed upon
the President General's pin it was learned a
policy had been placed by the Bailey, Banks,
and Biddle Company without the knowledge
of the President General or the Finance
Committee. Conseauentlv the Finance
Committee reauested Bailey, Banks, and
Biddle to cancel policy.

An insurance policy on the elevator which
the former President General placed, to extend
through this administration has not been
turned over to the Society, although repeated
efforts have been made to obtain same from
Mrs. Story. Failing in this the Company
(R. C. Rathbone & Son) has been asked to
furnish a duplicate policy. A bill from the
same Company was submitted for premium, in
amount $3100, on a War Risk Policy for $600,-
000. As the Committee had no authority from
the Board to approve payment of premium on
such policy, and delivery of policy was con-
tingent upon payment of premium, the Rath-
bone Company was advised that this insurance
was not authorized by the National Board of
Management or Congress and could not there-
fore be recognized as a liability by the Society.
The Committee considered War Risk insur-
ance unnecessary but it was thought it might
be well to carry heavier fire insurance as the
policies now in force provide for only about
50 per cent, indemnity in case of fire, owing
to an 80 per cent, clause.

A bill from the Globe- Wernicke Company
for $141.05 for office furniture, said to have
been purchased by Mr. W. J. Thompson, was
considered by the Committee, and the Globe-
Wernicke Company was advised that it must
show proof that Mr. Thompson was author-
ized by the National Society to purchase this
furniture before the Society could be held
liable for it, and suggested the Company take

the matter up with Mr. Thompson. To date
a reply has not been received.

The Committee's attention was called to a
bill from the Monroe Press for $261.35 for
16,500 application blanks claimed to have been
ordered by the former President General, this
without solicitation from the Corresponding
Secretary General in whose office they are
used. An order for 50,000 blanks had been
given by the Corresponding Secretary about
a month previous. The Monroe Press claims
to have sent 66,500 blanks but by actual count
we are 4800 short and the Committee has
advised the Company no payment will be made
of this bill until an adjustment is made by
them.

A bill for $305.08 from the Carey Printing
Company for certificates was submitted for
approval but as these certificates are not and
have not been furnished according to sample
sent (being lithographed instead of engraved)
considerable correspondence has passed in ref-
erence thereto. The matter has not yet been
satisfactorily adjusted.

The National Accounting Company pre-
sented a bill for $75 for auditing Magazine
accounts, which had not been officially re-
quested. Upon investigation it was found the
Accounting Company had withdrawn this bill
in a letter to the former Chairman of the
Auditing Committee.

A letter was received from the Trow Press
making claim for bill of $108.40 for printing,
which bill had been sent several times to 156
Fifth Avenue, New York City, without receiv-
ing any attention. The Committee thought it
unwise to approve bills that the former ad-
ministration had not approved. The Trow
Press was advised we had no office at 156
Fifth Avenue, New York City, and did not
authorize the bills mentioned in their letter.
In a later letter, addressed to Mrs. Story and
forwarded by her to your Committee, from
this firm, statement was made that they would
hand the matter over to their attorney for col-
lection.

Miss Finch presented bill for clerical ser-
vice from April 23rd to May 2nd, and postage,
amounting to $28.32.

The Chairman has written to Miss Finch
stating that as her Chairmanship expired at
the close of the Congress she could not see
in what way the Sodetv was oblieated to pay
any bills contracted by her after that date and
also quoted ruling of the Board " That no re-
imbursement for any expense of the Society
be made unless voucher shows receipt for
said bill." To date these receipts have not
been received.

The Committee wishes to report that the
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pieces) used by the former Magazine Commit-
tee in New York has been delivered to the
Society and the bill for packing and express-
age, $71.27, has been paid.

A number of bills in connection with the
publishing of the Magazine have been received
and turned over to the Chairman of the Maga-
zine Committee for investigation and her
authorization, as without this we are unable
to approve them.

A bill has been received from Mr. Joseph M.
Rault, Attorney, for professional services ren-
dered the former Treasurer General from
September, 1916, to April, 1917, amounting
to $300, and after careful consideration it was
moved and carried unanimously.

(2) " That we recommend to the Board the
payment of this bill of $300 for the services
of the attorney, Joseph M. Rault, to the for-
mer Treasurer General."

I move the adoption of this report.
Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. Gaius M.)Catherin E. B. Brumbaugh,
Chairman. Finance Committee.
The acceptance of tliis report was moved by
Mrs. Brumbaugh, seconded by Miss Grace M.
Pierce, and carried.

A book entitled " The Lure and the Love of
Travel," by Mr. and Mrs. Vrooman, was pre-
sented to the Society with the best wishes of
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, and on motion it was
carried that a letter of thanks be sent to
Mrs. Scott.

The Chaplain General referred to the vote
in the last Congress, turning over to her for
preparation the Remembrance Book, the ne-
crology of the Society, issued every six months
and sent to every Chapter, and asked that an
appropriation be made for the necessary cleri-
cal assistance in getting out this book. No
action was taken as the Chairman of Building
and Grounds Committee assured the Chaplain
General that she would detail a clerk to assist
in the work.

Mrs. Brumbaugh moved to accept Recom-
mendation No. I of Finance Committee. This
was seconded by Mrs. Phillips and carried.
The adoption of the second recommendation
of tlie Chairman of the Finance Committee
was moved by Mrs. Hall, seconded by Miss
Serpell, and carried.
Adjourned for luncheon at 1.12 p.m.
The afternoon session was called to order at
2.15 p.m. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was in-
troduced to the Board as a member of the
Woman's Committee on National Defense, and
received an enthusiastic greeting. After out-
lining the work that women would be called
upon to do and which it would be their duty
to assume, and giving some of the experiences
of the women in other countries, Mrs. Catt

replied to questions put by the members, and
at the close of the discussion was thanked by
the President General for her courtesy in
coming to speak before the Board.

Mrs. Wait, as the member of the War Re-
lief Service Committee in charge of publicity,
was requested at this time to give her report,
and Mrs. Minor was asked to take the chair
during the absence from the room for a few
moments of the President General.

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The general plan in the distribution of the
literature and information sent out by this
Committee has been to send the material for
each department to the district chairman of
that Department to be forwarded by her to
the State Regents in that Department, the
State Regents to bring it to the attention of
the Chapter members.

As the member of your War Relief Service
Committee in charge of publicity, I was in-
structed to have published 100,000 registra-
tion blanks. The quota of registration blanks
for each State was counted separately after
I had received from the State Regents their
enrollment in answer to my letter of April 27,
were tied in separate bundles, and labelled
for each State, so that the District Chairmen
to whom they were sent did not have to re-
count them except in the case of one depart-
ment, where the box, I am told, was received
from the American Express Company in a
damaged condition.

Having obtained from Headquarters the
number of Chapters in each State, 1,600 min-
utes, 1,600 letters of Mr. Vrooman, 1,600
letters of Mrs. Scott, 1,600 letters of M.
Jusserand, 1,600 announcements regarding
Madame Jusserand's willingness to transmit
our money for French orphans to France,
1,600 press notices, 1,600 announcements to
Chapter Regents about press notices, 1,184
pictures and instructions for sweaters, 1,184 of
same for mufflers, 1,184 of same for wristlets,
1,284 of same for helmets, 1,184 Pamphlet 137a
of Navy League.

One for each Chapter Regent was counted
out fastened together and labelled for each
State, and sent the District Chairmen, with the
exception of the knitting pictures and instruc-
tions for the Eastern Department and certain
States in the Central Department — 14 States in
all. This delay was caused by the fact that a
mistake was made in sending me the right
number of Leaflet 137a, there being about 500
too few. I have investigated the matter since
reaching Washington, and the pamphlets were
sent me to-day and will be forwarded immed:
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Owing to the fact that there was some de-
lay in receiving the enrollment of some States,
all the registration blanks did not go out at the
same time, not all have now been sent. In
some States after the blanks have been sent,
it was discovered that the enrollment sent me
did not include the last admissions at the two
April meetings of the National Board of Man-
agement. I have been so notified and extra
blanks have been forwarded direct to the
State Regents, making the total number 112,-
554. With arrangements now made to receive
them at the Hall I urge State Regents to col-
lect their blanks and send to our National So-
ciety. In counting and packing all these, there
has been absolutely no expense to the Society
as I have been most loyally assisted by Mrs.
Wm. G. Doty, Regent, Miss Kate Forsyth,
Mrs. Jacob Reighard, and Miss Florence
Roberts, members of my own Chapter, the
Sarah Caswell Angell, Ann Arbor, and Mrs.
and Miss Brittain, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamil-
ton, Holland, and Mr. John Echarius. of Ann
Arbor, a professional packer who gave us as
his " bit " his noon hour and an hour after
dinner every night for a week, packing boxes
and bundles. I therefore ask that a vote of
thanks be given these patriotic helpers by this
Board.

May I state that I have been asked by the
Navy League to send to them the expense
account attendant upon sending out the Navy
League literature. It is therefore not included
in bills rendered this Society. The Navy
League has just published a most comprehen-
sive list of torpedo boats and destroyers
named after heroes of the Revolution, to-
gether with short biographical sketches of the
lives of these patriots, and number of men on
each boat.

Your chairman has asked me to give you
the plan adopted by Michigan in this work.
Having decided before this bulletin was is-
sued that we wished to work for a certain
destroyer, each Chapter was asked to make
a set of four garments, the four largest Chap-
ters to make two sets of garments. As soon
as finished they are to be forwarded to the
State Regent with name of Chapter and Re-
gent's address. She will pack the number
necessary for the boat and forward to the
Chairman of Comforts Committee, Navy
League, marked for " our " boat. As soon as
box is sent, postals will be sent all Chapters
announcing the fact, and each Chapter will
begin making a second set, and forward same
to State Regent who will pack second box
and have ready when notified that knitted
garments on " our " boat need replenishing.
As soon as second box is sent, postals will

again be sent Chapters who will begin the
third set and so on until this war is over.

The plan is working admirably.

I wish to thank many of you, including the
President General, for most encouraging let-
ters which makes this work with you a
pleasure. Respectfully submitted,

Clara Hadley Wait.

Mrs. Wait supplemented her report with
information in regard to the clipping envelope,
which would be furnished to the Chapters in
any numbers requested, the idea being to cut
out interesting bits of news, light stories, etc.,
from magazines and newspapers and place
them in the envelopes — preferably nothing
gloomy or about the war. These envelopes
would be taken in charge of by the Com-
forts Committee of the Navy League and sent
to the various ships.

Mrs. Wait, in referring to the work with the
French orphans called attention to the fact
that frequently there were a number of little
children in a family and it would seem best
where one child was provided for that the
Chapter or the group of persons take also
charge of the rest of the family.

The President General here resumed the
chair, and stated that so much time had been
given to reports on this war work because it
was a committee ordered by Congress and it
was necessary that the members of the Board
have the opportunity to acquire a full under-
standing of the scope of the work; that many
questions had been asked as to the relation of
the Red Cross to this work, and she had en-
deavored to secure from the Red Cross of-
ficials some plan whereby the National Society
or the Chapters would receive credit as a unit
for the work done for the Red Cross, and
she had received many telegrams asking
whether the Treasurer General would receive
donations for the Red Cross during the drive
of Red Cross Week. After a number of
interviews certain Red Cross officials had con-
ceded that the Daughters might get in touch
with the local or district committee and ar-
range with them to turn in all money marked
D. A. R. The President General stated that
the letter she received from the Red Cross
officials did not confirm in so many words the
arrangement, and so it was suggested that a
telegram be sent the State Regents who were
not present, urging them to make vigorous
efforts among Chapter Regents to have all
money contributed through the D. A. R. to the
Red Cross sent through State Regents to the
Treasurer General, Memorial Continental Hall,
this money to be turned over to the National
Red Cross in Washington. After some dis-
cussion it was moved by Mrs. Fletcher, sec-

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onded by Mrs. Fowler, that this telegram
shall be sent to all absent State Regents, or
State Vice Regents in case of the absence of
the State Regents from their states.

In connection with this war relief work,
the President General requested permission
for Mme. Bimont to appear before the Board
and explain the special work that was being
done for the orphans of the war in France
who were sickly or likely to fall a prey to
tuberculosis. Mme. Bimont told of the ef-
forts being made to establish a home at the
seashore which should contain 500 beds and
could thus provide for that number of chil-
dren who would be taken away from the un-
healthy and crowded surroundings and built
up to enable them better to endure the cold
weather and the privations caused by the war
— that through the beneficence of a Washing-
ton merchant beds and the necessary outfit
had been furnished at cost price, which she
would take over with her when she sailed for
France the next week, but that instead of hav-
ing the necessary 500 she had only 120 pro-
vided for. The cost for each bed and outfit is
$12.75. Much interest was evinced in the work
as outlined by Mme. Bimont, and the Presi-
dent General expressed the thanks of the
Board. Mrs. Hall pledged one bed for Dela-
ware.

A vote of thanks to Mrs. Wait for her
most interesting and comprehensive report was
moved by Mrs. Holt, seconded by Mrs. Brum-
baugh, and carried. Moved by Mrs. Buel, sec-
onded by Mrs. Hall, and carried, that this
Board send a vote of thanks to the ladies of
Mrs. Wait's Chapter and to Mr. Echarius for
their patriotic service in assisting her with the
issuing of the War Relief Service Committee
literature.

Referring to the action of J. E. Caldwell
and Company in cancelling the debt on the
remaining Liquidation and Endowment Cer-
tificates, Mrs. Minor thought it would add to
Mrs. Block's happiness to have this informa-
tion as soon as possible and moved that a
telegram be sent Mrs. Block announcing the
gift to the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution by J. E. Caldzvell and Company of the
remaining unsold Block certificates, amount-
ing to $7,555.61. This was seconded by Miss
Barlow and carried.

The motion to send a telegram to the State
Regents and State Vice Regents regarding
the contribution to the Red Cross fund was
again discussed, and it was moved by Miss
Serpell, seconded by Mrs. Brumbaugh, and
carried, to amend by striking out all after
State Regents, making the motion read, that
this telegram shall be sent to all absent State
Regents. This motion as amended was then

put and lost, the fact being brought out that
much of the work of soliciting funds for the
Red Cross had already been done, that the
sums desired had been apportioned among the
various towns and cities, and this apportion-
ment could not be adhered to if the money
should be sent to the Treasurer General at
Washington.

Mrs. Scott, requesting permission to make
a brief statement with regard to money al-
ready contributed to the War Relief Ser-
vice Committee for the work in France,
stated that as much money as possible could
be collected for the devastated towns or for
the orphan children, but as Madame Jusser-
and could not open a set of books it would
be impossible for her to care for small sums,
but if the money was sent to the Treasurer
General whenever there was a sum large
enough to represent one or two hundred or-
phans it would be sent to Madame Jusser-
and, who would forward it to its proper
destination; that yesterday a check had been
given her for $1100, $500 of that to be given
for the devastated homes of France, and $600
for the orphans of France. Tn addition, 50
orphans had been taken, and it was her hone
that very soon there would be collected $2000
to send to Madame Jusserand.

Mrs. Hanger now read her report as Chair-
man of Auditing Committee.

Report of Auditing Committee

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management :

As Chairman of the Auditing Committee,
I have the honor to submit the following
report :

In accordance with Article VI of the By-
laws— That an expert accountant shall be
chosen by the Auditing Committee and ap-
proved by the National Board of Manage-
ment— your Committee met on May 10, 1917,
and received bids for auditing accounts of the
National Society. After free discussion and
careful consideration the Committee voted
unanimously to recommend to the National
Board of Management that the American
Audit Company, Colorado Building, Wash-
ington, D. C, be employed as auditors for the
National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution for the year beginning
May, 1917. and ending April, 1918, for the
sum of $750 payable every two months ; audits
to be made monthly and to include the Maga-
zine accounts, the moneys of which are re-
ceived in the Treasurer General's office.

The audit for the month of April was made
by the National Accounting Comnany, former
auditors. The Treasurer General's report re-
ceived for same month. The Auditing Com-
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one instance where a clerk's salary had been
charged to the wrong office. Upon inquiry,
your Committee found this discrepancy had
not been discovered by the auditors, but by
the present Treasurer General who had had
same corrected on her books. The Committee
also found that the National Accounting
Company in this same April audit had neg-
lected to check the posting for payments by
Chapters to the Chapter Ledger from L to Z.
This work of checking was done by the pres-
ent auditors as an accommodation.

In an endeavor to have the accounts audited
of the former Chairman of the Magazine
from April 9, 1917, date of last audit, a
bundle of papers left in the Treasurer Gen-
eral's office by the present Chairman of the
Magazine, marked " For the Auditor," was
turned over to the American Audit Com-
pany. With reference to this bundle of
papers I have received the following letter
from that Company :

June 16, 1917.

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Chairman,
Auditing Committee, N. S. D. A. R.,
Memorial Continental Hall, Washington,
D. C.

Dear Mrs. Hanger :

Referring to the bundle of papers containing
letters, bank pass book, etc., relating to the
D. A. R. Magazine, handed to me with the re-
quest that they be audited, I beg leave to
advise you that the same do not contain suffi-
cient information to make them susceptible
of being audited.

Very truly yours,

C. R. Cranmer,
Resident Manager.

The audit of the accounts of the National
Society for May was made by the American
Audit Company, Washington, D. C, and re-
sults submitted to the Auditing Committee.
The report of the Treasurer General for the
same month was also received. These re-
ports were carefully compared by your Com-
mittee and found to agree.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,
Chairman, Auditing Committee.

The adoption of my report without its
recommendations was moved by Mrs. Hanger,
seconded by Mrs. Fowler, and carried. The
President General stated that with the ac-
ceptance of this report the report of the
Treasurer General was also accepted.

The report of the Printing Committee was
read by Mrs. Foster, as Chairman.

Report of the Printing Committee

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report that three meet-
ings of the Printing Committee have been
held, one on May 8, to decide upon the print-
ing of the leaflets sent out from the office of
the Corresponding Secretary, namely, " How
to Become a Member," General Information,
and the Miniature Blank. Several firms sub-
mitted bids and it was finally decided to
award the contract of printing 2000 each of
the leaflets to Gibson Brothers, whose bid was
$70.50.

On May 15, a meeting was called to act on
the bids submitted for printing the Proceed-
ings of the Twenty-sixth Congress. Two
thousand copies of the Proceedings will be
necessary to fill the order of Congress and it
was finally voted to give the contract to
Thomson, Bryan, Ellis Co., of Washington,
D. C, whose bid was $2.46 per page or for
1300 pages, $3,198. This is the maximum
figure as it is probable that there will be less
than 1300 pages. Last year the price for
1100 copies was $3,393.96.

On Tuesday, June 19, the matter of print-
ing the Lineage Book, volume 45, was brought
before the Committee. The firm which has
been doing the work for a number of years
having raised its prices, a local firm had sub-
mitted a bid to the office of the Historian
General. It was voted after some discussion
that the local firm be given the opportunity
to print this one volume — his price being
$803.16 for 1500 copies. Afterwards it was
moved and seconded that the former printers,
the Telegraph Printing Company, of Harris-
burg, Penna., be given another opportunity
to bid and the contract be not awarded until
their bid had been submitted.

Respectfully submitted,

Mrs. S. W. Foster.
Chairman Printing Committee.

The adoption of my report as Chairman of
the Printing Committee was moved by Mrs.
Foster, seconded by Mrs. Brumbaugh, and
carried.

Miss Barlow, as Chairman of Revolution-
ary Relics Committee, stated that she had re-
ceived reports from twenty-seven States giv-
ing the name of the State chairman! ap-
pointed, and that she had asked each of these
to see that the Chapters throughout the State
organize a revolutionary relics committee.
The acceptance of this report was moved by
Miss Grace M. Pierce, seconded by Miss Bar-
low, and carried.

Mrs. Minor read her report as Chairman
of Magazine Committee.

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Report of Magazine Chairman

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management:

The following is the report of your Chair-
man of Magazine Committee from the time
of her appointment by the President General
at the close of Congress to date. Since ac-
cepting the Chairmanship, I endeavored to
familiarize myself with the business of this
Committee, but I found it difficult to unravel
the intricacies of our relations with the Carey
Printing Company, the firm which contracted
for the printing of our Magazine under the
former administration, and have also been in-
vestigating our standing in the matter of the
unsettled claims of the R. R. Bowker Com-
pany pending for the past four years, and
which you remember was referred by the
April Board Meeting to your Chairman to
adjust.

Two numbers of the Magazine, those for
May and June, have been issued since I came
into office, but they were under the contract
made by the former Chairman, and I have
simply tried to have that contract carried out
according to agreement. It was fully a month
before the office equipment of the former
Chairman was turned over to me. On the
25th of May, a desk, two chairs, address-
ing machine, six receipt books, and letters
(some of them containing subscriptions to the
Magazine) were received here in Washing-
ton, and later at my home at Waterford,
Conn., there arrived a large table desk with
glass top, two revolving chairs and type-
writer. The glass on table desk was broken
into splinters and the typewriter was also
damaged. It cost the Society $80.11 for pack-
ing and expressage on these articles. The
large table desk, measuring three by five feet
is impracticable for the business of the Com-
mittee. I would recommend disposing of it
as advantageously as possible and purchasing
a roll top business-like desk.

Letters received reveal the fact that our
membership list used in the free issue of the
Magazine was badly in need of revision,
Magazines having gone to members who were
dead or resigned; in one case to a member
who had been dead fifteen years, and in num-
berless instances members in good standing
have failed to receive any while other mem-
bers had received two, three or four copies
apiece.

Since the 25th of May I have averaged
twenty letters a day from my office in Water-
ford, alone, to say nothing of what has gone
out of my office in Washington.

As regards the advertising agent. Mr. W. J.
Thompson, I found it difficult to locate him.
I have been unable to get an accounting of our

advertising contracts or of money due the
Society for advertising. In a letter filed with
this report, the former Chairman, Miss Finch,
states that amounts received by her for ad-
vertising total $2,479.08, and in a conversa-
tion with the President General and myself,
she expressed the opinion that four or five
thousand dollars was still due the Society.
It appears that the method was that appeals
were sent out by Mr. Thompson, the adver-
tising agent, with instructions to send remit-
tances to Miss Finch. I wrote Mr. W. J.
Thompson for his report promised me as soon
as the June Magazine was issued, but as yet
have received no reply.

I issued specifications to firms who requested
the opportunity to bid on the publication of
our Magazine, receiving three bids in return.
These bids were submitted to the meeting of
your Executive Committee, with the result
that the contract was awarded for one year
to J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia,
a firm whose high reputation is so well known
it is needless for me to enlarge upon it.

The July Magazine, the first one issued
under your new Chairman and Editor, has
gone to press and will be mailed July 2nd.
The work of your Editor, your publisher and
your Chairman will be of no avail unless
members of the Society support them by their
subscriptions. As our Connecticut State
Chairman of Magazine Committee says in a
recent appeal in behalf of the Magazine:
" Officers alone do not make a victorious
army; they must have the loyal support of
the ranks. Will every Daughter of the State
of Connecticut be found on the firing line in
support of our Magazine?" I hope every
Daughter in the Society will eventually be
found on the firing line.

Anne Rogers Minor,
Chairman, Magazine Committee.

Mrs. Minor regretted that in her letter sent
out to the Chapter Regents the mistake was
made in stating that the offer of the Presi-
dent General of a prize of $50 was to the
Chapter securing the largest number of sub-
scriptions, whereas it should have been to the
State securing the largest number of subscrip-
tions in proportion to its membership. The
acceptance of my report was moved by Mrs.
Minor, seconded by Mrs. Talbott, and carried.
Mrs. Minor presented the following recom-
mendation :

It will further the best interests of the
Magazine, assist us with the advertisers as
well as with the reading public, if articles of
historical value written by well known authors
can be secured.

Dry historical facts must be made interest-
ing. No one is going to read, much less buy.

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a magazine that publishes stupid, badly writ-
ten articles.

Many well-known writers sometimes can-
not afford to donate contributions, even when
desiring to do so ; and therefore I recommend
that a certain sum, say $100, be placed at Miss
Lincoln's disposal to pay, at newspaper rates,
for such articles as she deems suitable to
publish from time to time during the next six
months.

Moved by Mrs. Brumbaugh, seconded by
Mrs. Foster, and carried, to accept the recom-
mendation regarding the purchase of articles
for the Magazine.

With regard to Mrs. Minor's suggestion
that the large oak table desk be disposed of
and a roll top desk be purchased. Miss Grace
M. Pierce, as Chairman of Building and
Grounds Committee, stated that her committee
had been making an inventory of the material
stored away in the store room, much of it
old furniture that the Society used before they
came down to the Hall, and if Mrs. Minor
desired a roll top desk of oak she had no
doubt one could be furnished her from the
material in the store room, and she therefore
moved that the Chairman of the Magazine
Committee be authorized to dispose of the
oak table desk now at her home in Waterford.
Conn. This was seconded by Miss Crowell
and carried.

Mrs. Holt referred to her gift to the Li-
brary of the volume on Nathan Hale, which
was at this time out of print and which she
considered a very valuable addition to the
Library.

Miss Lincoln, Editor of the Magazine, read
her report as follows :

Report of Editor of Magazine

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management:

I have to report that the July Magazine is
already in press, and we expect to have it
published on July 2. The cordial and help-
ful co-operation of the President General, of
Mrs. Minor, Chairman of the Magazine Com-
mittee, and of Mr. Balch, of the J. B. Lippin-
cott Company, has assisted greatly in securing
so prompt a publication following the award-
ing of the printing contract to the publishing
house.

Owing to the high cost of paper the Maga-
zine has been wisely cut down from eighty
to sixty-four pages. While every effort will
be made to conserve space and keep down the
cost of publication, the Chairman and Editor
will endeavor to have the Magazine both in-
teresting and valuable ; therefore, each article
submitted for publication will have to meet
one or all of the following requirements :

Is the article of value to the Society — has
it historical value — has it news value — has it
literary value?

A section called " Home Commissary in
War-time " will appear in the July issue. It
is published in conjunction with the Depart-
ment of Agriculture and other Government
Bureaus. It will contain important informa-
tion for the women whom Herbert C. Hoover,
Food Administrator, has called upon to enlist
in the fight for conservation measures and the
elimination of waste. ,

Hoover's appeal is nation-wide, and the
Magazine in publishing information of value
to every American housewife, is carrying out
patriotism in its practical form. There can
be no question here of misdirected energy ;
this war is going to be won with the assist-
ance of the American housewife, and the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine is going to help them.

I must call your attention to a statement
already made — that the Magazine is now 16
pages smaller than formerly, and in addition,
all pages reserved for advertising (and I
sincerely hope there will be many used for
that purpose) will be taken from the pages
at the disposal of the editor. The customary
space will be devoted to the Society's affairs —
official directory, State Conference and Chap-
ter Reports, National Board Minutes, Com-
mittee Lists ; reports from the War Relief
Committee, the National Old Trails Com-
mittee, and other material pertaining to the
Society.

Thus, there will be left but a few pages for
such historical articles by well known writers,
as we are so fortunate as to secure. And
such articles advance the financial and literary
value of the Magazine a hundred per cent.

Therefore, I respectfully recommend that
the Genealogical Department, which now has
ten pages assigned to it monthly, be given but
half that number during the war ; the other
five pages to be devoted to assisting the De-
partment of Agriculture and Herbert C.
Hoover in their great- drive for home eco-
nomics and conservation of national resources.

Among the special features which will ap-
pear in the July Magazine will be hitherto
unpublished silhouettes of John Randolph,
of Roanoke, and several other articles of his-
torical importance ; while Porter Emerson
Browne writes in his forceful style of Her-
bert C. Hoover, the man of the hour. An-
other well-known author is Gelett Burgess,
whose contribution " The Dollar Patriot and
Desecration of the Flag " presents some start-
ling facts. Other articles are by Hildegarde
Hawthorne, Rene Bache, and Wallace Irwin,
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will be endorsed by many thoughtful Ameri-
cans.

