The National tribune., 1897-08-19
THE RELIEF CORPS
News and Gossip of the Great
Auxiliary.

Features and Entertainments of Nationai
Convention Week.-Mrs.. Linda Dek. Full
ton. Chairman of the womsn's Citizens
Committee-New Hampshire Corps-Ail
Along the Line.
For many weeks Mrs. Linda DeK. Fulton.
with her assistants, numbering nearly 700
representative women of Buffalo, have been
doing the part that only women can do to
make 3lst National Encampment and its at
tendant features a round of brilliant and beau
tful events.
The Societies which will be entertained with
q variety of receptions and bost-rde on the
lake the Womans Relief Corps, the Ladies
of the GAR, the Daughters Of Veterans, the
Army Nurses Association and the Loyal Home
Workers of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The week will begin with large reception
Tuesday evening ut Music Hall, when the
Woman's Citizens Committee will receive the
Grand Army. the Relief Corps and all other
associations in attendance.
The Army Nurses will have their Head
quarters at the Womau's Union Building. Nj
agara Square. and on Wednesday afternoon
from TO o'clock will hold reception. We'd
nesday evening, at the Hotel lroquois, the
Womans Relief Corps will give reception to
Command err in Chief Thaddeus 5. Clarkson and
Staff of the Grand Army of the Republic, for
been issued
Thursday from to o'clock the Daughters
OF the American Revolution will give a recep-
ton to visiting members and distinguished
guests, and on Thursday evening the President
OF the Loyal Home Workers will hold recep-
ton at the Headquarters of the Woman's
Citizens Committee, Delaware Ave-, assisted
by Mrs. Fulton. Chairman of the Citizens Com
mittce; Mrs. Benjamin Williams and others.
As this is essentially a NATIONAL TRIBUNE re-
ption, al its readers. with their friends who
may find themselves in buffalo during Encamp-
mcut week. cordially invited to be present.
On Tuesday afternoon will he the boat ride
provided for the delegates of the Woman'S Re-
lief Corps and other National societies. IN the
evening Mrs. Hirst will hold reception at
Hotel lrOqnois, and the Loyal Home Workers
will carry out a program at the club rooms of
the Woman's Union Building, Niagara Square
The name of Linda de KowaleDska Fulton,
Chairman of the WOmans Citizens Committee
is one of which not only Buffalo but the world
Of women may well be PROUD. Not only IN
Buffalo art, literary and social circles has Mrs.
Fulton taken a foremost place in the world OF
literature. as well as contributor to magazines
and translator of historic romances from the
Polish and the French. Mrs. Fulton was the
first translator to introduce to the atten ton of
tho American people the intensely dramatic
romances which now being produced by
Polish writer's.
Mrs. Fulton is artist as we'll as author and
writer Of art critiques She is q member of the
Buffalo Society of Artists and a contributor at
the exhibit every year. She is President OF
the Scribbler's Club of that city. Mrs. Fulton,
who has written the song "Our Fatherland,"
dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic,
to be sung Encampment week, inherits her
intense patriotism through double line OF
ancestry. Her father was officer in the
pOlI ch bn ioA and czn Ya
to America, where he married a daughter of
the late Gen. Parkhurst Whitney. of Niagara
Falls. She is q rarely beautiful woman with
charming manners and cordial sympathies,
and has entered with her whole heart into all
the details of her present work.
Mrs Benjamin Williams. Vice-P President of
the Womans Citizens Committee, and Mrs.
Futon's first assistant, is another of the long
list of brilliant women of the committee. She
is at the head of the famous Woman's Union
of Buffalo, an organization something after the
Council of Women plan. President and Mrs.
Mckinley and Gen. and Mrs. Alger will be her
guests while in the city.
aLEANINGs FROM HEADQUARTERS
In last General Orders, issued by National
President Agnes Hit, announcement is made
that the National Council have elected Past
Department President Nettie N. Norton. of
Minnesota. to fill the unexpired term of Ma
Wrinkle. deceased that office will be filed by
her at 18th National Convention.
The last quarterly reports of the Depart
mont of New York are as follows: Number of
Corps II; members. $500; expended in relief,
$780,. 81; estimated value of relief other than
money, 1867; turned over to Posts, $299 80.
South Dakota announces that the Depart
ment per capita tax was raised by last Conven-
ton to ID cents, beginning with the fourth
quarter of 1897
Department President Elizabeth j. Holmes
announces the addition of Wilson Corps, "a, to
the roster of Maryland W.R.C.
Headquarters Department of South Dakota,
W.RC., during National Con vention will be at
LAT Allen St.. where all members of the Grand
Army and Relief Corps are invited to call.
Headquarters Department. of Iowa, W.R.C.,
during Convent ion week will be at Hotel Iro-
quois. where comrades of the Grand Army and
all other friends of the Order will receive
cordial greeting from Department President
Mcclellan, Chief of Staff Nellie Pierce and
Department Aids Kate NJ. Sample and Florence
NJ. Griffith.