The National tribune., 1898-03-03
THE RELIEF CORPS.
News and Gossip of the Great Auxil-
iary.
NEW NATIONAL HOME.

There is a bill pending before the United
! States Senate to which all patriotic Orders
especially the Grand Army and Relic
/ Corps people, could lend a helping hand
1t is a biz 10 establish arother branch o
| the National Military Home, and Gen
| Franklin, President OF the Board of Mana
gers, expresses the opinion that the new
! home should he placed west of the Ms
sissippi River, and that the proper locality
| is Hot Springs, S. D. The Senate com
mittee having the bill under considera tor
concur in this view.
! Gen. W. b. Franklin, whose views are
cOncurred in by Gen. Averell, Assistant IN
! SpectOr- General OF the National Homes
| bases his opinion on reports of inspect or
and statistics gathered in a test case
made by Surg. Gen. X. d. Jennings, upon
80 veterans sent from the National Military
Home at Kansas City to try the waters OF
Hot Spr ngS.
The tests were made in 1893 upon 80
men for the period of TO days. OF Is men
suffering from rheumatism, Al Fer
cent. were practically cured, and all
others benefi ed save one. Those sui
fring from sciatica, spinal irritation and
nervous prostrat!on were greatly relieved,
ana Surg. Jennings expresses the opin-
ion that most OF TIE cures might have been
completed had the treatment extended
over longer period.
The South Dakota Home is pressed on
all dcs by old soldiers seeking the bene-
fit of The healing waters, and Past Depart-
ment President Adelia Hale Conner ha s
taken up the work of arOusing the interest
OF the patriotic Orders to the necessity of
providing . National Home for the classes
named. The managers of the State Homes
OF Colorado, Kansas and Minnesota have
united in recommending Hot Springs. and
urge the speedy establishment of the
northern branch.
THE MOTHER DEPARTMENT.
Massachusetts, the mother Department
OF the Woman's Relief Corps, holds her
place in the foremost ranks in membersh; 10
and expenditures for relief. Number of
members in good standing Jan. / 1898
ID III, a net gain Of II for the year. leaving
out more than thirteen hundred members
on the suspended list for non-Iayment of
dues, who are expected to go on the REIN
stated list.
For relief, patriotic, and memorial pur
poses TIE following exhibit is made:
Turned over to Posts, So 74427: for De-
partment relief, 5000 Soldiers Home.
S7s5.53; soldiers and their relatives, So
527.a1; Memorial Day, 81, 5l3; Memorial Day
in the South, S7s. 20; permanent memo
rails, 81 5000: patriotic teaching 1925. 20.
National Relief Corps Home and Memorial
fund, Sl02.5i. Total, Sc, 621. 90.
Five hundred dollars of the 81, 324.O3 re-
al Zed at the Department fair was gwen to
the Soldiers Home, and the remainder
paced in the Department relief fund.
Three Corps were instituted during the
year, and Il larger amount of relief dene
than ever before. The general expendi-
lures were over $500 less than the proceed
ing year.
FRANCES f. WILLARD.
In the passing of Frances E. Willard, a
star of the first magnitude has retreated
within the dawning morning of woman's
activities. Her hold upon humanity was
such that all organizations of women are
holding memorial meetings or passing suit |
able resolutions to perpetuate her memory,
and not only women but men stand upon |
the platform to praise her work and conse- |
crate themselves anew to the regenerating |