Ladies, I am going to close this report with
an appeal — an appeal for an unceasing, ener-
getic campaign to procure subscriptions.
Every dollar counts in establishing this
Magazine on a sound financial footing.

Urge your friends, whether they are mem-
bers of the Society or not, to subscribe to the
Magazine. I will do my utmost to make it an
interesting, valuable publication.

Let each one of us, by united effort, show
the world that the Daughters of the American
Revolution can make their Magazine pay.

Respectfully submitted,

Natalie Sumner Lincoln,
Editor.

Mrs. Minor supplemented this report by the
statement that the July issue would contain
five frill pages of paid advertising, three pages
of which were secured by Miss Lincoln her-
self. Miss Lincoln presented a letter adver-
tising the Magazine, which was being printed
at the Hall and sent out in all letters going
out from the various offices. Acceptance of
report of Editor of Magazine without its
recommendation, was moved by Miss Crowell,
seconded by Miss Barlow, and carried. The
adoption of recommendation of Editor of
Magazine, " that the Genealogical Department
which now has ten pages assigned to it
monthly, be given but half that number dur-
ing the war ; the other five pages to be devoted
to assisting the Department of Agriculture
and Herbert C. Hoover in their great drive
for home economics and conservation of na-
tional resources," was moved by Mrs. Hume,
and seconded by Miss Grace M. Pierce. After
some discussion, it was moved by Mrs. Brum-
baugh, seconded by Miss Barlow, and carried,
to amend the recommendation to read to be
used for such war information as the Editor
may think important. The amended motion
was then put and carried.

Miss Grace M. Pierce, as Chairman of
Building and Grounds Committee, read the
following report:

Report of Building and Grounds Committee

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management :
In submitting this first report of the present
Building and Grounds Committee, your Com-
mittee desires to state that they have given
careful and thoughtful consideration to each
point that has been brought to their attention,
from the standpoint of the best interest of the
National Society, and in consequence thereof
we submit the following recommendations for

the approval of the National Board of Man-
agement :

(1) That in view of the present serious
condition of public affairs the building be
closed to the general public until October the
first.

(2) That on account of the expense attend-
ant upon each opening thereof and the wear
and tear upon the Hall for which there is no
adequate compensation, we cease to loan the
auditorium to other societies and outside
events ; reserving it for the use of the D. A. R.
only until the October Board Meeting.

(3) As there is no night patrol of Seven-
teenth Street below the Corcoran Art Gallery,
that we confirm the action of the Building and
Grounds Committee in uniting with the Cor-
coran Art Gallery and Red Cross Building in
providing a special patrol of these three build-
ings and sharing one-third of the expense for
the same.

(4) On account of the necessity of using
all space within the building for the work of
the Society, we recommend that no space be
allotted for a lunch room during the next
Congress.

(5) We recommend that gas be brought
into the basement of the building and also be
carried to the third floor for use in connec-
tion with the lunch room ; and that a small
gas stove and hot water heater attachment be
purchased.

(6) That, if possible, a room be provided
for a toilet and lavatory, back of the platform.

(7) We recommend the placing of ceiling
outlets over the platform lights of the audi-
torium and plain frosted globes on the side
lights, according to estimate, not to exceed
$150.00.

(8) We recommend the purchase of three
additional electric fans for offices.

(9) As there was no desk chair for the
desk of the Chairman of the Magazine Com-
mittee, the Building and Grounds Committee
found it necessary to provide one. A solid
mahogany chair was purchased at a cost of
$13.50, and we ask your confirmation of this
purchase, with the suggestion that some Chap-
ter be found later to make good the purchase
as a gift.

(10) A request has come to us that a hand
rail be provided for the front entrance to the
building and we recommend this to State Re-
gents for the consideration of Chapters still
desiring to give some specific object to Me-
morial Continental Hall.

(11) We recommend also to State Regents
and Chapters the placing of an inside hand
rail on the two stairways leading from the
main floor to the basement, similar to those
placed by Vermont members on the upper
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(12) In accordance with the report of the
President General at the Board Meeting of
April 26, 1917, regarding the necessity of pro-
viding adequate protection for the windows
or doors of the Museum and Library, your
Committee submits herewith a drawing and
estimate for grilled iron doors, and asks in-
structions for future procedure.

(13) In the matter of the disposition of the
model of the Constitution now in the Museum,
which was referred to the former Building
and Grounds Committee, we recommend that
the whole subject be referred to the Curator
General of the Museum as it belongs entirely
to her department.

(14) Considering that the National officers
should have the selection of the clerks in their
respective departments, the Committee has
confirmed those selected by, the Treasurer
General and the Organizing Secretary, and
recommends that all present temporary clerks
be placed on the permanent roll automatically
at the close of their temporary trial service.

(15) We recommend that the time of all
clerks be kept by the Chief Clerk in each
office, being reported to the Business office on
or before the fifth day of each month, and
that the clerks may be permitted to make up
time lost by tardiness or temporary absence,
if they so desire, instead of the present com-
pulsory ruling of having it deducted from
their annual leave.

(16) We further recommend that the clerks
be required to make up only the equivalent of
time lost by absence or tardiness.

(17) That the limitation as to the number
of clerks to be employed in the office of the
Treasurer General be removed.

(18) That a room be provided and a clerk,
or clerks, if necessary, be detailed to assist
the War Relief Committee in its correspond-
ence and office work.

(19) Believing that no business of the So-
ciety should be transacted except under the
supervision of a properly accredited officer of
the Society, we recommend that the Business
office be made a division of the department
of the Treasurer General.

(20) Your Committee has found upon in-
vestigation the necessity for immediate pur-
chase of several new typewriters. Several are
absolutely beyond further use in our work,
and all have been in use so long as to bring
us very little in exchange. New machines are
needed at once and others should be replaced
now for the best interests of the work of the
Society. The Committee therefore recom-
mends that all necessary typewriters be pur-
chased while they may be procured.

(21) In the present demand for additional
clerical service by the National Government
and business corporations, nearly every one

of our present clerks have been offered posi-
tions at advanced salaries, some at almost
double the salary they are at present receiv-
ing from us. But, appreciating the technical
training which is necessary in the offices of
our Society and the manner in which our
work would be hampered by leaving us at
this time, our clerical force has remained
loyal to our Society, although in the face of
great temptations. In appreciation of this
loyalty and in consideration of the greatly in-
creased cost of living, based on the value of
service rendered and length of time in our ser-
vice, we make the following recommendations
for increase of salary at this particular time.

Miss Fernald, clerk to the Corresponding
Secretary and the Finance Committee, to
$85.00, the additional $10.00 to be charged to
the expense of the Finance Committee, in ac-
cordance with the request of the said Com-
mittee.

Miss Marshall, Chief Clerk of the Record
Division in the office of the Treasurer Gen-
eral, $85.00.

Miss Inscoe, of the office of the Treasurer
General, $85.00.

Mrs. Goll, Chief Clerk of the Organizing
Secretary's office, $85.00.

Miss Sullivan, Chief Clerk of the Registrar
General's office, $85.00.

Miss Grimes, who has been promoted to the
Magazine work, to $60.00 to date from May 1,
and other clerks as follows :

Miss Black and Miss Mix of the Registrar
General's office, each $75. (These two clerks
have been in the employ of the Society much
longer than several clerks who have been re-
ceiving $75 for some time, and their work is
much more technical.)

Miss Newton of the Organizing Secretary's
office and Miss Bright of the Registrar Gen-
eral's office; Miss Bright and Miss Pilson of
the Treasurer General's office, each $70.00.

Miss Wingate, Miss Finckel and Miss West-
ergren of the Registrar General's office, each
$65.00.

Miss Myers and Miss Chaffe, of the Treas-
urer General's office, each $60.00.

We have not recommended for increase at
this particular time any clerks now receiving
$100 per month ; nor any receiving $75 ex-
cept chief clerks, so that all chief clerks may
be on the same basis.

Below the chief clerks there can be no spe-
cial grade as to work. Each clerk is doing
most important special work and there should
be no such distinct difference in salaries as
has heretofore existed. It is for this reason
that your Committee has not at this time
recommended the higher salaried clerks for
increase, believing that justice demands that
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forward first to a living wage and that the
others can be adjusted later.

(Since this report was adopted by the Com-
mittee a request has come from the Record-
ing Secretary for an advance of $10 per month
for Mrs. Ezekiel who is not only Chief Clerk
of the Recording Secretary's office, but also
the official stenographer of the Board.)

(22) We recommend that these new sal-
aries date from June 15th, except when other-
wise specified.

(23) In making a thorough inspection of
our building, your Committee reports that it
finds the building very much in need of re-
pairs at every point. Some of these repairs
have been recommended by the Superintend-
ent for the past three years, but no favorable
action has been taken on such recommenda-
tions, consequently the condition is more seri-
ous to-day. The painting of all outside wood-
work is imperative; the painting of all side
walls and inside woodwork is absolutely
necessary ; all skylights must be made water
proof, the driveway in the rear should be re-
laid, and the entire stone work of the build-
ing must be repointed at once to prevent fur-
ther disintegration. Your Committee urgently
recommends that these necessary repairs on
our building, for which we are the trustees,
be given serious consideration and approval.

(24) An inventory has been made of all
articles in the store room and your Com-
mittee asks instruction as to disposition.

Respectfully submitted,

Grace M. Pierce,
Chairman, Building and Grounds Committee.

Miss Pierce announced in connection with
her report the gift by the President General
of a very attractive set of china and silver to
the clerks' lunch room, and until October the
expense of a maid to serve the clerks. The
adoption of this recommendation No. i (the
building to be closed to the general public
until October 1) was moved by Mrs. Holt,
seconded by Mrs. Brumbaugh, and carried.
The adoption of recommendation No. 2 (re-
serving the auditorium for the use of the
Daughters only until the October Board meet-
ing) was moved by Miss Barlow, seconded by
Mrs. Heath, and carried. The adoption of
recommendation No. 3 (providing special
night patrol and sharing one-third of the
expense) was moved by Mrs. Wait, seconded
by Mrs. Fowler, and carried. The adoption
of No. 4 recommendation of Building and
Grounds Committee (that no space be al-
lotted for a lunch room during the next Con-
gress) was moved by Miss Elisabeth F.
Pierce, seconded by Mrs. Fowler, and carried.
The adoption of No. 5 (gas to be brought into
the building, and small gas stove and hot

water heater attachment to be purchased) was
moved by Miss Crowell, seconded by Mrs.
Hume, and carried. That we accept recom-
mendation No. 6 (provision for a toilet and
lavatory back of the platform, if possible)
moved by Miss Serpell, seconded by Mrs.
Grant, and carried. Adoption of this recom-
mendation No. 7 (placing of ceiling outlets
over platform lights of auditorium and plain
frosted globes on side lights) moved by Mrs.
Holt, seconded by Mrs. Brumbaugh, and
carried. That the three electric fans be pur-
chased for the offices, recommendation No. S,
was moved by Mrs. Heath, seconded by Mrs.
Grant, and carried. That the chair be paid
for, recommendation No. 9, moved by Mrs.
Fowler, seconded by Mrs. Fletcher, and
carried.

As recommendations 10 and 11 involved no
expense to the National Society, no specific
action was taken other than the concurrence
of the Board in the desirability of suggest-
ing these to the States and Chapters for con-
sideration.

Recommendation No. 12 (grilled iron doors
for the Museum and Library) was also re-
ferred to the Chapters as opportunities for
memorials.

Adoption of recommendation No. 13 (re-
ferring the matter of the disposition of the
model of the ship Constitution to the Curator
General of the Museum) was moved by Miss
Elisabeth F. Pierce, seconded by Miss Barlow
and carried. Adoption of recommendation
No. 14 (confirmation of clerks selected by
Treasurer General and Organizing Secretary
General, and that present temporary clerks be
placed on the permanent roll automatically at
the close of temporary trial service) moved by
Mrs. Smith, seconded by Miss Serpell, and
carried. Adoption of recommendation No. 15
(the keeping of time of clerks, and permission
to make up time lost instead of having it de-
ducted from their annual leave) moved by
Mrs. Buel, seconded by Mrs. Harris, and
carried. Adoption of recommendation No. 16
(that clerks be required to make up only the
equivalent of time lost by absence or tardi-
ness) moved by Mrs. Wait, seconded by Mrs.
Morrison, and carried. Adoption of recom-
mendation No. 17 (removal of limitation as
to number of clerks employed in office of
Treasurer General) moved by Mrs. Grant,
seconded by Mrs. Cook, and carried. Adop-
tion of recommendation No. 18 (provision for
a room and the detailing of a clerk or clerks
to assist War Relief Committee) moved by
Mrs. Harris, seconded by Mrs. Hume, and
carried. Adoption of recommendation No. 19
(making the Business Office a division of the
department of the Treasurer General) moved
by Mrs. Buel, seconded by Mrs. Longley, and

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carried. Adoption of recommendation No. 20
(purchase of typewriters) moved by Mrs.
Cook, seconded by Mrs. Smith, and carried.

There remaining still considerable business
to transact, after some discussion, it was
moved by Mrs. Foster, seconded by Mrs.
Fowler, and carried, that we adjourn after
these recommendations are acted upon and
reconvene at 8.30 p.m.

The adoption of recommendation No. 21
(increase in salaries of clerks) was moved by
Mrs. Brumbaugh, seconded by Mrs. Foster,
and carried. Adoption of recommendation
No. 22 (new salaries to date from June 15,
except when otherwise specified) moved by
Mrs. Hall, seconded by Mrs. Hume, and
carried.

The Chairman of Building and Grounds
Committee explained in detail the cost of the
repairs taken up under recommendation No.
23, and after considerable discussion, it was
moved by Mrs. Minor, seconded by Mrs.
Wait, and carried, that recommendation No.
23 be approved.

Referring to recommendation No. 24 with
regard to disposition of the articles in the
store room, it was moved by Mrs. Talbott,
seconded by Mrs. Hanger, and carried, that
following the selection by the Magazine Com-
mittee of what it wishes, the matter of dis-
position of furniture be left to the discretion
of the Building and Grounds Committee.

A rising vote of thanks to Committee on
Building and Grounds for the painstaking
work as shown by the report by Chairman,
Miss Grace M. Pierce, was moved by Miss
Elisabeth M. Pierce, seconded by Mrs. Elli-
son, and carried.

In accordance with action previously taken,
adjournment was had until 8.30 p.m.

The Board having reconvened at 8.30 p.m.,
the Organizing Secretary General requested
permission to present another supplementary
report.

Supplementary Report of Organizing
Secretary General

Through their respective State Regents the
following members at large are presented for
confirmation as Organizing Regents :

Mrs. Laura A. Lynch, Ida Grove, Iowa ;
and Mrs. Emily T. Joekel, Giddings, Texas.

The National Board is requested to author-
ize a Chapter at Corpus Christi, Texas.
Respectfully submitted,

Anna Louise Fletcher,
Organizing Secretary General.

Moved by Miss Grace M. Pierce, seconded
by Mrs. Fowler, and carried, that the sup-
plementary report of the Organizing Secre-
tary General be accepted. Mrs. Fletcher stated

that she would much prefer to bring in her
report all at one time, instead of a few names
at a time, and she therefore moved that names
presented by State Regents for Organizing
Regents must be received prior to the date of
any Board meeting at which action is desired,
as far as possible. After some discussion,
and the explanation that many times State
Regents do not know that an Organizing Re-
gent's term has expired until she hears it read
out in the report, or she is only herself in
receipt of a request for the organization of
a Chapter at a certain place after she has ar-
rived at the Hall, and is thus not responsible
for the delay in placing the request in the
hands of the Organizing Secretary General,
the motion was seconded by Mrs. Fowler and
carried.

The President General made the announce-
ment that Mrs. Draper having presented her
resignation as Genealogical Editor at the
meeting of the Executive Committee, held
May 24, she had appointed Mrs. George W.
Hodges, of Annapolis, Maryland, to serve as
Genealogical Editor.

Miss Grace M. Pierce, as Registrar General,
presented the following supplementary report.

Supplemental Report of the Registrar
General

Applications presented to the Board.... 559
Total number of applications presented. . 1759
Total number of papers verified 2127

I wish to thank the Board for the two ad-
ditional clerks allowed me at the last meet-
ing. As a result of that the work for the
past two months has been monumental in the
office — the duplicate papers for the February,
March, and April meetings, over three thou-
sand in number, have all been gotten out.
Heretofore, all we could do was to verify
papers, we could not take the time to send
back the papers which should go to the Chap-
ters. In addition to the original application
papers we had verified the past winter, we had
verified over one thousand supplemental
papers ; before the duplicates of these could be
returned to the Chapters three record cards
had to be made, one under the name of the
ancestor through whom the supplemental ap-
plication is made, second, under the name of
the applicant, third, under the national num-
ber of the applicant. Besides that, a record
is kept of every duplicate that is sent out.
Now, we are practically finishing this work
and somewhere about four thousand or forty-
five hundred duplicate papers have been re-
turned to Chapters. In addition to that we
have been able to get up the correspondence
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the accumulation of data which came with
the application papers and which we have
not had time to return. We make an entry
when this data is received and another entry
when it is returned. In addition, all copying
of data which has been sent in for the
papers has been copied, and 12 volumes have
been sent to the binders, 12 additional vol-
umes rebound, and we have waiting in the
office, to be completed from this meeting, sev-
eral other volumes to go to the binders. We
send them in lots of six because they give us
a discount for that number and another lot
can be out of the office by the last of the
week. The card catalogue which the Board
so kindly voted for the Registrar's office, and
which was so absolutely necessary, has been
shipped and is on the way. From now on i
am quite sure that we shall be able to keep
our work up to date, and I wish to thank you
in behalf of the Registrar General's office, for
the assistance which has enabled us to do this.
Grace M. Pierce,
Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Grace M. Pierce and sec-
onded, that the Secretary be instructed to
cast the ballot for the 559 additional mem-
bers. Miss Crowell announced that she had
cast the ballot for the 559 additional names,
and the President General declared them
elected. The acceptance of my supplemental
report was moved by Miss Grace M. Pierce,
seconded by Miss Barlow, and carried.

The Treasurer General presented the fol-
lowing recommendations, action being taken
on each as read :

1. In accordance with the directions of this
Board a clerk has been detailed from the of-
fice of the Treasurer General to take charge
of the Magazine work, the Treasurer Gen-
eral recommends that the salary of this clerk,
when making reports, be listed separately from
the other clerks in the office, under the head
of " Clerk in charge of Magazine work."
Moved by Miss Grace M. Pierce, seconded by
Mrs. Wait, and carried, that recommendation
No. i of Treasurer General be adopted.

2. Whereas checks amounting to $24-1 —
issued prior to January 1, 1917 — are accord-
ing to the books of the Treasurer General and
books of the bank upon which drawn out-
standing, it has been ordered by the Treas-
urer General that checks covered by this
amount to the extent of $119, shall be traced
to parties to whom issued, asking if received
that they be cashed — if not received to so in-
form the Treasurer General who will issue
duplicate for same. A check for $125 of this
amount having been issued to Mr. Lewis, who
refuses to accept same, I recommend that this

check be cancelled and the amount returned
to the Current Fund. Moved by Mrs. Hanger,
seconded by Miss Grace M. Pierce, and
carried, that recommendation No. 2 of Treas-
urer General be accepted.

3. Whereas it is necessary to order a new
supply of Record Books for the Record De-
partment, I recommend that the loose leaf
system be adopted, thus making it possible to
keep the members of each Chapter in such
order that the number of members may be
ascertained at a glance. The acceptance of
recommendation No. 3 of the Treasurer Gen-
eral was moved by Mrs. Wait, seconded by
Mrs. Brumbaugh, and carried.

4. Whereas at the December Board meeting,
1916, it was ordered that the Special Funds
be deposited in the bank in a Special account,
and such action has not been rescinded, and
the order has not been complied with for
reasons with which the present Treasurer
General is not familiar, I request an expres-
sion of the wishes of the Board concerning
this matter. Moved by Mrs. Foster, seconded
by Mrs. Wait, and carried, that the motion be
rescinded in regard to the separate fund in
Treasurer General's office, as ordered by
Board December, 1916.

5. Whereas it seems necessary to the Treas-
urer General to facilitate the handling of the
Record Department and to safeguard the
Records, that a new filing cabinet be procured,
I recommend that one in accordance with the
specifications on file in my office be purchased
at an expenditure of $66. Moved by Miss
Grace M. Pierce, seconded by Mrs. Fletcher,
and carried, that recommendation No. 5 of
Treasurer General be accepted.

6. Whereas, contrary to report made at the
last Congress, there is a note of $2,000, se-
cured by mortgage on the land purchased of
Mr. White, past due since February 23, 1917;
it not appearing feasible to the Treasurer Gen-
eral at this time to pay off this note, and the
American Security and Trust Company not
being willing to carry the note past due, the
Treasurer General has made arrangements
with the aforesaid Bank to extend the time of
payment of said note, and asks your approval
of this action. Moved by Mrs. Ellison, sec-
onded by Mrs. Buel, and carried, that the
action of the Treasurer General in regard to
the extension of the time for payment of the
land note be ratified.

7. Whereas, there has been an understand-
ing that the money for Special Features in
the Permanent Fund may be used for the
purpose of making payments upon our indebt-
edness, with the distinct understanding that
the same shall be returned when it is desired
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contributed — I ask if this ruling shall still
stand.

A recommendation having been presented at
the April 23 Board meeting by the former
Treasurer General, Mrs. Ransdell, having to
do with the investment in the Permanent bund
of some of the Special Funds in the hands
of the Treasurer General, and not adopted, the
opinion of the Board being that it was not a
good business arrangement, this recommenda-
tion No. 7 was considered to come under the
same ruling, and no action was taken for the
continuance of such a custom.

8. Whereas it appears to the Treasurer
General it may be possible during the summer
to make a payment upon the indebtedness on
the land, the Treasurer General asks that she
be authorized to make such payments and
upon such indebtedness as may seem best.
The adoption of recommendation No. 8 was
moved by Mrs. Brumbaugh, seconded by Mrs.
Hume, and carried.

9. I ask that this Board review the ruling
of a former Board as to when a- member shall
be suspended for non-payments of dues, and
instruct the Treasurer General in accordance
with the findings it may make. After pro-
longed discussion, it was moved by Miss Grace
M. Pierce, seconded by Mrs. Wait, and
carried, that we refer recommendation No. D
to the Committee on Revision of the Con-
stitution.

10. Whereas provisions have been made by
various banking organizations for the hand-
ling of the sale of United States bonds, I
recommend that for all future issues the
Daughters of the American Revolution be
urged to give all possible assistance to local
committees in selling the same, each Chapter
reporting to her State Regent the amount
placed, and the State Regent in turn report-
ing to the Treasurer General the amount
placed, through the efforts of the Daughters
in her State — but I recommend that the money
for this purpose shall not pass through the
hands of the Treasurer General, but through
local banks.

In further explanation of this recommenda-
tion, Mrs. Johnston stated that there were
several kinds of patriotism, and that it was
the patriotic duty of the Daughters of the
American Revolution to assist in all these
public projects, but there was also a patriotism
which the members owed to their town and
its institutions ; that the apportionment was
made to each Federal district, and by that dis-
trict to each state, and by the state to each
county, and by the county to each bank, and
that the National Society could not loan
money to its members, it was necessary to go
to the local bank to borrow it, nor could the

National Society give financial advice, which
the local bank could ; the National Society
could not act as the trustee of its members,
but here again the local bank could serve ;
and because it did not seem quite loyal to the
bank to take the money away that it was re-
quired to raise, this recommendation had been
made. The adoption of recommendation No.
io was moved by Mrs. Harris, seconded by
Mrs. Smith, and carried.

The Treasurer General reported that money
was being received in response to two ap-
peals for the French orphans, one tnrough tne
American Society and one through our own
War Relief Committee, and that frequently
the donor would not state through whicr
agency it was desired this money should go.
After some discussion, it was moved by ivirs.
Johnston, seconded by Mrs. Wait, and carried,
that all funds contributed for War Relief be
credited to D. A. R. War Relief Committee
unless the contributor shall designate that it
is for use of American Society for care of
French orphans.

Mrs. Johnston further explained that in
making her report the list of the contributors
to the Final Payment Plan was not included,
nor was it her intention to give those names in
her report to the Board, but in her annual
report to the Congress due credit would be
given at the back of the report. There being
no objection, the Treasurer General said she
would consider her decision as meeting the
approval of the Board.

The Treasurer General also referred to the
custom obtaining in her office of counting the
stamped envelopes each day, for which she
could not find any ruling, nor did it seem to
serve any useful purpose, and took the time
of the clerks. Moved by Mrs. Minor, sec-
onded by Mrs. Longley, and carried, that the
custom of counting the stamped envelopes in
the Treasurer General's office each day be dis-
continued.

The recommendation of the Auditing Com-
mittee, that the American Audit Company,
Colorado Building, Washington, D. C, be em-
ployed as auditors for the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution
for the year beginning May, 1917, and ending
April, 1918, for the sum of $750, payable
every two months ; audits to be made monthly
and to include the Magazine accounts, the
moneys of which are received in the Treas-
urer General's office, was presented by Mrs.
Hanger, Chairman, and it was moved by Mrs.
Brumbaugh, seconded by Mrs. Hanger, and
carried, that the recommendation of the Audit-
ing Committee be adopted.

The Recording Secretary General referred
to the letter presented to the National Board

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at the meeting on April 23 from Bailey, Banks
& Biddle, making application for the privilege
of filing their bid on the manufacture of the
insignia, which was turned over to the In-
signia Committee with instruction to report to
the next Board, and stated that she was in
receipt of a letter from the Chairman of that
Committee, Mrs. Aull, requesting that the
action of the Congress of 1904 be given,
which would serve to explain to the Board
that the letter sent for presentation could not
be acted upon in any way before the Congress
to be held next year. This action was read
to the Board by the Recording Secretary Gen-
eral, the Board concurring in the decision that
only the Congress could reconsider or rescind
that action.

The Organizing Secretary General referred
to Chapters organized by the past State Re-
gent for Ohio, and she had just received
from the present State Regent, Mrs. Harris,
a petition from the members of the Massilon
Chapter requesting that Mrs. Brant be allowed
to sign their charter, but as Mrs. Brant's term
of office expired April 21, and some of the
members of these two Chapters were not ad-
mitted until the present meeting, it seemed a
little unusual to have her signature on the
charter, though it was well known that Mrs.
Brant had organized the Chapters, and the
members desired to have her signature on
their charter, and it was also the desire of
the present State Regent that Mrs. Brant's
name go on. After some discussion, it was
moved that Mrs. Brant be allowed to sign the
two charters of Chapters organized under her
administration, but that only those names ap-
pear thereon who were members of the So-
ciety on the date of expiration of her term
of office.

The Corresponding Secretary General pre-
sented the request of the New York Herald
that the Society assist in erecting a Statue of
Liberty in Petrograd as a gift of the people
of this country to the people of Russia, by
giving publicity to the movement and gath-
ering subscriptions for it. It was felt that
this statue would lend encouragement to the
multitudes in Russia, and deepen international
good-will. Moved by Mrs. Brumbaugh, sec-
onded by Miss Barlow, and carried, that the
statue matter be laid on the table.

