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

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C227 NOW, Mr. President, before I sit down, I want to say that I had an interview with Mr. Shrady this morning, who has been selected by this SO- ciety to make the statue when the money shall be secured. Mr. Shrady is entirely willing to go on with I this work, first making the models and finally the pedestal, which is a great -thing, and take the chances for the ultimate erection of the statue. Perhaps we are not willing to take the chances, and therefore, until we get more money, we will not, but there are several things which have been held out to us which for the present have succeeded, and I am not at all sure but that the Committee appointed by the new President will succeed where we have failed. i For example, we 'believe that the .ladies of New York the Dutch women and the descendants of Dutch men and -women in New 'York' and Kings County may organize for the securing of the I 'money. You will all remember how many years it was that the Grant statue was in the air and not onthe earth, and it is not yet entirely finished, but we got it. I never knew that it was characteristic of a Dutch Committee to give up anything while they were living, and I do not propose to ask the next Committee,--I hope I may be excused from these annual appearances,-f-but I don 't propose to ask the next Committee to give it up, but I do propose to ask that a resolution be passed to-night adopt- ing the suggestion of his Honor Mayor Van Wyck, which will enable us to get the rest of this money. ' Now, Mr. Shrady would be very glad 'CO make 3 .model of his statue--a small model-at an expense of about 3200, and let that be exhibited t0 the Trustees and the Committee, and then, if satis-

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229 trees by the roadside or removed from the public gaze, therefore I 'ask you to give up the idea of any other kind of statue, but to Work on for this one of William the Silent. MR. ELSWORTH: .I move you, Sir, that the Trustees of the Society be authorized to expend not to exceed 35200 of the Society's funds for the composition of a model of the statue' of William the Silent. The motion was seconded and carried unani- mously. z A DR. RoosA: Let me thank the Society in be- half of the Committee. Such faith and such pluck are Worthy of the Dutch. THE PRESIDENT! I don't thinkit requires any Word from the Chairman to thank the Society. The Doctor has already 'expressed himself on that subject. R I A MEMBER: Some of you may have seen over in the corner a picture. Let me say, in reference to that, that it was sent here by a Committee of the Hudson Tri-Centennial Association. Injune of Igor, the Holland Society, by its Trustees, ap- pointed a Committee to have a tri-centennial celebration of the discovery of the Hudson River by Hendrick Hudson. It is a little curious, We talk of putting up la statue of William the Silent who was not a Dutchman, and here is Hendrick Hudson Who Was an Englishman. But We ap- pointed a Committee, composed of Mr. Robert Roosevelt and Mr. Van Norden, and others, to arouse interest in the question. I think the Committee did nothing special With reference to it. In a little While, another Committee WGS appointed called the Hudson T ri-Centennial As-