| Show DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION The Seventh Continental Congress of Famous American Women to BeHeld Be-Held In Washington copyright I IBS The Seventh continental congress of I the Diughlets ot the American 1 RevolU oenD km will I be held 1 In 1 Washington 1 1 a on Washington birthday thus doubly emphasizing the loyalty of the women etlly f Mho belong to the organization I The I J I Daughter of the American Revolution always meet at Washington and ala al-a on the 2N of February I Representatives of local socllle In H states anti territories and the District Dis-trict of Columbia will attend the meetIng meet-Ing In narlY every Instance these will be the regents who preside or the subordinate organlllon The Daughter oLlhe American nev olullon Is I not the eldest of the patriotic societies of women but It is I the largest and mot Innnenllal A great deal of the ridicule aroused lately by the organization or-ganization of Societies composed of the Putative descendants of royalty etc has fallen to the lot 1 of the Daughters and some criticism has been aimed ell redly at them baled on the belief that thy were trying to form an American aristocracy But an aristocracy which ROCS back only a hundred years Is I not cry formidable or likely to create class distinctions The condition for membership In the organization Is I that an applicant shall be descend frolll an ncelor wbo with unfailing loyalty rendered material ma-terial aid to the cause of Indepen I lence as a recognized patriot as Boldler or sailor or no a civil Officer In ona of the oevera colonies or states or of the united colonies or states Th applicant appli-cant of course must be acceptable personally per-sonally to the society The only patriotic women society which antedates the Daughters In I the Society of the Colonial Dames of America Ameri-ca That was organized In Nw York In April 1890 with the obJet of scur Ing relics and pieservlng the history and traditions of the heroes of the war of the Devolution and the fathers of the republic The Daughters of the American Revolution was organized In I Washington Oct 11 1S50 This mas In the Harrison admlnlsttatloi and many of the women whose husbands held I prominent polllon under the government govern-ment Interested themselves i In the so cletY Mrs Harrison was made presl dent general and she bld the posltlor until her death After her Mrs John W Poster mas president general for a I short limo then Mrs Aslant 1 L Steven Ion I-on wife of the then vice president of the United States wa a e lectJ and mile I Uni e I line held I the omce ever since Mr I Stevenson lit call the society to order Fb 23 and prelde over Its meellago on that and 1 subsequent days I The founders of the society were Mro In i S Lickvvood Jllss rueenl Wash Ington Miss Miry Desha and Mr mIn m-In I Wahvorlh of WahlnQton The first suggestion cam In a published article from the lien of Mrs Lockwood I t the work at forming the sarsal Vd r r lion wa done by the four Women named nam-ed Since the Foci Car w 0 form1 several others of a al nllar char acler have Sprung Into exllnce among them the Daughters of the Revolution the National Society Colonial Co-lonial Dames of Amrlca the Dames of the Revolution and the General Society Iety of the Unite States Daughters of 1812 Of these the Daughters of the Revolution Is I an offshoot from the Da ughters of the American Revolution It owes Its existence to a split In the Daughters of the American Revolution glollns Jut of a controversy Or the qUllllnenlion for membership At the outset the Daughters of the American Revolution adopted a rule that oilly lineal descendants of men who fouirlit I for freedom In the Revolution should be admItted but when the question of Miss J Eugenia Wahlngtonl membership arose It was agreed to suspend the rule anti 1 admit this tine collateral descendant descend-ant of the Greatest Revolutionary hero Immediately other candidates for BUS pension of the rule presented themselves them-selves and a war of the collaterals and the lInal was Inaugurated For a lime collateral descendants were admitted by the D A It As a result the llnealltes under Flora dams Darling got together In New York and organized the Daughters of the revolution Membership was restrIcted re-strIcted to women who are lineal de cendant of nn Ancestor ho W118 a military or naval or mrln omcor 01 dler sailor or marine In actual service under the authority of any of the 13 D A n and Its membership spread to many static but It nevOr has approximated approxi-mated the strength of the D A II which has now more than 20000 nem bers In spite of Us greater strength the D A R has always desired a coot coo-t the two societies chlelly on account of the confusion which has art i men through the similarity of names It re clnded long HEO Us action in king end lateral Jndalil ellgl IbIlle line mem brhlp and the two organizations are now all bstantially the same It Is I the i relief < if most ot the member of both societies that coalition will benefit both but tl uurh the matter has hn I deficit cd at length no asls 1 of ufueement has been found This matter will be the chief subject of discussion at the comIng com-Ing meeting The congress will meet nt 10 clock Tuesday morning It will be called to order by tie reildent general Mrs Stevenson Prayer will le off1 ell by the chaplain general Mrs Charles A Htkely The entire congress will sing The Star Spangled llanner accom panic by the Marine ban 1 Then Mrs Stevenson will deliver an address of welcome come There will lie addresses delivered by i representatives of the Sons of the American Revolution and 1 other 1 patriotic Societies Interspersed with patriotic MUSIC by the Marine bond In the oft moon the national Society of the Cliff Ircn of the American Revolution will told I a celebration of Washlntt birthday The congress will hold three sessions each day at 10 a in 2 p ill and 730 p m Whether these will be public will be determined by the congress There Is I a disposition to exclude reporters because be-cause the delegates Prefer i not to air their disputes and llscusslons public The election may result In the choice of Mrs McKinley to be president ten era Mrs Donald McLean of New Task It I spoken of as a canlldate Mrs StevensonB name will be presented for reel often The vice president general of the society so-ciety Is I Mrs Albert D BrOcket the first vice president Mrs A O Urackett and the following vice residents are expected to be In attendance on the congress Mrs Mary 11 McKee of Nw York daughter of the first president general Mrs Russell A Alger of Michigan wife of the OCr < tal3 of warM war-M Daniel Manning of New York < vv Idow of the late secretary of the treasury treas-ury Mrs LeN I P Morton wife of the ex vice president of the United States Mrs llllam 1lndy wife of the senator sen-ator from Kenturk Mrs I J E WashIngton Wash-Ington wife IX Ih representative from Tennessee Mr T W Dickens wife of Commander Dickens U S N Mrs J M Thurston wife of the senator from Nebraska Mrs Kate Ian Henry daughter of General Kearny Mrs Mary S Thomas Mrs II S Hatch er Airs 133 O Hull Mrs Anna von Ily dlngivard Mrs r W Howard Mrs I J N Jewett Mrs William Dlckson Mrs Thomas Roberts IA TE MUIUl I I M4 5111 a I k s a Ne 4 a a if PATRIOTIC TABLET PLACED IN GFVrRAT POSTOrPICE NEW yom I A girt of the Daughters ot the American Involution 1 luui I colonies I or states or of the continental congress anll remained always loyal to uh authority or descendants of one who Signed the Declaration of IndePendence Inde-Pendence or or one who as a member of the continental congress or of the congress of any of the colonies or states or as an odlclal appointed by or under the authority of any ouch repre svntallve bodies actually aIled In the establishment of American Ind pendence by serv Ice rendered during the war ot the Revolution I becoming there I by liable toconvlcllonuf treason again the government pf Great Britain lint I i remaining always to > al to tho uthorl ty of the colonies or states Under these elaborate restrictions the D B became more exclusive than thi tmJ7 |