The question was raised as to what specific
work the Daughters would do in the War Re-
lief work in addition to all the various lines
they were at present engaged in, and during
the lengthy discussion, in which all of the
members participated, Mrs. Wait presented
the booklet gotten out by the Navy League for
the Daughters of the American Revolution,
giving the names of the naval vessels named

for heroes of the Revolution, and moved that
the Daughters make as one branch of their
special War Relief service for the duration
of the zvar, the outfitting tvith needed knitted
articles of the J destroyers, Gunboats, and
Cruisers named in the Xavy League Bulletin
on biography of Revolutionary soldiers for
whom these boats are named, and of future
boats named by the Navy League. This was
seconded by Mrs. Foster and carried.

Miss Crowell presented the request of the
Captain Molly Pitcher Chapter of the District
of Columbia for the privilege of selling
flowers during the Twenty-second Continental
Congress, the Chapter expressing its willing-
ness to abide by the rulings of the Souvenir
Committee as to the percentage of the pro-
ceeds to be given the Society. Moved by Mrs.
Brumbaugh, seconded by Miss Barlow, and
carried, that the request of the Capt. Molly
Pitcher Chapter be granted.

The President General read the following
letters offering scholarships in the Washing-
ton College of Law and the Paul Institute,
which were accepted with the thanks of the
Board.

Washington, D. C, June 18, 1917.

Mrs. George T. Guernsey,
President General, D. A. R.,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washing-
ton, D. C.

My dear Mrs. Guernsey :

I take pleasure in offering a scholarship in
the Washington College of Law to be given
to the Daughters of the American Revolution
Philippine Scholarship Fund, to the young
woman recommended by the Daughters of the
American Revolution, whose scholastic stand-
ing shall be such as is required for admission
to the College. The value of the scholarship
is seventy-five dollars per year.
Sincerely yours,

Emma M. Gillett,
Dean.
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey,
President General, N. S. D. A. R.,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mrs. Guernsey:

In accordance with your request made dur-
ing our very pleasant conversation over the
telephone, I am putting in writing my very
great regret that I cannot continue for the
present the six hundred dollar scholarship
which was given to your Society last year. So
great have been the demands upon me for
help in many directions that for this year at
least I am compelled to cut down to a slight
degree the personal gifts in which I have taken
so much" pleasure.

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two two hundred dollar scholarships for
boarding pupils — that is, tuition scholarships
allowing two hundred dollars on the seven or
eight hundred dollar courses.

Miss Elmira Grogan who held the scholar-
ship last year was a very delightful girl and a
most satisfactory pupil in every way, and it
was a pleasure to award her the Certificate
for her year's work in Short Story Writing
and five college subjects.

Hoping that I may have the pleasure of
meeting you upon my return from Atlantic
City, I am,

Very cordially yours,

Nanette B. Paul,
By E. E. Newton,

Secretary.
June the twentieth.

Miss Crowell stated that she was in receipt
of a letter from Mrs. Bellamy enclosing a
copy of her pledge, and for the information
of the Board the Recording Secretary Gen-
eral stated that the redemption of that pledge
called for an expenditure of $22.32 on the
part of Mrs. Bellamy, which had been paid.

Miss Crowell referred also to a letter re-
ceived from Mrs. Bukey, requesting the Board
to rescind the action by the Board in De-
cember, 1916, which was to the effect that
members at large who had failed to return
their papers to the Chapter of which they had
been members should be debarred from the
privileges of active service and prohibited
from joining any other Chapter. Since it ap-
peared that these rules of the Society with
regard to the return of papers (or the reten-
tion of papers in the Chapter) operated with
regard to every member of a Chapter, and
there was nothing to prevent these members
at large from returning their papers to the
Chapter if they desired to have the privilege
of active service, the President General ruled
no action by the Board was necessary, and the
Secretary was requested to inform Mrs.
Bukey that these members at large would
have to conform to the rules of the Society.

The Recording Secretary General brought
up the request of the Registrar of the Lady
Stirling Chapter for duplicate certificates to
four members who had been admitted between
1905 and 1911, but who now claimed they had
not received their certificates. This matter
was brought to the Board because of the rul-
ing passed by the Board in February, 1908,
" that, hereafter, any application for a dupli-
cate certificate after more than three years
have elapsed, be granted only on payment of
$1.00, except by special action of the Board,"
and it seemed the applicants were not willing
to pay the fee of $1.00. Moved by Miss Grace

M. Pierce, seconded by Mrs. Fowler, and car-
ried, that the ruling of the Board be sustained
in this matter.

The Recording Secretary General read a
letter from Mrs. Anna Ingersoll Rich making
application for reinstatement as a member in
the National Society, and it appearing that
the Constitution made no provision for the re-
instatement of a person who had been ex-
pelled, it was moved by Mrs. Holt, seconded
by Mrs. Talbott, and carried, that the Re-
cording Secretary General be authorized to
write Mrs. Rich that there is at present no
provision in our National Constitution for re-
instatement of members zvho have been ex-
pelled from the Society.

A motion adopted by the Twenty-sixth
Congress, " that hereafter the editor sign all
bills in connection with the Magazine," was
presented by the Recording Secretary General
to the Board for possible construction, and
it was moved by Miss Crowell, seconded by
Mrs. Brumbaugh, and carried, that this mo-
tion be construed to refer only to those bills
for the publishing of the Magazine, concern-
ing which the editor might be supposed to
have some knowledge.

The Organizing Secretary General stated
she had a matter concerning a protest against
the organization of a chapter in the District
of Columbia to present. Moved by Mrs.
Hanger, seconded by Miss Crowell, and car-
ried, that li'e go into executive session.

Before going into the executive session,
Mrs. Talbott expressed her regrets that she
must leave to catch her train, but asked per-
mission to make the suggestion, which was
seconded by Mrs. Brumbaugh, that we rec-
ommend to the State Regents to carry to the
Chapter Regents a request that Chapters do
not adjourn for the summer during the period
of the war.

The Board, on motion, having risen from
executive session, it was moved by Mrs.
Brumbaugh, seconded by Mrs. Hanger, and
carried that this Berry-Weeks matter be re-
ferred to the State {District of Columbia)
Executive Boards with power to act. It was
further moved by Mrs. Fletcher, seconded by
Mrs. Fowler, and carried, that the papers of
the Berry-Weeks matter be turned over to the
custody of the State Regent of the District.

Mrs. Ellison moved that the request of the
Massachusetts Daughters oi the American
Revolution for permission to incorporate
under the laws of Massachusetts in order
to hold property be granted. Seconded by
Mrs. Buel and carried.

Moved by Mrs. Brumbaugh, that this Board
rescind any action already taken as approving
the project presented to the Board by Mrs.

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William Camming Story, October, 1916, with
regard to the erection of monuments, the
work of raising this fund was to be done by
the American Publicity Corporation, and that
this Board go on record as releasing the Na-
tional Society from any participation in or
responsibility for said project, and further,
that copies of this motion be sent to the Lin-
coln National Bank, New York, and Mrs.
William Cnmming Story. This was seconded
by Mrs. Foster and carried. Mrs. Foster
moved that the Lincoln National Bank of
New York City be instructed to notify all
persons who have sent checks addressed to
the National Society, Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution, that this Society does not
endorse the plan of having life members of a
National Committee on Memorials to our
Country's Patriotic Founders. Seconded by
Mrs. Buel and carried.

Miss Crowell moved that since we are about
to separate until October this Board delegate
to the Executive Committee power to act in
all matters that may arise during that time
which call for immediate action, which was
seconded by Mrs. Buel, and carried. Miss
Crowell also called attention to the lateness of
the hour and to the fact that only seven mem-
bers were required to make a quorum, and
moved that this Board reconvene at 10 o'clock

to-morrow morning to approve the minutes of
this meeting. This was seconded by Mrs.
Brumbaugh and carried.

Mrs. Wait read a telegram from Mrs. Hol-
land extending in the name of the Saginaw
Chapter an invitation to the President General
to attend the State Conference to be held in
Saginaw in October 9, 10, and 11, and Mrs.
Wait invited all the members of the Board
to attend as well, and requested if any of
them were coming to let her know that ar-
rangements might be made for the Michigan
Daughters to hear what other states were
doing. The President General expressed her
thanks for the invitation and stated she would
be present.

At 11.40 p. M., on motion of Miss Crowell,
a recess was taken until 10 o'clock the next
morning.

The Board reconvened the next morning at
10 a. m. and was called to order by the Presi-
dent General, a goodly number of members
being present. The Recording Secretary Gen-
eral read the motions as passed, and, there
being no corrections, the minutes were ap-
proved, and the Board immediately adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Emma L. Crowell,
Recording Secretary General.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews will be featured in this
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tions of history, biography, and gene-
alogies, also works containing informa-
tion regarding the vital records of all

localities, and town, State, and county
histories are solicited and will be re-
viewed promptly. Copies of the Maga-
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NEW MEMBERS ADMITTED AT THE JUNE NATIONAL
BOARD MEETING

New members admitted to the National So-
ciety Daughters of the American Revolution
at the meeting of the National Board of Man-
agement on June 20, totalled 1,759.

The list of states and the number admitted
from each is as follows :

Alabama, 15; Arizona, 1; Arkansas, 11;
California, 70; Colorado, 20; Connecticut, 30;
Delaware, 2 ; District of Columbia, 32 ; Florida,
5; Georgia, 60; Idaho, 13; Illinois, 123; In-
diana, 62 ; Iowa, 108 ; Kansas, 25 ; Kentucky,
29; Louisiana, 11; Maine, 31; Maryland, 6;

Massachusetts, 74; Michigan, 87; Minnesota,
13 ; Mississippi, 18 ; Missouri, 77 ; Montana, 25 ;
Nebraska, 32; New Hampshire, 21; New
Jersey, 36; New York, 150; North Carolina,
18.; North Dakota, 2; Ohio, 117; Oklahoma,,
23; Oregon, 28; Pennsylvania, 130; Rhode
Island, 7; South Carolina, 35; South Dakota,
8; Tennessee, 14; Texas, 63; Utah, 5; Ver-
mont, 20; Virginia, 25; Washington, 32; West
Virginia, 15; Wisconsin, 23; Wyoming, 2;
Hawaiian Islands, 5.

NATIONAL COMMITTEES AND THEIR OFFICERS

As Appointed by the President General to Date

Memorial Continental Hall Committee

Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, Chairman,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington,

D. C.
Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Hon. Vice-Chmn.,

The Columbia, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. William Butterworth, Vice-Chairman,

Hillcrest, Moline, 111.
Mrs. Joseph S. Wood, Secretary,

135 S. 2d Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

Banquet Hall or Chapter Memorial

Mrs. Charles W. Bassett, Chairman,
2947 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.

Mrs. Henry L. Mann, Vice-Chairman,
3400 Wabash Ave., Kansas City, Mo.

Advisory Board

Mr. George W. White, Chairman,

National Metropolitan Bank, Washington,
D. C.

Liquidation and Endowment Fund

Mrs. Williard T. Block, Chairman,

3123 Calumet Ave., Chicago, 111.
Mrs. Drayton W. Bushnell, Vice-Chairman,

127 Bluff St., Council Bluffs. Iowa.
Mrs. John C. Ames, Secretary,

3133 Calumet Ave., Chicago, 111.

Bevolutionary Relics for Memorial
Continental Hall

Miss Catherine Brittin Barlow, Chairman,
1364 Girard St., Washington, D. C.

Miss Minnie F. Mickley, V ice-Chairman,
Mickley's Road, Allentown, Pa.

Building and Grounds Committee

Miss Grace M. Pierce, Chairman,
The Columbia, Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Woodbury Pulsifer, V ice-Chairman,
1627 Hobart St., Washington, D. C.

Preservation of Historic Spots

Mrs. Eli G. Boone, Chairman,

Paducah, Ky.
Mrs. Allen Putnam Perley, ist Vice-Chmn.,

Greystone, Williamsport, Pa.
Mrs. James A. Craig, 2d Vice-Chairman,

West Duval St., Jacksonville, Fla.

National Old Trails Road

Mrs. John Van Brunt, Chairman,
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Portrait of Alice Adams . . [Frontispiece]

Memorials to Nathan Hale, Hero and Martyr. Edward

Hale Brush 195

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MEMORIALS TO NATHAN HALE, HERO AND MARTYR

By Edward Hale Brush

It was a jurist-poet of the last century,

Judge Francis M. Finch, of the New

York Court of Appeals, who wrote for a

celebration of commencement week at

Yale in 1853 the words :

" On Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf
The name of Hale shall burn."

Recent incidents are showing in how
many ways the poetic prophecy is being
fulfilled. The number of memorials of
Nathan Hale, the Patriot Spy, and one
of the first real martyrs of the Revolu-
tion, is growing large, and in the past
ten years or so more have been erected
than in all the other years since that fate-
ful day, September 22, 1776, when he
gave his life so nobly for his country.
These reminders of his patriotism show,
as other things in the past strenuous few-
months have done, that after all the
Americans of to-day are not so engrossed
in pursuit of the " Almighty Dollar " as
to forget altogether the principles at the
foundation of our liberty or the sacrifices
made to establish and preserve them.

Within the past two years the spot
where Hale's tragic death took place, as
near as careful historical research can
fix it, has been marked by a bronze tablet,
erected by Mary Washington Colonial
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, of New York City. The

placing of such a tablet was under consid-
eration for some years, the delay being in
part due to uncertainty as to where it
ought to be located. The interest which
the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution have taken in Nathan Hale's
career has led to special investigation of
it. The scholarly researches of Prof.
Henry Phelps Johnston, of the Col-
lege of the City of New York, have
helped to quicken this interest, especially
in his new edition of the life of the hero.
All this has led to important revisions of
the narratives of Hale's mission and its
sad but glorious ending. Certain tradi-
tions long commonly accepted have had
to be discarded. Were it otherwise, the
memorial tablet erected by the Daughters
of the American Revolution to mark the
site of his execution would be in the
neighborhood of City Hall Park, New
York City, rather than where it is, at
First Avenue and Forty-fifth Street.

One of these traditions relates to the
place of Hale's capture, and another to
the scene of his execution. The capture
was believed to have occurred at Hunt-
ington, L. I. His mission for Washing-
ton on Long Island was begun at Hunt-
ington, where he landed oh Huntington
Bay after crossing the Sound from Con-
necticut, and it is appropriate that the

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Huntington Association has erected here
a boulder suitably inscribed, and that in
the village itself, about two miles away, a
memorial fountain and column have been

Stuart and Lossing followed the generally
accepted accounts of his capture and exe-
cution, and until Howe's order book came
to light a few years ago settling several

——— —

NEAR THIS SITE

NATHAN HALE

CAPTAIN IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
WHO WAS APPREHENDED WITHIN THE

BRITISH LINES
WHILE SEEKING INFORMATION FOR

WASHINGTON

WAS EXECUTED

22 SEPTEMBER 1776

HIS LAST WORDS WERE

I ONLY REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE

LIFE TO LOSE FOR

MY COUNTRY"

ERECTED BY THE

' WASHINGTON COLONIAL CHAPTER D A R J

16 NOVEMBER 1915

■BOMBHH^HK

MEMORIAL TABLET ERECTED BY THE MARY WASHIXGTOX COLONIAL CHAPTER

placed. But as to the capture of Hale,
comparison of all the data now at hand
shows that it must have taken place much
nearer New York than Huntington.

disputed points, the narratives given by

these historians were seldom questioned.

But from the new and final authority

we know that Hale was " apprehended "

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on the night of September 21, 1776, and
that he was executed at eleven o'clock in
the forenoon of the 22d, and that the
place of his execution was the camp of
the British artillery, wherever its loca-
tion may have been at that date. We
know from the records that he spent some
time previous to the execution preparing
for death, so it is evident the interval was
insufficient for him to have been brought
to Howe's headquarters by the slow
methods of transportation of those days
from a place so far away as Huntington.
Tradition long assigned the capture to

finely kept. Aside from some modern
improvements to make it more convenient
as a summer residence, it probably ap-
pears much as it did the night Hale is
said to have slept there. The boulder on
the shore bears three tablets. One is in-
scribed : " Nathan Hale, in Everlasting
Remembrance." A second tells of Hale's
ancestry and career as follows : " His an-
cestors were the Hales of Kent, England.
He was born at Coventry, Conn., June 6,
1755. Graduated from Yale College,
September 8, 1773 ; enlisted as lieutenant
7th Conn. Reg., July 6, 1775. Appointed

THE HALE HOMESTEAD AT SOUTH COVENTRY, CONN.
Owned by Mr. George D. Seymour.

the location of the tavern called " The
Cedars," kept by a Tory woman known
as " Mother Chichester," and it was said
that it occurred when he left the inn to
meet friends who he supposed were com-
ing to him in a boat, but who proved to
be British officers. These traditions do
not agree with facts now amply verified.
But Hale, no doubt, stopped at this tavern
on beginning his mission. It is still pre-
served, and is an interesting place to
visit. The tavern is now known as the
Titus Conklin Place, and is in a good
state of preservation and the grounds are

Captain in Continental Army Sept. 1,
1775. Executed at New York Sept. 22,
1776." The third tablet bears quotations
from his letters and his immortal declara-
tion so often quoted : " I only regret that I
have but one life to give for my country."

Standing by the boulder whereon these
noble sentiments are preserved, with the
waves lapping the beach that he trod, one
feels that the ground is indeed sacred.

The common belief as to the place of
Hale's execution has also required re-
vision. It was formerly thought to have
been near the present City Hall Park,

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and the statue of Hale by Frederic Mac-
Monnies was therefore placed there. But
it is now shown most conclusively that
it was about four miles farther up the

of the artillery park on this particular
date, and the tablet erected by Alary
Washington Colonial Chapter, D.A.R., at
First Avenue and Forty-fifth Street does

Photograph by Edna Leighton Tyler, New London, Conn.

NATHAN HALE SCHOOL HOUSE AT NEW LONDON, CONN.

East River, near the site of the Beekman not fix the place precisely, but says " near

Mansion, then Lord Howe's headquar- this site." The tablet is fastened on the

ters, and in front of the artillery park wall of a building which is the property

of the British Army. Some controversy of a packing company. The company

seems still to exist as to the exact location has guaranteed that in case of the re-

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moral of this structure the memorial will
be taken down and placed in a niche on
the wall of whatever building replaces it.

STATUE OF NATHAN HALE, BY
WILLIAM ORDWAY PARTRIDGE

A number of statues have been erected
depicting Hale, but having no portrait
of him, the sculptors had to follow as
closely as they could the descriptions of
him and for the rest draw on their imagi-
nation. That by MacMonnies in City
Hall Park, Xew York, is a beautiful
work of art, but the one by the late Bela
Pratt erected about two years ago on the
Yale Campus, and that by William Ord-
way Partridge in Washington, D. C, also
a recent work, undoubtedly give us a
truer idea of the hero. That by Part-
ridge emphasizes especially his splendid
physique. A similar statue by Mr. Part-
ridge is at St. Paul, Minn. The figure

at Vale by Mr. Pratt stands on the east
side of Connecticut Hall, old " South
Middle," in which Hale roomed. The
athletic prowess of this hero forms one of
the cherished traditions of the univer-
sity. Mr. Partridge tells us that he stud-
ied carefully the facial characteristics of
several Hales living at the time, as well
as descriptions of Hale's personality,
among them this by a college friend :

" Erect and tall, his well-proportioned frame ;
Vigorous and active, as electric flame ;
His manly limbs had symmetry and grace,
And innate goodness marked his beauteous
face."

The Sons of the Revolution have re-
stored and dedicated as a memorial the
school house at East Haddam, Conn.,
where Hale taught, and the Sons of the
American Revolution have performed a
similar office with respect to the school
house at New London, Conn., giving it
over afterward to the Lucretia Shaw
Chapter, D.A.R., of Xew London, Conn.,
for custody.

The Hale homestead at South Coven-
try was recently purchased by George
Dudley Seymour, a great admirer of the
" Patriot Spy." Mr. Seymour has re-
paired and restored the homestead and
has succeeded in bringing: out on the wall

HALE BOULDER ON SOUND SHORE AT HUNTINGTON

Marking spot where he landed to begin his mission
for Washington on Long Island.

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of Hale's room a profile drawn there, but Hale's sweetheart, Alice Adams, after-

long ago painted over and supposed to ward Mrs. Lawrence, possessed a minia-

THE BELA PRATT STATUE OF NATHAN HALE.
From " Nathan Hale," by Henry P. Johnston. Copyright, 1914, Yale University Press.

have been lost. It is the only likeness in ture portrait on ivory, but it disappeared,
the nature of a portrait surviving. and it is supposed her husband was jeal-

MEMORIALS TO NATHAN HALE, HERO AND MARTYR

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ous of her preserving it and destroyed it.
Of this heroine the ordinary histories
say little, but something has been learned
about her through the investigations of
patriotic societies, particularly the D.A.R.
in Brooklyn. It was also through them
that a portrait of her was found. It had
long been in the possession of the Hart-
ford Athenaeum, but its existence had
been almost forgotten. The Daughters

Hartford, Henry Allyn Stillman, who
had known Alice Adams, or Mrs. Law-
rence, when she was an old lady and he a
young man. Of her appearance he said :
" She was a lovely old lady in 1830.
Many and many a time I talked with her
about Nathan Hale. She spoke, with
tears in her eye, of his noble character,
fine talents and personal appearance. I
never saw her when she was not bright

Photograph by Edna Leighton Tyler, New London, Conn.

INTERIOR VIEW OF NATHAN HALE SCHOOL HOUSE AT NEW LONDON, CONN.

of the American Revolution secured a
photographic reproduction from which
the accompanying engraving is made.
Descendants of Alice Adams living in
Brooklyn also have a portrait and some
souvenirs owned by Hale's sweetheart,
perhaps given her by him. Members of
the Alice Adams Chapter, D.A.R., Brook-
lyn, learned the fascinating details of the
Hale-Adams love affair direct from the
lips of an old gentleman then living in

and sparkling. Happy as she was in her

marriage her last words in the delirium

of her illness were ' Tell Nathan.' "

There is a monument to Hale in the

cemetery at Coventry, erected in 1846.

But none will ever mark his burial place.

As John MacMullen, a poet of Columbia

College, wrote in 1858 :

" We know not where they buried him.
Belike beneath the tree;
But patriot memories cluster there.
Where'er the spot ma)' be."

COMMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

After a summer of such activity that the autumn has come upon us with sur-
prising swiftness, almost before we knew that summer had arrived, we are ready
for our season's work, which will include now the never-ending labor of love and
patriotism — preparation for the comfort of our soldiers and sailors. I am proud
and happy to say that the Daughters of the American Revolution have accomplished
wonders this summer. I have seen great heaps of knitted garments — beautifully
knitted garments, too; boxes of surgical dressings; comfort kits; hundreds and
thousands of envelopes containing clippings from newspapers and magazines
destined for our men and selected with loving care, to be pasted into books of con-
venient size and form. I cannot begin to go into details in regard to the work I
have actually seen and which T know to be the result of a summer's willing work —
a summer of self-sacrifice for many — because there is neither time nor space at
present. The war relief work has but just begun and I think that the Society is
sufficiently well organized to undertake whatever work it is called upon to do by our
Government without waste of time or efficiency. Much has been accomplished
in a remarkably short space of time because there has been an honest effort to work
systematically.

In these days when our great Society is more than ever in the public eye, I
wish that some of the members would pay attention to a section of our Constitu-
tion in regard to our Insignia, namely, that the Insignia " shall be worn on the left
breast." That subject has been very frequently discussed and yet it appears that
many of our members disregard it. Remember that in wearing that Insignia any-
where but upon the left breast, you are breaking a rule of the Society to which yon
have pledged loyalty.

Also, please do not speak of the " D. A. R.'s." Do you realize that it can be
interpreted to mean " Daughters of the Revolutions " ? Say it over to yourself
and never add the " s " when speaking of the D. A. R.

Many Chapters have been doing special work in observing the rules regulating
the use of the Flag, and have discovered many infringements on these rules which
might be of use to other Chapters in their work, and the Chairman of the Com-
mittee to Prevent Desecration of the Flag, Mrs. John P. Hume, 539 Terrace Avenue,
Milwaukee, Wis., will be very glad to know of these infringements. Pictures are
always valuable.

The Chairman of the Committee on Historic Spots, Mrs. Eli G. Boone, Paducah,
Ky., will value pictures of historic spots which have been marked recently, or for
the preservation of which plans are under way.

The printed list of the National Committees will be ready shortly and a copy
will be sent to every Chapter Regent and National Chairman. I had hoped to have
this list ready some weeks ago, but owing to the delay in receiving state appoint-
ments and acknowledgments the work could not be completed.

Sarah Elizabeth Guernsey.
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT,
WITH A SUGGESTION FOR THE FUTURE

By Matthew Page Andrews
Editor. Educational Foundations. Author "History of Baltimore," "History of the United States"

American patriotic societies have been
of the greatest service to our country in
inculcating lessons of value from Ameri-
can history. This has been brought about
very largely through the erection of me-
morials to men, women, and events in the
various epochs in our development. To
those who are inclined to scoff at the
worth of this memorial work, I would
cite the value of perhaps the briefest and
most noted of all memorials in history ;
viz.. the Spartan inscription at the Pass
of Thermopylae. Every educated person
knows that 300 Spartans perished there ;
but how many know that 700 Thespians
died at the same place, at the same time,
and in the same heroic manner? The
Thespians, moreover, could have retired
with honor in the face of a hopeless strug-
gle ; but the very law of the Spartans
forbade them to do anything than hold
their ground. Like the Spartans, the
Thespians doubtless felt grateful to their
seven hundred heroes ; but the Spartans
memorialized their countrymen, with the
result that the three hundred Greeks have
been immortalized in history, while the
seven hundred have been forgotten.

it is occasionally heard in the present
time of world stress and agony that we
now find ourselves allied with the same
government against which fought the pa-
triots whose deeds the Daughters of the
American Revolution are accustomed to
memorialize.

Paradoxical as it may seem, this state-
ment is technicallv true but fundament-

ally false. The patriots of 1776 fought
against the autocracy of Britain but with
the good will of a large proportion of
the British people. Patrick Henry, of
Virginia, held up before our forefathers
the choice between liberty and death, as
James Otis, of Massachusetts, lifted up
his voice on behalf of self-government:
but Isaac Barre and Edmund Burke, of
Great Britain, gave us respectively the
phrase " Sons of Liberty " and the great-
est declaration of American rights.

On the other hand, while George
Washington has been called in America
" the father of his country," in Britain
he has been termed " the founder of the
British Commonwealth." This appar-
ently impossible title flows directly and
naturally from the fact that George
Washington and our American fore-
fathers materially helped to overthrow
autocracy in the mother country and
taught the British people to assert their
rights. Therefore, the government — the
autocracy — which our forefathers
fought in 1776 is almost the opposite of
the present government — a fellow de-
mocracy— with which we are allied
to-day.

Like our forefathers of '76, we are to-
dav not only fighting against an auto-
cratic government, but we are combining
that opposition with another struggle of
English forefathers which antedates the
Revolution by over one hundred years.
In short, we are once more fighting
against the doctrine nf the " divine right
of kings," which, in Britain, at least, was

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overthrown forever at Marston Moor in
1644.

In consequence of these things, the
greatest service that the Daughters of the
American Revolution can render their
country to-day is to see to it that partisan
or provincial history be no longer taught
or tolerated in the schools of our country,
and that, for all future time, careful dis-
tinction be made in teaching the story of
the Revolution between the British au-
tocracy that waged the war against the
colonies and the British people who were
not in sympathy with that war.

Americans have never been accus-
tomed to hate the Germans — the govern-
ment or the people — for the action of
the Hessian despots in selling their sub-
jects for the mercendary plundering of
the American colonists. Indeed, in the
land of freedom, we made good citizens
out of those Hessian soldiers. We have
never hated the French — the government
or the people — for the insolent attitude of
Xapoleon and his Ministers.

