Roosevelt and Sir William Osler, honorary vice-presidents; John M. Glenn, New York City, and G. Walter Holden, Denver, Col., vice-presidents; Henry Barton Jacobs, Baltimore, Md., secretary; General George M. Sternberg, Washington, treasurer; Livingston Farrand, New York City, executive secretary. Office, Room 514, United Charities Building, No. 105 East 22d street, New York City.

National Child Labor Committee.

The committee was organized April 15, 1904, and incorporated by act of Congress March 8, 1907. Officers: Chairman, Dr. Felix Adler; vice-chairman, Homer Folks; treasurer, V. E. Macy; general secretary, Owen R. Lovejoy. Office, No. 105 E. 22d st., New York City.

The National Citizens' League.

The object of the league is the promotion of a sound banking system. Headquarters, No. 223 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. President, John V. Farvell; vicepresident, John Barton-Payne; treasurer, A. C. Bartlett, all of Chicago; secretary, Murray S. Wildman, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.

National Conference of Charities and Correction.

Established 1874. The present membership is about 2,200. Officers: President, Julian W. Mack, Washington; vice-presidents, Frederic Almy, Buffalo, N. Y.; John F. Moors, Boston, Mass.; Richard C. Gannon, Chicago, Ill.; general secretary, Alexander Johnson, Angola, Ind.; assistant secretaries, Winthrop D. Lane, New York; William J. Doherty, New York; Mrs. K. Van Wyck, Milwaukee, Wis.; Miss Margaret Curtis, Boston, Mass.; W. S. Reynolds, Indianapolis, Ind.; Max Mitchell, Doston, Mass.; Rufus L. Smith, Montreal, Canada; W. T. Cross, Columbia, Mo.; treasurer, Washington Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D. C.

National Consumers' League.

Organized 1899. Object: To promote better conditions among the workers while securing to the consumers exemption from the dangers attending unwholesome_conditions of production. Officers: President, John Graham Brooks, Cambridge, Mass.; vice-presidents, Mrs. Frederick Nathan, New York City; Mrs. S. S. Fels, Philadelphia, Penn.; Mrs. H. M. Wilmarth, Chicago, Ill.; Miss Myrta L. Jones, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. B. C. Gudden, Oshkosh, Wis.; Miss Jean Gordon, New Orleans, La.; Mrs. M. R. Trumbull, Portland, Ore.; Mrs. R. P. Halleck, Louisville, Ky.; treasurer, G. H. Kinnicutt, New York City; recording secretary, Mrs. G. W. B. Cushing, No. 50 Munn avenue, East Orange, N. J.; general secretary, Mrs. Florence Kelley, No. 105 East 22d street, New York City.

National Economic League.

The object of the league is the education and expression of public opinion. Executive Committee: William H. Lincoln, chairman pro tem., Boston, Mass.; Harvey S. Chase, No. 84 State street, Boston, Mass., treasurer; J. W. Beatson, No. 6 Beacon street, Boston, Mass.., secretary.

National Education Association,

The purpose of the National Education Association is to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of education in the United States. Officers: President, Carrol G. Pearse; vicepresidents: Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools, Chicago, Ill.; Geo. H. Carpenter, superintendent of schools, Brownwood, Tex.; Charles F. Philbrook, superintendent of schools, Bisbee, Ariz.; Helen Marsh Wixson, state superintendent of public instruction, Denver, Col.; Samuel Andrews, superintendent of schools, Pittsburgh, Pa.; R. H. Wilson, state superintendent of public instruction, Oklahoma City, Okla.; S. S. Stockwell, superintendent of schools, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Edwin D. Ressler, State Agricultural College, Corvallis, Ore.; Woodland C. Phillips, Maryland; Edward Hyatt, state superintendent of public instruction, Sacramento, Cal.; Vaughan MacCaughey, Territorial Normal School, Honolulu; secretary, Irwin Shepard, Winona, Minn.; treasurer, Katherine D. Blake, New York City.

