The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-05-31
OUR CoUNTRY's HEROES.


| To bless The turf that wraps their clays
| And freedom shall whle repair
To dwell a weeping hermit there"
This day, on the threshold of the lesfy month,
| becoming every year more sacred and hailowed,
is all their own-it is yet consecrated to men,
DRY and to tears, for many of their wounds are
yet unhealed and the graves of some are newly
made.
The boys that marched away so blithely in
the early COS are now grZzled by age and
broken by infrmties, the honored remnant of
! that invincble host that saved the Union.
We are honored by the presence of those
who still remain among US. We can never for
| get those who gave up their lives in deadly
battle, on the lonely picket, in hospital and
| prison-pen; who have truly died for
country in the years that have followed, from
wasting disease that has slowly Slapped their
strength-all are alike our country's heroes,
and living or dead. we pay them equal honor.
Gertrude Horn COnnell.
SPECIAL MEMORIAL ORDER.
HEADQUARTERS WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS,
AUXILIARY TO THE GAR,
SYRACUSE. N. Y, May Z, 1894.
Special Orders. No. l.
circular has been received at these Head
quarters land we learn is being circulated
throughout our ORDER headed Memorial Day,
1884," coming from committee at Petersburg,
Va, asking for contributions from the Woman's
Relief Corps with which to purchase flags and
flowers for the graves of Union soldiers in Pop
lar Grove and City Point Cemeteries Va.
BY decision of 9th National Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Union vet
Grams in the South have been authorized by
Commander-in-Chief Adams to make requisi-
tions upon the Quartermaser- General of the
Grand Army for such number of flags as is
necessary to decorate such graves, and all con-
tribntions have been ordered sent through the
regular channels to the QuartermasterG GEN.
eral; therefore, any response to this appeal
from the Womans Relief Corps will be in direct
violation of instructions issued from this office
in General Orders. 5 and 6.
Department Presidents will promulgate this
order without delay.
By order of SARAH c. MINK National Pres-
dent.
SARAH E. PHILLIPS, National Secretary.
ELEVENTH OHIO CONVENTION.
Eleventh annual Convention, Department of
Ohio, W.R.C., held in Canton, May 15, I6, and
IL, was a harmonious working Convention,
which must result in great good to the Order.
There was the most perfect accord among the
Department and National officers, past and
present, in attendance. Department President
Caroline w. Waddell presided with great dig.
nifty and sweetness. She was accorded a rs-
ing vote of thanks. a testimonial was ordered
her. and she received unanimous election to
a place on the Executive Board
Flowers were several times presented her in
Convention, the last being basket of red roses
and carnations, with background of snow
balls presented by Past National President
Kate B. Sherwood. on behalf of National Off
GERS present, including, besides herself, Past
National Senior Vice President Cora Day
Young, National Inspector Mary E. Bancroft,
National Secretary Relief Corps Home Puma
l.. Cowles, and National Aid Anna B. Deatrick
The unanimous election of Sarah ID. Winans,
of Troy, so long prominent in local and State
relief work, a woman of pure character, de-
voted to the perpetuatioh OF the true princi-
piles Of the Order, was another evidence of the
sweet accord in which Ohio women are now
acting. Her choice of Cora Day Young Ma
tron- in Chief of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home, in which President Winans
has been SO closely interested, as Counselor. is
the best evidence that during her administers
ton the cause of the veterans and their or
phaned ones will take precedence over all else.
The exchange of greetings between the
Grand Army and the Relief Corps showed the
most cordial relations between the veterans |
and their auxiliary in the Buckeye State.
Past Department Commander r. y. Brown, Col.
Carl n. Bancroft, Ohio Council of Administers |
ton, and Judge Z. II. Cochrane National
Council of Administration. bore greetings from
the Grand Army, and Past Dept Presidents
McQuiston and Carroll led the Committee of
Greetings to the Encampment, where report |
of relief work was given, and warm welcome |
accorded them by the veterans.
Department President Waddel in her ad. |
dress briefly reviewed the important work of |
the year. Department Secretary Helen K Nc |
Intyre reported 1926 Corps at the beginning of |
the year. with total membership of 1877. |
During the year IL Corps were disbanded and |
10 formed. April i, when the roster was |
closed, there were 322 Corps, with member
ship of II, 500. Since then two Corps were in |
sttuted in time for Convention, the last being |
Vactor B. Stanford Corps Randolph, O.; Past |
Dept Treasurer Emma f. Rooms, of Canton.
President.
Thus, Notwithstanding the terrible times and |
the tens of thousands of men out of work. Ohio |
has more than held her own while her relief |
reports are of the highest credit.
Relief expended during the year, $12, 905 II: |
soldiers and their families assisted, 1856; |
members and their families assisted, $50 |
money turned over to Posts, 247274.
Department Treasurer Mary Z. Scott reported |
total Of S6,939.2l received from all sources,
and $543165 dsbursed. The disbursements |
included as follows: Department relief, ST.. 40; |
National Relief Corps Home, 6I.42; 0. s. |
and S. Orphans Home, $6I9s6; O. s. and |
). Home $2l240; education OF Kate Edwards, |
Rebecca Sweisenger and Bertha Edgar, soldiers
orphans, $l4627. Upon the presentation of |
the claims of orphan girls in the Ohio Orphans |
Home, by Cora Day Young, Convention made |
provision for carrying on the education Of |
number of girls who, upon leaving the Home,
desire to fit themselves as stenographers or
teachers.
Sarah d. Winans Chairman Orphans Home |
Committee, and Kate B. Sherwood Chairman |
Soldiers Home Committee made reports on be-
half Relief Corps work in connection with those
noble institutions, which were warmly received.
Recommendations to strengthen the work for
the soldiers by increased appropriations were
unanimously approved.
Upon presentation of the Charity Rusk CRAIG
plan, by Puma l.. Cowles, Secretary National
Relief Corps Home, providing that each men,
Der OF the W.RC, at the beginning of the |
year, shall pay additional FIVE cents when
she pays her dues four cents &C to the National
Home fund, and one cent to Department relief
there was warm second by Kate B. Sherwood
This plan, adopted by Wisconsin Convention
Also met warmest approval, was adopted by
rising vote, and will be supported by Ohio
delegates in National Convention.
Through the Committee on Resolutions Cora
Day Young, Chairman, Ohio reafirmed her
devotion to the Home and determination to
work for its best interests.
Gen. Manning +. Force, Commandment O. 8.
and S. Home, was q visitor to Convention
extending generous words of greeting and ap.
probation of Relief Corps work at the Home.
Among other distinguished visitors were De-
partment Commander Marsh and Adi't-Gen
Irwin Robbins, of Indiana.