B.ut in searching our hearts, have we
not been taught as children to " lump "
the British autocracy with the British
people? Have we not learned as children
patriotically to hate and distrust both the
people and the government without dis-
tinction? Yet, when democracy in Great
Britain triumphed over autocracy, from
that moment the British government be-
came the strongest support of American
democracy. Were we, on the other hand,
ever taught that Thomas Jefferson's
Declaration of Independence was not an
arraignment of the British people, but of
the Hanoverian monarch and his little
group of stupid Tory advisers?

If we were not so taught, and if we
have not since made a study of the
growth of democracy, we may be very
greatly surprised to find that the author
of the Declaration, and the most implac-

able foe of autocracy, lived long enough
to ■'welcome an alliance with the British
government and people as the most prom-
ising augury for a Pan-Angle world
peace. Such an alliance, he thought.
would be an impregnable bulwark against
the threatening union of the old autoc-
racies of Continental Europe, which
were brought closer together after the
fall of Napoleon's " upstart " empire, in
the hope of perpetuating the authority
of the more ancient Imperial Houses,
who claimed to hold their commissions
direct from God.

It was then that these rulers desired
the restoration of the South American
Republican to their (divinely) " rightful
owners." It was then, however, that a
British statesman proposed that ( ireat
Britain and the United States humanly
unite in order to break up the divinely
appointed project. As every one knows,
from this proposal sprang the American
policy ever since appropriated by the
United States and recognized the world
over as the Monroe Doctrine. Moreover.
it makes little difference, as regards re-
sults, whether Britain was disinterested
or wholly selfish.

It should be remembered, therefore,
that on October 24, 1823. Thomas Jef-
ferson wrote to President Monroe that,
with Great Britain " on our side, we need
not fear the whole world. With her," he
urged, " we should the most sedulously
cherish a cordial friendship ; and noth-
ing could tend more to bind our affections
than to be fighting once more, side by
side, in the same cause."' James Madi-
son, so often called the " Father of the
Constitution," expressed himself even
more emphatically in favor of the pro-
posed alliance.

May we, therefore, not picture the joy
with which these great souls would have
welcomed the expansion of British de-

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mocracy into six great kindred self-gov-
erning peoples, as they exist to-day?
Hence, another great service the Daugh-
ters of the Revolution may perform is
to teach the American people to think of
Great Britain not as a monarchy or as an
empire, but as a league of democracies
with ideals, ideas, and language like our
own. Jefferson and the other founders
of our Republic would have rejoiced in

welcoming the kindred governments of
Britain, Canada, Newfoundland, New
Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, as
they would have welcomed the restora-
tion of popular government in France,
the beginnings of democratic Russia ; and
they would, with us to-day, hope for the
creation of popular forms of government
in Imperial Prussia.

GRAVES OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AND PATRIOTS
LOCATED IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD.

Received Through Mrs. William H. Talbot, Vice President General from Maryland

Major William Veiss, on farm of James
Dawson, Dawsonville, Md.

Major Nathan Musgrove, on farm of
W. H. Groomes, near Brookeville,
Md.

Sergeant Henry Leeke, on farm of
William Brown, near Goshen, Md.

Richard Green, Major, on farm of Jo-
seph Janney, near Brighton, Md.

Richard Brooke, Colonel, on farm of
Charles F. Kirk, near Olney, Md.

Henry Griffith, cemetery at Laytons-
ville, Md.

Philemon Griffith, Major, cemetery at
Laytonsville, Md.

Samuel Griffith, Captain, cemetery at
Laytonsville, Md.

Jeremiah Crabb, General, farm of Wal-
ter M. Mobley, near Derwood, Md.

Allen Bowie, cemetery Rockville, Md.
Henry Hilleary, cemetery Rockville,
Md.

Daniel Carroll (unmarked), cemetery
Forest Glen, Md.

James Anderson, farm of Minor Ander-
son, Rockville, Md.

Dr. Richard Waters, farm of Hon.
George T. Waters, near Goshen, Md.

Joseph Hall, Surgeon, " Locust Grove "
Farm, near Cloppers, Md.

Joseph Hall, farm of Fenton Aud, near
Poolesville, Md.

Robert Doyne Dawson, Monocacy
Cemetery, Beallsville, Md.

Robert Willson, Monocacy Cemetery,
Beallsville Md.

Rev. Townsend Dade, Monocacy Cem-
etery, Beallsville, Md.

William Hempstone, Major, farm of
Wm. T. Griffith, Beallsville, Md.

John Trundle, Sergeant, farm of Daniel
Shreve, near Dickerson, Md.

William Larman, cemetery, Barnes-
ville, Md.

Captain Gleason, cemetery, Barnes-
ville, Md.

Samuel Wade Magruder, farm of Mr.
Weaver, near Bethesda.

John Courts Jones, " Clean Drinking
Manor," near Chevy Chase.

(Dates can also be furnished.)

AN APPRECIATION OF MICHIGAN'S OLDEST ACTIVE

"DAUGHTER"*

By Mrs. William Henry Wait
State Regent of Michigan

Mrs. Abigail Judd Clark Turner has
seen and can remember eight genera-
tions, the first being her maternal great-
grandmother, Mary Sellock Scofield, the
eighth being the
grandchildren i n
the seventh gen-
eration of Mary
Sellock Scofield.

This dear old
lady's ninety-two
years give her the
indisputable dis-
tinction of being
Michigan's oldest
active Daughter.

Like a verbal
page of America's
history illustrated
by the speaker her-
self is a half hour
spent with Mrs.
Turner, who is
now enjoying life's
sunset hour with
her devoted daugh-
ter, Mrs. Carroll
E. Miller, of Cad-
illac, Mich. Both
mother and daugh-
ter are honored members of the Marie
Therese Cadillac Chapter, Cadillac.

Mrs. Turner was born in Peter-
borough, Madison Co., N. Y., August 14,
1825, to Elisha Clark and his wife, Al-
mira Judd, the former being the son of
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ABBIE CLARK TURNER

Aged 92, August 14, 1917.

Thomas Clark, a Revolutionary soldier
and a veteran of 1812. This is the an-
cestor through whom Mrs. Turner en-
tered the Daughters of the American
Revolution.

When she was a
little child her fam-
ily moved from
Peterborough t o
Perryville, N. Y.,
and later to Pal-
mer. Mass. Here
her mother died
and three years
later, at the age of
fifteen, she found
herself also mourn-
i n g her father's
death.

For a time after
that event she lived
in Leyden, Mass.,
but at twenty-two
she went to Perry-
ville to help care
for her maternal
grandparents, Abi-
gail Scofield and
her husband, Silas
Judd, an editor and
the author of many
worthy books and poems among them
the Life and Progress of Uncle Sam.

After several years of loving devotion
to her aged grandparents, Abigail Judd
Clark was met and successfully wooed
by George "Washington Turner, who in

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1852 made her his bride, and moved to
Auburn, N. Y. Here they lived a few-
years before emigrating to Aloline, 111.
Later they moved to Davenport, Iowa,
and from there traveled in an ox-cart
with one horse and a cow to Central Wis-
consin, where they took up the lives of
home missionaries. Later they lived in
California, Illinois and Ohio. Air. and
Airs. Turner first came to Michigan in
1880 and since the death of Mr. Turner,
in 1905, Mrs. Turner has lived with her
only daughter, Airs. Carroll E. Miller, of
Cadillac, Alich. Her other child, George
Dean Turner, is a resident of Cleveland,
Ohio.

Mrs. Turner at 92 reads, writes, sews,
knits, is deeply interested and is thor-
oughly posted in current events, and is
constantly praying that in spite of war
clouds peace may come to her beloved
land which she has seen in the throes of
four wars, 1848, 1860, 1898, and 1917.

The writer has had the great privilege
of receiving from her a piece of lace
recently knitted by her dear little hands,
of sleeping under a quilt recently pieced
by her, and also of hearing from her lips
stories of her pioneer life.

She remembers well the first train of
cars that ever came into Albany, N. Y.,
and she saw that same engine at the
World's Fair. She has seen in America
all forms of travel from the ox-team to
aeroplanes ; all forms of lighting houses
from tallow-dips to electricity. She has
seen the little private school develop into
the splendid school system of America ;
she has welcomed the discovery and use
of anaesthetics.

Keen of mind, bright of eye, simple in
manner, beautiful in her faith, Michigan
Daughters delighted to honor her with
their greetings on her ninety-second
birthday, August 14, 1917.

A SONG FOR FREEDOM

For the Sons of Tomorrow

By Alice Corbin

(of the Vigilantes)

' Sing me a song for freedom," the man in the trenches cried,
As a shell burst over his hiding place, and he turned with a smile, and died ;
Sing me a song for freedom," came the call from a Russian serf, —
Freedom for beast and for God and man, freedom for wood and turf ; "

' Sing me a song for freedom," the German private said.
For us who on bitter crusts of half-truth, and lies and lies were fed;
Sing me a song for freedom," said Belgium, stricken and dumb ;
France and England and Poland cried, "When will you come, oh come?"

We hear, came the far-voiced answer, we hear, we can wait no more!

We come, O brothers, we come, we come— we are marching from shore to shore;

No more shall ye stand and wonder, no more shall we stand aside,

We come to prove to the sacred dead 'tis not in vain they have died!

We fight for the sons of to-morrow! — to-morrow and all their heirs,

We pledge them our word and our weapons, for we know that our cause is theirs!

We pledge them liberty, love, and peace — equality, justice, truth,

We give them the fruit of our hands, and our toil, we give them our souls — our youth!

This is the song for freedom, for the dead — who are yet to die!

This is the song for freedom, America's answering cry

This is the song for freedom, sung in a perilous hour

By the sons of a nation of free men — giving the nation's Hower!

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FIRST AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE, DE WITT CLINTON.

MR. DAVID MATTHEW, ENGINEER

THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE AND TRAIN OF PASSENGER
CARS EVER RUN IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK

The locomotive " De Witt Clinton "
was ordered by John B. Jervis, chief en-
gineer of the Mohawk and Hudson Rail-
road, and was the third locomotive built
in America for actual service upon a rail-
road. The machine was made at the
West Point Foundry Works in New
York, taken to Albany in the latter part
of June, 1831, and was put upon the road
by David Matthew. The first experi-
mental trial trip was made on the 5th of
July, and others at different times dur-
ing that month. The first excursion trip
with a train of passenger cars was made
from Albany to Schenectady on August
9, 1831, on which occasion the author of
the History of the Early Locomotives in
America rode in one of the cars (only
the first two are represented above), and
before the train started made the sketch
as it appears above, which was pro-
nounced a truthful representation of the
locomotive, tender, and the first two cars
in the train, and correct likenesses of the
engineer and passengers seated in the
cars.

The picture was cut out of black paper
with a pair of scissors, a peculiar art with
which the author was gifted from his
earliest boyhood. The original picture

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was presented by the author to the Con-
necticut Historical Society ; it was about
six feet in length, and is yet preserved
by the society and highly valued for its
antiquity and truthfulness.

The names of the engineer and pas-
sengers are as follows, commencing at
the engine : David Matthew, engineer ;
first car, Erastus Corning, Esq. ; Mr.
Lansing, Ex-Governor Yates, J. J. Boyd,
Esq. ; Thurlow Weed, Esq. ; Mr. John
Miller, Mr. Van Zant, Billy Winne,
penny post man ; second car, John Town-
send, Esq. ; Major Meigs, old Hays,
High Constable of New York; Mr. Dud-
ley, Joseph Alexander, of the Commer-
cial Bank ; Lewis Benedict, Esq., and J.
J. Degraft. These likenesses were all
readily recognized at the time they were
taken. The outside seats were for the
drivers when these cars had been drawn
by horse power, but on this occasion were
occupied by the excursionists.

The picture of the locomotive and train
is reproduced in this magazine through
the kindness of Mrs. Julian James, of
Washington, D. C, whose father, Hon.
Theodorus Bailey Myers, received this
copy of the original silhouette from Mrs.
Sprague, of Albany.

HISTORICAL FIREARMS

By George C. Maynard

Curator U. S. National Museum, Washington

Just at the beginning of the century, in
December, 1793, the United States Gov-
ernment had in its various depositories of
military arms 31,015 muskets, 280 rifles,
1822 carbines, 805 pistols, 17 fusses, 348
rampart arms, 2262 blunderbusses, and
2262 tomahawks !

The inventories also show large stocks
of brimstone, saltpetre, powder, lead,
bullet and buckshot moulds, powder
horns, and musket and rifle flints by the
million. The muskets are variously de-
scribed as of French, English, Dutch and
other patterns. The principal deposits of
supplies were at Springfield, Mass., West
Point, N. Y., Philadelphia and Carlisle,
Pa., New London, and Pittsburgh, Pa.
In the Springfield Armory there were
6678 new and 55 old French muskets, 298
carbines and 495 pistols.

The location of most of the arsenals
was considered unsatisfactory. Phila-
delphia was afraid of being blown up
by the large quantities of explosives,
West Point was too accessible to foreign
foes, and part of the stores were removed
from that place to Albany prior to 1794.
Plans for the manufacture of small arms
suitable for the use of the army were
set on foot and gradually perfected.
Meanwhile private gunmakers or indi-
viduals who believed they could make
guns were encouraged by the govern-
ment to undertake the business. In 1798
the government made long-term con-
tracts with these private parties and ad-
vanced large sums of money to aid them
in erecting buildings, providing machin-
ery, and paying running expenses until

the business should become profitable.
Most of these undertakings were failures
and many of the persons engaged in them
were financially ruined.

A considerable portion of the arms
used by the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War was furnished by the
French Government, and these guns were
known as the Charleville musket. This
was the French model of 1763 which was
the product of various improvements
made between 1746 and 1763. Subse-
quent changes in the French gun were
made in 1766. 1768. 1770, 1771, 1773,
1774 and 1776.

The model adopted in 1776 was retained
as the standard of the French Army for
forty years. The Charleville gun of 1763
served as a pattern for making muskets
in the United States up to about 1800.
Muskets made after that date embodied
the improvements of the French model
of 1797, a sample of which was procured
by the United States Minister to France
after it was adopted.

That the United States Government
made substantial acknowledgement for
favors received is shown by an item in
the War Department records which
states that : " One thousand muskets were
forwarded to the Minister of France on
the fourth of October, 1791, for the use
of the French colonies."

The armory at Springfield, Mass., was
established in 1795 and the manufac-
ture of military muskets was at once
commenced.

In 1844 the manufacture of percussion
muskets was commenced, and 2956 of

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these arms were turned out ; at that
time the fabrication of flint-locks was
discontinued.

Eli Whitney, whose name has been so
associated with the invention of the cot-
ton gin that his services in the develop-
ment of military arms have sometimes
been overlooked, was the only man of
that time who succeeded in carrying out
his contract with the Government. The
fact that he had no experience in business
of that kind and that he was obliged to
devise and construct original machinery
and tools and train his workmen, ren-
ders his ability and his success the more
conspicuous. His factory was estab-
lished at the foot of East Rock, Xew
Haven, Conn., then called Whitneyville.
( )fficials of the army placed on record the
opinion that the manufacture of satis-
factory military arms was more indebted
in Whitney than to anv other individual
in this country.

Among other private manufacturer-
was Henry Derringer. The name " Der-
ringer " is usually associated with the
small single-barrel pocket pistol some-
times incorrectly called a dueling pistol.

" Pocket pistol " was the right name
for the little .50 calibre weapon, for the
reason that it was not only carried in the
pocket, but was fired from the pocket
regardless of consequences to the gar-
ment. The dangerous man of the South-
west along about 1840 never reached for
his hip-pocket and cried "Hands up!"
but carelessly sauntered about with both
hands in his pockets, each grasping a
Derringer, loaded and cocked, and, when
he wished to give warning to an enemy,

drawled out : " 1 don't care a for

the coat!"

Henry Derringer commenced business
in Philadelphia about 1816. He made
rifles, muskets, carbines and pistols for
the Government and various arms for

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private use. He was succeeded by his
son, E. Derringer, who originated the
pocket pistol. A pair of fine English
pistols were brought to him for repair
and these he copied, adding some im-
provements of his own. This arm he-
came very popular and large numbers of
them were sold.

President Abraham Lincoln was shot
by 'Wilkes Booth with a Derringer pistol.
It has a 2 '4 -inch hexagon rifled barrel,
calibre .40, checked walnut stock with
silver mountings, percussion cap lock,
and is marked " Derringer, Phila." Ever
since the capture and death of Booth and
the trial of his associates the pistol has
been kept in the office of the Judge Ad-
vocate General of the army among the
other records of the trial.

Although the manufacture of flint-lock
arms was discontinued in 1844, their use
in the army was continued for some time
afterward. In 1845 an urgent call for
104 percussion muskets for use by a regi-
ment serving in Texas was refused by
the War Department with the remark :
" There is no percussion ammunition sent
to Texas. Elint lock ammunition can
be found everywhere, percussion no-
where."'

The task of collecting the flint-locks
from the troops on distant stations and
in the held, and of replacing them with
the improved arm necessarily consumed a
great deal of time ; but by the end of the
year 1850 flint-locks had been practically
relegated to the custody of historical relic
hunters and the hunters of rabbits.

The Magazine is indebted to Mr.
George C. Maynard for permission to re-
print the above interesting article pub-
lished in full in " Sporting Goods
Dealer."

The use of the Charleville gun, spoken
of by Mr. Maynard, is but another in-
stance of the debt of the Colonies to

CHARLEVILLE MUSKET (CENTER GUX)

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

France in their war for independence.
In a measure to off-set the Charleville
gun the British generals adopted the
" Ferguson's breech-loading rifle " ; and
it was confidently expected that the
newly invented fire-arm would wipe out
the rebellous Yankees.

The following extracts from a letter
written by General J. Watts de Peyster
to General C. B. Norton and published
in " American Inventions," compiled by
the latter, give interesting facts about
Ferguson and his invention.

" Although a breech-loader not of
American invention, the Ferguson rifle
has become American from the fact that
it made its first appearance as a weapon
of war on the battlefields of America and
is the first instance of a breech-loading
rifle ever having been used on this Conti-
nent or any other.

" Patrick Ferguson's military sob-
riquet or title of ' Bull Dog' was ac-
quired in consequence of his determina-
tion, fearlessness, and contempt of dan-
ger. He was the son of the eminent
Scotch jurist. James Ferguson, and a
nephew of the noted political economist
and writer. Patrick Murray, fifth Lord
Elibank, who lived in 1707-1778.

" Patrick Ferguson was junior-major
of the 71st British Army, ' Highlanders,'
so styled, although thev did not wear
kilts. Family tradition says he was one-
armed, his right arm having been so
much shattered at the Battle of the
Brandywine that it was rendered useless.
Nevertheless he made himself such a
master of the sword with his left arm
that on one occasion he defended him-
self for some time against three soldiers
armed with bayonets.

" Ferguson was soon brevetted lieuten-
ant-colonel by Cornwallis and appointed
' local or territorial ' brigadier general
of militia. Previous to coming to Amer-

ica in 1777 he had seen considerable ser-
vice in Germany. On arriving in the
Colonies, his fame having preceded him,
he was allowed to pick out a number of
crack shots to arm with his novel weapon.

"in December, 1779, Clinton selected
Ferguson to accompany the troops des-
tined for the siege of Charleston in 1780,
and allowed him to form a corps of se-
lected marksmen armed with his rifle.
Sometimes mounted and sometimes on
foot these men rendered such service
under Ferguson in the siege of the capi-
tal of South Carolina and in subsequent
operations that their commander was in-
vested with extensive powers."

Ferguson was killed in the battle of
King's Mountain. Tt is very strange that
although the sword of his second in com-
mand. Captain Abraham de Peyster. is
preserved among the trophies of that bat-
tle by the Tennessee Historical Society,
and although more than two hundred of
Ferguson's rifles must have been cap-
tured there, only five specimens appear to
be in existence to-day. One rifle is in
the National .Museum in Washington,
D. C. : one in Boston, Mass. ; one in New
Haven, Conn.; one in New York, and
one in England.

The Ferguson rifle in the Na-
tional Museum is technically described
as follows :

" Round bright barrel 33 inches long,
calibre .60 ; total length 50 inches ; plain
walnut stock ; brass butt ; plate and ram-
rod sockets fastened to the barrel by
three flat bolts ; wooden ramrod ; large
swivel under forward portion of stock
and one on left-hand side of stock oppo-
site lock ; plain front sight, small rear
leaf sight with opening through it ; flint-
lock round hole Ya inches in diameter
made perpendicularly through the rear of
the barrel and fitted with long spiral

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thread into which the breech-block, which
is attached to the trigger-guard, screws.
The piece is loaded hy partially unscrew-
ing the breech-block, dropping the bullet
into the opening at the top and the pow-
der behind it. The barrel is so cham-
bered that the bullet will run forward a
sufficient distance to make room for the
powder behind it. Marked on barrel,

' D. Egg, London," with proof-marks on
each side ; marked on lock-plate, ' D. E.
Co.' Crown partially obliterated. Flat
bayonet 25 inches long. First used by
troops in line at the Brandy wine, 1777.
Presented to Frederic de Peyster, Cap-
tain, Royal N. Y. U. S. Volunteers,
by Captain Patrick Ferguson, R. A.,
1779."

"I DIDN'T RAISE MY BOY

By Abbie Farwell Brown

(of the Vigilantes)

Not to be a soldier?

Did you, then, know what you, his mother,
were raising him for ?

How could you tell when and where he
would be needed? When and where he would
best play a man's debt to his country?

Suppose the mother of George IVasliiiigtou
had said, " / didn't raise my boy to be a
soldier! "

Suppose the mother of General Grant, or
the mother of Admiral Dewey, had said it ;
or the mothers of thousands and thousands
of brave fellows who fought for Independence
and Liberty ; where would our country be
to-day ?

If the mothers of heroes had clung and
sniveled and been afraid for their boys, there
wouldn't perhaps be any free America for
the world to look to.

Mother, you are Jiving and enjoying America
now, you and the boy you "didn't raise to be
a soldier.''

Thanks to others, you and he are safe and
sound — so far.

(You may not be to-morrow — you and the
other women ; he and the other men who
" weren't raised " — if Americans turn out to
be Sons of Cowards, as the Germans believe.)

You want your boy to live and enjoy life
with you, to make you happy.

You don't want to risk your treasure. What
mother ever wished it? It is indeed harder
to risk one's beloved than one's self. But
there are things still harder.

You don't want your lad to meet danger,
like Washington and Grant and Sheridan and
the rest whom you taught him to admire.

You'd rather keep your boy where you be-
lieve him safe than have your country safe!

You'd rather have him to look at here, a
slacker, than abroad earning glory as a Patriot.

You'd rather have him grow old and decrepit
and die in his lied than risk a hero's death,
with many chances of coming back to you,
proudly honored.

You'd rather have him go by accident or
illness, or worse.

There are risks at home, you know!

Are you afraid of them, too? How can you
guard him ?

You'd rather have your boy meet even dis-
ease, disgrace, dissolution, than take his
chances shoulder to shoulder with the manly
sons of women who raised their boys to do
their duty. Would you?

Is it you who are keeping him back?

Shame on you. Mother! You are no true,
proud mother.

It isn't only the men who have got to be
brave these days. It's the women, too. We
all have much to risk when there's a wicked
war in the world.

Don't you know, this is a war to destroy
wicked war?

Don't you want your son to help make the
world over ?

This is a war to save our liberty, our man-
hood, our womanhood: the best life has to
give.

Mother, what did you raise your boy for?
Wasn't it to be a man and do a man's work?

Could you find a greater Cause than this
to live or die for?

You should be proud if he can be a Soldier.

You must send him out with a smile.

Courage ! You must help him to be brave.

We must all help one another to be brave
and unselfish.

For America !

THE FIRST BRICK HOUSE BUILT IN KENTUCKY

By Esther Whitley Burch
Regent Logan-Whitley Chapter. D. A. R.. Stanford. Ky.

About half-way between Stanford
and Crab Orchard in Lincoln County
stands the first brick house ever built in
Kentucky. It was erected by Colonel
William Whitley, who came to this
county from Virginia in 1770.

ing the bricks and masonry, and a farm
was also given in payment for liquor
furnished the workmen.

In Theodore Roosevelt's " Winning of
the West " is this description of Colonel
Whitlev and his brick house :

Courtesy of "House Beautiful"

THE FIRST BRICK HOUSE BUILT IN KENTUCKY
Erected by Col. William Whitley in 1783.

In 1783 the brick house was begun,
and it took three or four years to com-
plete it. The workmen and tools came
from Virginia, and the glass window
panes were brought on pack saddles from
there. A large farm was given to Air.
Swope for constructing the woodwork,
much of it being hand carved. To Mr.
Lewis was given another farm for mak-
214

" One of the best known Indian fight-
ers in Kentucky was William Whitley. He
had come to Kentucky soon after its
settlement, and by his energy and ability
had acquired leadership. He was a stal-
wart man, skilled in the use of arms,
jovial and fearless ; the backwoodsmen
followed him readily, and he loved bat-
tle. He took part in many encounters,

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215

Courtesy of "House Beautifu

WEST END OF LIVING-ROOM, SHOWING PRESERVE CUPBOARD. THE DOOR-JAMB SHOWS THICKNESS

OF END WALLS

Courtesy of "House Beautiful"

THE LIVING-ROOM WAS THE BEDROOM OF THE HEADS OF HOUSE AND CHILDREN. THE DROP-LEAF
TABLE SERVED AS DINING TABLE. A GRATE HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE OLD OPEN FIREPLACE

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Courtesy of "House Beautiful"

THE EAGLE HEADS OF STAIRWAY MARCH WITH THE
SPIRIT OF '76.

and in his old age was killed while fight-
ing against Tecumseh at the battle of the
Thames.

" In 1786-'87 Colonel Whitley built the
first brick house ever erected in Ken-
tucky. It was a very handsome house
for those days, every step in the hall
stairway having carved upon it the head
of an eagle bearing in its beak an olive
branch. Each story was high, and the
windows were placed very high from the
ground to prevent the Indians from
shooting through them at the occupants.
The glass was brought from Virginia by
pack-trains."

The first race track ever built was here
and was called " Sportsman's Hill."

In describing in detail the Whitley
mansion I cannot do better than to quote
from Airs. Herring's article in the April
number of "House Beautiful":

*' Over the entrance door the treated
bricks were laid to form the letter ' W '
and over the rear door an ' E,' these being
the initials of the master and lady of the
house, ' William ' and * Esther.'

" The stairway reached to the third
Moor. This whole third floor was the
ball-room, and at appointed periods the
court convened there. At the top landing
a plank could be removed, disclosing a
hiding place for the women and children
in case of an Indian encounter.

" The thirteen hand-carved ' S's ' over
the mantel shelf in the ' Big Room ' rep-
resent the thirteen Original States, and
the eagle heads along the stairway
" march with the spirit of '76."

This being the first private house after
leaving the Old Dominion, all important
travellers halted on their westward jour-
ney at the home of Colonel Whitley and
shared his bountiful hospitality. Among

Courtesy of "House Beautiful"

UPSTAIRS BEDROOM OVER LIVING-ROOM

THE RECRUIT

217

Courtesy of "House Beautiful

THE "BIG ROOM" WAS THE CHAMBER OF STATE; THE THIRTEEN HAND-CARVED LETTERS
OVER THE MANTEL BEING A UNIQUE FEATURE OF ROOM

those of prominence who were enter-
tained there were Daniel Boone, Henry
Clay, Isaac Shelby, and John Preston.
The Whitlev mansion is beginning to

show signs of decay and should be in the
hands of the Daughters of the American
Revolution of this State. Many tourists
visit it every year.

THE RECRUIT

By Reginald Wright Kauffman
(of the Vigilantes)

Give me to die when life is high :

The sudden thrust, the quick release,

Full in the front, in harness, not
A slow decay in timorour peace.

There is not any way but this !

