The San Francisco call., 1897-05-09
N MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LInC0Ln THE NATIONS MARTYR

: thy principal; Whittier Primarv School, Miss
/ Emma r Stincen principal; Winfield Scott
! Primary School, Mrs. Emma s. { ode principal.
/ George H Thomas Post; " T. Tuttle, post
/ commander, viii visit the Adams Cosmopoli-
tan School, AdoIpn Herbst principal; Agassiz
/ Primary School, Miss Sarah J. Jones principa
; Bernal School, Miss Mary {. Keating prinei-
J pal; Broadway Grammar School, Miss Jean
/ Parker principal: Buena Vista Primary
/ school, Miss Amelia G. Catlin principal; Bur
/ nett School, William ". Stone principal;
/ Clement Grammar School, Mrs. Mary E Cal
/ lahan principal; Cleveland Primary school,
Miss Annie E. slsvan principal; Cooper Pri-
mary School, Mrs. Celine r. Peehin principal;
I Columb1a Grammar School, Mrs. L'zz.e b.
/ Burke principal; Fairmount Primary School,
/ Miss Clara VI. Johnson principal; Franklin
/ Grammar School, r. D. Faulkner principal;
( Fremont Primary scLool Miss Rose
! Goldsmith principal; Garfield Primary
/ school, Miss Mary A. Scnerer principal
/ Girls High School, Elisha Brooks principal
/ Golden Gate Primary School, Mrs. Aurela
! Griffith principal; Grant Primary School,
/ Miss Ida f. Shaw principal; HalGhJ Primary
! School, Miss Mary A. Haswell primo pal; HAM
/ iIton Grammar School, William A Robertson
/ principal; Hancock Grammar School Miss NJ.
! Mckenzie principal; Harrison primary
! School Miss Lizzie McElroy principal; Haw-
thorne Primary school, Mrs. Sarah J. Mann
/ principal; Hearst Gaammar School, Mrs Net
/ tie A Wood principal; Henry Durant Primary
! school Mrs Georgis Washburn princpa
( General James \. Garfield Post, Hayes COM
mander-Crocker Grammer School, William h.
| Edwards principal; Denman Grammar School,
! AFRO I. Mann principal; Douglass Primary
| School Miss Winifred l. Tarpey principal;
/ Dudley Stone Primary School, Miss 5. H.
Earle principal: Edison Primary School, Miss
/ Anna B. Chalmers principal; Emerson Pri-
} mary School, Miss Sarah N. Wilson principal:
/ Everett Grammar School, Mrs. Frances A. Ban
ming principal; Horace Mann Grammar School,
/ joseph O'Connor principal; Humboldt Prl-
mary School, Miss Mary 4. Castlehuo principal;
! Irving Primary School, Miss Caroline B. Bar
! low principal; Irving Scott Primary school,
Miss H. N. Fairchnd principal; John SWEET
Grammar School, Albert Lyser principal
George ". Meade Post, Graham commando
Noe Valley Primary School, Miss Ada Martin
principal; Normal School. Miss Laura T.
Fowler principal; Ocean House Primary
School, Daniel J. Delay principal; Pacific
Heights Grammar school, Miss Alice N. Stin-
cen principal; Park Primary school, Miss
s B. Jenkins principal
Liberty Post c. Smith post commander
Peabody Primary school, Miss Gertrude H.
Cahalin principal; Redding Primary School,
( Miss Mary Deane principal; Richmond Pri-
mary School, Mrs. Anna E Tiernan principal;
James Lick Grammar School, Philip Prior
/ principal
! Colonel Cass Post, John O'Nein post CON-
mander-Rincon Grammar School, Miss Eliza
/ beth A. Cleveland principal Sheridan Pr imary
! school, Mrs. Sarah A. Miles principal; Sher-
! man Primary School. Miss Jennie ". A. Rur-
ley pr. r.nclpal-
SAN Francisco, May 8, 1897.
M Dear Comrades: We are all children of
one ismiIy and Abraham Lincoln is the ia ther.
! This was the Inspiration that moved your
delegates at the Salinas Enesmpment to in
dorse resolution looking TO the erection OF
visible token OF the abiding affection OF the
Grand Arny OF the Republic for It's beloved
chief The Lincoln Monument League has
been adopted as the foster child Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, and II should be the
( proud privilege OF every comrade TO enroll
( himself as g member The monument 20 De
/ erected 10 Abraham Lincoln is not g local
affair; it is 10 be a tribute of the comrades
/ everywhere to the love we bear TO the memory
J pfthe martyr President. We ask each post TO
/ appoint al energetic organizer who vii. act as
/ recruiting sergeant We have had certificates
/ OF membership bound into books Of fifty each,
and we wish to send these books TO every post
/ on the coast, Each ceru fcate is attached to
! stub Write the name of the mem Der on the
+ stub and on the certificate.
! The entrance fee is % cents. There viii be
4 no furtEeT expense. 90 after your City or
! county editor ana have him publish the roster
/ OF your league; he viii be glad TO do it as an
( item OF news Go 10 your schools and tell the
/ teachers that the State super intendent OF
! Schools has issued g official request that
! every school celebrate Friday, MAY % as Lin
/ coin day. On that day let every school in the
/ whole country be visited by Grand Army
/ veterans.
II might be well for your organizer TO leave
/ a certIica e-book with every school principal
/ and in some popular store where patriotic
citizens can get chance TO become members
| of the league. Interest the school-children n
/ the matter; they vigorous recruiting
( officers Let your loyal women have share
! OF your labor and your glory; let them get up
/ lectures and league concerts, with certificates
/ as tickets of admission. Send the name of
| your organizer TO the Quartermaster at de-
partment headquarters. If you know OF any
/ active public citizen who would interest him
self send his name also
! Certificates, school circulars and other
/ printed matter can be obtained of Eugene
/ Wiegand. quartermaster OF the league, depart
nent headquarters. Send your stubs back
with the money to Eugene Wlegand.
Ny comrades, show by your interest in this
matter that your patriotism is thing OF life.
not wholly 8 memory of the past Frater-
nally II F., C. and l., W. W. STONE,
President Lincoln Monument League.