The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-16
THANKS FOR GIFTS
CAMP FALKNER EXPRESSES
 GRATITUDE TO TORRANCE
Resolutions Voice the Heartfelt Ap- preciation of the Camp for the Aid of Gen. Torrance and
 His Comrades.

Camp Jeff Falkner. Un ted c ,nfederate Veterans, met last night and adopted res olutions expre; sng the camps heartfelt appreciation of the recent act of Gen. Ell Torrance, Commander-in-C Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in appeal ing to the various posts Of the Grand Al my in behalf of the Mount ain Creek Soldie s Home and to the Union vete- | rans who mad r6 sponded to that appeal. The meet ng was enthusiasts and the | resolutions were carried by a unanimous vote.
 Colonel Falkner reported that $26O had been received from G. A. R. Posts and from individual Union Veterans These contributions. Captain Falkner said. were from all over the country. and he c1n- fidently expected that more would soon be on hand.
 Captain Falkner reported tat the s l. diers Home was thriving. The ol1 vet , he declared. were becoming young again, and that the gardens and orchards around the home were becoming very fruitful un- der their skilled hands.
 The main building of the home, Captain Falkner said, was to be erected within a short time. A gcoi deal of lumber Is on hand and as soon as suffici.nt funds can be raised work will begin n its e. ec- ton.
 A plan for raising funds was suggest ed bp the god father of the camp and home. He said that the whole affair was to a great extent memorial and it was his idea to make the building memorial. Captain Falkner's plans were that acy persons by paying $10 toward building the home would be allowed to have the name of some comrade or of his hel o engraved on one of the logs in brass let ters.
 A letter was read by Captain Falkner which he recived from an old Unionist, evidently not in very opulent circun- stances. He enclosed a small contribution and said that he drew a pension and the men at Mountain Creek did not. The money he sent would buy several pipes Of tobacco with which the old soldiers could go back to old times when he tried to kill them and they tried to kill him.
 The resolutions which were adopted are as follows:
 We, the members of Camp Jeff Falkner, No. 1882. United Confederate Veterans, in special meeting assembled, take this, the earliest opportunity, of expressing to General Ell Torrance, Commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Republic our heartfelt appreciation of his recent and generous act of kindness in appealing to all the people of this country for help for the Confederate Home at Mountain Creek, Alabama. The appeal of General Torrance was unexpected and came from heart that is big enough to take in all men that are in distress. He lately came among us and was received as a friend and comrade by those to whom the bitterness of war is but memory. His every utterance showed that for thos against whom he had stood in battle he had only friendship, and for those whose misfortunes have outlasted war, his heart overfiows with tenderness and sympathy. We send back to him, and all those who cooperate with him, greeting in the spirit of comradeship. of gratitude and of our common citizenship.
 To those whose contributions have come and are coming in response to his call, We send our simple thanks, assuring them that every dollar wlll go to comfort and sustain some old veteran whose days arc heightened and whose spirit is sweetened by this evidence of sympathy from men whose valor he once tested, whose patriotism he never doubted, and whose broad human fellowship Is nobler and better than any charity.