National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations.

The federation, organized at Buffalo, N. Y., June 10, 1909, is affiliated with the National Conference of Charities and Correction. Officers: Chairman, W. N. Finley, No. 9 E. Lexington street, Baltimore, Md.; secretary, J. T. Exnicios, No. 914 G street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Headquarters, No. 9 E. Lexington street, Baltimore, Md.

National Liberal Immigration League.

Object: The proper regulation and better distribution of immigration. Headquarters, No. 150 Nassau street, New York City. President, Edward Lauterbach; first vice-president, S. M. Newman; second vice-president, Wm. D. Eckert; third vice-president, Major Y. Anderson; fourth vice-president, J. B. Young; treasurer, Antonio Zucca; managing director, N. Behar; secretaries, John Foster Carr and Mark J. Katz.

National Probation Association.

Organized in 1906 as the National Probation Officers' Association; title changed to present one in 1911. Purposes: The purposes of the association are to promote the more extensive and wise use of the probation and parole systems of dealing with both juvenile and adult offenders and to encourage the adoption of the most approved methods of conducting children's courts. Officers: George S. Addams, Cleveland, president; Edwin Mulready, Boston, and Mrs. Emma Quinlan, Chicago, vicepresidents; Arthur W. Towne, The Capitol, Albany, secretary-treasurer.

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The National Short Ballot Organization,

The society was organized to explain the short ballot principle to the American people. President, Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, N. J.; vice-presidents: Winston Churchill, Cornish, N. H.; Horace E. Deming, New York, N. Y.; Ben B. Lindsey, Denver, Col.; William S. Wren, Oregon City, Ore.; Wm. Allen White, Emporia, Kan.; Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Philadelphia, Penn.; secretary and treasurer, Richard S. Childs, No. 383 Fourth avenue, New York City.

National Society for Broader Education.

The National Society for Broader Education was organized in December, 1909, and was incorporated under the laws of New York in January, 1910. Its purpose is: "Through the education of the adult to aid in the normal development of national life in removing the causes of distrust and antagonism between classes and in promoting the interests of the whole people." The society carries on its work through the lecture platform, the pulpit and the newspapers. In 1911 its speakers delivered 402 lectures, 68 concert-lectures, several hundred sermons and conducted 318 discussions. Its purposes have been advanced through twenty secretaries, whose work has been carried on in thirty states. The president of the fellows and associates of the society is Dr. George E. Read, president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn., and the secretary is A. Pollock, corner 11th and Kenyon streets, Washington, D. C. The officers of the corporation are: Managing director and president, Guy Carleton Lee, Baltimore, Md.; secretary and treasurer, H. H. Langsdorf, Carlisle, Penn.; statistician and resident director, William E. Anderson, No. 114 Monroe street, Brooklyn, N. Y. National Society, Colonial Dames of America.

The National Society of Colonial Dames, organized 1893, is composed of societies of which there is one in each of the thirteen original states and one in the District of Columbia, with associate societies in twenty-four of the non-colonial states. The aggregate membership is over 6,000. The officers of the National Society are: Honorary president, Mrs. Howard Townsend; president, Mrs. William Ruffin Cox, Virginia; vicepresidents, Mrs. Alexander F. Jamison, New Jersey; Mrs. Joseph Lamar, Georgia; Mrs. E. Cass Ledyard Goddard, Colorado; secretary, Mrs. Charles Miller, Delaware; assistant secretary, Mrs. John T. Taylor, District of Columbia; treasurer, Mrs. Alexander J. Cassatt, Pennsylvania; registrar, Mrs. Nathaniel Terry Bacon, Rhode Island: historian, Miss Alice French, Iowa. The New York Society maintains Van Cortlandt House, in Van Cortlandt Park, as a free Colonial museum. It pays for four of the City History Club classes. It gives $50 and a medal for an annual essay at Teachers College, of New York, and at the Normal School in Rochester, and a gold watch annually to the best average scholar on the schoolship Newport. The society's rooms are at No. 105 W. 40th street. The officers are: Honorary president, Mrs. Howard Townsend; president, Mrs. William Robison; vice-presidents, Mrs. William Bedlow Beekman, Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson; recording secretary, Mrs. Edward M. Townsend, jr.; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin; treasurer, Miss Julia McAllister; registrar, Miss Margaret Stimson; historian, Miss Charlotte E. Dudley; librarian and genealogist, Miss Margaret Middleton.

