The National tribune., 1884-10-23
RELIEF CORPS NEWS,
GleaningS from National Headquar-
ters-- Notes from the Departments.

HEADQUARTERS, NATIONAL WoMAS's RELIEF
CORPS, TOLEDO, o.
KATE Il. SHERWOOD National President.
EMMA ID. SHELLEY. National Secretary.
TOLEDO, o. Oct. ii, 1884
What is there saddening in the Autumn leaves?
Have they that green and yellow melancholy
lhat the sweet poet spake of? ="
The same query has often presented itself to
my mind. Indeed, how can these radient days
be termed 1.-THE saddest of the year.? To the
lover of Nature every month has its charms;
but to me, golden October. with its soft hazy
air, its variagated woods its wealth of fruitage
and thousand other forms of beauty, is fairest
OF them all,-the queen of the year. Still, SON.
net to her majesty should hardly find place in
a letter of Relief Corps news, but on the con-
trary is quite as inappropriate the little
sermon Mark Twain says signs out the con-
clusion of school girls composition; whereas
my object here was only to pass the time O day
with you, an undisputed privilege we all enjoy.
ORDER REDUCED TO SYSTEM.
There is certainly no abatement of interest
in the work of our Order; encouragement
comes from many sources. Business at Head
quarters is dispatched with soldierly prompt
ness, and a constant effort is being made by the
officers in charge to systematic the work that
it may not only be the more easily conducted
by all concerned, here and elsewhere, but that
it may be the better and more thoroughly done.
To this end there will be issued, as rapidly as
the plans may reach completion, printed in
structions in the various forms of work for
Corps and Departments. There is just now
ready for distribution form of inspection
drafted from that in use in the Posts of the
Grand Army, that will be forwarded to Depart
ment Inspectors, and by them to Assistant In
spectors and Corps Presidents. Soon circular of
general instructions in the government of Corps
contain, as they have heretofore, all direct
official information that the busy brain of our
devoted and untiring National President can
devise. Who shall say, then, that we are not in
a fair way toward establishing an organization
that shall vie with the oldest and most sys-
tematic of her sister charities.
GENERAL ORDERS AND CIRCULAR LETTER.
The present most important of the routine
work is the sending out of General Orders, No.
2, and Circular Letter, No. l, the latter fresh
from the hands of the printers and relating to
the recent report of the Committee on Relief of
Army Workers. This circular will not only
find its way to every Relief Corps in the Order,
but will also be sent through its Departments
Tor otherwise, if no Department. to every Post
of the GA r., and, to render its circulation still
moro widespread, to many newspapers through
out the country. Bearing as it does the official
sanction of the National President of the Relief
Corps, and heartily recommended by the Com
Chief of the Grand Army, it surely
ought to succeed In its purpose to stir the hearts
of all sympathizers to action in securing for
those worthy women Of the war the reward
they SO richly deserve.
THE CIRCULAR LETTER,
or call for the Ten Cent Fund, is as follows:
NATIONAL HEADQRs WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS,
AUXILIARY TO THE GAR,
TOLEDO, o., October Z, 1854.
Circular Letter, No. l.
In accordance with instructions of the second an
nuai Convention Woman's Relief Corps, held at
July 80 1884, n Committee Relief
of Army Workers and Widows and Orphans has
been appointed, consisting of Mrs. Abbie NJ. Gam
nett, Maiden, Mass; Airs. Annie Wittenmeyer,
Pa, and Mrs. Juliet G. Howe York,
Neb.. charged with bringing these claimants to the
speedy attention of Congress, with a view of Sc
curing such adequate pensions and appropriations
as may be their due for services performed or sac
riices endured. Ya.-a
with resolution of the second annual Conven-
ton, the committee have prepared special memo
rails to lay before the Grand Army Pension Com
lnittee, i'll the cases OF Anna Ella Carroll and Mrs
Mary A. Biclerdyke, the Grand Army Pension
having been charged by the 18th
nual Encampment, GAR, with the consideration
of the same.
Report No. 1856, 10Th Congress, third session,
House of Representatives, established by the high
est official evidence, President Lincons statement
the same, shows that Anna Ella
Carroll spent health, strength and fortune in serv-
ices rendered the Government i'm the prosecution
of the war. Miss Carroll is now old broken down
in health, and wholly destitute lacking the means
for securing hospital attention.
Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, the nurse, mother,
friend and champion of the private soldier of the
Western Army, to whom thousands of the Union
veterans owe their return to friends and home, is
now, i'll her old age, in need of care and support.
These noble women, who have given their all are
turning to the Grand Army and the Woman's Re-
lief Corps for help in their hour of need.
To afford temporary --ief in these and other
worthy cases, a
TEN CENT FUND
has been established by the Woman's Relief Corps
by suggestion of comrades of the Grand Army, and
we hereby earnestly call upon all Department and
Post Commanders to bring the subject the atten-
ton of their respective commands that each COM
rade may have an opportunity of contributing to
the fund Also, upon every Department and Corps
stating for whom intended will be forwarded to
Mrs. Abbie Nj. Gannett, Chairman Relief Commit
tee, Woman's Relief Corps, Maiden, Mass, who
will receipt for the same, forwarding amounts
monthly to Mrs. LiZabeth A. Turner, National
Woman's Relief Corps Boston, Mass.
who will disburse the same under direction of the
National President. KATE Il. SHERWOOD,
National President.
RECOMMENDATION OF THE COMMANDER-IN-
HEADQ'Rs GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
TOLEDO, o., October z, 1884.
/ cordially join in the recommendation of n Ten
Cent Fund in behalf of Miss Anna Ella Carroll,
Mrs Mary A. Bickerdyke and other deserving
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