The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-03-01
THE MOTHER DEPARTMENT.


features of the Corps most successful installa-
| tiOn.
THE MOTHER DEPARTMENT.
Sketch and Portrait of Department Presi-
dent and a Glowing Campfire.
DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT BURLEIGH.
Clare Hoyt Burleigh. promoted from the office
of Department Senior Vice President to the
Office of Department President of Massachu-
setts is q woman of wide repute in the patri-
otto. literary and charitable circles oil Massa-
chusetts. She is the daughter of George Hoyt,
NJ d., friend and coworker of Wendell Phil
lips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Gerrett
Smith, and other noted champions of human
rights in the old anti-slavery days before the
war. She is the sister of Col. George II. Hoyt,
the young Boston lawyer who volunteered to
defend John Brown, and who. by appointment
OF Gov Andrew, went alone and unprotected
to Harpers Ferry to discharge his high and
sacred trust.
Clare Hoyt Burleigh was born in the historic
old town of Athol. where she now resides.
She enjoyed the best educational opportuni-
ties of her time at Mrs. Wizards Seminary,
Troy. N. Y. and in of the best schools of
Greenfield. Mass. Her various gifts were care
fully cultivated. and she has shown rare excel
lence rs a musician, artist. poet and orator.
She is a good conversationalist. linguist, aud
withal modest. charming little woman.
In Relief Corps work President Burleigh has
an honorable record. She organized and was
for three years President of the Relief Corps
of Athol, one Of the best IN Massachusetts,; and
has served the Department successfully as
Inspector and Junior and Senior Vice Presi-
dent. wise and conservative adminstra-
ton is expected of her.
She is the wife of Judge Henry M. Burleigh,
an active Grand Army man and present Judge
Advocate of the Department of Massachusetts.
GAL She is an active worker in the Episco-
palian Church. and for the past four years has
served as organist and director OF the choir.
THE w.R.c. CAMPFIRE.
"Hail to the Chief" was played by the or
ganist of the Peoples Church when the Aids of
Department President Clark conducted Gov.
Greenhalge and staff to the platform, and "See,
the Conquering Hero Comes" when Com
mander- in Chief Adams and staff marched
down the aisle with their w. R.C escorts.
The scene WAS brilliant one, and the clap
ping of hands and futter of handkerchefs
opened the grand Campfire with great eclat.
The introductions of Department President
Clark were happy. and the responses highly
fattcring to the Relief Corps. Gov. Green
halge in his remarks said:
o. confess was not fully aware of the power,
the intelligence. the business. and the paria-
mentary ability which are contained within
the ranks of the Woman's Relief Corps until
a good thing that the Grand Army of the Re-
public in its onward march should be accom-
panied by the women of the Relief Corps.
The GAR. work is noble enough to enlist the
sympathy of every true-hearted citizen, but
when you add to it the still finer, the more
tender and more patient attributes of woman's
work, you know that nothing better can be
done.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
~, ;cT oil, fit
of the W.R.C c., was warmly greeted. He paid
soldiers tribute to the work OF women in war
and peace, and said that they had kept the
GAR. up to it's brightest ideal. He dwelt
upon what the Relief Corps of Massachusetts
bad done when the GAR. first started to get
the veterans out of the almshouses and into
home of their own. Forty thousand dollars
was raised by the ladies then, and when the
hospital was prepared at cost of $4,000, the
women helped bravely then. The Ladies' Aid
Association aud the Woman's Relief Corps had
furnished every room, aud wOman's ministra-
tons were to be seen constantly at the Home
among the discouraged the sick, and the dying.
:" cannot tell you how the boys in blue ap-
precate your efforts. We love you all, in
dividually and collectively" he said.
THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT.
National President Sarah G. Mink received
an ovation, and her remarks were in fine taste
and to the point, calling forth great applause
Her dignfied appearance fine voice. and i'm
pressye earnestness went straight to the hearts
of her audience, who beheld in her typical
representative of the Woman's Relief Corps.
She presented gratifying statistics of Relief
Corps work, and alluded to the time when four
women came back TO Massachusetts with $40
when the National Association was formed.
Now tho membership is l35. 900, $500. 600 hav-
ing been spent in relief
The presentation of roses to Commander-in-
was among the sweet courtesies of the evening,
while the stirrng war songs and choruses were
varied by the pathetic reading of Home
Sweet Home" by Past National Chaplain Mary
L. Knowles.
Commander in Chief Joseph McCabe. Sons of
Veterans, was among the speakers of the even
ing.
ALL ALONG THE LINE.
Carey Johnson Corps, 255, New Vienna. o.,
was the first Ohio Corps to send contribution
to fund, which that Department wants to
raise, to erect a monument in the little Sol
diers' Home Cemetery. Sandusky, o.
Lewis Corps %, Xenia, o.. has a member
named Smith, to whom the venerable DIR. Sam
uel F. Smith, author of "Amerca," has pre-
sented autograph letter. This letter
shown at the last meeting of the Corps, excit-
ing much interest. Feb. % will be properly
observed by Lewis Post and Corps, it being also
the 10th anniversary of the Post. A portrait of
Washington will on this occasion be presented
the public schools.
National Treasurer Armilla A. Cheney
writing of the work of relief. says: 1.-THE
W.R.C. will certainly present a wonderful rec
ord of relief extended during the present year.
From every direction comes the word, I'VE are
doing all we can to help the needy and SUI fer
ing Surely the present condition of the coun-
try affords large field for work in relieving
those who would gladly help themselves could
they find anything to do. And when able
bodied men and women are seeking in vain for
employment, God pity our veterans. broken in
body and strength"