National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education.

The National Society was organized in November, 1906, in a general meeting at Cooper Union, New York City, the object being to bring to public attention the importance of industrial education as a factor in the industrial and educational development of the United States. Thirty states are represented by branches or committees. Annual convention in November. Officers: President, James P. Monroe; vice-president, Frederick A. Geier; treasurer, Frederick B. Pratt; secretary, J. Henry Cone, all of New York City. Headquarters, No. 20 W. 44th street, New York City.

National Society for the Study of Education.

The society was organized in 1892 as the National Herbart Society and changed its name in 1902. Purpose: To promote the scientific study of problems of education. Officers: President, William C. Bagley, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.; secretary, S. Chester Parker, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Annual meeting in February with the National Education Association.

National Women's Trade Union League of America.

Organized in 1903. Headquarters, Room 1310, Unity Building, No. 127 North Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill. Object: To promote the trade organization of women into unions, such unions to be affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Officers: President, Mrs. Raymond Robins; first vice-president, Mrs. D. W. Knefler; second vice-president, Mrs. Sarah A. Conboy; treasurer, Miss Melinda Scott, No. 43 E. 22d street, New York City; secretary, Miss S. M. Franklin, Chicago, Ill.

Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War.

National Commandery, No. 78 Broad street, New York City. The membership is limited to those who served on the active list or performed active duty as a commissioned officer in the United States army, navy or marine corps during the war with Spain or in the insurrection in the Philippines. The national officers are: Commander-in-Chief, Colonel Edward E. Hardin, U. S. V., West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.; senior vice commander-in-chief, Lieutenant Colonel George V. Lauman, U. S. V., No. 90 Randolph street, Chicago, Ill.; junior vice commanderin-chief, Lieutenant Colonel George M. Cole, U. S. V., Hartford, Conn.; recorderin-chief, Major Frank Keck, U. S. V., No. 78 Broad street, New York City; registrar-in-chief, Major Samuel T. Armstrong, U. S. V., No. 78 Broad street, New York City; deputy registrar-in-chief, Lieutenant John H. Mittendorff, U. S. N., Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.; treasurer-in-chief, Major Geo. Shiels,

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U. S. V., No. 78 Broad street, New York City; chaplain-in-chief, Captain Henry A. F. Hoyt, U. S. V., Cynwyd, Penn.; historian-in-chief, Captain Cassilly Cook, U. S. V., Army and Navy Club, New York City.

Navy League of the United States.

The purposes of the League are to acquire and spread before the citizens of the country information as to the condition of the United States naval forces and ships and to awaken public interest and activity in all matters tending to aid, improve and develop the efficiency of the navy. The officers are: President, General Horace Porter; treasurer, J. P. Morgan, jr.; secretary, Henry H. Ward. Rooms 506-507, Southern Building, Washington, D. C.

Order of Founders and Patriots of America.

Organized New York City, May 13, 1896. Object: To bring together the descendants of the founders of the country and of the patriots who fought in the Revolution. Officers: Governor general, Major-General Frederick Dent Grant, U. S. A., New York; deputy governor general, Professor Herman Vandenburg Ames, Pennsylvania; chaplain general, the Rev. Henry Hallam Tweedy, Connecticut; secretary general, Louis Annin Ames, New York City; treasurer general, Arthur Julius Birdseye, Connecticut; attorney general, Edwin Jaquett Sellers, Pennsylvania; registrar general, Clarence Etienne Leonard, Yonkers, N. Y.; genealogist general, Colonel George C. Treadwell, New York; historian general, George Herbert Richards, New Jersey.

