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

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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-