I would not shirk the joy of strife,
Nor lose one flash of perfect death

For sluggard years of coward life.

My breath, which is God's gift to me,
Exulting waits His high behest ;

My heart, which moves at His command,
At His command will gladly rest.

For who would tarry when He calls,

To haggle at the heavy toll,
And render to ungrudging God

The insult of a niggard soul ?

"3f

*3T

THE BIOGRAPHY OF MRS. SARAH WARD,
"REAL DAUGHTER"

Mrs. Sarah Ball Atwater Ward, a Real
Daughter and a member of the Oshkosh
Chapter, Daughters American Revolu-
tion, died at Oshkosh, Wis., April 3,
1917, at the age of ninety-six years and
seven months. There remains in the
State of Wisconsin only two Real Daugh-
ters, Mrs. David B. Thiers, of Milwau-
k e e, and M r s.
George S. Butler,
of Delavan.

Mrs. Ward was
the daughter of
John and Lucy
(Davis) Atwater,
and was born at
Genoa, Cayuga
Co., N. Y., Sep-
tember 3, 1821, the
thirteenth i n a
family of fifteen
c h i 1 d r e n. Her
father, John At-
water, was born at
Hamden, Conn.,
December 25.
1757, and died at
Genoa June 2,
1838. He was a
student at Yale
College when the
Revolutionary War

began, but he left college and enlisted
at Mt. Carmel, Conn., in Captain Samuel
Peek's Company of Colonel Douglas'
Regiment in General Wadsworth's Bri-
gade. Later he was enrolled in Major
John Skinner's troop of Connecticut
Light Horse Militia. He was in New
York when the British took possession

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of that city, and fought in the battle of
White Plains. He had the honor of
carrying dispatches from Lafayette to
Washington on the night before Washing-
ton crossed the Delaware. His father,
also, was a soldier in the Revolution.

Late in life John Atwater married a
second time. Mrs. Ward and the late
Mrs. Gillette, of
Kenosh a, Wis.,
both Real Daugh-
ters, were children
of that marriage.
Sarah Atwater was
serious m i n d e d
even in her child-
hoo d, practical,
competent, a n d
fond of learning.
Her father taught
her to read at the
age of four, so that
she could read the
newspapers to him,
and she developed
a taste for public
affairs, in which
she always re-
tained a keen and
lively interest. She
declared that if her
parents had not
been so sensible she would have grown up
a " conceited little minx." In 1844 she
was married in Genoa to Alfred Ward,
and soon afterward the young couple
came to Wisconsin, settling on a farm in
Taycheedah, near the present city of
Fond du Lac. In 1849 they removed to
Oshkosh, where they resided for the re-

MRS. SARAH BALL ATWATER WARD

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219

mainder of their lives, Mr. Ward dying
about ten years ago. None of their chil-
dren lived to grow up except one daugh-
ter, who died in 1914 leaving a grandson,
Mr. 1 lalhert Young, of Kenosha, who is
the only lineal descendant of Mr. and
Mrs. Ward.

Mrs. Ward became a member of the
Oshkosh Chapter in 1900, and about that
time went to live at The Home, an insti-
tution maintained by the Ladies' Benevo-
lent Society of Oshkosh, where she was
very comfortable and happy. She be-
came quite deaf, but it was a great pleas-
ure to her to entertain her visitors by
relating events of her youthful days
and her experiences as a pioneer in
Wisconsin.

She was in Newark, X. J., on the day
of the arrival of The British Queen, the
first steamship to come from England to
America, and, as she often remarked,
she had seen the advent of many great
inventions besides the steamboat — the
railroad, the threshing machine, the sew-
ing machine, the cook stove, the tele-
graph, the telephone, and the electric
light. When she was in her prime she
was known far and wide for her effi-
ciency and her willingness to serve her
friends and neighbors. She was one of
those real mothers and born nurses who
are ever at the service of the physician,
willing to respond to every call.

She had a keen wit, especially for
satire, which remained with her to the
end, together with a remarkable memory.
Any religious sham or cant aroused her
condemnation, and as a consequence she

was sometimes openly accused of being
an infidel, whereupon she would give im-
mediate and conclusive proof that she
was a good Christian by reciting verses
from the Bible, each beginning with a dif-
ferent letter of the alphabet, a feat im-
possible to her accusers. Among her
treasures was a little old hymn book, out
of which her father and mother used to
sing, and when she lay in her coffin the
book was placed within her hands as she
had requested. Another treasure was a
coverlet of blue and white, woven for her
by her sister. Although it bears the date
1835 the color is as bright as if it were
made yesterday. The pattern is elabo-
rate, the border design being in squares,
a weeping willow alternating with the
American eagle, bearing the shield of the
United States upon his breast.

In accordance with her wish. Airs.
Wrard was laid to rest in Rienzi Ceme-
tery near Taycheedah. where her hus-
band and several children are buried.
She was proud of being a member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
and manifested a great interest in all the
activities of the local chapter. She espe-
cially enjoyed the annual banquet on Feb-
ruary 22, which she attended last winter
as usual. Her chapter friends always
provided a pleasant entertainment for her
on the occasion of her birthday, and thev
will greatly miss her enjovment of the
day and her grateful appreciation, so
often expressed, of all their efforts to
make her declining years bright and
happy.

■nr

DO THE ENGLISH LIKE US?

By Harrison Rhodes

(of the Vigilantes)

(Playwright and Author of '"The Whirl of Society,'" "A Gentleman From
Mississippi," etc.)

In the cocksure insular days of the
eighteen century the great Doctor John-
son could say " For all I can see, for-
eigners are mostly fools," and foreign-
ers, including Americans ( though the
English are forever protesting that
Americans are not foreigners) have
gone on through the changing years as-
suming that this is at heart what the
English think. Even now when the
Stars and Stripes flutter alongside the
Union Jack in London you find Ameri-
cans here and there saying, " Ah, but the
English don't really like us. Never did."
But don't they?

Of course the English do not make us
their ideal. Xo vigorous, self-respect-
ing race ever made another that. They
like neither all of us nor all about us.
so much must be freely granted. But
is a case not to be made out for all the
English claim a kind of family affection
for us, too much like family affection
to be either romantic or emotional or
even to be free from bickering and quar-
reling, but sound and staunch, to be de-
pended on when things go wrong?

The American lady who landed at
Xaples on her first trip abroad and at
the hotel announced to her daughter
" The chambermaid doesn't understand
English — the fool !" gave voice to our
real outraged feeling about foreign
speech, and yet we are, on the whole,
too far away from polygot Europe to
realize, as do the English, what it means
that another nation speaks the same
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tongue. It is natural enough that we in
America value less than they do in Eng-
land, the language tie. And the English,
it must always be remembered, because
they know our land less well than we do
ourselves, still think more than do we
that a language tie is a blood tie. We
know here how attentuated has become
the British strain of blood which made
the old American stock. We still re-
member the Revolution, while England
acknowledges it as simply a mistake on
England's part and can in consequence
take some pride in our achievements as
in those of a younger brother who quar-
reled, ran away from home, and " made
good," to use our own American phrase.
One of the commonest complaints is
that the English like the wrong kind of
Americans, the grotesquely vulgar, the
comically new to their money, the rasp-
ing and even illiterate of speech, the ones
they can laugh at, in short. But so do
we here cultivate the haw-haw, silly-ass
kind of Britisher. Things different are
always piquant and pleasant. But we
are glad when in the play, Mr. Lawrance
D'Orsay, for example, turns out to be
really an excellent fellow with a heart of
gold, and is it not just possible that the
English really find more to admire in the
rough and ready American who makes
them laugh than in the American who is
struggling to be like the Englishman?
They may tell the latter than '* he would
never, never be taken for an American " ;
they know that will flatter him. But in

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221

their hearts they may think less well of
him for that. We ourselves really like
the " unlicked " types of American better
that we do the over-cultivated. It is
the American with a strong native tang
who is the hero of our popular novel and
play. And why should we not credit
England with sincerity when she be-
trays the same preference? The popular
American plays, which occupy most of
the war-time London theatres, are al-
most all about the kinds of American
whom we and the English both can like
and laugh at.

The British cling more firmly to their
own customs than any other race. In
the middle of the Sahara Desert an
Englishwoman would scream for her
afternoon tea. And this fierce main-
tenance of nationality has been Eng-
land's strength. Of course occasionally
this means violent disapproval of for-
eign customs and foreigners. There is
a story, for example, of an Englishman
who gave up a trip in America because
in Xew York they would serve him po-
tatoes for breakfast and ask him if he
wanted pepper and salt on his melon.
But on the other hand many a staunch
American has found life abroad intol-
erable because there was no pie. What
never gets told is the rapturous reports
given in England by visitors returned
from us of bathrooms and elevators and
soft-shell crabs and steam heating. Had
the war not intervened America was by
way of becoming the playground of
England, as England had so long been
ours. Xew York during its gay winter
season was every year more filled with
delighted English people who frankly
admitted that nowhere else in the world
thev could eniov themselves as well.

Surely they came not to find fault with
us, nor to make fun of us, but to enjoy
with us our national gayety and sparkle
and kindliness.

Destructive criticism and ill-natured
stories are always the most picturesque
to report. So London is being con-
stantly written up for us as a nest of
hard but beautiful harpies (titled
mostly ) whose one idea is to " gouge "
Americans. We hear of ladies of fash-
ion who take money for conferring the
honor of their presence upon the houses
of snobbish Americans and then pack up
the silver tea things when they leave.
What we do not hear about are the
thousand unnumbered kindnesses which
London is forever doing for Americans
who have nothing to offer in return, and
the generous hospitality which every
good-natured, agreeable American finds
showered on him in London if he knows
any English people at all.

If our entrance into the war has
proved anything, it has already proved
that America is more like Britain than
we dreamed. We have gone into it
slowly, without much outer show of
emotion, and we have done a good deal
of muddling in our unpreparedness.
We are, whether we like it or not. still
something of the same strain. And with
us as with England it will be " dogged
as does it." The feeling between France
and America is romantic and emotional.
The sister Republic represents for al-
most every American something of his
ideal of gallantry and splendor. But
when we get to that western front in
France our boys were glad of a wel-
come from lads who talk their own lingo.
And thev srot it.

THREE AMERICAN WOMEN PENSIONED FOR
MILITARY SERVICE

By Grace M. Pierce

Registrar General, N. S. D. A. R.
Concluded from page 145, September Magazine

(Synopsis of first part published in Septem-
ber .Magazine: Deborah Sampson Gannett, the
third woman pensioned by the government for
military service, inspired by patriotic motives,
left her home one night, and, disguising berself
in men's clothing, ran away to enlist in the
Continental Army. At Taunton Green she
encountered a neighbor from her home and
feared he had recognized her.)

Deborah Sampson's fears were ground-
less ; her man's disguise proved so effec-
tive that she passed her former neighbor
unrecognized, and continued her journey
unmolested. At New Bedford she signed
articles to serve on a privateer, but aban-
doned the plan upon learning the un-
savory reputation of the captain, and left
the town during the night, intending to go
to Boston. On her way she passed
through the town of Bellingham, and
there met a bounty speculator who wished
to enlist a man for the town of Uxbridge.
She thereupon enlisted for a term of
three years, giving her name as " Robert
ShurtlefF," the given name of her oldest
brother.

She was mustered in at Worcester and
with fifty other recruits was sent to West
Point, where she was enrolled as a Con-
tinental soldier on May 13. Here she
was given a uniform described as fol-
lows : A blue coat lined with white, with
white wings on the shoulders and cords
on the arms and pockets ; a white waist-
coat, breeches, or overhauls, and stockings
with black straps about the knees : half
boots, a black stock and a cap with a
variegated cockade on one side, a plume

tipped with red on the other, and a white
sash about the crown." Her equipment
consisted of a gun and bayonet, cartridge
box with thirty cartridges, and hanger
with white belts. According to her pen-
sion declaration, she served in the com-
pany of Captain George Webb, of the
Massachusetts regiment, commanded
first by Colonel Shepherd, later by Colo-
nel Henry Jackson, until November,
1783, when she was honorably discharged.
During that time she was at the sur-
render of Lord Cornwallis, and was
wounded at Tarrytown.

In her first battle, or skirmish, at White
Plains, the man beside her was shot and
killed, and she herself received two bullet
holes through her coat and one through
her cap. At Yorktown she served in a
battery in active operation and came
through the engagement uninjured.
Throughout her service she readilv per-
formed all the duties assigned to her.
Later, in a skirmish near East Chester,
X. V., she was twice wounded: one
wound in the head was quickly cared for.
To the inquiries of Doctor Bana, the
French surgeon, as to other wounds, she
denied their existence, and having sur-
reptitiously secured a needle, cotton and
so forth from the hospital stores, she re-
tired by herself and with the needle and
a penknife extracted the ball which had
lodged in her thigh, and refused to be sent
to the hospital.

In the spring of 1783 General Patter-
son appointed her his personal attendant

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and praised her for " the readiness and
courage " with which she performed all
her duties. The soldiers had called her
" the blooming hoy " and now General
Patterson named her his *' smock-faced
boy." A little later she was taken ill with
a prevailing epidemic which nearly ended
her life. During this illness her sex was
discovered by the attending physician,
Doctor Bana, and she was removed to the
apartment of the hospital matron until
she was discharged well. Finding that
Doctor Bana had not revealed her secret,
she resumed her uniform and was sent
on a special mission to the West. During
this mission she was captured by Indians,
from whom she later managed to escape,
and returned to her command in the East.
Upon her return Doctor Bana sent a let-
ter disclosing the secret of her sex to Gen-
eral Patterson, who dismissed her from
the service, at the same time giving her a
letter of commendation to General Wash-
ington. The Commander-in-Chief gave
her an honorable discharge and presented
her with a sum of money sufficient to
carry her home to Massachusetts, to-
gether with a short letter of advice. She
thereafter resumed her proper dress, vis-
ited relatives and returned to her family
about the close of the war.

During her service she had received
letters from young women expressing ad-
miration for the gallant and attractive
young man whom they believed her to
be, and several of these letters are still
in existence. Also a letter which she
Avrote to her mother, having learned indi-
rectly of her mother's grief and anxiety
over her disappearance from home.

On the seventh of April, 1784, Deborah
Sampson and Benjamin Gannett were
married in Sharon, Mass., and went to
live in the old Gannett house in Sharon.
Three children were born to them — Earl
Bradford; Mary, who married Judson

Gilbert, and Patience, who married Seth
Gay.

In the records of the General Court
of Massachusetts, dated January 20,
1792, is the following resolution:

" On petition of Deborah Sampson
Gannett praying compensation for ser-
vices performed in the late army of the
United States :

" Whereas, It appears to this court that
Deborah Gannett enlisted under the name
of Robert Shurtleff, in Captain Webb's
company in the Fourth Massachusetts
Regiment, on May 21, 1782, and did act-
ually perform the service of a soldier in
the late army of the United States to the
twenty-third day of October, 1783, for
which she received no compensation.

" And, whereas, it further appears that
the said Deborah exhibited an extraor-
dinary instance of female heroism by dis-
charging the duties of a faithful, gallant
soldier, and at the same time preserved
the virtue and chastity of her sex unsus-
pected and unblemished, and was dis-
charged from the service with a fair and
honorable character ; therefore,

" Resolved, That the Treasurer of the
Commonwealth be, and hereby is, di-
rected to issue his note to said Deborah
for the sum of 34 pounds, bearing in-
terest from October 23, 1783."

Again, in 1802, Deborah engaged in
another adventure in which she seems to
have been the pioneer of her sex. This
time it was the lecture field, then an en-
tirely new departure for women. and there
is no earlier record of women earning
money in this manner. During that year
she travelled alone from town to town,
attending to her own business arrange-
ments and delivering an address which
she had " procured to be written." She
kept a diary of this lecture tour, which is
written in an animated style, full of little
incidents, which makes it most interest-

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ing, and causes the reader to wish that
she had written her own account of her
experiences in the Revolution instead
of " procuring " them to be written.
Her address is almost without incident
and largely devoted to apology and
moralizing.

This address was first delivered in the
Federal Street Theatre, in Boston, in
March, 1802; afterward at Providence,
Worcester, Holden, Brookfield, Spring-
field, Northampton, Albany, Schenectady
and Rallston Springs. Of her audience at
Providence she writes that she must
" with much candor applaud the people
for their serious attention and peculiar
respect, especially the ladies."

At Holden, Mass., she visited her for-
mer captain, George Webb, for three
weeks, and at Lisle, N. Y., she stayed a
month with the family of her general,
then Judge John Patterson. In her diary
is the following record of this visit : " No-
vember 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Pat-
terson's at Lisle. This respectable fam-
ily treated me with every mark of dis-
tinction and friendship, and likewise all
the people did the same. I really want
for words to express my gratitude. They
often met together in the neighborhood
and had the most social meetings. They
seemed to unite in hearty congratulations
with my old friend, Judge Patterson, on
our happy meeting."

In the Albany Register of August 31,
1802, appears the following advertise-
ment, or notice :

MRS. GANNET'S EXHIBITION

The ladies and gentlemen of Albany and its
vicinity are respectfully informed that Mrs.
Gannett, the celebrated American heroine, who
served nearly three years with great reputa-
tion in our Revolutionary Army will, at the
request of a number of respectable characters,
deliver an address to the inhabitants of this
city and vicinity in the Court House this even-
ing at half past seven o'clock.

Tickets may be had at the Court House from
5 o'clock till the performance begins. Price
25 cents, children half price. Albany, August
31, 1802.

In her diary is the following :

MY EXPENSE AT ALBANY

To old key keeper $2 00

To Mr. Barber for printing 3 00

To Mr. Lester for filling blank and find-
ing candles 1 34

To Mr. Giles for attendance 2 67

To sweeping the Court House 0 48

For cleaning the candlesticks 0 20

For brushing the seats 0 17

For the dressing my hair 2 even 1 00

To boarding 6 00

To washing 1 34

The " Address," which was afterward
printed, appeared with the following title
page:

AN
ADDRESS

DELIVERED WITH APPLAUSE,

AT THE FEDERAL STREET THEATRE, BOSTON,

FOUR SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS OF THE DIFFERENT

PLAYS, BEGINNING MARCH 22, l8o2;

AND AFTER, AT OTHER PRINCIPAL TOWNS, A

NUMBER OF NIGHTS SUCCESSIVELY

AT EACH PLACE;

BY MRS. DEBORAH GANNET,

THE AMERICAN HEROINE

WHO SERVED THREE YEARS WITH REPUTATION

UNDISCOVERED AS A FEMALE IN THE

LATE AMERICAN ARMY

PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE AUDIENCES

DEDHAM

PRINTED AND SOLD BY H. MANN, FOR MRS. GANNET,

AT THE MINERVA OFFICE, l802.

A few years previous to this public
lecture of Deborah Gannett a small book
had been placed on the market based on
her experiences in the army and her early
life. This also seems to have had a " pro-
cured " authorship, as the style is not at
all that of the personal writings of De-
borah. This book has a title-page and
dedication which are interesting, inas-
much as they are evidence of the labored
style of the period :

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THE FEMALE REVIEW,

MEMOIRS
OF AN AMERICAN YOUNG LADY;

WHOSE LIFE AND CHARACTER ARE PECULI-
ARLY DISTINGUISHED, BEING A CONTINENTAL
SOLDIER, FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS, IN THE
LATE AMERICAN WAR.

DURING WHICH TIME,
SHE PERFORMED THE DUTIES OF EVERY DE-
PARTMENT INTO WHICH SHE WAS CALLED,
WITH PUNCTUAL EXACTNESS, FIDELITY AND
HONOR, AND PRESERVED HER CHASTITY
INVIOLATE, BY THE MOST ARTFUL CONCEAL-
MENT OF HER SEX.

WITH AN

APPENDIX

CONTAINING CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS, BY
DIFFERENT HANDS; HER TASTE FOR ECONO-
MY, PRINCIPLES OF DOMESTIC EDUCATION, &C.
BY A CITIZEN OF MASSACHUSETTS.

DEDHAM

PRINTED BY

NATHANIEL AND BENJAMIN HEATON

FOR THE AUTHOR.

M, DCC, XCVII."

On the succeeding page appears this
dedication :

TO THE

PATRONS AND FRIENDS

COLUMBIA'S CAUSE
the female review is dedicated.

though not with intention to encourage
the like paradigm of female enter-
prize — but because such a thing, in the
course of nature, has occurred; and
because every circumstance, whether
natural, artificial, or accidental, that
has been made conducive to the pro-
motion of our independence, peace, and
prosperty — all through divine aid, must
be sacredly remembered and extolled
by everyone, who solicits the per-
petuity of these invaluable blessings.

The Author.

Prior to the passage of the Pension
Act of 1818 by the United States Con-
gress, all pensions had been for wounds
or incapacity received in the service, and,
while paid by the National Government,
they had been paid by the United States
Treasurer to the respective states and

thence disbursed to the recipient. In
1805, March 11, the pension allowed to
Deborah Gannett for wounds received in
the service was $4 per month, with back
pay from January 1, 1803. It is believed
that this pension was secured for her
through the interest and kindly solicita-
tion of her former commander, General
John Patterson. In 1816 this rate was in-
creased to $6.40 per month, and under the
act of 1818, when she was pensioned for
service rendered in the Continental Line,
she w-as allowed $8 per month. This pen-
sion continued until her death on the
twenty-ninth day of April, 1827.

March 4, 1831, the first general pen-
sion law was passed by the Congress of
the I nited States to the survivors of the
American Revolution, and a few years
later is the most unusual circumstances
of a husband applying for a government
pension, based on the military service of
his wife, then deceased. In the proceed-
ings of the second session of the Twenty-
fifth Congress of the United States,
under date of December 22, 1837, the
House Committee on Revolutionary Pen-
sions made the following report on the
petition of Benjamin Gannett:

" That the petitioner represents that he
is the surviving husband of Deborah Gan-
nett to whom he was lawfully married
on the seventh day of April, 1784; that
she died on the twenty-ninth day of April,
1827. He also states that in the early
part of her life the said Deborah enlisted
in the army of the Revolution under the
assumed name of Robert Shurtleff,
wdiere she faithfully served her country
three years, and was discharged in No-
vember, 1783; that, on account of a
wound received in the service, she re-
ceived a pension as an invalid until the
passage of the act of March, 1818; and
that she received a full pension under the
act until her decease. The petitioner fur-

THREE AMERICAN WOMEN PENSIONED

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ther states that the effects of the wound
which she received followed her through
life and prohably hastened her death.
The petitioner represents himself to be
eighty-three years of age, infirm in health
and in indigent circumstances. He states
that he has two daughters dependent on
charity for support. The petitioner prays
that he may receive the amount of the
pension of his wife, from the time of her
decease, and that it may be continued to
him until his death.

" It appears from a letter received from
the Commissioner of Pensions that De-
borah Gannett, now deceased, was placed
on the Massachusetts roll of invalid pen-
sioners at $48 per annum, which was
afterwards increased to $76.80 per an-
num. This she reliquished in 1818 for
the benefit of the Act of March 4, 1818.
She was placed under that law at the rate
of $8 per month, from September 14,
1818, which she received up to the 4th of
March, 1827. It further appears from
said letter that the papers containing evi-
dence upon the original pension was
granted were burnt in 1814, when the
British troops invaded Washington and
destroyed the War Office with its con-
tents. On 14th of September, 1818, said
Deborah made her declaration under oath
that she served as a private soldier, under
the name of Robert Shurtleff, in the War
of the Revolution, and up to the date of
her declaration she received a pension
therefor.

" P. Parsons testified under oath that
she lived in the family of Benjamin Gan-
nett more than forty-six years, after he
married Deborah Sampson ; that she well
knew that Deborah was unable to per-
form any labor a great part of the time,
in consequence of a wound she received
while in the American army from a mus-
ket ball lodged in her body, which was
never extracted. She also stated that she

saw Benjamin Gannett married to De-
borah Sampson at his father's house in
Sharon.

" Benjamin Rhoads and Jeremiah
Gould, the selectmen of the town of
Sharon, in the State of Massachusetts,
certified that they are acquainted with
Benjamin Gannett, now living in said
town, and that he is a man of upwards of
eighty years of age ; that he is destitute of
property ; that he has been an industrious
man ; that he was the husband of the late
Deborah Gannett, deceased, who for a
time received a pension from the United
States for her military service during the
Revolutionary War.

" William Ellis, formerly a Senator in
Congress, in a letter to the Hon. Wil-
liam Jackson, now a Representative in
Congress, states that said Gannett had
been a very upright, hard-working man,
has brought up a large family, and is a
poor man. He further states that he has
long since been credibly informed that
said Gannett had been subjected to heavy
expenses for medical aid for his wife, the
said Deborah, for twenty years or more,
and before she received a pension under
the act of 1818, on account of wounds
she received in the United States service.
There are other certificates among the
papers in this case, showing the phy-
sician's bill alone for attendance on said
Deborah to be more than six hundred
dollars.

" The committee is aware that there is
no act of Congress which provides for
any case like the present. The said Gan-
nett was married after the termination of
the War of the Revolution, and, there-
fore, does not come within the spirit of
the third section of the act of the 4th of
July, 1836, granting pensions to widows
in certain cases ; and were there nothing
peculiar in this application which distin-
guishes it from all other applications for

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pensions the Committee would at once
reject the claim. But they believe that
they are warranted in saying that the
whole history of the American Revolu-
tion records no case like this, and fur-
nishes no other similar example of fe-
male heroism, fidelity and courage. The
petitioner does not allege that he served
in the war of the Revolution, and it does
not appear by any evidence in the case
that such was the fact. It is not, how-
ever, to be presumed that a female who
took up arms in defence of her country,
who served as a common soldier for
nearly three years and fought and bled
for human liberty, would immediately
after the termination of the war connect
herself for life with a Tory or a traitor.
He, indeed, was honored much by being
the husband of such a wife; and as he
has proved himself worthy of her, as he
has sustained her through a long life of
sickness and suffering, and as that sick-
ness and suffering were occasioned by the
wounds she received and the hardships
she endured in the defence of the coun-
try, and as there cannot be a parallel case
in all time to come, the Committee do not
hesitate to grant relief.

" They report a bill granting to the
petitioner a pension of eighty dollars per
year from the fourth day of March, 1831,
for and during his natural life."

Benjamin Gannett, however, did not
live to receive this appreciation of the
country for having been the hubsand of
his wife and having " proved himself
worthy of her." He died while the act
was pending, and on the seventh of July,
1838, the Auditor of the United States
Treasury paid to the heirs of Deborah
and Benjamin, viz., Earl B. Gannett,
Mary Gilbert, and Patience Gay, the
amount due to Benjamin from the fourth
day of March, 1831, to the day of his
death.

It is but just to Benjamin Gannett,
husband of Deborah, and lest this case
become a precedent to our lawmakers for
future decision, to state that while he
made no claims to Revolutionary service
on his own account, Benjamin was en-
rolled in the militia of the State of
Massachusetts during the Revolution,
but his service in the field was limited to
" alarms " and not of sufficient duration
to entitle him to recognition and reward
by the government. Thus the conclusion
of the Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives that Deborah would not unite
herself for life with "a Tory or a traitor"
was well founded. And Deborah Samp-
son, as well as " Molly Pitcher " and
Margaret Corbin, was not only an active
militant in her own right, but was the wife
of a patriot as well.

"ST

YOU AND THE RED CROSS

By Hildegarde Hawthorne

(of the Vigilantes)
(Author "A Country Interlude," "The Lure of the Garden," "Poems," "Essays," etc.)

The immense mission of the Red Cross
is to give help. But in order to give the
full mer Aire of help it must have as-
sistance in its turn. You must help the
Red Cross if the Red Cross is to help our
men when they are wounded, when they
are sick, when they are worn and weary
from the work of war in which so soon
they will be plunged.

