The National tribune., 1895-11-28
MEMORIAL TO FARRAGUr CORPS.

WAS
said of a good woman Of old, and it is no less
true OF all those who are, engaging in noble
work to-day.
Away ont at Port Townsend, Wash, Farra-
gut Post, To- dedicated last Memorial Day
fine monument to their heroic dead, erected
by the devoted women of Farragut Corps, So
their hOnored auxiliary.
Aud now. as we turn over the leaves of the
journal of Proceedings of the 18th Annual En-
campment, Department of Washington and
Alaska. g. AR, held at Spokane June last it is
pleasant to read the beautiful tributes paid to
Farragut Corps, both in the address of Depart
ment Commander John N Scott and in the re-
port of Department Chaplain Alexander II.
Lackey.
Department Commander Scott, in his address,
referring to the W.R.C., says:
Our WOman's Relief Corps day by day is
advancing in numerical strength and in USE
fulness and efficiency, until now it is no longer
simply our auxiliary, but has assumed place
alongside Of u.s. our loyal, helpful sister and
equal co-worker. 1t would be invidious to dis
crimDate among the several Corps of this De-
partment, but attention may be properly di.
rected to the splendid service of Farragut
Corps, 80, of Port Townsend, in erecting during
the past year and presenting to its companion
Post, on Memorial Day, an appropriate and
substantial monument to our soldier dead, tho
first soldier monument erected in our Depart
lowed until an appropriate memorial shall
mark the last resting place of country's
defenders throughout the Department"
The Department Chaplain reports as follows:
"Farragut Post, 10, Port Townsend on Me.
mortal Day dedicated a beautiful monument on
a block of land owned by the Post to the men,
DRY of their soldier dead. The monument was
erected ana presented by Farragut Relief Corps,
80. The presentation took place on the morn
ing of Memorial Day, and was scene of great
and tender interest. Mrs. J. A. Doyle, as
President of Farragut Relief Corps, in a neat
and appropriate speech presented the m0nu-
ment to the Post.
"At the close of the presentation speech, the
massive stone monument, which was shrouded
in the National colors, was dextrously I'M
vailed by the little Misses Ruth Wylie and
Emily Lyall, revealing to the assembled throng
a beautiful and substantial memorial to the
Nations dead in the shape of a heavy, rough
cut sandstone shaft, IL feet in hight, sur
mounted by a snooth-turned atone cannon
mounted on trunnions of the same material
ION the northern side is the only smooth
face On the stone, OIL which is engraved the
following inscription:
"'1s6l. 1865.
Jour CoUNTRY'S DEFENDERS.
"'EREcrED By FARRAGgF CoRPs, No. SO,
"W.R.t,
"1S95p
"This is grand and noble example for the
excellent women of the Department Relief
Corps to emulate and initiate"
So it is for Relief Corps women everywhere
who have not taken steps 70 build monuments
or to otherwise honor ia some permanent form
the men who saved the Nation. to emulate the
monument builders of San Francisco, Balti-
more Port Townsend, and other places through
out the country.
Particularly should those Corps which report
little or no relief work to d o take up the work
of monument building in downright good earn
est. With little zealsan management SOL
ders' monument might be placed not only in
the squares of large towns and cities. but in
every cemetery aud county graveyard in the
land.
1t may encourage small Corps to learn that
when Farragut Corps undertook their work at
Port Townsend they were very weak but they
have steadily gained strength aud influence, as
we'll as increase of membership.
How true it is that Heaven helps those who
help themselves.
AUTHOR OF "AMERICA" GONE.
The death of Rev. DR.. s. F. Smith, anthor of
my Country, IT'S of Thee" will be felt as q
personal loss, not only by members of tie Grand
Army, the Womans Relief Corps and kindred
patriotic societies. but by all the multifarious
associations and churches where the glorious
National song is sung.
Although in his 8Sth year this eminent pat
riot, poet and divine was yet alert and active
in the service of God and his fellow men, and
when stricken by the hand of death he was on
his way from Newton Center, Boston suburb,