The National tribune., 1895-03-28

| DEPT PRESIDENT EMMA B. ALRTCK.
Jersey Blue" by birth, a Kansan by adop
ton, strong, conscientious, patriotic, progress
sive, womanly woman true to her home, hel
| family, her friends, her country, she stands as
the exponent of the brightest and best in the
| ranks of American womanhood. in and out oil
the W.RC.
Jointly with her husband, soldier who is q
/ daily sufferer from army hardships she issues
the Cawker City Record, and their son, Capt.
| A. g. Alrich. 6. of v, foreman of the Lawrence
Daily Journal is rising young man sent out
from that office, who is already prominent In
several civic societies of Kansas.
| Emma B. Alrich was born at Cape May, N.
| j., in 1S45; entered State Normal School in
1861, and graduated in 1864 as valedicsorian.
| Her sukject, "The Teachers Army" won ap.
plause from Gov. Joel Parker and staff, who
were present, and the Governor asked, in after
years, what became of the young lady who
| wrote that valedictory.
She taught in Beverly N. J., as Principal,
with hospital adjoining where she saw the
need of relief work, and to which she a
daily visitor. Feb. 13, 1866. she was married
to Levi L. Alrich, Co. B. 7lst Pa, and Bakers
1st CAL, who was sent home in 1858, from hard.
ships Of the early days of the war and McClel-
Ian's campaign up to Harrison's Landing. and
has been a sufferer ever since. They went to
Kansas in 1879, where Mrs. Alrich taught
sshssl. shs VAS tbs first 9amaa te take q
first-grade certificate In Mitchell Comfy, the
first woman to be appointed on Board Of
Teachers Examiners and the only woman who
has been Superintendent Schools in Cawker
City. ytN.
She was the founder Of the Kansas WOman's
Press Association, and left teaching to assist
her husband in the office of the Public Record,
where they have been for IL years.
daughter, Rachel Candy, one of the chill
drsn living, has been appointed Department
Secretary. 40
THE NATIONAL TBrBUisE AND THE w.R.C.
Department President Emily o. Dilworth,
of Nebraska, who has established Headquar-
ters at Lincoln, with q corps Of trained assist
ants around her, is entering upon her duties
with true Western vim. =
In announcing her official staff she gives just
prominence to Helen E. Cook, Press Core
spendsnt also OF Lincoln. Accompanying Cen
eral Orders is circular letter from the press
correspondent TO the Corps giving list Of pub
locations, State and National whose columns are
at the disposal of the W.R.C., including TIE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE which, as she says, has
always given US space" and calling upon the
Corps to forward her all items of interest, social
and relief, TO be compiled for publication. In
her plea she says: do you realize the inspira-
ton it would give your Corps should you take
one of these papers and have read at your meet
iDgs what yonr sister workers are doing2 And
at the same time show to the world we are a
live body of workers, faithful to the principles
for which we stand pledged"
Like alb early workers in the W.R.C., Helen
L. Cook knows that no Department has taken
high rank which has not availed itself of The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE which stands as an intel
ligence bureau between tho Grand Army and
their loyal workers the country over.
She knows the value of placing Relief Corps
xuort bcfora tho laro not airrla If pofb HIATT
and patriotic readers; Of sowing the good seed
which is to terminate in untold places wher-
ever the Union soldiers have q fsothold beyond
the ken of the WR.C, but which are weekly
visited by The NATIosAL TRIBUNE.
She knows that without THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE the dissemination of Relief Corps
intelligence the Order would not number it's
thousands where it now numbers its scores of
thousands.
And knowing all these things she will heep
the banner of Nebraska at the front, if she
has the loyal support of her sister workers in
that State.
HOMES, NATIONAL AND STATE.
DEAR Tribune: Can you inform me in re.
gard to "The National Woman's Relief Corps
HONEST" Some have interpreted it as Ma
tionai Home but think that easily set aside by
what / read Of different States, each having
them, and asking for donations of different
amounts.
Are the buildings erected by the State where
located and then the inmates supported by
donations from the W.RC.? Whore are they
being kept now? notice a site has been Sc
lectod at Oxford Chenaugo County, N. Y.
When the call is made for our donation, inqui-
ries by members are at once made, Where locat-
ed? How will it be sustained" ETC.? Many
questions come up that often require reference 10
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE, and / take much
more interest in the W.R.C. columns than
before being a member of the Corps. / think
husband began his subscription with the start
of your paper. and has not missed year since;
80 feel that l have q claim as well as right to
space in its columns, especially when for the
good of the Order
A. E. Hosier, Treasurer W.R.C. No. 212, West
field, N. Y.
Answers to inquiries:
!. National Relief Corps Home Is situated at
Madison, o. 1t is, Furnishing institution,
supported by the National W.R.C. as a whole.
Its inmates are chiefly Army Nurses, though
wives, mothers. and sisters of soldiers are eligi-
BILE. For full information write Puma L.
Cowles, Secretary National Relief Corps Home,
Geneva, 0. -
2. California has Relief Corps Home, for
which legislative appropriation of $4,000
was secured. 1t is supported by voluntary
subscriptions, largely from the Corps of that
Department.
luo IlOiuc has u NOulkn
Annex, built by the State, through legislation
secured by the Grand Army and Relief Corps.
The Corps furnish rooms in the buildings.
Nebraska and Wisconsin provide for the care
of woman classes, and Iowa W.RC. secured O
department for women at the Soldiers Home.
The Pennsylvania Department W.RC. built
and endowed Memorial Home by aid of legs-
lation, and the Corps support it.
The proposed New York Home was founded |
under an act of the Legislature but the Corps
are expected to do part in building and |
egnipping it. For information address Ellen
NJ. Putnam, Chairman W.R.C Board, Buffalo,
N. Y.
3. The expectation in most States Is to secure |
legislative appropriations for permanent sup.
port of the Homes after they have proven their
worth.
FIRST REUNION,
Rhode Island has set the custom of fra |
ternal Reunion Of Department officers W.R.C. |
Emma A. Rhodes Junior Vice President writes |
of the pleasures of the first Reunion held ut |
the residence Of Past Department President |
Mary n. Brown. Twenty-Five ladies partici- |
pated. |
Social converse and Q collation. filled up the |
time. The passing away Of Department Chap I