The National tribune., 1896-08-13
The RELIEF CORPS,
Gleanings from National Headquar'
terS---NoteS from Departments.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Relief Corps Arrangements Completed at
st. Paul-Missouri's Candidate for NationaI
President-NatiOnal Relief Corps Home
and Touching Incidents of its Beneficence.
Letters from Clara Barton in the Sultan's
DOminions.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Department Correspondent Bertha M. Allen
reports arrangements for entertaining 14th
National Convention, W.R.C., as being rapidly
completed. Order is emerging from chaos and
carefully-laid plans are leading up to success
full conclusion.
The first three days of Encampment week,
st. Paul, W.RC committees will be at all the
depots to receive and direct all women not
otherwise provided for to their several lodging
places.
Monday evening Department President
Marie Hasen Wrinkle, assisted by Department
officers, w. &c. past and present, and mem ers
of the National Convention Committees, will
receive and welcome ali visiting guests at Min
nesota Headquarters. State Capitol Building.
The Relief Corps of st. Paul will establish an
emergency hospital in the room next to Mime
sofa Headquarters, and will keep a nurse IN
constant attendance. Members of the Commit
tee will also be present each day to look after
guests and make themselves generally useful
and agreeable.
MINNESOTA ESTIMATES.
The consolidated reports for six months end
ing July /, 1896, show a net gain in member
ship of 66, notwithstanding the large offset IN
losses of 407; present total, $40. Expendl-
lures for the same period follow Relief. S432.0l,
cash relief in goods and supplies, S95424; to-
tai, 81, 276.25. Number of persons assisted. 199
MrssoURI's CANDIDATE.
A Missouri correspondent writing of 14th
National Convention, reports a Missouri cand-
date, we'll known in National circles, for the
office of National President, and continues as
follows:
''At the last Department Convention, held at
Hannibal, Mrs. Martin was unanimously in
dorsed as a candidate for National President.
She is well fitted for this position, is a lady OF
very pleasing address, of great executive abll-
ty, and does well whatever she undertakes.
'She mas twice served as Department Presi-
dent, her first administration being so succe s.
full she was reelected the following year. She
| Will devote her whole lime and talent to the
work is emnentiy qualified for the position,
thoroughly competent in every respect, and
well versed in the rules of the Order and of
parliamentary law.
SHOULD she be elected she would reflect
credit not only upon herself, but the whole
grand organization. We can but feel that Mis-
souri, is justly entitled to this recognition"
NATIONAL RELIEF CORPS HOME.
On Woman's Day at the Cleveland Centen-
NAL the National Relief Corps Home was repre-
| sented by Superintendent Clare HOyt Burleigh
and Mother " Ransom, now an inmate of the
Home. Mrs. Burleigh was introduced to the
large audience assembled in Central Armory,
and conveyed the greetings of Massachusetts
women to the women of Ohio i'll her usual
| pleasing manner.
Mother" Ransom was introduced among
the pioneer women and extended hearty God
speed to the women of to-day from the women
of her generation. believing that upon them
| their mantle had wortbily fallen.
Much interest was expressed in the Home
| by the women on the platform, con pied with
! congratu lations that the institution should
! have such representative woman as Mrs.
| Bnrleigh at the head.
Secretary Puma L. Cowles reports the death
at the Home, May %, 1896. of Miss Flora Madi-
son, soldiers sister. aged go. She had been
an inmate of the Home since January, 1896
| When she entered, her nervous system was en-
TREY broken down, and she continued to de.
cline until her death. At her request her re-
mains were sent to her home, Green Springs
| o., for burial.
Rev. ]. Sanford of Madison, held brief
service at the Wittepmyer Cottage before their
| departure.
MOTHER AND SON REUNITED.
A touching story of the benefcent work oil
! the National WOman's Relief Corps Home in
sheltering and caring for the homeless and
| friendless in their declining days is told by
| Puma l.. Cowles, Secretary Of the Board OF
Managers. in reporting the death of Mrs. Sophia
Heath, EIicottsville, n. Y, which took place
June 8, 1896, following a stroke Of paralysis
age II years.
Mrs. Heath went to the National Home De-
| cenber, 1885, in care of Ellen N. Putnam, Past
Department President of New York, and Mrs
| Ryan, OF Syracuse.
1t seems that her soldier son had seen an
account OF the National W.RC. Home in the
columns of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE October
last, and wrote to Mrs. Putnam from his far,
away home in Australia, asking that his mother
might be taken there, that he might know she
was warm and comfortable 1t is needless &c
| say his wishes were promptly carried out.
1t took 81 days for the passage of his letter
but word was returned him that it would reach
| him before Christmas that his mother was in
| the Home and kindly cared for. Before Mrs
| Heath's death word was received of the death
of her son. and now they are reunited Rev
Keene, of WillOughby. o., Episcopal, officiated
at Mrs Heath's funeral; burial in the Home
lot.