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Secretary Women's Auxiliary Committee.

American war Mrs. Rose again took up the
work for the soldiers, and knew how she
could do much by her advice born of rich
experience. She has been president of the
Legion of Loyal Women, and is a member
of the Red Cross Association. She is also a
member of the Edith K. Roosevelt Auxili-
airy to the Spanish Veterans. Both Mrs.
Meacham and Mrs. Rose We're called upon
to preside the deliberations of the
committe during the absence of Mrs. Mus
sey, and they have both been invaluable as
sstants.
Mrs Laura Virginia Mccullough the Sec
rotary of the committee, has endeared her
self to everybody during the last six months
by her ever ready wit, her helpful sugges-
lions and her earnest labors for the success
OF every project, no matter what the title
of the organization to which those who pro-
jected it belonged. The duties of the posi-
ton have been very arduous, and the corre-
spondence entaied enormous. Every letter
has been answered. every request COM
piled with If possible, and no doubt much
Of the harmonious work of the committee
may he laid at the door Of the gentle, C .eery
secretary.
The personnel of the committee speaks for
itself, most of its members being women of
affairs, used to doing things" The first
work OF the committee was to ascertain ex-
actiy how many organizations of women
would be the guests of Washington during
the encampment. Mrs. Mussey finally book
ed seven, two more than have ever before
gathered at a national encampment at one
time They are: Relief Corps, Auxiliary to
the Grand Army of the Republic: the La
dies of the Grand Army of the Republic;
the National Association of Army Nurses;
the Daughters of Veterans; the Ladies' Aid
to the Sons of Veterans; the Ladies' Aid to
the Naval Veterans: the Ladies' Auxiliary
TO Ex-Prisoners Of War and Auxiliary to
the Union Veteran Union
The first appoin tment that Mrs Mussey
made. after deciding upon the membership
of her executive committee. was that Of
Mrs. U. S. Grant, wife of the beloved first
sold1er-President. Mrs. Grant accepted the
invitation to be chairman of the reception
committee, and 1t was with sincere regret
that she found herself, because of ill-heaIth.
unable to return to Washington in time for
the reception. Her associates upon the
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FORCE OF HABIT.
A Reporters Experience as an Invol-
untary Cavalryman.

while not participant in any battle
during the war" says an old newspaper
man. Il had very uncomfortable time as
an involuntary member of a cavalry troop
In 1853 there was a cavalry camp and a
corral of horses near Giesboro' Point, sew
eral thousand Of the latter being in the in
closure. One night the animals stampeded.
breaking down the fences, and in droves
spread over much of lower Maryland. News
Of this reached me, and being well ac-
quainted with some of the officers there I
made my way to the place. 1t being Sat-
urday. intended, beside writing one or two
paragraphs for that date. to get the mate
rial for an extended account, with the
scenes and incidents for future issue. At
the Offices l got few facts and wrote
short account, which l sent to the Office by
boat. Some OF the officers and clerks COM
menced to give some particulars, when one
suggested that take one of the horses and
ride to the scene couple of miles further
down. There were perhaps dozen cavalry
horses hitched to the rack, and being but a
poor rider at best I rather slow in Sc
lecting my steed, but made the mistake of
hitting one because he looked like an old,
steady beast. For some distance after
mounting the animal he logged along pleas
antly. At length we came to field to the
right of the road where company was
being drilled. The sound of a bugle was
heard, and ere | could gather the reins NV
OLD horse had galloped to the left Of the
line. Another bugle blast set the line in
motion in trot by twos, and still another
changed II TO a company front and gal
Top. There was / at the left holding tight
to the bride and pommel. expecting every
minute to be thrown off. Then the bugle
sounded halt. and every hoof came down
with thud. while l. by the use of both
hands, retained my place somewhere on
the horses back or neck.
by this time the drilling officer. a rather
fat man, was shaking his sides with laugh
ter at my discontinue. and the men were
merry as well. I told them where I was
going. and the officer commanded a corporal
to escort me down the road, saying Per-
haps that old stager will behave when he
gets out of hearing Then we started
again. but fearful that the horse wouia re-
spond to another CALL he was turned back.
and the very extended notice Of the btam-
pede did not appear
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Brookneld. Mrs. Rachel A. Brooks. Mrs
Jessie Bruner Mrs. Marion g. Burch, Mrs.
