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Show Beecher Memorial. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. The provisional provision-al committee in charge, of the Henry Ward Beecher memorial project announces an-nounces that a big public meeting in aid of the fund will be held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on the evening of Sunday. March 8th. the sixteenth six-teenth anniversary of the death of Mr. Beecher. Among those who have already al-ready accepted membership on the general gen-eral committee are ex-President Grover Cleveland, Secretary John Hay, Mayor Low, ex-Secretary of the Treasury Lyman Ly-man J. Gage, Oscar S. Strauss, Edward M. Shepard, Jacob H. Schlff, Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, James Stlllman, Alexander E. Orr, Edward Bok and Robert C. Ogden. |