Annual Meeting, 1910

ANNUAL MEETING, 1910155 ANNUAL MEETING, 1910. The Sixth Annual Meeting of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia was held on the afternoon and evening of the 29th of First Month, 1910, at 20 S. Twelfth Street, Philadelphia. A pleasant feature of the occasion was an exhibit of a variety of articles of historical interest, loaned by members and their friends. The beautiful new rooms of the Friends' Institute were opened to the Society, and in one of these the loan exhibit was displayed, mostly in glass cases, where all could be seen readily. A storm of rain and snow prevented some from attendance, but over one hundred interested people appeared to enjoy the social occasion afforded by the exhibit. Samuel S. Thompson presided over an informal meeting, when Lucy B. Roberts, Joshua L. Baily, George Vaux, James Emlen, William Evans and others told something of the history of a number of the exhibits. Later, while a refreshing tea was attractively served in the pleasant Tea Room of the Meeting House, Joshua L. Baily told something of the history of the room, and the large hewn timbers which support its roof, and which are thought to have been used in the structure of an earlier meeting house. In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, Joshua L. Baily presided at the business meeting, held in the evening in the Committee Room of the Meeting House, when the annual reports were read. The address of the meeting: "Quakers in Politics in Early Rhode Island," was ably presented by Rufus M. Jones. The Friends of those early times actively engaged in the government of the colony, and experienced many difficulties in upholding their principles, and preserving peace with their neighbors and the Indians.M. S. A. ...