The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MINA C 3.ll' CS IIDCS OPPEN- at t ? f Ntffsiees. e ' i A, - , f jf , ki A - - i bm? si Sixteenth Etnnual meeting. I-IE Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the Red Room at Delmonico's, on Monday evening, April 8, 1901. About I 5o members were present. At about 8.30 o'clock the President, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, called the meeting to order. The proceedings of the last annual meeting hav- ing been published in full in the Year Book the read- ing of the minutes was dispensed With. The Treasurer presented an abstract of his annual report which had been duly audited by the Committee on Finance. , The Secretary read the following report : THE SECRETARYS REPORT. An unusually large number of our members have died during the past year. Twenty-three have been reported, including one of our Trustees, lUffiCe Henry R. Beekman, Major-General Van Vltet, our Vice-President for the Army, General Wllliam S. Stryker, of Trenton, N. J., and others 0fWh0m mention will be made in the Year Book, nearly TCH-Cly for publication. .. 75

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- ,,A U A .9 e ., If l . lf A ,f wk-Z dig 1. .fl kk 64,5 l as f-S2-J r 'N 'l ll .If-'l', I Ny t . 3 TO THE BRIDE QUEEN, WILI-IELMINA. There is no lovelinessthat can compare With the white splendor of a wedding eve. There is no wondrous whiteness half so fair As lily wishes that good fairies weave. To-day let fall the fetters of old care, N o more shall tristful reminiscence grieve. Nor shall one frowning morrow us deceive, While shines thy soul upon the world's despair. Accept, O Queen, the plaudits of these rimes Amid the carillons of large acclaim That greet thy waking to a dawning year gp Scatter, sweet bells, the music of your chimes, And let our happiness ring loud and clear, Making glad music with thy golden name. I LE.ONARD CHARLES vAN NOPPEN. THE HAGUE, February 7, Igor, 74 tl hop' lb gigteenf HE Sixtee was held on MOU1 r 50 men ht about 8.30 Van Dyke, called The proceedings ing been published ing of the minutes The Treasurer annual report whit Committee on Fin The Secretary I1 rr-IE ssc All llIlllSl1aHy if uring thelagi lftll TCPOI-ted . ustice Henry: img lllel,0ul- . Tihiamg S kms' llwhom Iglentginerp 0 :early ready for PEE

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76 Our membership at last report was 832 Elected during the year .... 2l 853 Died . . - 23 Resigned. . - 7 30 Present membership ..... 823 The Treasurer's Report which was sent you with the notice of this meeting shows that the receipts for the year were 547'89.20, and the disbursements 54449.10 The cash on hand was 5I537.9I. We have invested bonds of a par value of 58000, at a cost of 58416.50 the present market value of which is considerably more than 59000. In the last Year Book appears a correspondence with the Secretary of the Treasury in reference to placing in the new Custom House the Holland Society tablet that had been erected on the building occupying the site of the old Dutch Fort at Bowl- ing Green. The Society of Colonial Wars had voted five hundred dollars to erect a tablet on that new build- ing and had obtained permission from the Govern- ment so to do, overlooking the fact that we had already pre-empted that historic site. Your Secre- tary called the attention of the officers of the Society of Colonial Wars to our action in the mat- ter, and they promptly and courteously abandoned their purpose and decided to erect their memorial of early Dutch days in another location. By direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Cass Gilbert, the architect, is conferring with WY S5615 10111, In t 5 c0 65 5P6Cl3l 'mer rr THEODOREM ectffafy H Sm M DEAR h Crist ? rr fl 35 rhesurface lag, hell-lime mo he hind of mo Pom to this WSU rrdproballly Pm 0 old Dutch Fort AIU Of this, however mere fragment and anytevrdence of the were preserved and them might be in rsarelrc If you please let me know a hat your messenger the of the Supenn House srte on Bowlm fSigned Cass Gil The brick is ngw in In the Year Book Amsterdam frgm the 0 H1ourCify Han' The E6 that the Colonial ESC records F lW3l'C when he had 4 In the cu,-,ent Yes' facts of other H remfds