The National tribune., 1893-09-07
TIE RELIEF CORPS.
GleaningS from National HeadQuar-
terS---NOteS from the Departments
ELEVENTH. NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Eleventh NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Grand Reunion of w.B.C. Workers at In
dfanapolis-The Outlook Favorable Tor
Pleasant and Profitable Week.
Eleventh National Convention, W. r. c., is
now in session in Roberts Park Nj. h. Church,
indianapolis, provided for Convention, oeanti-
fullv decorated and provided with every con-
venieuce bv the Ladies' Citizens Committee,
Flora Wulschner, Past Department PRESIDENT
W.RC, Chairman.
The indianapolis ladies have shown them
selves equal to the onerOus duties imposed
unon Them, and all OF the arrangements are
complete Convention is served with daily
luncheon as will lie the other patriotic societies.
for which the Citizens Committee has made
provision.
The DEPARTMENT delegations of Massachu-
setts and New York are quartered at the Denl-
son. and both are steadily pressing the claims
of Past Department President Sarah {. MINK
for the National Presidency. Among the prob
able candidates that have been named, among
the veteran workers Of the Order, are Past De
partment Presidents Martin, of Missouri, ana
Blanca L. Muller, of Tennessee. Both are able
and energetic women, but thus far Past De-
partment President Mink is in the lead Penn
svlvania is for her, and Past National President
Annie Wittenmyer will make the nominating
speech. One pectiliarity of the 18th National
Convention is that the candidates in the field
are few. aud, with rare exceptions, the women
pushed to the front are not seeking the offices.
This is as it should be.
As a presiding officer National President
Margaret Ray Wilkins has few equals, and
this of itself will mark q dignifed business
meeting throughout.
CONVENTION COURTEsIEs.
Past Department President Agnes Hit
served as Chairman of the Committee on Ar
engagements for the W.R.C reception at the
Propyleum, which was guaranty of splen-
did success. The other members of the com
mittee were the Past Presidents of indianapolis
Corps, Department President COnklin and stan
and Past Department officers.
The general reception to ladies of the W.R.C,
Ladies of the GAR, and kindred societies,
given at the State House, came under the
general direction of Mrs Thomas Sullivan, and
was pleasant fraternal assemblage.
The Department of Massachusetts, W.R.C.,
Emily L. Clark Department President, is hold
ing daily receptions at Parlor 40, DenisOn.
President Clark is assisted by National and
Department officers past and present
The New York delegation, headed by De
partment President Kate E. Jones, is holding
receptions at ParlOr II, Denison Hotel, where
many visitors, GAR. and W.R.C., call and
register.
Department President Augusta J. Hammond
and staff hold a reception at their Headquarters,
139 North Meridian street, from $50 to 7:3O,
Thursday evening.
At Headquarters, Department of Illinois, De-
paItment President Emma r. Wallace is as
sisted by an active corps OF officers in receiving
many callers, National and Department, GAR.
and WR.C. The Reception Committee is
headed by Elizabeth Means, Chief-of-Staf.
The presentation of fine banner from the
Department of Indiana W.R.C., to the Depart
ment Of Indiana, GAR, made in the rotunda
of the Capitol, Monday evening, was an aus
picious opening of a notable week.
Department President Caroline w. Waddell,
Of Ohio and staff are occupying parlor "a at
the Bates House, rendered them by the De-
partment Commander, L. H. Williams, for re-
ception purposes.
Headquarters Department of Maine are at
the DenisoB, the delegation headed by that
sterling worker Department President Ella
Jordan Mason and a wide-awake Corps of De-
psrtment officers, past and present.
GROWTH OF THE w.R.C.
A neat and comprehensive National roster,
based an the returns made to the National
Secretary for the quarter ending Dec. 81 1892.
contains the following interesting table Of fig