Alice Burgess, Mrs. Christina Butcher, Mrs.
VIVA L. Calhoun. Mrs. Sue M. Carey. Mrs.
Mary NJ. Carter. Mrs. Ida L. Chase, Miss
Lulu S. Chase, Mrs Bessie Boone Cheshire,
Mrs. Nettie A. Cole, Mrs. Julia c. Collier.
Mrs. Mollie L. Crandal, Mrs. Ellen H.
Croggan. Mrs. Jennie Cusick, Mrs Mamie
G. Davis, Miss Annie De la Vergne, Mrs.
Hannah j. Devoe, Mrs. Ada g. Dickerson.
Mrs. Elizabeth Donehoo, Mrs. Mamie P.
Dorsey, Miss Mary Dow, Miss Tillie A.
Durham, Mrs. Nora Edgar, Mrs. Sarah E.
Edwards, Mrs. Emma S. Ellis, Mrs. Addie
Feathers. Mrs Emma Ferguson. Mrs. Han
nah Flaherty, Mrs. Mary Flint. Mrs. FL
randa Fuller. Mrs. Margaret Galliger. Miss
Mary Glennan, Mrs. Addie Glover. Mrs.
Mary Gorhap, MSs. Mary v. Goundie, Mrs.
Lucie B. Graham. Mrs. Marion Gregory,
Hamilton, Mrs. s. E. Hamilton, Mrs. Mary c.
Hanen, Mrs. Maria Hare, Mrs. Ida ]. Hart,
Mrs. Lola Hauptman. Mrs Emma Hempler.
Mrs. Sarah HILL. Mrs. Anna Hoagland,
Holmes. Mrs. Mary Honn, Mrs. Josepha
Houghton, Mrs. Annie c. Hutchins. Mrs.
Susie R. Jacobs, Mrs. Maria L. Jordan,
MRS Agnes L. Keeler, Miss Lola Keller,
man, Mrs. Mary E. Latin, Miss Lizzie Len
man, Mrs. Marian M. Lewis, Mrs. Emma
e. Littlejohn. Mrs. Inez Lyons, Mrs. Jane
Mclean, Mrs. Katherine McMonigal, Mrs.
Nioi iiua MARKS, MIS- RoSaInoIfu u. MeacH-
am. Mrs. Margaret Miller, Mrs. Elizabeth
Z. Months, Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, Mrs. s.
y. Morrison, Mrs. Eliza F. Naylor, Mrs.
Emma L. Newton. Mrs. Rosa Noske, Mrs.
Augusta B. Palmer. Mrs. Mary e. Peck,
Mrs Nellie c. Quill. Mrs. Annie E. Rank.
MRS Jennie Raub, Mrs. Frances Reynolds,
Mrs. Julia Roberts, Mrs. Ruth E. Roberts,
MRS. Susie Rose, Mrs. Laura Seymour, Mrs.
Eliza Shallenberger, Mrs. Mary c. Shank,
Mrs. Helen Smith. Mrs. Matilda r.
Sprague. Mrs. Augusta Starkey. Mrs. Helen
Stone. Mrs. Genie Street. Mrs Corinne
Stricken. Mrs. Mary E. Taft, Mrs Alice
IalIey, Mrs. A. P. Tasker, Mrs. Margaret
r. lew. Mrs. Mary Thatcher, Mrs. Maggie
thompson, Mrs. Jennie T. Thomson. Miss
Josephine Hereinafter, Mrs Travers, Mrs.