Order of Pequot and King Philip.

Founded 1902. The officer are: O. L. Frisbee, chairman for New England, Portsmouth, N. H.; Charles A. Williams, chairman for Western states, Buffalo, N. Y.; George W. Freeman, chairman for Southern states, Morgantown, W. Va.; Appleton Morgan, Westfield, N. J., acting general registrar during vacancy.

Order of Washington.

Organized 1908 by descendants of Americans settled in the colonies before 1750 who aided in attaining independence. In order to be eligible to this society the ancestor must have arrived in America prior to 1750, have been a land-owner or a founder of a town, and have held some official, military (or naval) or ministerial position in colonial days, and also had a descendant who assisted the colonies in attaining their independence. Officers: Rear Admiral H. Stockton, U. S. N., commander; General Marcus J. Wright, Ethelbert Fairfax, Dr. Edwin P. Hill and Brigadier General Carle A. Woodruff, vice-commanders; Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch, chancellor and historian; Dr. Charles H. Bowker, treasurer; Howard P. Wright, No. 1743 Corcoran street, Washington, D. C., secretary; Cuthbert B. Brown, herald. Patriotic Order of Americans.

This organization is auxiliary to the Patriotic Order, Sons of America. The officers are: President, Mrs. Bessie V. Smith, Pennsylvania; assistant president, William A. Adams, Pennsylvania; vice-president, Mrs. Alabama Wilkinson, Virginia; assistant vice-president, George B. Wagner, Virginia; secretary, George W. Smith, New Jersey; treasurer, Mrs. Emily S. Harkins, Pennsylvania; conductor, Mrs. Minnie Bonn, Illinois; assistant conductor, Dr. E. H. Maurer, Pennsylvania; guard, Mrs. Hattie L. Smith, Connecticut; sentinel, Miss Hannah Meyer, New Jersey; chaplain, Mrs. Nellie Raudenbush, Pennsylvania; assistant secretary, Mrs. Emma Stephens, New York.

Patriotic Order, Sons of America.

The national officers of the order are: President, F. A. Pope, Somerville, N. J.; vice-president, Samuel D. Symmes, Crawfordsville, Ind.; master of forms, J. Calvin Strayer, York, Penn.; secretary, Charles H. Stees, No. 524 North 6th street, Philadelphia, Penn.; treasurer, O. B. Wetherhold, No. 812 Franklin street, Reading, Penn.; chaplain, Rev. A. B. Wood, Baltimore, Md.; conductor, J. W. Irwin, Shenandoah Junction, W. Va.; inspector, J. W. White, Jacksonville, Fla.; guard, D. L. Sides, Salisbury, N. C.; medical examiner in chief, Dr. P. N. K. Schwenk, No. 810 North 7th street, Philadelphia, Penn. Next regular meeting of the National Camp at Trenton, N. J., fourth Tuesday of September, 1913. Membership, June 30, 1911, 196,000.

Playground and Recreation Association of America.

Organized in 1906. Office, No. 1 Madison avenue, New York City. Object: To promote normal, wholesome play and public recreation. Officers: Honorary president, Theodore Roosevelt; honorary vice-president, Jacob Riis; president, Joseph Lec; first vice-president, Harold F. McCormick; second vice-president, William Kent; treasurer, Gustavus T. Kirby; secretary, H. S. Braucher.

Second Army Corps Association.

The association was organized at Washington, D. C., March 12, 1892. Officers for 1911: President, Nathan Bickford; vice-president for First Division, A. R. Guaiffee; vice-president for Second Division, George A. Aemes; vice-president for Third Division, N. M. Brooks; secretary-treasurer, James S. Wyckoff, No. 1373 Quincy street W., Washington, D. C.; chaplain, Charles Lyman; historian, Hyland C. Kirk; sergeant-at-arms, John Finn.

