Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1906 — WASHINGTON’S MEMORY [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON’S MEMORY

It Was ' Kept Green by Celebrations All Over the Land of Which He Was Father. Chicago, Feb. 23.—Dispatches indicate that the birthday anniversary of the Father of His Country was never more generally kept by the beneficiaries of his labors and triumphs. At Washington there were special church services and other forms of observance, Secretary Shaw being the orator at one event. At Baltimore Secretary Bonaparte talked big navy to the Johns Hopkins students. At Kansas City 15,000 people listened to Archbishop Ireland eulogize Washington. At Los Angeles the subject discussed at the banquet was railways. “Champ” Clark was the orator before a Young Men’s Democratic club at Providence, R. I. At Springfield, 111., Bishop Seymour was the principal speaker. Here Secretary Taft toiq the Union League club all about the isthmus of Panama. Abroad—At Tokio, Rome, Gibraltar, London, Paris and elsewhere — there were celebrations of the day.