Try to see just one soldier with the
eyes of your imagination. Some young
man with his life before him, some older
man who has laid aside the life so care-
fully built up and so dear to him to go
out to this service ; both, young and older,
working for us at the bitterest work on
earth. See him, bleeding from some ter-
rible wound, staggering back from the
trench, or lying lost in Xo Alan's Land.
See him suffering untold pain for the
lack of an anaesthetic. See him bleed to
death for lack of a bandage. See him
left un found to die because there was no
automobile ambulance to seek him.

And think this: If you had helped the
Red Cross the Red Cross could have
helped, might have saved him.

It is just that. Whatever you do, is
done for some suffering man or woman
or child. The Red Cross takes it and
uses it where the need is greatest. Be-
hind the Red Cross it is you who binds
the bandage, who sets the broken bone,
who gives the soothing anaesthesia, who
carries back the wounded or dying man
from the hideous torture of the field to
the hospital. It is you, too, who refuses
this succor if it is withheld. Not the
Red Cross, for it can do nothing without
you. The workers there in the dark
zone of battle are making the supreme
sacrifice. What will you sacrifice?

The service of our Red Cross is to go
first to our own. But these are not the
only ones in the hell of war who need its
help.

Do you know that the bones of little
babies lie thick as leaves along the deso-
late roads of Poland? They are gone;
neither you nor the Red Cross can help
them now. But others still live.
Through the Red Cross they can be
saved, their little bones need not be scat-
tered a sacrifice to the war — if you will
give your help.

The world is in awful need. Between
its suffering and you stands the Red
Cross, desperately eager to lessen the
pain, to save life, to give a little hope, a
little peace, a little comfort where now
there is none. To do this it must have
money, and it is you who must give the
money.

Look into it. Give just an hour to
finding out what the Red Cross is doing,
what it hopes to do, what the need is.
You will hardly turn away unmoved if
you give that hour. You will want to
do something. You will do something.

Will you not sacrifice a little ease, a
little money, a little time, when you un-
derstand that by so doing you will save
some fine boy to live his life sound and
strong, after his months of struggle and
suffering, will restore to some man his
health, will heal his shattered body, and
bring him back to the sweet life he gave
up for the sake of his country. When
you realize that what you do, what you
give, will save a starving child and its
mother, will you not do and give all you
can ?

The Red Cross, that helps a world in
pain, asks your help.

A RARE OLD DOCUMENT

By Dorothy F. Cocks

For generations it was simply " the old
deed." It decorated the wall in various
rooms downstairs, was moved upstairs,
and even spent some years in the attic.
Here, unfortunately, it was attacked by
insects. In
those days it
attracted n o
attention. Per-
il a p s such
documents
were com-
moner in the
old houses
then. No one
considered i t
an ornament to
any room. Its
historic value
was not
dreamed of. It
was simply
"the old

deed."

Finally one
ancestor o f
mine, who had
a liking for
"old truck,"
brought it to
light again. He
was alarmed at
the ravages of the insects and had the
paper sealed between glass and put in its
present frame. He even had the fore-
thought to copy what was written on the
back of the document before the frame
was sealed.

Even after that it was prized merely
as an interesting heirloom, valued chiefly

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Dated

for its family associations. None of us
appreciated what it might be worth to a
collector until a few years ago.

In the magazine supplement of a Sun-
day paper there appeared an article with

the headline,
" The Oldest
American Deed
Extant." Nat-
urally we were
interested, and
as we read the
description we
were amazed
to find that our
deed was some
years older
than the " old-
est." Our re-
spect for it in-
creased at
once.

Considering
its age, 248
years, the doc-
ument is re-
markably well
preserved.
Some few
words are al-
most illegible
in the spots
where the insects destroyed the paper,
but on the whole the deed is in very good
condition. It is dated " Oyster Baye this
29th of May, 1669." Fortunately none
of this line is obliterated.

The parties to this sale were one
Jeames Coke (an old form of the present
family name Cock or Cocks) and "ye

THE " JAMES COKE" DEED
"Oyster Baye this 29" of May 1669

A RARE OLD DOCUMENT

231

Indian propriators of Matenacoke." This
Matineeock, as it is now spelled, is a local
designation ; translated from the Indian,
it signifies the " land which overlooks,"
whence, a hilly spot. The district lies be-
tween the villages of Locust Valley and
Bayville, about live miles from Oyster
Bay.

The deed goes on to describe a " sar-
ten trackt of land lying and being as here
bounded : Joyning on ye south and to
mathy priar's( Matthew Friar's ) bounds :
and on ye West side with ye fut way : and
on ye est side with ye solt medowes : and
so to run yonder even breadth to ye solt
medow on ye north and which wee gave
to Capt. John onderhill." The boun-
daries are rather vague, are they not?
Buyers were not as particular about sur-
veys and title guarantees in those days.
Foot paths and salt meadows which vary
with the tide would not satisfy us now.
The Captain John Underhill mentioned
purchased his land from the Indians two
years before. I wonder where that deed
can be ?

The old fashioned writing, the queer
spelling, and the indiscriminate use of
capitals and punctuation make the lines
hard to decipher. Some of the phrase-
ology is rather quaint. One sentence
reads " we, ye Abovesaid Indians, do
here owne to have sould : this before
menshoned land with other previleges
thereunto belonging : as timber and com-
onig (commoning, pasturing) : with all
other benefits : as fishing, f oulleing,
hookeing (hawking?), hunting and min-
neralls According to law to ye Abovesaid
Jeames Coke his Ayres or Asignes."

This James Coke appears to have

struck a good bargain. The case is par-
allel to the famed sale of Manhattan
Island. The deed does not state defi-
nitely what the consideration was which
this Quaker gentleman gave in exchange
for the land and its privileges and bene-
fits. Family tradition has it that no
money changed hands, but a long list of
articles, including some bottles of wine
and the kiss of a squaw ! The tradition
is not incredible. The Manhattoes took
$24 worth of junk for their hunting
grounds, the present value of which can-
not be estimated. The proportionate
value of the fashionable north shore of
Long Island would be about the kiss of
a squaw.

After much picturesque legal lan-
guage, more or less rambling, the deed
concludes with two columns of names.
One is headed " Indian witnesses," and
reads plainly " the mark of shango-X
muck." The X is large and crude, and
was probably laboriously drawn by a
copper-skinned hand little used to a pen.
Beneath Shango Muck's signature are
the marks of other Indians whose names
quite overpower me. The poorly written,
crazily spelled English words are diffi-
cult enough. At the Indian language I
acknowledge defeat. One white witness
was Gideon Wright. Another was Henry
Townsend. The interpreter's name is
partly effaced. As nearly as it can be
deciphered it is Robert Smith.

In the lower right-hand corner are two
crumbs of red. the remains of the old
seals. The inscription on the back reads :
" Instrument May 3, 1672. Entered in
the Office of Records in New York — date
illegible."

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Courtesy of Leslie's Weekly

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ANSWERS

5021. Thurston, Samuel, was of Granville,
N. Y., 1803, died 1843. The family lived
somewhere about Middle Granville. Later
there was a Daniel Thurston in the town who
I judge to be a grandson. There were Burches
around Hebron and a Dibble ( Solomon ) at
South Granville. G. A, Goodspeed, Granville,
N. Y.

5132. Ballard, William and Elizabeth
Phelps Ballard. Came to Lynn, Mass., in
1635 ; their son Joseph born 1667 ; married
Rebecca Johnson — their son Josiah born 1702;
married Mary Chandler and their son Deacon
Josiah born 1721 ; married Sarah Carter. Capt.
William Ballard, their son, born 1764; married
Elizabethy Whitney. From the family of
Harlan H. Ballard, Pittsfield, Mass. From
the Records of the National Society, Daughters
American Revolution.

Mrs. Helen Ballard Zimmermann, No. 8005,
a descendant of William Ballard, son of Josiah,
who served two enlistments in 1777, and aided
in the defense of Ticonderoga. I have a " Bal-
lard Genealogy " reprinted from Essex Anti-
quarian which bears the imprint of Martin
and Allardyce, Frankford, Pa., 1911, a small
pamphlet. I have tried to connect my family
with Josiah Ballard without success. My
descent is from Charles F. Ballard, 1852 (my
father, son of Alexander S. Ballard, 1821-1865,
son of Nathan Ballard, 1781-1852, son of
Joseph and Elizabeth Ballard, 1785-1860, who
lived in Massachusetts). Mrs. Elizabeth
Ballard Robinson, 401 Circle Avenue, Wash-
ington, C. H., Ohio.

5159. Harrod, Orney. Clipping from " The
Republican," published in Waynesburg, Greene
Co., Pa., 1876, and republished in 1896. Mr.

I. H. Knox, 39 S. Washington St., Waynes-
burg, Pa., Editor.

Centennial Sketch No. 45. Bell Family.
Isaac (Bell) married Elizabeth Harrod, who
died about ten years ago at the old homestead
near Jefferson. She was the only member of
the Harrod family that remained in Greene
Co. She was a niece of James Harrod, who
was the leader of the party of adventurers
from Monongahela, that made the first settle-
ment and built the first cabin in what is now
the State of Kentucky. They also found it
necessary to at once construct a fort, which
was the first military post established in the
State. He with other members of the Harrod
family came to Greene County from Virginia.
Levi Harrod, who Zi'as Justice of the Peace in
1781, was probably a brother, in the year
1773 he raised a body of men with whom he
went down the Monongahela in a flat boat to
Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh ; thence these dar-
ing spirits sailed down the Ohio River through
an unexplored wilderness to the mouth of the
Kentucky River, and up that river over 100
miles — in all about 700 miles — to a spot where
they landed, and founded the present town of
Harrodburg, the county seat of Mercer Co., Ky.
To appreciate the bravery and enterprise of
these men who left the shores of the Monon-
gahela at that early day, two years before the
Revolution began, we have but to consider
the country through which they passed. To-
day the cities of Wheeling and Frankfort, the
capitals of two States, and Cincinnati. The
queen city of the Ohio Valley is now directly
on their path. This was the first settlement
made in the " dark and bloody " land. Boone
had passed through it before, but he did not

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locate there until the next year. Harrod like
Boone was a mighty hunter, fearless and fond
of solitude, and delighted most in that adven-
ture which was attended by the greatest danger.
He was often alone in the forest for weeks
and even months. Indeed, he went several
times as a spy to the Indian towns known as
the Miami Villages, which were in the valley
now known by that name in Ohio. At one
time he was chased by the Indians all the
way to the Ohio River. Swimming across it,
he shot the three foremost Indians while in
the water, the rest having given up the chase.
His life was full of adventures, a part of
which were compiled and published about
twenty-five years ago, but cannot be mentioned
here. From one of his solitary expeditions he
never returned, and the manner of his death
is unknown. He commanded a body of men
at the battle of Kanawha, and in other en-
gagements with the Indians. He was a leader
of the most daring and intrepid character. We
have made this digression because here seems
the proper place to do it, and because the
very first settlers of the Ohio Valley were from
Greene County and the country adjacent.

To return, Isaac Bell had 4 sons, Levi
Harrod, James, David, John ; and 2 daughters,
Rachel and Mary. Levi Harrod Bell lived for
many years in the vicinity of Jefferson, but
removed to Washington County, near Amity,
where he died during the War. Lieutenant
John F. Bell, of the 140th Pennsylvania In-
fantry, is one of his sons, and James M. Bell,
late of Waynesburg, is another.

James Bell (son of Isaac and Elizabeth Har-
rod Bell), the only surviving son of this family
lives near Carmichaels, and is the father of
Levi Harrod Bell of Haward Springs, Tenn.,
and the only native of Greene County who
bears the name of Harrod, and to him I am
indebted for most of the particulars of this
sketch. L. K. Evans. Mrs. R. A. Bums, 5147
Ridge Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.

5102. Stockwell. In the City Library in New
Orleans, La., a four volume History of
Worcester County, Mass., compiled by the
Worcester County Society of Antiquity, under
supervision of Ellery Bicknell Crane, " Genea-
logical and Personal Memories of Worcester
County." I found excellent Stockwell Records,
including the name of my own grandfather,
Nathaniel Stockwell, born February 5, 1730,
was a grandson of the first settler. Miss
Eunice J. Stockwell, Greenville, Miss.

5136. Perry. In the Poston Library are
three volumes of Early Massachusetts Mar-
riages. No. of Books B. H. 992—10. In
vol. Ill, p. 186 — Ezra Perry of Reheboth, mar-
ried to Jemina Tittus, April 29, 1762. Mrs.
Charles Perry Lesh, 3650 Central Avenue,
Indianapolis, Ind.

1562. Wilbur, Church. I am a descendant
from this family ; from my papers I find Aaran
Wilbur, Jr., son of Captain Aaron Wilbur and
Mary Church, from Little Compton, R. 1.
Mrs. W. D. Hemenway, 64 Church Street,
Alexandria Bay, N. Y.

5162. Sampson (2). Among my family
Revolutionary records I find Isaiah Samson
and Beriah Samson served under Captain
Andrew Samson at the fort on the Gurnet
(1777) (Mass. State Archives). Beriah Sam-
son under Captain Samuel Bradford's Com-
pany in Colonel Theoph. Cotton's Regiment
1775, with Captain Gamaliel Bradford's Com-
pany in the old French Wars. Howland
Sampson, son of Beriah Samson (my grand-
father) also served in the Revolution. Sam-
son Genealogy: 1st, General Abraham Sam-
son ; 2nd, General Abraham Samson ; 3d, Gen-
eral Miles; 4th, General Andrew 1st, Beriah
2nd, b. 1728, and others.

The spelling of the name was originally
Samson. My Samson knowledge is from
Sampson Genealogy. Winsor's Duxbury ;
Davis' Plymouth (Clipping, " Boston Trans-
script," May 16, 1917). Mrs. Louisa E. Sam-
son, 60 Trenton Street, East Boston, Mass.

5150. Mathews, Sampson (2). Revolution-
ary Records of Colonel Sampson Mathews,
son of Captain John and Ann Archer Mathews,
who settled near Lexington, Va., in 1742.
Colonel Mathews was a member of Committee
of Safety, appointed by the Counties of
Augusta, Buckingham, Amherst and Albemarle,
Va. The Commissioners convened at the house
of James Woods in Amherst County, Septem-
ber 8, 1775. See page 245, Waddell's Annals
of Augusta County, Va. Page 34, Historical
Papers Washington & Lee University, Address
Colonel B. Christian. He was a member of the
first Patriotic Convention which met in Staun-
ton, Augusta County, Va., February 22, 1775,
to elect delegates to the first Colony Conven-
tion to convene at Richmond, Va., March 20,
1775. See page 235, Waddell's Annals of
Augusta County, Va. He was a member of the
first Court held in Augusta County, Va.,
under the authority of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, called to convene at Staunton, Va.,
July 16, 1776. See page 242, Waddell's Annals.
November 19, 1776, Sampson Mathews was
commissioned a Justice of Court of Augusta
County, Va. (see page 128, Order Book No.
16, Augusta County Court Records). Also
served as Justice in 1777, see page 206, Order
Book No. 16 as above. Was recommended and
qualified as Lieutenant Colonel of the County
of Augusta, May 19, 1778. See pages 264 and
287, Order Book No. 16, Augusta County
Court Records, also page 197, Chalkley's Ab-
stracts from Records of Augusta County, Va.,

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vol. 1, and served until 1783 when he removed
to Richmond, Va., where he practiced law for
some time. While in Richmond his daughter
Ann met and married Alexander Nelson, a
young merchant and importer of Richmond,
January 29, 1784. Alexander Nelson pur-
chased an estate called " Poplar Grove " near
Staunton, Va., in November, 1785- containing
726 acres, and lived there the remainder of his
life. His daughter, Elizabeth Nelson, was born
at " Poplar Grove," September 1, 1796, and
married John Montgomery, Jr., of Deerfield,
Augusta County, Va., November 11, 1813.
After their marriage they lived on a plantation
owned by John Montgomery near Goshen,
Rockbridge County, Va., until his death,
August 6, 1829. He was buried in a private
cemetery owned by his brother-in-law, Joseph
Bell, at Goshen, Va., and a marble stone in
good state of preservation marks his grave
at the present time ( 1914). After the death of
her husband, Elizabeth Nelson Montgomery
removed with her children to her father's
home, " Poplar Grove," Augusta County, Va.,
and there spent the rest of her life, dying
January 9, 1853. and was buried in the old
cemetery adjoining Augusta Presbyterian
Church, a few miles from " Poplar Grove "
beside the graves of her father, mother and
brother, all their graves being marked by stones
in good state of preservation at this date
(1914). The wills of Colonel Sampson
Mathews, Alexander Nelson and Elizabeth
Nelson (my grandmother) are on record, all
mentioning the names of their children. Will
of Colonel Sampson Mathews is recorded in
Will Book 10, page 121, at Staunton, Augusta
County, Va., and was probated March 24,
1807. The will of Alexander Nelson is
recorded in Will Book No. 19, page
339, at Staunton, Augusta Coujity, Va.,
and was probated January Term, 1834.
The will of Elizabeth Nelson Montgomery
is on record at Staunton, Augusta County,
Va., dated January 8, 1853. The records
of the Montgomery family may be found
on page 103 of " The Houston Family,"
by Rev. S. R. Houston, D.D., published in 1882,
and in " The History of the Montgomerys and
Their Descendants," page 322, by D B. Mont-
gomery, published at Owensville, Ind., in 1903.
Any of the above mentioned books can be
found in the Congressional Library at Wash-
ington, D. C, or any of the Public Libraries in
the larger cities. Colonel Sampson Mathews
soon returned to Augusta County from Rich-
mond, Va., and settled on his estate called
" The Wilderness," formerly owned by General
Blackburn, in the western part of the county,
and when Bath County was formed in 1791,
he living in that part of Augusta County which

was cut off into Bath County, was appointed
one of the first justices of the County and
elected the first High Sheriff of Bath County,
Va. Colonel Sampson Mathews married Sep-
tember, 1759, first Mary Lockhart, who died
1781, daughter of Captain James Lockhart, a
man very prominent in the Colonial affairs of
Augusta County, Va. Their children were
John W. Mathews, Sampson Mathews, Jr.,
Ann Mathews (who married Alexander Nel-
son of " Poplar Grove " ) and Jane Mathews,
who married Samuel Clarke of Staunton. Va.
Colonel Sampson Mathews married second,
Catherine Parke, of Richmond, Va., in June,
1783, but they had no children. Colonel Samp-
son Mathews was in Staunton, Va., with the
Virginia Legislature when it retired from Rich-
mond to Charlottesville, and from Charlottes-
ville to Staunton, 1781, on account of the
advance of Lord Cornwallis and his army into
Virginia and Colonel Tarleton having been
sent in pursuit in the hope of capturing the
members of the Assembly, and in Calendar of
Virginia State Papers, vol. 2, page 173, June
19, 1781. is the following record: "I, Sampson
Mathews, a magistrate for the County of
Augusta, do hereby certify that I have adminis-
tered the oaths prescribed by law to be taken
by a governor unto Thomas Nelson, Jr., Esq.
When Virginia was invaded by Benedict
Arnold and Lord Cornwallis in 1781, the
Augusta troops were called into service and
the first division was commanded by Colonel
Sampson Mathews and the second division by
Colonel Thomas Hughart, and they served
until the surrender of Cornwallis at York-
town. See vol. 1, Calendar of Virginia State
Papers, also pages 278, 279, 300 and 302, Wad-
dell's Annals. Also Order Book No. 16, pages
264 and 287, and Order Book No. 17, pages
231 and 301, Augusta County, Va., Records.
Also vol. 1, pages 461 and 462, Virginia His-
torical Magazine. In 1778, Colonel Sampson
Mathews was elected to the Senate of Virginia
by the Augusta District (see page 88>, Histo-
rical Papers No. 2, Washington & Lee Univer-
sity) and served until 1781 when he requested
that he be allowed to resign to accept an office
at home. See page 302, Order Book No. 16,
Augusta County, Va., Court Records, also
Journal of Virginia State Senate 1778, page
4, and 1779, pages 8 and 26. Colonel Mathews
died in 1807 and was buried in Staunton, Va.
He must have been a man of strong character
and much influence for he was kept in office
almost continually for over fifty years, serv-
ing as Justice, High Sheriff, and State Senator,
and as Ensign, Lieutenant, Captain, Colonel
and Lieutenant Colonel of the county, the
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under General Braddock in 1755, in the Battle of Point Pleasant in 1774, and closing his
military life with the closing battle of the Revolution in 1781 at Yorktown.

Colonel Sampson and Mary Lockhart Mathews (married September, 1759). Children:

1. John Mathews

2. Ann Mathews

3. Jane Mathews

4. Sampson Mathews, Jr.

July 17, 1763
1775

Married

Alexander Nelson
Samuel Clarke

Died
January 19, 1829
April 11, 1847, aged 72

No. 2 above, Ann Mathews, married Alexander Nelson of Richmond, Va., January 29,
1784. Alexander Nelson was born January 14, 1749, died January 2, 1834. Children:

1. Mary Ann Nelson

2. Dr. Thomas Nelson

3. John Mathews Nelson

4. James Nelson

5. Elizabeth Nelson

6. Alexander Franklin

Nelson

7. Lockhart Nelson

Born

April 14, 1785
November 11, 1787
October 14, 1790

August 3, 1793
September 1, 1796

October 20, 1798
February 26, 1806

Died

April 25, 1841
August 6, 1861
September 5, 1853

March 11, 1854
January 9, 1853

October 23, 1850
September 9, 1827

Married

Joseph Bell
Julia Riddle

(1) Mary Trimble

(2) Miss Cooke

(3) Julia Watson
Never married
John Montgomery, Jr

(1) Eliza Jane Guy

(2) Mildred Rodes
Never married

He died in Paris, France, while there studying medicine, and his tombstone, erected by his
brother, Dr. Thomas Nelson, was standing in 1906 at Pere La Chaise, Paris.

Elizabeth Nelson (No. 5 above) married John Montgomery, Jr., November 11, 1813.
Children :

1. Alexander N.

2. John J.

3. James Nelson

4. William Hughart

5. Franklin T.

6. Mary A. A.

7. Nannie E. L

Born

August 18, 1814
December 19, 1816
November 15, 1818
May 6, 1821
March 13. 1826
June 10, 1826
January 2, 1829

Died

May 19, 1859
June 13, 1892
June 7, 1886

1872
August 25, 1832
Living in 1912

Married
Never married
Margaret Creigh
Ann S. Jacob
Ruth Jacob
Elizabeth Kearns

Littleton Waddell

James Nelson Montgomery (No. 3 above) married Ann S. Jacob, of Wheeling, Va.,
November 16, 1847. Children:

1. Nannie J.

2. John Alexander

3. Sallie Estelle

4. Mary E. Nelson

5. William G.

July 24, 1849
August 31, 1851

March 24, 1854

February 2, 1857
June 3, 1861

Died

September 2, 1861

Married

(1) Fannie Bright,

November 16, 1880

(2) Carrie Lewis,

December 27,

(1) Wm. A. Frantz,

August 23, 1882

(2) John W. Mont-

gomery

August 31, 1905
Frank C. Brown,

October 17, 1877
Sophia Perkins.

October 5, 1886

Children of Wm. G. and Sophia P. Montgomery: 1. James Nelson Montgomery, born
July 29, 1887; 2. Hattie Earle Montgomery, born June 28, 1889; 3. William G. Montgomery,
jr., born August 13, 1899. Wm. G. Montgomery, 827 South 30th St., Birmingham, Ala.

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5150. Woods. The Woods family. In the
English army, which invaded Ireland in 1649,
there was a Captain Woods, and English
trooper who was so pleased with the country
that he bought a home in the County Meath.
His son, John Woods, married Elizabeth War-
sop (or Warksop), a lineal descendant on her
mother's side of the famous Adam Loftus,
Archbishop of Dublin. Adam Loftus was
born in York, England, in 1534. His Alma
Mater was Trinity College, Cambridge. He
was consecrated, in 1561, Archbishop of
Armagh, and was afterwards transferred to
the See of Dublin. He died April 5, 1605, in
the office of Chancellor of Ireland. John
Woods and Elizabeth, his wife, had six chil-
dren : Adam (named for Adam Loftus),
Michael, James, William, Andrew and Eliza-
beth. To the present day the names Adam,
Michael and Andrew have been handed down
in the family. About 1726, possibly, all of
John Woods' children came to America, set-
tled first in Paxtang District, Lancaster County,
Pa., where they remained about eight years,
then some of them moved to Virginia, and
from thence others pushed farther into North
and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and
the West. (1) Adam Woods, being the oldest
child, possibly remained in Ireland. We know
nothing of him. (II) Michael Woods, Sr., was
born in the north of Ireland in 1684, died in
Albemarle County, Va., in 1762. He married
Mary Campbell, of Argylsbire, Scotland, of
the clan Campbell, and came to America about
1726, and settled in Lancaster County, Pa.
About 1734 they moved south, going up the
Valley of Virginia to Woods Gap (now called
Jarmans Gap), in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
crossed over the mountains into Albemarle
County, and acquired and improved a large
estate, which they named " Blair Park," and
was afterwards widely known as the
" Barony," and included lands extending from
Woods Gap to Ivy Creek, about 3300 acres.
Michael Woods, Sr., and wife, Mary Camp-
bell Woods, had ten or twelve children, pos-
sibly more, who lived to maturity as follows :
(a) William, born in 1706, married Susannah
Wallace. They lived in Albemarle County,
Va., and were the ancestors of part of the
Estill family. (.6) Sarah, who married
Joseph Lapsley of Augusta, now Rockbridge
County, Va. (c) Hannah, married William
Wallace, (d) Margaret, who married Andrew
Wallace. (e) Michael, Jr., (wife, Ann)
moved to Botetourt County, Va., a few miles
below Buchanan, and died there in 1777. (/)
Andrew was born about 1720, and came with
his parents from Pennsylvania. He received
a liberal education, and designed to enter the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church, but was