Society of American Officers.

Organized in 1910. Objects: To bring together the officers of the National Guard, Volunteer and Regular services of the United States of America, and to perpetuate friendships formed during active service. Officers: President, General William Verbeck, New York; vice-president, Lieutenant Colonel N. J. Edwards,

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Kentucky; treasurer, Major Charles E. Warren, New York; assistant treasurer, Captain F. L. Humphreys, New Jersey; secretary, Major F. G. Landon, New York; assistant secretary, Major C. H. Eagle, New York.

Society of the Army of the Ohio.

Organized 1903. President, -; first vice-president, -; treasurer, Captain Robert Armour; secretary and historian, J. Fraise Richard, Washington, D. C.; executive committee, Captain A. F. McMillan, Captain Robert Armour, Colonel John A. Joyce, Captain G. A. Lyon, Captain R. A. Ragan, J. G. Burchfield and Captain Theodore F. Brown; publication committee, Captain J. C. Morgan, Captain W. P. Pierce, J. R. Weathers, Clark Arnold, Captain E. A. Fenton, Lieutenant J. H. Simpson and Lieutenant N. H. Merrill.

Society of the Army of the Philippines.

This society was organized at Denver, Col., August 13, 1900. The officers are: Commander-in-chief, F. Warner Karling, Kansas City, Mo.; vice-commander-in-chief, W. H. Anderson, Manila, P. I.; first junior vice-commander, Charles F. Manahan, Chicago, Ill.; second junior vice-commander, A. S. Crossfield, Manila, P. I.; third junior vice-commander, C. W. Albrecht, St. Paul, Minn.; fourth junior vice-commander, James C. Rutledge, Detroit, Mich.; fifth junior vice-commander, Fred H. Carlson, New York City, N. Y.; paymaster general, George B. Seiter, Chicago, Ill.; judge advocate general, George M. Weichelt, Chicago, Ill.; surgeon general, F. M. Rumbold, St. Louis, Mo.; chaplain, S. J. Smith, U. S. A.; national historian, Melville W. McManus, Detroit, Mich.; adjutant general, Dr. John W. Goggin, No. 2204 Michigan avenue, Chicago, Ill. Society of the Army of the Potomac.

Organized 1869. Officers: President, Colonel Andrew Cowan, Louisville, Ky.; secretary, General Horatio C. King, Brooklyn, N. Y.; treasurer, Charles A. Shaw, Mount Kisco, N. Y.

Society of the Army of the Tennessee.

Organized at Raleigh, N. C., April 14, 1865. Headquarters, Cincinnati, Ohio. Officers: President, Major General Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa; vicepresidents, Captain R. M. Campbell, Chaplain John Ireland (Archbishop), Captain F. H. Magdeburg, Captain Charles A. Morton, Captain Alex. G. Hawes, Captain Lyman Banks, Colonel Edward S. Jones, Major Samuel R. Adams, Major George H. Richmond, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, Captain George Ady, Major A. M. Van Dyke, Captain N. T. Spoor, Captain John B. Colton, Captain Woodson S. Marshall, Captain L. H. Chamberlain, Mrs. J. L. Bennett, Major W. R. Thrall, Captain Charles E. Putnam, Captain J. G. Everset, Major R. W. McClaughrey; recording secretary, Colonel Cornelius Cadle, Cincinnati, Ohio; corresponding secretary, Major W. H. Chamberlin, Roxabell, Ohio; treasurer, Smith Hickenlooper, Cincinnati, Ohio. Meeting for 1912, Peoria, Ill.

Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland.

