The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-08-21
PRESENTATION TO PAST OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
WARNER

fEESEhIAI1ON TO PAST TtOMMANDER- -IN-CHIEF
WARNER.
The Commander-in, Chief summoned Com
rades Sherman, Warner and DeYens TO the
platform. They were all received with accIa-
mations- The Eneampmeut rose and gave
three cheers for Gen. Sherman.
Comrade Sherman said that it gave him
pleasure to act as the agent of his comrades in
making presentation to their beloved Past
Commander iD-Chief. These presentations
usually took the form Of sword or sash. In
this instance they we're eandeabTa and a
clock. The first would bear aloft the bright
tapers of fraternity, Charity and Loyalty to
light Comrade Warmers life, the passing hours
OF which would be recorded by tine clock He
proceeded to tell something of his acquaintance
with Maj. Warner. tie ,Gen. Sherman) had
not joined the Grand Army while he was in
command of the Army, because no did not
think that would be proper duty, but as soon as
he was relieved of command by being placed
on the Retired List, no Immediately notified
the comrades in his old homo in st. Louis of
his desire TO bo mustered in. The date was
set, and Maj. Warner, then Commander of the
Department of Missouri, appeared and mustered
him in. He had before known and liked him
during the war when no was an officer of a
Wisconsin regiment, and his liking then has
been confirmed and strengthened by closer &C
quaintance since. lie paid Comrade Warner
high tribute, ana concluded by presenting him
with three magnificent mantel ornaments of
hne inlaid bronze. They were a clock and two
candelabra.
Past Commander-in-C Chief Warner said that
If to-day he were called upon to receive this
mark of the comrades esteem and confidence
and tho highest patent OF nobility that could
be conferred on him, he would be recreant to
all his feelings if no did not prefer this token.
And had he the world of distinguished men to
select from, he would prefer above them all the
distinguished comrade, whom every soldier
loves and will love rs long as he lives. The
greatest poet of all the world has said:
The friends thou hast. and their adoption tried.
Grapple TO thy soul with hooks of steel.
He felt that every comrade in the Order was
grappled to his soul with more than hooks of
steel and he concluded with beautiful tribute
TO the Order and all in 1t, pedging himself to
devote his energies and abilities to the pro-
motion of the interest and happiness of the
comrades.
Commander in Chief Alger directed the
Adjutant- General to have inscribed upon the
gifts the fact that they were presented by the
National Encampment through Gen. Sher-
man.
THE wOMANs RELIEF CORPS.
1t was announced that a committee of ladies
of the Woman's Relief Corps were at the door
awaiting admission. Admission was granted.
and the Encampment rose with cheers TO receive
MIs. hnoMIesI ErtSideht OF the department OF
Massachusetts. and the ladies accompanying
her She addressed the Encampment, congrat-
ulating the Order upon its prosperous eondi-
tion, giving a similarly encouraging report of
the W.R.C., and statistics as TO the good work
which the latter had done for the veterans and
their dependent ones
The Commander-in-Chief briefly thanked
the Womans Relief Corps, on behalf of the
members of the Encampment. and the 426 900
members of the Order. The heart of every