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Well-Selected Committees to Assist
Her.
SEVEN BODIES TO BE ENTERTAINED, AND THE
GREAT WORK DONE IN PREPARATION
FOR THEIR ARRIVAL

Preparing to entertain national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic is
accounted a labor of love, but 1t is none
the less hard labor. While willing hands
make light work. those hands must nave
guide, and safe and sure one. or they Will
grasp things by the wrong end and trouble
will follow 1t is probable that no national
encampment ever worked against greater
odds or more tremendously than has the
committee whose labors for the thirty-sixth
national encampment of the Grand Army OF
the Republic are drawing to a close 1t
has been big committee. over thousand
members. all told. but it has had big people
at the head of it, and of course it's efforts
were bound to prove successful
1t is now a well-known fact that the wo-
man contingent of a national encampment
is It's larger half. There are seven organi-
cations of women which hold their national
conventions at the same time and place
that the encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic is held and the labor of
caring for all these women Is one of great
magnitude The conventions of women are
largely made up of delegates from inland
towns, where convention guests are always
taken care of, entertained, feted and shown
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MIS- Sarah Dony. Mira. Mamie p. Dorsey.
MIS- Edith Emmerson. Mrs. Emily Frisbie
mrs Rose L. Fryer. Mrs. j. Grunwell, Mrs
j. Hart, Mrs. Lola Haaptman, Mrs. Dora
Hendrix. Mrs. Helen Holmes, Mrs, Jean
NICK Hoover. Mrs. A. Hutchins, Mrs. Susie
keeler. Mrs Emily Klvert. Mrs Emma j.
Kistier. Mrs. ]. Louis Loose. Mrs. Eliza
beth Months, Miss Kitty Montague, Mrs.
Fred. w. Mitchell. Mrs. Mary O.Ncil. Mrs,
]. Parker, Mrs. Fannie NJ. Page, DIR. AIDE
line Portman. Mrs. Jennie s. Raub. Miss
Belle c. Saunders. Miss Carrie L. Shields.
Miss Clara Stewart. Mrs Nj. Traver. Mrs.
e. K. Temple. Mrs. s. e. Van Deusen Mrs
Mary Walling and Mrs. J. A. West.
Before the flowers could be sent, how
ever, there had to be halls to put them in
and this very perplexing problem had to be
solved by Mrs. NJ E. s Davis. chairman of
the committee on halls: Mrs. ]. d. Crois-
SAINT, vice chairman. and number of act
i've women who were indefatigable in their
efforts to pace all the. conventions comfort
ably and conveniently. The ladies the
Mary f. Case, Mrs. Appleton. p. Clark. jr,
Mrs. c. s. Davis. Mrs. Celynda w. Ford,
Mrs. Abble P. McNulty, Mrs. Harriet l..
Scribner, Mrs Eugene E. Stevens and Mrs.
Horace Warner.
Committee on Decorations.
All the beautiful decorations in the va
rious convention halls to be occupied by
the women during the week are the pro-
duct of the brains of some fifty splendid
women who have been sitting up nights to
plan new and novel effects and to make the
flags and banners so around IN the number
necessary to make each hall look just as
well as the other seven of these audience
chambers. These have been under the eyes
OF this special committee, which has never
left the trail of the decorators for an hour
since the work of placing the bunting be-
gan.
The committee on decorations was very
fortunate in securing Mrs Ada Weiss for
its chairman. Mrs Weiss is the president
of the Ladies of the Loyal Legion and Is
noted for her executive ability. She has
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JUDGE OF REAL ESTATE
Department Commander Scott of
Georgia Buys Watered PROPERTY.