Organized in 1871 to collect and preserve material for a truthful history of the war between the Confederacy and the Union and preserve the associations of that war. Membership, 900. Officers in 1912: President, Captain George W. Booth; vicepresident, Major W. Stuart Symington; secretary, Captain William L. Ritter, Reisterstown, Md.; treasurer, Captain F. M. Colston.

Society of Colonial Dames.

Officers: Mrs. William Ruffin Cox, Virginia, president; Mrs. Alexander F. Jamieson, New Jersey; Mrs. Joseph R. Lamar, Georgia; Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Ledyard Goddard, Colorado, vice-presidents; Mrs. Charles R. Muller, Delaware, secretary; Mrs. A. J. Cassatt, Pennsylvania, treasurer; Mrs. John Y. Taylor, District of Columbia, assistant secretary; Mrs. Nathaniel T. Bacon, Rhode Island, registrar; Mrs. Alice French, Iowa, historian.

Society of Colonial Descendants.

Officers: Brigadier General Carle A. Woodruff, governor general; Ethelbert Fairfax, first deputy governor general; Dr. Joseph G. B. Bulloch, second deputy governor general; William M. Conrad, third deputy governor general; Miss Evelyn Lee Fitzhugh, secretary; headquarters, The Wyoming. Washington, D. C.

Society of the War of 1812.

The Society of the War of 1812 was organized September 14, 1814. It is composed of state societies, organized successively by the original participants in the war and their descendants in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, District of Columbia, New York and New Jersey, the members of each of which are borne upon the membership roll of the General Society. The officers are: President general, John Cadwalader, Philadelphia; vice-presidents general, Reynold Webb Wilcox, James Davidson Iglehart, George Francis Pierce, Walter St. George Harris, Hon. Charles Page Bryan, Marcus Benjamin, Frank Warner Thomas, Oscar Halstead Condit; secretary general, Calvin Lord, 141 Purchase street, Boston, Mass.; acting secretary general, J. E. Burnett Buckenham, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn.; assistant secretary general, John M. Dulany, Maryland; treasurer general, George H. Richards, New Jersey; assistant treasurer general, James Malcolm Henry, District of Columbia; registrar general, Henry Harmon Noble, New York; surgeon general, George H. Bergin, Pennsylvania; judge advocate general, A. Leo Knott, Maryland; chaplain, Rev. Henry Branch, D. D., Maryland.

Sons of the American Revolution.

Incorporated by act of Congress June 9, 1906. A society of the lineal descendants

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of soldiers, sailors and conspicuous patriots of the Revolution. Originally instituted in California in October, 1875, and organized July 4, 1876. The several state soceties organized a national society April 30, 1889. Officers of the national society: President general, Moses Greeley Parker, Lowell, Mass.; vice-presidents general, Joseph G. Butler, jr., Youngstown, Ohio; General Irving Hale, Denver, Col.; R. C. Ballard Thruston, Louisville, Ky.; George O. Dix, Terre Haute, Ind; commander, John H. Moore, U. S. N., The Wyoming, Washington, D. C.; secretary general and registrar general, A. Howard Clark, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.; treasurer general, John H. Burroughs, 15 William street, New York City; historian general, David L. Pierson, East Orange, N. J chaplain general, Rev. John Timothy Stone, D. D., Chicago, Ill. The organization is divided into 46 state societies, besides societies in the District of Columbia, Hawaii, the Philippines and France, and numbers about 13,000 members. Sons of the Revolution.

A society formed to perpetuate the memory and principles of the men of the American Revolution. The members are descendants of the active men of the Revolution. Officers of the general society: President, Edmund Wetmore, No. 34 Pine street, New York City; vice-president, James M. Montgomery, New York City; second vice-president, John W. Weeks, Boston, Mass.; secretary, Professor William Libbey, Princeton, N. J.; assistant secretary, W. Hall Harris, jr., No. 216 St. Paul street, Baltimore, Md.; treasurer, Richard M. Cadwalader, Philadelphia, Penn.; assistant treasurer, Henry Cadle, Bethany, Mo.; registrar, George E. Pomeroy, Toledo, Ohio; historian, Marshall Delancey Haywood, Raleigh, N. C.; chaplain, Rev. Dr. Randolph H. McKim, Washington, D. C.

