Entertainments this year netted an additional amount of $750.00 for Continental Hall.

Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main succeeded Mrs. Lockwood in 1903 and served two years.

In

November of this year the

second state conference

was held at which chapter reports were read and proposed amendments to the National Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution were discussed. Standing rules were adopted; officers were elected and a state organization completed. In January, 1904, a colonial ball was given and al-. though expenses were heavy $275.00

were

cleared. The total amount contributed during the two years was $785.35.

In 1905 Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey was elected and served two years. Four chapters were organized during her administration. Contributions were made to the Junior Republic, also to San Francisco at the time of the great earthquake. A committee on patriotic education was appointed and did good work. The grave of Ann Royal was marked with appropriate ceremonies by the committee on historic spots. In 1906 Mrs. George T. Smallwood offered a prize of $5.00 in gold in the name of the District Daughters to the student in our foreign night school writing the best essay on the subject, "The Making of An American Citizen."

In 1907 Mrs. Howard F. Hodgkins was elected regent of the district. She is an enthusiastic lover of the society and of

Washington, admirably fitted for the position because of her business methods, her unfailing courtesy, and her high standards. Four chapters have been added to the District list since her accession to office.

The growth of the society has been natural and inevitable. At first it was a freshening of revolutionary history through original papers read at chapter meetings. These proved educational to the many who, in the rush of modern life, had quite forgotten the detail of those long ago days. As the memories of the revolutionary fathers and mothers blossomed afresh before our watching eyes, the desire to keep them where they could never again be forgotten, strengthened and broadened until the ideal of Continental Hall rose before us as the realization of that desire. The large amounts which annually pour into the treasury for this purpose are bringing

steadily nearer the time when the cap-stone shall crown the stately pile whose white walls and columns will speak to the generations of the patriotism of the Daughters of the American Revolution which is embodied there.

To all who have learned to love their country, not merely in words, but in deeds, nothing else counts in the balance. If war comes, then with it the heroic devotion of war. If peace blesses the land, then the silent but steady loyalty that not only makes heroic devotion possible, but makes impossible anything less than that.

MRS. GEORGE G. MARTIN,

Chairman Special Committee on State History.

CHARLES L'ENFANT.

To our help in youth he came

From the sunny shore of France,
Shared with us the blame and fame,

Took with us the battle's chance:
Not a field his soul could daunt-
Gallant captain, Charles L'Enfant :
When the nation's war was won,

When she turned her head to build,
From his brain the plan was spun

Which the splendid years have filled;
Street and square his praises chaunt,—
Master-builder, Charles L'Enfant !

Near his work, alone, he sleeps,

On the proud Potomac's side,
Where the vine neglected creeps

Striving still his grave to hide;
Daisies here his fame may flaunt-
Nothing else for Charles L'Enfant!

Not a stone to mark the spot,-
Not a line or name or date;
But the slight annoys him not-
There's the city fair and great;
That is all the shaft you want,
Captain-builder, Charles L'Enfant !

March 15, 1907.

WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD.