The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-11-01
THE RELIEF CORPS.
Gleanings from National Headquar.
ters---NoteS from Departments.
NATIONAL RELIEF CORPS HOME.
improvements and Changes Ordered at the
Recent Meeting of the Board.

improvements and Changes Ordered at TIL
Recent Meeting of the Board.
At the annual meeting of the Board G
Trustees of the National Relief Corps Home
following National Convention, all members il
attendance, also the members ex-officio tn
| following changes and improvements wer
ordered, as reported by Puma l.. Cowles, Sec
rotary:
That the officers of the Home shall hereafte
be known as Superintendent aud Assistan
| Superintendent.
That the original Seminary building b
named the Wittenmyer Cottage. 1t is now onei
for the reception of inmates. Eliza Pratt, Ma
| iron, in charge.
The frame building is fitted up for hospital
| Laura Jackson nurse, in charge. -Four OF thu
| sick have been removed to it.
An arcade will be buit at once connecting
the Ohio and Wittenmver Cottages, that al
inmates may go to one general dining-room il
the Ohio Cottage.
The purchase of the necessary land having
been made, the sewerage of the Ohio Cottag,
will be extended $50 feet north of the present
| terminus under the direction and by rcques
of the Board and DR.. c. o. Probst Secretary
| Ohio State Board of Health.
| Enough land will be purchased to double the
| size of the present Home lot in the cemetery
the whole to be suitably fitted up.
The Home Board formally accepted the gift
| of a lot in Port Orange, Fla. This generous
and beautiful gift was made by Mrs. III. E. S
Daniels. formerly an Army Nurse.
There now 81 inmates in the Home, with
four others soon to arrive. As the cold weather
approaches a large number of applications are
pending.
Lois E. Plimpton. the accomplished daughter
of Hannah II. Plimpton, Superintendent is
engaged as the Assistant Superintendent, in
place of Matte E. Maynard, resigned.
Under the present efficient officers and
helpers the National W.RC. Home begins
another year well established, and with very
bright prospects.
Word is received that Mrs. Ann Snyder, sol.
dier's widow, inmate of the Home from Bloom
field, y. j. while on visit to her former
home su ffered a fall. from the effects of which
she died Sept. II, 1894. The Woman's Relief
Corps of Bloomfield gave her an honored
burial, Her husband was hostler for Gen. y.
5 Grant during the war.
sUPERINTENDENT's REPORT.
From Superintendent Hannah r. Plimpton,
of the National Relief Corps Home, we have
the following:
Through the kind thong htfulness of Kate B.
Sherwood barrel Of beautiful conch shells was
seut the Home by Mrs. I. A. Warner, of Jack
sonville, Fla.
Stanley W.R.C., 2s4, of Forest O., has kindly
remembered the Home by sending box of
canned fruit also substantial gift for the
benefit of Grandma Brown, an inmate OF the
Home sent from their town.
Gertrude B. Williams, of Norwalk, o., Past
Department Chaplain, stopped off between
trains to visit the Home. She expressed her
self as very much pleased with the arrange
ments and management of the place, and es-
pecially of the hospital.
At the close of the W.R.C. Convention at Pitts
burg many members OF our Order stopped at
Madison, o., to visit the National ". re. Home,
which proved haven of rest after the excite
ment OF the previous week. Those who honored
the Home with their presence were Past Ma
tiOnal Presidents Charity Rusk Craig, Annie
Wittenmyer, Mary Sears McHenry, Margaret
r. Wilkins and Sarah c. Mink; Past National
Secretary Sarah E. Phillips, National President
Emma K. Wallace, National Secretary Jennie
BrosS National Treasurer Armills A. Cheney,
members Of Home Board Emma B. Lowd and
Puma l.. Cowles, Department President of
Massachusetts Clare Burleigh, Department
President OF Maine Ella Jordan Mason, Depart
mcnt Secretary OF Maine Addie V. Grant Past
Department President of Wisconsin Caroline
II. Bell, Lydia Macarthur and Janette NJ.
Greene, of Maine; Sarah NJ. Alvord, of New
York; Harriette l.. Reed, of Massachusetts,, and
Comrades Joseph +. Mason and J. l.. Merrick,
Assistant Adjutant-General Department of
Maine.