compelled to relinquish this purpose on account
of ill health. He married, about 1750,
Martha Poage, daughter of Robert and Eliza-
beth Poage of Augusta County, Va., and
owned about nine hundred acres at the foot
of Armor's Mountain, and five hundred acres
on a branch of Stocton Creek, near Greenwood
Depot, Albemarle County, his house being
situated a short distance south of the brick
mansion along the home of Michael Wallace's
family. Part of these lands were given him
by his father, and part he patented from the
government. He sold his property in Albe-
marle County in 1765 ; after his father's death,
moved to Botetourt County, purchasing lands
nine miles south of Buchanan near Mill Creek
Church. He took an active part in public
affairs, was appointed by the Governor of
Virginia one of the first Magistrates, and
was commissioned High Sheriff of Botetourt
County in 1777. With General Andrew Lewis
and Colonel William Preston, in 1772, he was
appointed on a commission to locate a road
from Crow's Ferry on Jones River to the
County of Bedford. He died in 1781, and was
doubtless buried near his home in what was
known as the " Irish Graveyard." Their
family was large, and a number of their chil-
dren died in early childhood, but four sons,
James, Robert, Andrew and Archibald, and
four daughters, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary and
Martha lived to maturity and had families of
their own. 1. James located in Montgomery
County, on the north fork of Roanoke River,
on a farm which his father had bought from
the executors of James Patton. He married
Nancy Rayburn in 1776, and died January
27, 1817. He had a large family, most of
whom removed to Nashville, Term., and
vicinity. 2. Robert Woods, the second son,
married Miss Caldwell and removed to Ohio
County, Va. 3. Andrew, the third son, went
with his brother Robert to Ohio County, and
there married Mary, the daughter of Captain
John Mitchell and widow of Major Samuel
McCulloch, who had been killed by the Indians
in 1782. He died in 1831, leaving seven chil-
dren. 4. Archibald, the fourth son, married
Ann Poage, and removed to Ohio County.
He became quite prominent in that district,
and lived until October 26, 1846, being eighty-
two years old, and left a large family. 5.
Elizabeth, probably the oldest daughter of
Andrew and Martha Poage Woods, married
David Cloyd, and lived on Buffalo Creek,
Rockbridge County, Va. They are the an-
cestors of Rev. Wm. W. and Rev. Mathew
Hale Houston. 6. Rebecca, the second
daughter of Andrew and Martha Woods, mar-
ried Isaac Kelly of Bedford County, Va., and
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joining that of her father. They afterwards
moved to Ohio County, Va., purchasing lands
on Short Creek, and there reared a large
family of five sons and four daughters. The
second daughter, Martha Kelly, married Alex-
ander Mitchell, son of Captain John Mitchell
of Ohio County, and their daughter Elizabeth
Mitchel married John J. Jacob of that county,
and they were my grandparents. {IV. G. M.)
For further information see the book " One
Branch of the Woods Family, ' by Rev. Edgar
Woods of Charlottesville, Va. (g) Magdalen
Woods, the fourth daughter of Michael and
Mary Campbell Woods, was married three
times, first to John McDowell of Rockbridge
County, and had three children, Samuel, James
and Sarah McDowell, the latter the wife of
George Moffett. She married second, Ben-
jamin Borden, Jr., and had one daughter
Martha Borden, who married Benjamin Haw-
kins. She married third, Colonel John Bowyer
of Augusta County. She is said to have lived
to be 104 years old. (/;) Martha Woods,
fifth daughter of Michael and Mary Woods,
married Peter Wallace. We know nothing of
their family, (i) John, fourth son of Micheal
and Mary Woods, lived on Medium River,
was born February 19, 1712, died October 14,
1791. He married Margaret Anderson daugh-
ter of Rev. James Anderson of Pennsylvania,
and left two sons and four daughters. (/)
Archibald, fifth son of Micheal and Mary
Woods, lived on Catawba Creek in Botetourt
County, his wife's name was Isabella. His
children were James, who moved to Fayette
County, Ky., John, Archibald, Andrew and
Joseph, who remained in Botetourt, and his
descendants live in Roanoke, Va. From vol. 1,
page 470, of Chalkley's Abstracts of Records
of Augusta County, Va., we find that in a
court record of August, 1750, Richard Woods
is mentioned as a son of Micheal Woods, Sr.,
also Magdalin McDowell and Samuel Woods
are mentioned in the same connection. Mag-

dalin we know was a daughter of Michael
Woods Sr., and no doubt Richard and Samuel
complete the twelve children of Micheal and
Mary Woods. This record mentioned above
seems to be the account of Samuel Smith, a
merchant of Lancaster County, Pa., in 1738r39,
against various parties who had formerly re-
sided in Lancaster County, but had moved
south. Micheal Woods seems to have owed
for one dozen catechisms bought October 7,
1739, and is credited on his account with six
fox, one beaver and seven raccoon hides. The
Woods were mostly staunch Presbyterians,
and with the Wallaces were leading members
and supporters of the Mountain Plains Presby-
terian Church. Micheal Woods, Sr., patented
1300 acres on Lickinghole Creek and Merchum
River in Albemarle County, Va., and in 173/
purchased from Charles Hudson 2000 acres
more, this giving him a large estate, which
he divided among his children as they mar-
ried. Most of them lived near him until his
death in 1762, when many of them moved to
other counties to the south and west. Micheal
Woods, Sr's., will is on record, but mentions
only his oldest son, William, who, according
to the English custom succeeded his father at
the home place, then he mentions his two sons,
John and Archibald, who were his executors,
and three daughters, Sarah- Hannah and
Margaret. The other children seem to have
been provided for before his death. Of the
remaining children of John Woods and Eliza-
beth Warsop Woods we know very little.
(Ill) James Woods settled in Amherst
County, Va. (IV) William Woods moved
from Pennsylvania to the Forks of James
River. We find him there in 1746. (V)
Andrew Woods probably remained in Lan-
caster County, Pa. (VI) Elizabeth Woods
married Peter Wallace, and moved to Augusta
County, Va., and first lived in Lancaster
County, Pa., before 1738. Wm. G. Mont-
gomery, 827 South 30th St., Birmingham, Ala.

JOHN BURCH'S PETITION

To the Worshipfull the Justicies of Charles
County now in Court. — the petition of John
Burch humbly sheweth that your petitioner has
been at the Expence of Raising Twelve Chil-
dren which the most part of them Girls and
them that is with me small having two Sons
Voluntarily Inlisted in the war one of the age
of sixteen and having heavy rent to pay renders
me unable to get me & my family the neces-
saries of life for the want of them he there-
fore prays your Worships allowance for the

same and your petitioner as in duty bound
will ever pray. — August 1778.

John Burch

Which petition was read to the Court and
after considering the same he is allowed the
sum of thirty pounds currency to be drawn on
the Treasurer of the Western Shore (order
drawn), Maryland.

Court Record Chas. Co., Y. No. 3, 1778-1780,
fol. 22.

HOME COMMISSARY IN WAR-TIME

Housewives : Make economy fashionable lest it become obligatory.

The Secretary of Agriculture.

The Department of Agriculture has per-
fected a series of practical lessons in home
gardening, planting, canning, and preserving
fruits, vegetables, and meats. These lessons
are given in this Magazine for the benefit
of housewives desiring to learn the latest and
most practical methods of growing and pre-
serving food. The Department's canning sys-
tem applies to all varieties of vegetables and
fruits, and does not require either particular
recipes or expensive cooking utensils. Can
the food you have, with what you have.

Readers desiring further information on any
particular lesson can apply to the Editor.

The directions for the successful canning of
field corn for both home use and sale on the
market are as follows :

1. Select well-developed ears of corn just
ready to come out of the milk state. In other
words, the corn should be of the same degree
of maturity as would be selected for ears of
sweet corn for table use.

2. Get a five- or ten-cent grater and grate
all the corn off the cob into a large pan. Add
a little salt for seasoning, and a little sugar to
sweeten the product — not too much of either.

3. Put the grated corn upon the stove and
cook until thick, stirring to keep from burning.

4. Pour the thickened product into glass jars
or tin cans until they are a quarter of an
inch from being full. If you use glass jars
be sure that the tops of the jars are as large
as the body and bottom ; otherwise it will be
difficult to remove the solid mass later on.

5. Seal the glass jars by placing rubber and
cap in position, and seal the tin cans completely.
Then place jars and cans into your wash
boiler, under boiling hot water, and sterilize
for from two to three hours, according to the
size of the jars — three hours if a large size
jar is used. If a steam-pressure outfit is used,
sterilize for from SO to 60 minutes, at a tem-
perature of 240° or 10 lbs. of steam pressure.

After this product has been sterilized,
stored away, and cooled, it will form a solid
mass, which when removed whole from the
jar or pack will look like a cake of white
butter, if you use white corn, or yellow but-
ter, if you use yellow corn, or will make
a cake mottled in appearance if the Bloody
Butcher corn is used. A little butter added to
the product before packing will sometimes help
its flavor and quality.
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How to Use Canned Field Corn as a
Breakfast Food

1. Remove from the jar or can and slice into
uniform, attractive slices ; put slices on a
toaster, butter, and place in the oven. Serve
hot.

2. Fry the slices in the " skillet " or frying
pan, in butter. This will make a delicious
breakfast dish.

3. Bake the slices in the oven, slightly but-
tered with gravy, sauce, or syrup added when
served.

4. Slice, bake, and serve very much the same
as hot corn mush ; add milk and sugar.

The product is a wholesome food, very
palatable, and will help reduce the grocery bill
of the family.

Try this recipe on a few packs until you have
learned how to do the work well, then put up
a good supply for home use and some for the
market. As people are unacquainted with this
product, you will have to educate them to its
food and market value. A few samples,
properly placed, will do this effectively.

No. 2 tin cans and pint jars are well adapted
for attractive packs of this product.

O. H. Benson,
Of the Department of Agriculture.

Potato Starch and Its Use in the Home

The object of this recipe is to make possible
the use of the culls and bruised and otherwise
unmarketable potatoes and transform them into
a desirable and practical product for home use.

Equipment Needed

Two clean pans, vats or galvanized tubs, one
large pan, one cylindrical grater, plenty of
clean water, and wiping cloths. Instead of the
grater a sausage grinder can be used to advan-
tage for the grating of the potatoes. When
using the sausage grinder it will be necessary
to cut the potatoes into small pieces before
feeding into the grinder.

Recipe for Making Home-made Potato
Starch

Wash potatoes thoroughly, using plenty of
water and a vegetable scrubbing brush. Seat
yourself in a convenient position, with a vessel
containing potatoes at one side and an empty

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vessel for the gratings on the other. Place
dish pan with grater on low small table or upon
your lap. Without removing the skins, grate
your potatoes by hand or run them through the
sausage grinder. Empty gratings into the
second tub or vessel. Continue this operation
until your vessel is one-half or two-thirds full
of pulp, or until your potatoes have been used.

Pour clean water over the gratings. Stir
well, so as to saturate every particle with
water. Allow to stand for a little time and
then remove the peelings and other floating
material from the top of the water. Stir
again, add a little more clean water and allow
the same to stand for several hours or over
night. The starch granules will settle to the
bottom and all pulp and potato skins will rise
to the top of the water or settle on top of the
starch granules. Remove the water carefully,
also the pulp and skins. Scrape the dark coat
off the top of the starch formation, being
careful not to remove any of the starch.

A second time pour fresh, clean water over
the starch. Stir thoroughly. Allow to stand
for several hours or over night. Remove
water and pulp as before and add another ap-
plication of water. Continue this as often as
is necessary to render your starch perfectly
white and free, not only from pulp but from
all sand or sediment of any kind which is not
pure starch.

This operation can be abbreviated somewhat
by rinsing the first time and then straining
the pulp, starch, and water through cheesecloth
or cloth of finer mesh.

Potato starch is a healthful food and
can be used in many ways for food pur-
poses, in the making of puddings, salads,
milk dishes, etc.

Potato Starch Recipes
white SAUCE

2 tablespoons potato starch.

2 tablespoons butter.

1 cup milk.

Y\ teaspoon salt.

Few grains of pepper.

Rub together butter and starch in saucepan ;
add seasoning. Pour on the scalded milk
gradually, stirring constantly until well mixed,
then beat until smooth and glossy.

By heating the butter and flour together in
a saucepan and adding the cold milk one can
save the use of a second vessel. Time can
also be saved in making white sauce in this
way, because of the higher temperature ob-
tained when heating butter.

BOILED CUSTARD

4 tablespoons potato starch.
8 tablespoons sugar.

1 quart milk.

4 eggs.

l/2 teaspoon salt.

1 teaspoon vanilla.

Beat eggs slightly ; add sugar and salt. Mix
potato starch with a little milk, add the re-
mainder of the milk, and cook in double boiler
for five minutes, or until it thickens. Pour
gradually over the eggs, stirring constantly.
Cook in double boiler for a few minutes longer.
Watch the boiling custard carefully, for if
cooked too long it will curdle. Add vanilla
just before removing from fire. If a thicker
custard is desired, use a little more starch.

This custard may be adapted to a number
of uses. It may be used as a sauce for sponge
cake, or, when chilled thoroughly, it is delicious
poured over various kinds of stewed fruit.

It is not necessary to use the whites of the
eggs in the custard. They may be beaten to a
stiff froth, sweetened to taste, and poured over
the custard, making a nourishing dessert known
as " floating island."

The whites of the eggs may also be used in
making snow pudding, over which is poured the
boiled custard.

FROZEN CUSTARD

Custard made rather thin, and with or with-
out fresh or canned fruit added may be
frozen. Such frozen custard with lady fingers
is a nutritious as well as palatable dessert.

LEMON PUDDING

8 tablespoons potato starch.

54 cup sugar.

2 tablespoons butter.

4 eggs.

1 quart milk.

Juice and grated rind of 2 lemons.

Beat yolks of eggs slightly, add sugar, butter,
and juice and grated rind of lemons. Mix
starch in a little cold water and add scalded
milk gradually. Then add the previously
mixed ingredients and cook in double boiler,
stirring constantly until the mixture is quite
thick. Add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Pour
into a mold, chill, and serve with cream and
sugar.

FRUIT BLANC MANGE

2>Y2 tablespoons potato starch.

1 pint fruit juice.

Sugar to sweeten.

Put juice in saucepan, sweeten to taste, and
place over fire until it boils. Add starch which
has been previously mixed with cold water.
Pour into a mold and set away to cool. Serve
with boiled custard or with whipped cream and
sugar.

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BATTER PUDDING WITH FRUIT

4 tablespoons potato starch.

6 tablespoons sugar.

Yolks of 5 eggs.

1 pint milk.

l/2 teaspoon salt.

Beat egg yolks until lemon colored, add
sugar, and beat again until light. Add starch
mixed in cold milk. Add above mixture to 1
quart of milk at boiling point. Stir until
thickened. Pour into baking dish, and set in
oven and bake. Place over top a layer of
canned peaches or any other available fruit.
Cover with a meringue made of the whites of
eggs, allowing 1 tablespoon sugar to each egg.
Put in oven until the meringue is light brown.

POTATO STARCH LEMOX PIE

4 tablespoons potato starch.

24 cup sugar.

14 cup boiling water.

2 egg yolks.

3 tablespoons lemon juice.
Grated rind of 1 lemon.

1 teaspoon butter.

Mix potato starch and sugar ; add boiling
water, stirring constantly. Cook 5 minutes ;
add butter, egg yolks, and rind and juice of
lemon. Pour mixture into crust which has
been previously cooked. Cover with meringue
made of the whites of the eggs. Return to
oven to brown meringue.

POTATO STAkl H SPONGE CAKE

6 eggs.

1 cup sugar.

1 tablespoon lemon juice.

Grated rind *4 lemon.

^4 cup potato starch.

Yx teaspoon salt.

Beat yolks until thick and lemon colored,
add sugar gradually, and continue beating.
Add lemon juice, rind, and whites of eggs
beaten until stiff and dry. When whites are
practically mixed with yolks, carefully cut and
fold in potato starch mixed with salt. Bake

one hour in a slow oven, in an angel-cake pan
or deep narrow pan.

LADY FINGERS

Whites of 3 eggs.

Yi cup powdered sugar.

Yolks of 2 eggs.

4 tablespoons potato starch.

% teaspoon salt.

Y\ teaspoon vanilla.

Beat whites until stiff and dry; add sugar
gradually, and continue beating. Then add
yolks of eggs, beaten until thick and lemon
colored, then add flavoring. Cut and fold in
potato starch mixed with salt. Using a pastry
bag and tube, or a cornucopia made of paper
and having a small opening at the pointed end,
force the batter into the desired shape. Shape
Ay2 inches long, 1 inch wide, on a tin sheet
covered with unbuttered paper. Sprinkle
powdered sugar over them, and bake 8 or 10
minutes in a moderate oven. Remove from
paper with knife.

Lady fingers are often served with frozen
desserts. They may be put together in
pairs, writh a thin coating of whipped cream
between. Very commonly they are used for
lining molds that are to be filled with whipped-
cream mixtures.

POTATO STARCH AXGEL CAKE

Whites 8 eggs.

1 teaspoon cream of tartar.

1 cup fine granulated sugar.

24 cup potato starch.

Y\ teaspoon salt.

24 teaspoon vanilla.

Beat whites of eggs until frothy, add cream
of tartar, and continue beating until eggs are
stiff and flaky ; then add sugar gradually. Cut
and fold in potato starch mixed with salt and
sifted several times, and add vanilla. Bake
45 to 50 minutes in a moderate oven, in an un-
buttered angel-cake pan. After cake has risen
and begins to brown it may be covered with
a buttered paper. When done, loosen the cake
around the edge and turn out at once.

WATCH FOR THE NOVEMBER MAGAZINE

The Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine is published
the first of everv month.

There are plenty of good things in store for the reader!

WORK OF THE CHAPTERS

To Insure Accuracy in the Reading of Names and Promptness in
Publication, Chapter Reports Must be Typewritten.

EDITOR.

The Natchez Chapter (Natchez, Miss.)
celebrated its coming of age, its twenty-first
birthday, on May 5, 1917, having been organ-
ized in 1896 with twelve charter members. We
now have an active membership of fifty-three
with several more in prospect. We meet on
the third Tuesday in each month, and this
year tied with the Columbus Chapter for the
prize offered by our State Historian for the
best historical work done by the chapters
throughout the state.

In the past year we have placed markers on
the graves of four Revolutionary soldiers
buried here, have sent medals to the graduat-
ing classes of the Natchez High School and
Jefferson College for the best essay on an
historical subject: contributed to the Natchez
Trace Fund for markers, and to the Red Cross
work in France.

The accompanying picture shows the boulder
placed on the bluffs at Natchez, Miss., in 1909,
to mark the Natchez Trace. This was the
first one of eight boulders which have been

BOULDER ERECTED IN 1909 TO MARK THE
NATCHEZ TRUCE AT NATCHEZ, MISS.

placed throughout the state by the Mississippi
Daughters.

Several members of our chapter are on the
committee now trying to locate the exact spot
in Natchez on which to place a flag-staff and
flag to mark the spot where the " Stars and
Stripes " were first unfurled in Mississippi.

Captain Guion, who raised the first flag, is
buried in our city cemetery, and in April last
our Chapter placed a marker on his grave.

(Mrs. Albert J.) Isabel R. N. Geisenberger,

Historian.

Jane McCrea Chapter (Glen Falls, Hudson
Falls, Fort Edward, N. Y.). We had for the
general topic of our program, 1916-17, present-
day patriotism. Flag Day we had an excellent
report of the Twenty-fifth Continental Con-
gress, and in response to the roll call, each
related something of interest about her an-
cestor. July 27, Jane McCrea Day, a delight-
ful outing was held at Cleverdale, Lake George,
at the cottage of Mrs. Geo. A. Ferris. Sara-
toga Day we had an address on " Our Moun-
tain People," by Miss Palmer, of Glens Falls.
At the October meeting Mrs. B. G. Highley
gave an address on " Prison Reform." The
Rev. C. O. Judkins gave his instructive lecture
on " Americanism and Its Descent " at our
November meeting. In January Mrs. John
B. McElroy, of Albany, spoke on the " Ameri-
canization of the Immigrant Woman," giving
us practical ideas for work. Washington's
Birthday was fittingly observed, and on that
day Mrs. E. C. Whitmeyer of Schenectady
gave a talk on " Conservation." At the April
meeting Miss Nye told us of her work, her
subject being, "Dependent Children." May
10, at the annual meeting, Mrs. J. E. King,
who founded the Chapter and was its Regent
for ten years, gave an entertaining report of
the Twenty-sixth Continental Congress. In
response to the roll call, we used the subject,
" The American Indian." At each of these
meetings we had music and all agreed that
the year's program had proved not only inter-
esting but helpful. During the year the Chap-
ter placed a curio cabinet in the Hudson Falls
Library in which our relics are kept. We have
many of interest. Among them is the key to
old Fort Ticonderoga. Hudson Falls being

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situated between Glens Falls and Fort Ed-
ward, it is a convenient place for our Cabinet.

We filled and sent a box to our Company
K boys while they were at the Mexican border
last summer. The Chapter has made contribu-
tions to Red Cross work and to other worthy
objects.

We are steadily increasing our membership
and now number nearly a hundred.

Many of our members are doing Red Cross
work, and our Regent, Mrs. Preston Paris is
untiring in her efforts along the lines of pre-
paredness and is president of this branch of
" The National League for Woman's Service,"
and we, as a Chapter, are in cooperation with
this League.

(Mrs. Wr. G.) Ella Baxer Devixe,

Historian.

Benjamin Mills Chapter ( Greenville, 111. ).
The past year has been one of interest and
profit. Our study has been " Recent Move-
ments for Good Citizenship in the United
States, Including the Movements for Health,
Uplift, Preparedness, Conservation, Peace,
Equal Suffrage, and Education " We erected a
monument — a boulder of Bond County gran-
ite— at the site of Hill's Fort, the first settle-
ment in the county. On the face of the boulder
is a bronze tablet bearing this inscription :
" To mark the site of Hills Fort, built in

HILLS FORT MARKER
ERECTED BY BENJAMIN MILLS CHAPTER

1811. Indian massacre, August, 1814. Erected
by Benjamin Mills Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, October, 1916."

We held a Flag Day picnic on the site of
one of the Lincoln and Douglas debates which
took place in Greenville in 1858.

Our Guest Day entertainment consisted of a
patriotic lecture delivered by Rev. J. G. Wright,
and we all enrolled to work with our local
Red Cross unit and are also knitting for the
Navy League.

Evelyn Hubbard Watson,
Regent.

Jonathan Cass Chapter has held seven
meetings at the homes of members. The
average attendance at these meetings was
eleven.

The Chapter has lost one member by trans-
fer and has one new member. The present
membership is twenty-one ; one a " Real "
Daughter.

One dollar has been paid to the fund for
Philippine education.

Esther C. Sheldon,

Secretary.

Moses Van Campen Chapter (Berwick,
Pa.). The report for the year just ending
shows the identification and marking of the
graves of seven Revolutionary soldiers. One
grave thus identified is an achievement — we
may feel justly proud that so large a number
have been marked by this Chapter for future
generations.

On October 14, 1916, the Annual Pilgrimage
was enjoyed. The interest attached to the
trip was added to immeasurably by the two
guests of the Chapter, Mr. Christopher Wren
of Plymouth, as guide, and Mr. Oscar J. Har-
vey of Wilkesbarre, whose knowledge of
Wyoming Valley history from pre-Revolution-
ary days to the present has been gained by
years of study and research.

The start was made at eight-o'clock from
Riverview with the car of the Regent as
pilot car.

The first point visited was Campbell's Ledge
or Dial Rock, the high cliff at West Pittston.
The name " Dial Rock " comes from the fact
that with the sun at noon shining directly
down upon the cliff, persons who have a view
of the rock from a wide area can judge the
time of day by the cliff. One of the legends
connected with the rock is that when chased
by the Indians an early settler and his horse
plunged over the cliff to death rather than
risk capture.

At Pittston, Fort Jenkins was viewed ; a
marker denotes the site near the river bridge.

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From Pittston a visit was paid to the battle-
field of Wyoming where the Indians and
British defeated and massacred the greater
number of the Coloni:.l troops. The Wyoming
Monument was inspected — some of the mem-
bers finding names of relatives marked thereon.
The interior of the monument contains the
bones of the Colonial troops who lost their
lives in the massacre.

Queen Esther's rock was a point of especial
interest. Sixteen men were captured by the
Indians in the battle, and that night Queen
Esther of the Indians, as fourteen of the men
knelt before her, stood on the rock and killed
them. Two of the prisoners escaped. The
rock was so chipped by curio seekers who
visited the spot that its size diminished rapidly
and it is now protected by an iron fence.

Forty Fort Cemetery was the next stop
and the grave of Luke Swetland, a Revolu-
tionary ancestor of Mrs. W. C. Sponsler of
Berwick was marked. The D. A. R. ritual was
used in the ceremony It was from Forty
Fort that the Colonial troops marched out to
meet the Indians and Tories, meeting them on
the battleground at Wyoming.

A visit was paid to the quaint old church at
Forty Fort, built in 1806, and which remains
the same as when first built, with its high pulpit
and sounding board and the family pews
enclosed.

The site of the fort at Forty Fort was visited.
This is located on the point of land at a
bend of the river where a view for a great
distance up the stream can be obtained. From
here we went to Wilkesbarre, viewing the
sites of Fort Wyoming and Fort Durkee and
the place from which Frances Slocum, the
" lost sister of Wyoming," was stolen.

In the afternoon a short drive took us to the
Wyoming Historic Society and Geological
Museum. Through the courtesy of Mr.
Haden and Mr. Wrenn the stories of many
curios were told and the interesting collec-
tion examined. Two floors are given over to
the relics and curios of the valley, and the
visit was one of the most interesting events
of the trip. That the trip was thoroughly en-
joyed and every moment filled with interest
everyone of the party agreed, when, late in
the afternoon, the return trip to Berwick was

taken- Edna K. Jackson,

Historian.

Cache La Poudre Chapter (Fort Collins,
Colo.). Again have the patriotic Daughters
of the American Revolution defeated Father
Time in his ruthless attempts to obliterate and
destroy famous landmarks, which but for the
efforts of the Daughters, would fade away
from the memory of man, by establishing, un-

veiling and dedicating to posterity a monu-
ment of imperishable granite on the old Over-
land stage route where it crosses from Colo-
rado into Wyoming. The exercises attend-
ing the unveiling and dedication of this monu-
ment were universally interesting and impres-
sive and were witnessed by a large number of
people from Wyoming and Colorado. The
excellent program arranged by the State Re-
gents of the Daughters of the American
Revolution of Wyoming and Colorado, assisted
by the Regents of Jacques Laramie Chapter
of Laramie, Cache la Poudre Chapter of
Fort Collins, and Centennial Chapter of
Greeley, was as follows :

Singing — " America." Unveiling of the
Monument — Mrs. James Mathison, Regent
Jacques Laramie Chapter, Laramie, Wyo. The
Overland Trail Through Larimer County —
Mrs. P. J. McHugh, Regent Cache la Poudre
Chapter, Fort Collins, Colorado. The Stage
Station of Virginia Dale in 1867-68— Hon. W.
H. Holliday, Laramie, Wyo. First Things in.
Colorado — Prof. S. Arthur Johnson, dean*
Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Wyoming Fifty Years Ago, Mrs. R. E. Fitch,
Laramie, Wyo. Singing — " Star Spangledi
Banner."

GRANITE MARKER

Unvelied on Colorado-Wyoming line of Overland stage
road on July 4, 1917. Mrs. James Mathison, Regent,
Jacques Laramie Chapter of Laramie, Wyoming.

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The monument, a solid slab of Colorado
granite, dl/2 feet in height by Al/2 feet in width,
bears the following inscription :

This Stone Marks the

Place Where

The Overland Stage Line,

On Its Way to the West,

June, 1862-1868,

Crossed the Colorado-Wyoming

Boundary Line,

Erected by

The State of Wyoming,

and Chapters of

The Daughters of the

American Revolution

Cache la Poudre, Fort Collins, Colo.

The Centennial, Greeley, Colo.

The Jacques Laramie, Laramie, Wyo.

1917

It stands beside the road in plain view of
passers-by and will be an object of supreme
interest to the thousands who annually go
and come by that famous old trail. It was es-
tablished and dedicated by the State of Wyom-
ing, through the Wyoming-Oregon Trail Com-
mission and the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Cache la Poudre Chapter of Fort
Collins, Jacques Laramie Chapter of Wyoming,
and Centennial Chapter of Greelev.

(Mrs. P. J.) Sarah G. McHugh,

Regent.

Oshkosh Chapter (Oshkosh, Wis.) held a
social meeting, June 15, 1917, at Oak wood, the
summer home of the Regent, Mrs. Lottie
Loomis Holister.

After luncheon a business meeting was held
and a letter from the former Regent, Mrs.

marker placed by oshkosh chapter
on prehistoric mound

James H. Davidson, was read, which con-
tained a delightful surprise for the members
present.

Oakwood is situated on the shore of Lake
Butte des Morts, where exists a chain of pre-

historic mounds. Airs. Davidson has had a
marker placed on one of these mounds and
inscribed with the name of the Oshkosh
Chapter I). A. R. It is of highly polished
red granite, the figures in the border repre-
senting the original mounds : a flight of birds,
a single circle, a double circle and three
lizards.

The mounds are fast becoming obliterated,
the one on which the marker rests being the
best preserved, and it is a great satisfaction,
not only to the Chapter but also to the Wis-
consin Historical Society, to have this place
permanently marked for future generations.

