St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-26
The Ladies Reltef association.

ment then took place.
| The Ladies' Relief association.
The Ladies Relief Association held secret
business session Thursday morning at which
all newspaper men were barred. II is stated,
however, that the amount of actual business
transacted was not considerable, as they had
scarcely got to work when Gen. Logan and
staff were announced. This was signal for
the peremptory abandonment OF all thoughts
OF executive work. Confusion was the first
characteristic, when order was restored the
honored guests were introduced to the mem
bers of the association.
Gen. Logan, Gen. Negly, and Gov. Fair
child made addresses full of well worded COM
pliments for the ladies of the association,
and laudatory Of the benevolent work con-
summated by the corps.
| Apt and eloquent responses were made by
Mrs. E. F. Burker, president OF the corps,
and Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, poetess from
| Toledo, and senior vice president OF the
| association.
The speech making. which lasted less
than an hour, was supplemented by an In
formal reception rendered Black Jack, WHO'S
| quite an accomplished gallant, and his staff.
| The ladies above mentioned were handsome
ly aided in the reception by Mesdames s.
E.. Fuller and L. A. Turner. The ladies
were armed with autograph albums which
were ornamental by the signatures OF the
| notables.
| A short business session followed during
which committee on resolutions were APP
pointed, when an adjournment was had I'M
| til two o'clock.
| AFTERNOON SESSIONS.
| At the afternoon session resolutions were
presented and unanimously adopted express
ing the condemnation by the corps of the in
justice done Anna Ella Carroll by Congress
in refusing to remunerate her for services
rendered during the war. The execution OF
the plans which she had conceived having
decided the fate of the union.
The following officers were afterwards
| elected:
THE WOMAN NATIONAL RELIEF CORPS
f. FLORENCE BARKER, Natl President,
Maiden, Mass.
KATE B. SHERWOOD. Natl S. v. President,
Toledo, o.
E. K. STIMSON, Nat'lJ. V. President, Denver,
Col.
| LIZABETH A. TURNER, Natl Treasurer, Bos-
|
EMILY GARDNER, NATL Inspector, Denver Col,
MATTE B. MOULTON, Natl Chaplain, Laconia
nh.
| P. S. RUNYAN. Natl Cond uctor, Warsaw, Ind
j. w. BEATSON, Natl Guard, Rockford, Ills.
National Corresponding Secretaries.
| MARY j. TELFORD Denver, Col
| II. K..DEVENDORF. Topeka, Kan.
The annual meeting of the above organiz-
| alton was held yesterday at Curtiss Hall, 81
| delegates being present. Considerable work of
routine nature was transacted. A paper was
read by Mrs. NJ. 8. Goodall, president of the
| department OF Massachusetts,, upon the eX-
emplification of ritual work.
| A report was made by Mrs. Fuller, who
gave an account of the work transacted
| by her during the year. In 1888 the report
| for last quarter gave the total nun Der of corps
as 76, with membership of 3, 1856, the total
number of corps reported the first quarter of
| 1884 as 1877, with a membership of 1862
there probably being now total membership
of 5000.
Mrs. Turner, as treasurer made report
| showing the receipts during the year to be
s4,23I.35; the expenditures; 4, 1876. IL; bal
ance, on hand S105.24; assets, 81, 652.23.
Liabilities, 81, 516.27.
| Mrs. Florence e. Parker, the president fol
| lowed with an interesting address in which
| she gave the history of their work and pro-
gress Of the relief corps during the year.
| After reading Of prayer by Mrs. Irving,
the installment of the officers of the
corps took place. Mrs. E. Florence
Barker, of Massachusetts, the retiring pre-
sident who had declined reelection, made
very graceful address in surrendering the
office, and her remarks, which were listened
to with marked attention, received loud ap-
plause. The ceremony OF installation, which
was a close imitation of the same ceremony
as carried out by the encampment itself, was
gone through witt o 1t hesitation or mistake
by the ladies, and the military salute. which
was given with precision, tickled the mem
hbers of the G. A. Il. encampmept
comrade arose and requestedin behalf of
the heroes of Gettysburg and Atlanta that
Mrs. Irving be invited to recite the poem:
"The Drummer Boy of Mission Ridge" The
appropriateness of the suggestion was at
once recognized. Not only was the only
the authoress present, Mrs. Kate B. Sher-
wood, but Gen Sherman, who was referred
to in glowing terms in this well known war
| poem, and last but not least the drummer
boy himself in the person of John s. Kountz
who had just been elected grand commander
Mrs. Irving came forward in responses to en-
thusiastic calls and applause and recited the
poem in manner which
was admirable. She is an
| elocutionist of remarkable power and grace
and the occasion was one which inspired her.
| At the close the widest enthusiasm prevailed
and after cheers Comrade Fitzgerald started
the chorus, 'Hurrah, boys, hurrah' of
marching through Georgia. He started in
too high key, however, for many Of the
male parties of the audience to follow him,
and the singing was not general.
General Sherman was then loudly called
for and mounting the stage made one of the
best speeches and one of the longest that
sold Tecumseh'' has ever been known to
make. His speech was full of good points,
and valuable suggestions to the G. A. r.
He was very graceful in his remarks to the
ladies and references to the work of the Wo-
mans Relief corps. He was often interrupt
ed by applause, which. as he closed, broke
into enthusiastic cheering which lasted sew
| eral minutes.
| Hector, the colored comrade. was next
called for and made one of his unique
| speeches, which created no little laughter.
| He said that If nature had not made it i'm
possible for blush to be seen upon his
countenance that his face would be found to
be deep red, for it was fattering indeed to
| find himself standing upon the stage on the
very spot where his old COM
mander and the greatest general
on earth had just stood when during the war
he used to black the boots of one of that
very generals officers.
| At this remark Gen. Sherman sang out
| ssThat true; that's true!'
| Miss Kate P. Sherwood was called for, and,
although she said she could not make a