The National tribune., 1885-11-19
RELIEF CORPS NEWS.
Gleanings from National Headquar-
ters--NOtes from the Departments.
HEADQUARTERS WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS,
BosToN, MASS.
SARAH E. FULLER National President
ELEANOR B. WHEELER. National Secretary.


ELEANOR Is. WHEELER. National Secretary.
Nov II, 1885.
To cherish and emulate the deeds of our army
nurses and of loyal women who rendered loving
service to their country in her hour of peril is
one of the objects of the W.R.C., and with the
PRONUNCIATION of General Orders No. 4, the Ma
tiOnal President earnestly desires the co-opera-
ton of every Post Commander and Corps Presi-
dent to, the end that we may carry into effect
the action of the third National Convention in
trying to secure pensions for the noble, self
sacrificing women, to whom the hearts of thou
sands of veterans turn to-day with gratitude,
remembering the tender care received at their
hands when suffering from disease in hospitals,
or, perhaps, when left on the field of battle to
die alone and uncared for. Surely the hearts of
every member of our Order should go out to
these women, and can We not make a special
effort to aid them? Contributions of money in
aid of army workers should be sent to Mrs f.
Florence Barker, Maiden, Mass, Chairman of
the Committee on Pensions for Army Nurses
and Relief for Army Workers.
ECHOES FROM THE DEPARTMENTS.
In THE TRIBUNE drawer at Headquarters
we find pleasant note from Mrs. Nancy Har-
rson, President of George A. Custer Relief
Corps, No. 2 Richmond, Va, who writes that
this Corps is getting along nicely, with every
encouragement for the future. We send fra
ternal greetings to orr sisters in Virginia.
From New York Mrs Sarah c. Nichols Presi-
dent, Department of. New York, sends letter
expressing her satisfaction as to the results at
tanned in that Department this year. The
Treasurer reports they free from debt,
and rapidly growing in numbers and interest.
From a business letter of Mrs. Deborah G.
King, National Inspector, we find the follow
ing from Sabetha, Kan: Il am now setting at
the desk of Mrs. Wickens, Department Prcsi-
dent of Kansas, but have not time to tell you
of the delightful time | am having The Corps
at this place, No. "A, l find in excellent condi-
tion financially and socially, every officer fully
qualified to fill their positions l inspected also
the Corps at Hiawatha, No. az, and find that it
is in splendid condition. l have been treated
royalty by Kansas comrades and ladies, and the
grand work done in this Department speaks for
itself"
A letter from Mrs. P. Fl. Hughes. the Core
spending Secretary of Dudley p. Chase Corps,
No. 10, Minneapolis. reports delightful ex-
curson under the auspices of the Corps to the
Daes of the ST. CroiX. She says: 1.-The party
numbered about $50, besides the children, and
all were filled with enthusiasm as the train
neared the scene of the wonderful, picturesque
region, situated in Chicago County, in the vi
cinity of Taylor's Falls. From the car win
dows, looking down hundreds of feet, We're the
vast piles of loose rock, thrown up in fantastic
shapes, as if some enraged Cyclops had in times
long past vented his fury upon some careless
wayfarer in the valley. The stream far below
looks as black as ink, probably from the shadow
of the dark rocks thrown upon it. After 4
substantial picnic dinner the surrounding
sights were visited including glympses of
DEVILS Kitchen, DEVILS Parlor, DEVILS
Chair and DEVILS Well. The latter has been
sounded to depth of $50 feet without reach
ing the bottom. The chair is formed by a
slender column of rock, projecting from the
side of the almost perpendicular bluff, rising to
a hight of IS feet. The falls do not compare
with Minnehaha or st. Anthony The excur-
sion was both pleasant and profitable, netting
the Corps some 500.
DYING OF BROKEN HEART.
Mrs. Anna S. Hustled, venerable army
nurse, after enduring many privations and dis
appointments, died-literally of broken heart,
it is said-in New York recently. Mrs. Hustled
answered to the first call for help, reaching
New York with the three months men, under
the auspices of the City Board of Commerce,
widow, whose only son enlisted at II in the
4th n. Y. Art. Her name was the first regis
tered, and she was the first nurse assigned to
duty and sent to the old Union Hotel, George
town. made into hospital for the sick of the
camps about the defenses of Washington, and
there received the first who shed their blood
for their country from the first battle of Bull
Run.
When Hon. Caleb B. Smith opened the nm
finished portion of the Patent Office for the
same purpose, after the troops quartered there
went to the front. Mrs. Hustled was again the
pioneer sent by Miss Dix, to prepare it for hos
pital purposes. At the evacuation of York
town Miss Dix sent her forward where few
were willing to so because of the labor, expos
ure, and climate. There she toiled on in her
noble work until the Union army abandoned
the position in July, 1862. She returned to
Washington, and was retained by Miss Dix for
urgent duties wherever most needed in the city
hospitals up to the close of the war.
Mrs. Hustled was recently employed in the
Garfield Hospital New York, and her removal,
to make place for a younger woman of more
influence, is said to have been the one blow too
many, from which she never rallied. Is it not
quite time the Government was making pro-
vision for such devoted patriots as these, who
are dying every day of want and neglect when
their declining steps should be stayed and COM
forted by the best a grateful country can be-
stow? ECHO.