Evening star., 1895-05-29
WEAVING GARLANDS
Fair Hands Engaged in Making
Floral offerings.
WORK OF PATRIOTIC WOMEN
Arrangements Made for the Ex-
ercises Tomorrow.
WOMEN AND. THE G. A. R.

| WOMEN ANIL 1I1E ". "A. II.
| The women of the patriotic organizations
have been working very hard to make this
| Memorial day one long to be remembered
in the Department of the Potomac.
| Today they are engaged as they have
| been for the week past, in making baskets,
sashes and emblems, and Grand Army
Hall is the scene of busy workers, at least
100 women hustling about, completing the
| work for tomorrow's ceremonies. The sub
| &C ommittee of the committee of the G. A. r.
| on decoration, is composed of ten ladies,
| selected by the commander from the vari-
Gus corps. Mrs. Anna NJ Hamilton is
| chairman of the subcommittee, and her
aids are Mrs. Emma A. V. Anderson, ma
| ticnal aid; Mrs. Susie H. Rose, depart
| mental l. and I. officer; Mrs Eliza Nailor
| of Lincoln Corps: Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball.
| departmental secretary; Mrs. Elizabeth
| Months, departmental senior vice president;
! Mrs. Katie Harris of Potomac, and Mrs
| Maria H. Chapman.
These are all on duty, and are making
| things hum. Wagon after wagon load of
| flowers and greens have been carried to
G. A. r. Hall. and yet they asking for
more. The members are arranging 300 set
pieces for the officers section, and the
| other sections will be treated quite as gen.
! erously. 1t was not until two years ago
| that the precedent of placing elaborate
| floral pieces on the tombs of officers was
established, and then it was not done by
| the Relief Corps. They hope to make this
| the last year that this distinction is made,
as they feel that the grave of the humblest
private is as sacred as the grave of one
who wore the eagles Then, too, the friends
and relatives of the officers remember them
| with lavish profusion, and the simple trib-
ute Of a few blossoms lin memorium"
| should be quite sufficient
The Woman'S Relief Corps is being ably
| aided in the work of decoration by the
| Ladies Aid to the Sons of Veterans. They
have charge Of section E, and are prepar-
| ing set pieces for all of the hundreds Of
graves. stupendous bit of decoration, en-
a scale never before attempted at Arling-
| ton. AS aids to both orders the Sons of
Veterans are quite equal to the task set
| them, and are distinct rivals of the boys
| their fathers, who compose the Depart
ment of the Potomac. G. A. r.
The Chorus of Girls.
One of the most willing aids in the me-
mortal work has been found in the chorus
of young girls whom Prof Harry w. How-
ard has been training. These girls are
none of them over fifteen, but they are
very enthusiastic in their desire to help.
They will aid the Relief Corps in decorat-
ing all the graves, and will then form
about the tomb of the unknown, and as
they strew the green sward about the
monument with flowers from their pretty
baskets they will sing Tread Softly, a
Soldiers Sleeping Here" They have been
in training a long time by Prof. Howard
IN little operettas, and many of them were
heard not long since in Jack the Giant
Killer. They sing with feeling and much
expression.
twenty-five of the girls-there are one
hurdred ard twelve inf all-will carry each
floral letter over foot in length AS
they stand grouped about the tomb of the
unknown, these letters will read: Our
Country's Unknown Dead" These girls
will meet at Grand Army Hall. on Penn
morning, where transportation will be fur
nished thcm and they will be in charge of
Mrs. Isabel Bail. They will lunch with the
Womans Relief Corps and G. A. r. The
S. o. VS. ard their lady aids will also
lunch with the G. A. R. and its auxiliary.
The girls will be attired in white. and wea.
l ed and blue sashes furnished by the Relief
Corps.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Rose, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the department. who
has had in charge the memorial arrange
ments for the department, has for her as
sistants Miss A. " Tcmpkins. Mrs. Dicker-
son, Mrs Fordham, Miss Eva Chase. Mrs.
Emmiline Young, Mrs. Sarah Campbell,
Mrs. Willard, Mrs. Mcclure. Mrs. Turn
Emma A. " Anderson, Mrs. Thompson
Mrs. Georgia Balm, Mrs. Alice Burgess,
national aid.
TOmOrrOw's Program.
The members of the Relief Corps expect
to leave G. A. r. Hall by $50 o'clock
Thursday morning, and have most of the
decorating done by the time the commander
and orators arrive, when the ceremonies
will take place about the tomb of the un-
known, promptly at u noon. Mrs. Emma
A. V. Anderson, national aid, has super
vision of the tomb of she unknown, and
will be assisted by Mrs. Anna johnson,
Mrs. Susie Rose, Mrs. Lizzie Farquar,
Mrs. L. b.: johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth Months,
Mrs. Mcclure, Mrs. Nailor, Miss Ruth
Hamilton ana Mrs. Isabel w. Ball.
Mrs. Nora Edgar has charge of the deco
ration of section E, and has for aids Poto-
mac Corps ladies, whose president she is.
Mrs. Georgia Balm has supervision of the
oflcers' section, assisted by Mrs. Augusta
Miss Flora Shinn, Mrs Gladys Tompkfns,
Mrs. S. r. Jacobs, Mrs. Isabel W. Ball and
Mrs. Martha Burgess. chief of staff.
At the Soldiers Home.
Lafayette Corps will place their beautiful
wreaths upon Gen. Logan's tomb at Sol
diers Home. and will assist Henry Wilson
Post, which has extended many courtesies
to this and otter corps of the Potomac W.
r. c. Miss Levy of Potomac Corps will,
as usual, be the right hand of the veterans
Of the home in anything they undertake.
Mrs. S. r. Jacobs will go to Alexandria, at
the order of Lincoln Corps. to place floral
emblems upon the graves of deceased men,
bers of Lincoln Corps who are inferred
there. AS a detail from the Department
w. r. c., Mrs. Hattie Robb of Potomac
Corps and Mrs. Pratt and Mrs. RIPLEY,
both of FarraSut will so to Alexandria to
decorate the graves of the Union soldiers
there. -f
large delegation of Farzragut Corps
will attend to decorating the graves in
Congressional cemetery. Logan Corps, An
acostia, will go to st. Elzabeth's as has
been their custom for years. Mrs. Mary
H. North. department chaplain. has gone
to Fairfax county to decorate the isolated
graves in that section, taking detail of
young ladies with her. Details have also
been sent to Fredericksburg and Culpeper.
o. P. Morton Corps will have charge of
section b at Arlington, in charge of its
president, Miss A. V. Tompkins and
Charles Sumner will decorate section A,
under the supervision of its president, Miss
Duchett.
The orators of the day and the poet, Will
Carleton. will be entertained at lunch by
the wife of the department commander,
ire V and members