Many expressions of appreciation for this
gracious gift were heard, and a vote of
thanks was given the donor for her generosity.
Elizabeth Waters,
Corresponding Secretary.

" Spirit of '76 " Chapter ( New Orleans,
La.). Too often we think of the work of the
Chapter as being confined to its regular meet-
ings held monthly from October to June, but
from the standpoint of making history, the
activities of " Spirit of 76" Chapter show that
it is living up to its purpose by " the pro-
motion and celebration of all patriotic anni-
versaries and the fostering of true patriotism
and love of country and by aiding in securing
for mankind all the blessings of liberty."

On June 3 " Spirit of 76 " took a prominent
part in the Preparedness Parade, marching
with nearly forty thousand persons. Perhaps
no one attracted more attention and admira-
tion than our dear member, Mrs. Julia B.
Montgomery. Thousands marked her in the
parade, this erect, proud, aristocratic woman
of 86, playing her part in the stirring drama
of another event that made history. Her
white hair formed a more inspiring standard
than the star-spangled flag waving ahead, her
low voice a better hymn of " America First "
than the blaring of the passing bands.

On June 20 the Chapter met for the pur-
pose of making supplies for the Red Cross,
continuing the work on through the summer,
and on February 12 when the Red Cross had
their great Membership Drive, our Regent,
Mrs. Pendleton S. Morris and a number of
our members were Captains of Squads, help-
ing in the work.

And we have proven we can honor the
memory of our beloved Washington in other
ways than a patriotic reception or luncheon,
for this year we gave up our party at the
Country Club to join in the Gymkhana, to
celebrate the return of the Washington Artil-
lery. Our Regent, Mrs. Morris was appointed
to present a guidon to one of the companies
of the Artillery.

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Historically the rinding of Records of a Bat-
tle of Baton Rouge in 1776 and establish-
ing our share in the actual fighting in the
Revolutionary War, brought before State Con-
ference in session at Hotel Grunewald in April,
is of greatest interest to us as an organiza-
tion. Mrs. W. E. Conner of Shreveport, on
behalf of the Caddo Chapter, produced the
documents and told the story.

We organized a school to teach the immi-
grant woman to read and write English, the
woman often being left behind in the march
toward American citizenship. These strangers
within our midst present a great problem. Our
helping hand to these discouraged sisters rang-
ing in years from the young wife of sixteen
to the grandmother of sixty has been accepted,
as has been shown by the sacrifices they make,
to take advantage of the privileges we offer.
The Y. M. C. A. has allowed us to cooperate
with them in a series of " Foreign Nights."
After a delightful program we have had a
social hour and refreshments, giving a per-
sonal touch to the work.

The work of copying the index of wills from
the old records in our Probate Court and of
the inscriptions on tombstones, bearing dates
prior to 1830 and the gathering together of
data from individual members of Historic
Value for the files in Washington, is being
carried on.

Our ninety-two members are deeply inter-
ested in promoting and extending all patriotic
work instituted by the National Society.
(Mrs. Levering) Margaret Edgerton Moore,

Historian.

Uvedale Chapter (Hutchinson, Kansas)
has just completed its eighth year. At the
close of the sixth year its membership num-
bered thirty-five, now it numbers sixty. One
of the new members is a daughter of a real
daughter. She has her mother's real daugh-
ter's certificate and gold spoon. We have
twelve non-resident members and one mem-
ber at large. The Chapter was represented
by one of its members at the election for
President General and instructed to vote for
Mrs. Guernsey "first, last and all the time."

On Loyalty Day Parade, April 8, we headed
our delegation with a float decorated in the
national colors, and Miss Margaret Willms as
Betsy Ross sewing on the first flag, sitting in
the centre of the float.

Instead of our annual banquet at Hotel
Chalmers we gave the $17.00 we would have
spent on our menu to the Belgian Relief Fund.
The Chapter gave $60.00 to the popular sub-
scription fund for the Red Cross work and
voted to work with that organization. The
Chapter also gave $5.00 to the Harrison House

MISS MARGARET WILLMS AS BETSY ROSS IN
THE LOYALTY PARADE, HUTCHINSON, KANSAS

Fund. Our present Regent, formerly owned
the William Henry Harrison House in Vin-
cennes, Ind. Mrs. Shepherd was a member of
the Francis Vigo Chapter of that city. We
hope to do more work next year as we are now
getting on our feet in this Chapter.

Mrs. L. P. Sentney,
Registrar.

Captain Robert Nichols Chapter ( New
York, N. Y.). — Mrs. Henry S. Bowron, Re-
gent, has a membership of twenty ; thirteen
of the number, Charter Members, and the Re-
gent are descendants of Captain Robert
Nichols, all others have become members by
invitation. The chapter work until 1914 was
exclusively patriotic education, renting lec-
tures and distributing a pledge to the Ameri-
can flag.

In November, 1914, a sewing class was or-
ganized to make clothing and surgical sup-
plies for the destitute and sorely afflicted Bel-

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gians, especially the babies. Madame Maurice
Hannsens, a Belgian, was introduced to the
chapter and assisted with the work. Through
the summer months of 1915 each member car-
ried on the work in some degree, and in the
fall a box was sent to Madame Hannsen,
who had returned to Belgium and with her
husband devoted her time to the " Hospitale
Croix Rouge, La Panne Belgique."

During 1915 and 1916 the class enlarged its
membership, also its scope of work. Boxes
containing four thousand articles and costing
$400 were sent to Madame Pinto in France,
to Con Carneau and an emergency hospital
in Nice, also to Belgium, through the Ameri-
can Girls' Aid.

In the summer of 1916 boxes were sent,
through the American Red Cross, to Browns-
ville and Fort McAllen, Texas.

A little later the Regent of the Chapter
was requested to form a sub-committee to
assist in equipping Base Unit No. 8, Ameri-
can Red Cross, Post Graduate Hospital, New
York City. The work was immediately started
and in November the membership was much
increased, and about $300 raised and work
commenced on a large scale. The Plaza Hotel
gave the use of a room, and a store directly
opposite was given by the owner for a packing
and shipping department. Surgical dressings
and hospital supplies of all kinds were made
under the direction of the Regent who had
qualified as a surgical dressing instructor,
American Red Cross.

Early in April the Chapter, with its friends,
organized Auxiliary No. 18, New York County
Chapter, American Red Cross. Over six thou-
sand articles have been made and hundreds of
articles received.

In April, 1917, the Chapter was represented
in Congress and had the gratification of cast-
ing its vote for Mrs. George Thatcher Guern-
sey for President General, thus carrying out
its hearty endorsement of the fine qualities
that fit Mrs. Guernsey for the office. On
May 30th the Regent of the Chapter presented
two flags to Base Unit No. 8, the Red Cross
Flag from Auxiliary No. 18, inscribed : " Pre-
sented by Auxiliary No. 18 of the New York
County Chapter to Post Graduate Hospital
Base Unit No. 8, Dr. Samuel Lloyd, Chief " — -
and the American flag from Captain Robert
Nichols Chapter inscribed, " Presented by Cap-
tain Robert Nichols Chapter, N.S.D.A.R., to
Post Graduate Hospital Base Unit No. 8, Dr.
Samuel Lloyd, Chief." The flags were ac-
cepted by Dr. Lloyd.

The Chapter is now making supplies to ship
when needed to Base Unit No. 8, and knitting
sets for the men on two submarine chasers
and the battleship Kentucky.

Two French orphans are being cared for —
one by the Chapter and one by a member. It
is hoped the Chapter in other ways may as-
sist in the Society's program of usefulness.
Helen Isabel Nichols,
Historian.

Tioga Point Chapter (Athens, Pa.). — Since
the annual meeting held in May, 1916, nine
new members have been welcomed, one a
transfer from the Honesdale, Pa., Chapter.
Three valued members have died, and one has
been transferred to the Chapter at Buffalo.
The Chapter at this date has one hundred and
fifty-five active members, twenty-nine of whom
are non-resident.

The members of the various committees,
both state and local, have done faithful and
efficient work during the year.

The Museum Committee has been particu-
larly active, and as a result the contents of
the Museum have been rearranged, several new
loan exhibits have been added to the already
remarkable collection, and the books in the
library have all been listed and catalogued.
The Chapter expends $52 a year for the use
of the Museum Committee, and a former
resident of Athens gave $100 last year and
$200 this year for the same purpose. In June
when the Moorehead Archological Expedition
journeyed down the Susquehanna looking for
old Indian village sites, they spent several
days in this vicinity, and not only gave sev-
eral talks to the members and friends of the
Chapter, but also gave a public lecture for the
benefit of the Museum fund. In November
and December public loan exhibits were given
at the Museum, with Thursday reserved for
the reception of Chapter members when tea
was served. The exhibit in November was
of old needlework, china and pewter, and in
December of firearms, coins, medals, Masonic
emblems and medical and surgical cases and
instruments. Both exhibits were remarkable
and brought large numbers of visitors. A
talk on " Colonial China " was given on one
of the Chapter days by Dr. E. M. Cowell of
Athens.

The committee to do Red Cross work, ap-
pointed before a local Red Cross Chapter
had been organized, purchased, prepared and
packed a box of surgical supplies which was
forwarded promptly to Washington.

Of the money expended during the year
besides the sums for the Museum and the box
for the Red Cross, and not listing the regular
expenses of the Chapter, the following should
be mentioned : $50 for the Berry School, $25
to Memorial Continental Hall Fund, $25.50 for
traveling expenses of Miss Stille, State Histo-
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tember and for tickets of guests, $5 for a Re-
gent's bar pin, and $5 to tbe local visiting
nurse fund.

The Chapter has held nine regular meet-
ings with an average attendance of sixty.
These meetings have been combined literary
and social gatherings held at the homes of
the members.

In July this Chapter with the other Chap-
ters in Bradford County were guests of Brad-
ford Chapter of Canton at a picnic held on
the spacious lawn, Mooreland Park, of the
Regent, Mrs. L. T. McFadden. Mrs. George
Thacher Guernsey was the guest of honor and
a most enjoyable time was spent by all. The
tables were spread under the trees and the
weather was forgotten in the enjoyment of the
picnic dinner and the toasts given afterward.

The social activities of the Chapter during
the year have been many and varied. In
September the annual luncheon was held in
the Parish House in Sayre ; covers were laid
for 100. The State Historian, Miss Mary I.
Stille, was the guest of honor and other guests
included the regents of all Bradford County
Chapters, the Regent and three members of
Chemung Chapter in Elmira and members
from Chapters in Tunkhannock, Hornets
Ferry, Wysox, Honesdale, Pa., and Winter
Haven, Fla.

The Chapter was represented at the State
Convention held in October in Philadelphia
by nine delegates and at the Continental Con-
gress held in Washington in April by two dele-
gates, the Regent and First Vice-Regent at-
tending both.

The June meeting was held in the evening
and the members and their guests listened to
some very interesting talks given by the mem-
bers of the Moorehead Expedition.

At the January meeting our Regent was the
recipient of a Regent's bar purchased by the
Chapter and presented in a most graceful
manner by the Second Vice-Regent, Mrs.
Hayden.

La Vantia Halsey Simmons,
Recording Secretary.

Lansing Chapter (Lansing, Mich.). This
Chapter has passed the twentieth mile-stone
in its existence, but at no time has it shown
such activity as during the last year. It was
decided to take up Red Cross work in con-
nection with the work of the patriotic com-
mittee, and the result has been a surprise to
the entire Chapter. As a nucleus for a fund
to be used in organizing a Red Cross Chapter
in Lansing, the Daughters of the American
Revolution raised $100 and turned it over to
the central committee. Many boxes of hos-

pital and surgical supplies have been made and
sent to headquarters, much yarn bought and
knitted into garments, besides making house-
wives' and comfort bags for the Lansing Bat-
talion of Field Artillery. On Flag Day a card
party was given which netted nearly $100, and
this was used in buying materials to be made
into needed articles.

Two regulation bunting flags were purchased
and presented to Batteries A and B when they
returned from their seven months' stay on the
border. It was voted to present each newly-
made American citizen with a silk flag when
he took the oath of allegiance, and at the last
naturalization court nine of these were pre-
sented, together with a typewritten copy of
the universal flag salute.

This Chapter also had flags placed over
every voting booth in the city upon a request
made to the Mayor and aldermen.

The line of the old Mackinaw Indian trail
through the state from north to south has been
located in the northern part of the county, and
an effort is being made by the Chapter to have
the school children in that vicinity gather
small boulders, to be made into a monument
where it crosses one of the main roads of that
section. Another spot which marks an event
in Ingham County Indian history is the site
of the camp made by the Pottowottomies near
the Grand River in Onondaga township, as
they were being taken west of the Mississippi
River in 1840. Near by were two well-known
trails whose route can easily be traced, making
several notable spots which belong to the terri-
tory adjacent to Lansing.

The membership of the Chapter is growing,
and the interest in the work increasing. Many-
patriotic papers and talks on current topics
have been given by members and noted speak-
ers from outside. The State Regent, Mrs.
Wm. Henry Wait, of Ann Arbor, has visited
the Chapter twice during the year, and her
presence and words of praise and encourage-
ment were most gratifying.

( Mrs.) Franc L. Adams,

Historian.

Wheeling Chapter (Wheeling, W. Ya. i
was organized only seventeen months ago. It
is trying to make up in zeal and patriotism
what it lacks in age and experience. Mrs.
C. H. Patterson, as organizing Regent, formed
the Chapter in February, 1916. On May 14,
1916, the charter was granted with twenty-six
members. There is now a membership of
thirty-five and seventeen have made application.
Last January Mrs. John B. Garden was elected
Regent and under her efficient leadership the
meetings have proved most inspiring. They

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are held monthly in the Y. W. C. A. building
with a patriotic program followed by a social
hour, three members acting as hostesses. The
Chapter sent $57 to the Belgian Relief Com-
mittee soon after its formation and also con-
tributed $15 toward the memorial tablet on
the dreadnaught West Virginia. It has under-
taken, however, for its specific work the mark-
ing of the Old Trails Road where it crosses
West Virginia. This road enters our state
near West Alexander, Pa., leaving it at Bridge-
port, Ohio. The Chapter has planned to place
markers similar to those used by the Society
in other parts of the country. The Wheeling
Chapter has charge of the Red • Cross rooms
each Thursday and its members sew all day
for our soldiers. They are also knitting for
the sailors on the battleship Huntington (for-
merly the West Virginia).

Two elaborate luncheons were held last win-
ter, one in honor of Mrs. George De Bolt,
of Fairmount, our honorary State Regent, and
the other on George Washington's Birthday.
An account of the name Wheeling taken from
the " History of the Panhandle," may be of
interest and is herewith given :

"Mr. John Brittle, originally of Pennsylvania,
was taken prisoner by the Delaware Indian;
in 1791. He lived with them for five years,
subsequently obtained his liberty and states that
he was informed by Chief Hahinguy-pooshies,
or Big Cat, that in the earliest period of the
settlement of Pennsylvania some white settlers
descended the Ohio River and were killed by
the Delawares near the mouth of Wheeling
Creek. The savages cut off the head of one
of the victims and placing it on a pole with the
face towards the river called the spot ' Weel-
ing.' The Indians further informed Mr. Brit-
tle that the head was placed there to guard
the river, presumably to guard the camp from
the incursions from the whites. If an Indian
were asked after shooting a deer or bear where
he had hit the animal his answer (if in the
head) would be ' weeling.' Why the " h " was
inserted we do not know except it may be sup-
posed that later generations, fancying it to be
named after its wheeling creek, or the wheeling
character of that stream, sought to improve the
original orthography, and hence established
the Wheeling of to-day. The oldest record,
however, of the name Wheeling Creek is on
Lewis Evans' map, published in London in
1755. This map has gained celebrity and is
prized by historical societies of the country
as the oldest published English map of the
interior portions of the United States. On it
are inscribed the names of (Weeling) Creek
and ' Weeling ' Island.

(Mrs. S. P.) Cornelia Lomax Christian,

Historian.

Wichita Chapter (Wichita, Kansas) was
organized December, 1916. A year ago eight
Daughters, members of another Chapter in
Wichita, felt a desire for a small study chap-
ter, one small enough to be easily entertained,
so that each member could take some part in
each program. So the Wichita Chapter was
formed with a limited membership of twenty-
five, and the study of the history of the
United States from a political and economical
viewpoint was decided upon.

MRS. MARY A. ROE
Wearing the dress of Cheyenne Indian of high rank.

We have well attended and exceedingly in-
teresting meetings. Our special interest is the
Roe Indian Institute to which we are paying
a yearly scholarship.

We have the honor of having among our
members Mrs. Mary A. Roe, whose photo-
graph we are sending with this story. She is
shown here dressed as a Cheyenne woman of
high rank. The dress was a gift of love to
her from the women of that tribe because of
the good she has done them in her labors
among the Indians. This photograph will be
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1917 Congress last April in Washington. Mrs.
Roe spoke to the Congress about this school,
the Roe Indian Institute, founded by her
husband, the late Walter E. Roe. She told
of the American Indian with whom our coun-
try has made 300 treaties and broken all but
one. She said in part : " Uncle Sam has
almost forgotten the Red Man. and left him a
ward and in some cases to starve while in our
treasury are millions of dollars of tribal money
actually belonging to these people."

The school was founded to train young In-
dians from the different tribes and fit them to
go back to their people and become native
leaders. Mr. Henry Roe-Cloud, a full blooded
Winnebago and the adopted son of Air. and
Mrs. Roe, is president of the school. He is
highly educated and a Presbyterian minister.

Of course the Chapter is doing its share in
Red Cross work, meeting once a week all
summer, making surgical supplies and some

knitting. We raised $150 for materials for
our outfits.

If the need continues the Wichita Chapter
will always be found ready for the call of the
Red Cross, even sacrificing our programs if
thought best. But when the crises is over
we will follow out our plan of being of assist-
ance in every way possible to the Roe Indian
Institute.

The encouragement given it by Chapters
from all over the country shows us it is timely
for the Indian problem to be handled along
the lines of the ideals of this school.

The officers of the Chapter are : Mrs. David
Walker, Regent; Mrs. W. T. Whitney, Vice-
Regent ; Mrs. R. D. W. Clapp, Secretary ;
Mrs. W. E. Jett, Treasurer; Mrs. C. C. Stan-
ley, Chaplain ; Mrs. F. E. Evans, Historian ;
Mrs. F. H. Robertson, Registrar.

Mrs. F. E. Evans,

Historian.

TRENCH CANDLES OR RATION HEATERS

Made From Old Newspapers and Candle Ends

The women and children of France and
Italy have shown us how to convert old news-
papers and candle ends into Trench Candles
or Ration Heaters, for they are making them
by the million. In American homes, there are
thousands of paraffine candle ends and news-
papers that can thus be utilized.

Trench Candles are easily made — " Cut eight
strips of newspaper, the length of the paper
and two and a half inches wide (width of
newspaper column). Roll two strips together
very tightly and when you have rolled them
nearly to the end, insert the end of a third
strip, rolling it in with the other two. Con-
tinue this method until you have used all the
strips." Tie a string tightly around the roll ;
melt enough paraffine candle ends in a kettle
to cover the rolls, and boil them for four
minutes ; then take out and cool when they
are ready to be packed into paper bags and
sent to the front.

The candles burn without smoke. One will
furnish light for twenty minutes or half an
hour, and three will boil a pint of soup in
about ten minutes.

For further information on the subject, see
The National Geographic Magazine, June,
1917.

The candles can be sent to the General Secre-
tary, Women's Section, Navv League, Miss
Elisabeth E. Poe, 1606 20th St. N. W., Wash-
ington, D. C, to be put into Comfort Kit Bags.

Mrs. William Henry Wait,
Publicity Director, War Relief Service
Committee, N. S. D. A. R.,
1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Aug. 29, 1917.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

HEADQUARTERS
MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL

SEVENTEENTH AND D STREETS, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
1917-1918

President General

Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey,
Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

Vice Presidents General
(Term of office expires 1918.)
Mrs. J. F. Maupin, Mrs. C. B. Letton,

42 N. Court St., Portsmouth, Va. 1910 E St., Lincoln, Neb.

Mrs. Joseph S. Wood, Mrs. Edmund P. Moody,

135 S. 2nd Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 1106 Jackson St., Wilmington, Del.

Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary, Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger,

1 55 1 10th Ave., N. Seattle, Wash. 2344 Mass. Ave., Washington, D. C.

Mrs. William C. Robinson, North Anson, Maine.

(Term of office expires 1919.)

Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Mrs. Harold R. Howell,

Waterford, Conn. 630 41st St., Des Moines, Iowa.

Mrs. William G. Spencer, Mrs.C. Hamilton Tebault,

Nashville, Tenn. 623 North St., New Orleans, La.

Mrs. Willam Butterworth, Mrs. Alvin V. Lane,

Hillcrest, Moline, 111. 2505 Maple Ave., Dallas, Texas.

Mrs. George W. Gedney, 50 Montclair Ave., Montclair, N. J.

(Term of office expires 1920.)
Mrs. James Benton Grant, Miss Jeanie D. Blackburn,

770 Penna. Ave., Denver, Colo. 718 Upper nth St., Bowling Green, Ky.

Mrs^Fred H.H Calhoun, Mrs. Samuel McKnight Green.

Clemson College, S. C. 38I5 Magnolia Ave., St. Louis, Mo.

an w RiLEl %* L°NGLEY> Mrs. Sheppard W. Foster,

87 Walcott St., Pawtucket, R. I. ?II peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. William H. Talbott, Rockville, Md.

Chaplain General

Miss Elisabeth F. Pierce,

The Portner Apartments, Washington, D. C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Miss Emma L. Crowell, Mrs. Woodbury Pulsifer,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, Miss Grace M. Pierce,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Robert J. Johnston, Mrs. George K. Clarke,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Director General in Charge of Report to Smithsonian Institution

Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath,
Heathcote, Charlotte, N. C.

Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. James M. Fowler, Miss Catherine Brittin Barlow,
Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1917-18

ALABAMA

MRS. JOHN LEWIS COBBS,

l_'4 Mobile St., Montgomery.
MRS. WILLIAM GRAY,
Dadeville.

ALASKA

ARIZONA

MRS. GEORGE F. FREEMAN,
641 N. Park Ave., Tucson.

ARKANSAS

MRS. SAMUEL P. DAVIS,

523 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock.
MRS. FRANK TOMLINSON,

P. O. Box 584, " Pinehurst," Pine Bluff.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. JOHN C. LYNCH,

1845 University Ave., Berkeley.
MRS. CASSIUS C. COTTLE,

1408 Victoria Park, Los Angeles.

COLORADO

MRS. GERALD L. SCHUYLER,

1244 Detroit St., Denver.
MRS. NORMAN M. CAMPBELL,

17 East Espanola, Colorado Springs.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. JOHN LAIDLAW BUEL,

East Meadows, Litchfield.
MRS. CHARLES H. BISSELL,

Sodthinoton.

DELAWARE

MRS. GEORGE C. HALL,

706 West .vr., Wil.minc.ton.
MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,
Newark.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. GAIUS M. BRUMBAUGH,

905 Massachusetts Ave., Washington.
MRS. M. CLYDE KELLY,

1608 17th St., N. W., Washington.

FLORIDA

AIRS. ARTHUR B. GILKES,

Riverside Ave., Jacksonville.
MRS. WILLIAM MARK BROWN,
Miami.

GEORGIA

MRS. HOWARD H. McCALL,

301 Ponce de Leon Ave., Atlanta.
MRS. CHARLES C. HOLT,
115 Culver St., Macon.

HAWAII

MRS. WILLIAM ALANSON BRYAN,
1013 Punahou St., Honolulu.

IDAHO

MRS. CHARLES W. PURSELL,

1515 Ada St., Boise.
MRS. WARD STONE,

1410 Albany St., Caldwell.

ILLINOIS

MRS. FRANK WM. BAHNSEN,
1720 22nd St., Rock Island.
MRS. JOHN HAMILTON HANLEY,
724 W. Broadway, Monmouth.

INDIANA

MRS. HENRY A. BECK,

1907 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis.
MISS EMMA A. DONNELL,
Greensburg.

IOWA

MRS. DIXIE CORNELL GEBHARDT,

1205 2nd St., Knoxville.
MRS. FRANK E. AUSTIN,
1542 Bever Ave., Cedar Rapids.

KANSAS

MISS CATHERINE CAMPBELL,

316 Willow St., Ottawa.
MRS. WILLIAM H. SIMONTON,

750 S. Jldson St., Ft. Scott.

KENTUCKY

MRS. ELI GAITHER BOONE,

1409 Broadway, Paducah.
MRS. SAMUEL J. SHACKELFORD,
Shelby St., Frankfort.

LOUISIANA

MRS. TALIAFERRO ALEXANDER,

853 Cotton St., Shreveport.
MRS. GEORGE H. MILLS,
418 Milan St., Shreveport.

MAINE

MRS. W. G. CHAPMAN,

482 Cumberland Ave., W. End Sta., Portland.
MRS. SAMUEL L. BOARDMAN,
241 State St., Augusta.

MARYLAND

MRS. ARUTHUR LEE BOSLEY,

1406 Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore.
MRS. WEEMS RIDOUT,

200 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANK DEXTER ELLISON,

44 Clark St., Belmont.
MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,
25 Bellevue Ave., Melrose.

MICHIGAN

MRS. WILLIAM HENRY WAIT,

1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor.
MISS ALICE LOUISE McDUFFEE,
1012 West Main St., Kalamazoo.

MINNESOTA

MRS. JAMES T. MORRIS,

2109 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis.
MRS. A. E. WALKER,

2103 East 1st St., Duluth.

MISSISSIPPI

MRS. E. F. NOEL,

Lexington.
MRS. JOHN MORRIS MORGAN,

Columbus.

MISSOURI

MRS. WILLIAM R. PAINTER,
Jefferson City.

mrs. arch McGregor,

577 St. Louis St., Springfield.

MONTANA

MRS. CHARLES A. BLACKBURN,

809 W. Silver St., Butte.
DR. MARY BABCOCK ATWATER,

516 Hayes Ave., Helena.

NEBRASKA

MRS. ELLET GRANT DRAKE,

606 N. 6th St., Beatrice.
MRS. FRANK I. RINGER,

935 D St., Lincoln.

NEVADA

MRS. CHARLES SILVEY SPRAGUE,

GOLDFIELD.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MRS. WILL BERNARD HOWE,

Huntwood Terrace, Concord.
MRS. CHARLES WATSON BARRETT.
99 Sullivan St., Claremont.

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NEW JERSEY

MRS. WILLIAM DUSENBERRY SHERRERD,

Highland Ave., Haddonfield.
MRS. JAMES FAIRMAN FIELDER,

139 Gifford Ave., Jersey City Heights.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. SINGLETON M. ASHENFELTER,
702 Bayard St., Silver City.

NEW YORK

MRS. BENJAMIN F. SPRAKER,

Palatine Bridge.
MRS. DAVID B. PAGE,

157 West 3rd St., Oswego.

NORTH CAROLINA

MRS. THEODORE S. MORRISON,

287 Pearson Drive, Asheville.
MRS. WILLIAM PARKER MERCER,

Elm City.

NORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEORGE MORLEY YOUNG,

Valley City.
MISS HELEN M. CRANE,

Valley City.

OHIO

MRS. EDWARD LANSING HARRIS,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland.
MRS. JOHN TOLMAN MACK,
712 Wayne St., Sandusky.

OKLAHOMA

MRS. WALTER D. ELROD,

900 N. Grand Ave., Okmulgee.
MRS. EDWARD LYMAN WORKMAN,
1108 E. Hobson, Sapulpa.

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MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSHNELL, 1914.

MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, 1916.
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