Sons of Veterans.

Membership is limited to male descendants, whether through paternal or maternal line, not less than eighteen years of age, of soldiers, sailors or marines who were regularly mustered and served honorably in, or who were honorably discharged from, the army or navy of the United States during the war of 1861-'65, and whose ancestor through whom membership is claimed has never voluntarily borne arms against the government of the United States of America. The general officers are: Commander-in-chief, Newton J. McGuire, rooms 1001-1004 Law Building, Indianapolis, Ind.; senior vice-commander-in-chief, Clarence H. Cram, Augusta, Me.; junior vice-commander-in-chief, Darwin E. Carey, Rochester, N. Y.; national secretary, Horace H. Hammer, Reading, Penn.; national treasurer, James Lewis Rake, Reading, Penn. Members of the Council-in-chief: Fred. J. Phillips, Glenview, Ill.; Arthur I. Vesceilius, Paterson, N. J.; Edwin C. Irlan, Baltimore, Md.; chief of staff, Edwin M. Amies, Altoona, Penn.

State Charities Aid Association.

This association was organized in 1872 and incorporated in 1880. Its objects are: (1) The improvement of the mental, moral and physical condition of the inmates of all public charitable institutions in the State of New York, and especially of those in state institutions, county poorhouses and city almshouses; (2) to induce the adoption by the community at large of such measures in the organization and administration of both public and private charity as may develop the self-respect and increase the power of self-support of the poorer classes of society; (3) to aid in the care of destitute children by placing them in families; (4) to carry on a campaign of education to prevent tuberculosis and insanity. Board of managers: President, Joseph H. Choate; vice-presidents, Mrs. William B. Rice, George F. Canfield, Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler; treasurer, Edward W. Sheldon; librarian, Mrs. Henry Oothout; secretary, Homer Folks. Offices, United Charities Building, No. 105 East 22d street, New York.

State Federation of Women's Clubs.

The federation numbers 301 clubs, representing as a federate body over 200,000 women. The officers for 1910-'11 of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs are: President, Miss Mary Garret Hay, No. 2 West 86th street, New York; honorary president, Mrs. William Tod Helmuth, New York; first vicepresident, Mrs. Alfred G. Haunenstein, Buffalo; second vice-president, Mrs. Eugene J. Grant, Brooklyn; recording secretary, Mrs. Charles H. Stecker, Mount Vernon; corresponding secretary, Mrs. John F. Yawger, New York; treasurer, Mrs. Walter L. Brown, Oneonta; general federation secretary, Miss Florence Guernsey, No. 2 West 86th street, New York.

Thirteenth Army Corps Association.

Organized in 1889. Officers: President, Captain Frank Swygart, Logansport, Ind.; secretary, Fletcher White, Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.; E. C. Dougherty, Washington, D. C.

Union Society of the Civil War.

Organized January 30, 1909. Membership limited to those who outside the Army and Navy of the United States rendered valuable services to the Union cause from April 12, 1861, to April 9, 1865, and their male descendants. Officers: President general, Colonel Henry H. Andrew, No. 507 West End avenue, New York City; treasurer general, Frederic W. Lincoln, Greenwich, Conn.; registrar, Mayhew W. Bronson, Larchmont, N. Y.; secretary general, Hiram Barney, room 1403, No. 52 William street, New York City; corresponding secretary general, Frederick Parker, Manasquan, N. J.

United Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Organized as a national association at Richmond, Va., July 1, 1896. Officers: Commander-in-chief, Clarence Julian Owens, Washington, D. C.; adjutant general, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Memphis, Tenn.; inspector general, Gordon S. Levy, New

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