w. NJ. Scott, commander of the Depart
ment OF Georgia, is prominent business
man OF that state. A local newspaper man
tells the following regarding Commander
Scott:
A number of years ago I was a hodcar-
rier In the field of newspaper work in At
lanta, and as will sometimes happen I
had the good fortune to win a half interest
In house and lot which had been raffied
The property was in a section of the CITY
lying near the East Tennessee railroad
shops. 1t was not very inviting locality
However, 1 hired a horse and buggy and
drove out to see my new possessions. Rain
had been falling just about as hard and
continuously as ii did here last SATURDAY.
night and Sunday, and when l landed at
the place [ found my half-owned house sur
rounded by water and a small clubhouse
Hoating around in the front yard. | didn't
like the outlook a little bit, and was so
thoroughly disguised that I returned to
the city, turned in the horse and buggy
went to Mr.. SCOTS office and asked him IL
he wished to buy some real estate well wa
tered. He said he was always on the mar
ket Tor a good thing, and when / explained
matters to him he tod me the best thing I
could do was to hold on to the property
Tor, he said. in a few years it would be
worth good money. l didn't think So and
dldn I propose to pay taxes on a pond. [
told him he could have my half interest for
$50, but he declined to make the trade, on
the ground that | was giving it away. L
told him if he didn't take it [ would think
he was no judge of real estate and that
his faith in Atlanta dirt was weak. He
tried to dissuade me from giving 1t away,
but / insisted that he make out his check
for $50, and he did it, but told me that he
felt like he was robbing me. Five years
times that much, but 1 got none of the
benefits
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Marie Kearny. Mrs. Agnes Keller. Mrs.
Ellen s. knight, Mrs Mary A. Lamb, Mrs.
Flora A. Lewis. Mrs Emma c. Littlejohn
Mrs. A. B. Mckenzie Mrs. R. B. Meacham
Mrs E. C. Months, Miss Elsie Moore Miss
Olivia Moore Mrs. Mary A. Noerr, Miss
Gertrude Norton, Mrs. A. S. Odell, Mrs c.
V. Pettys, Mrs. Hattie Roach, Miss Mary
L. Smith, Mrs. e. *. Temple, Mrs. Edwin
Truell, Mrs. Mary Tryon. Mrs. Harriet L.
Vining, Mrs. ]. A. West and Mrs. Sarah c.
B. Winslow
The press committee has had no picnic
party in handling the stories of the prepa-
rations for the great event which Washing
ton and its citizens have endeavored to
make most memorable to the veterans of
the Grand Army of the Republic and their
allied organizations. While most of the
work of the press committee appointed by
Mrs. Mussey has been performed in the city,
and largely for the local papers, many spe-
cial stories have been prepared and sent
all over the United States. showing how
the work was progressing and what was in
store for the guests of the city at this
time. Press headquarters are established in
the rooms of the woman's auxiliary com
mtttee, and all visiting members of the
newspaper fraternity will be made welcome
there.
The chairman of the press committee,
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, and vice chair
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Second Vice Chairman, Women's Citizens Com
mittee.
the field Of battle, and was for many years
his partner in the legal profession, which
she entered after a severe course of study
for the purpose of assisting her husband,
whose health was falling. After his death.
with the consent of the bench and bar of
the District. and at the explicit request Of
her husband, she continued the firm, and
has now very large practice of her own,
extending into several foreign countries
As the only woman dean of a law school in
the world, Mrs. Mussey was received with
high honors at Oxford when abroad, and
has been highly successful in the law
school, which Is also unique in being the
only law school in the world primarily for
women. Mrs. Mussey has been very active
In work for the veterans, being past presi-
dent of the Legion of Loyal Women. past
president of the Ladies' of the Union Vet
eTan Legion, and having served one term
as national counselor. She has been ex-
tremely prominent in Red Cross work and
has been greatly interested in social re-
forms as we'll educational movements
She is the thirteenth woman to be admit
ted to the bar of the Supreme Court Mrs
Mussey calls thirteen her lucky number,
and appointed just thirteen committees to
assist her in the great undertaking of pro-
viding for the women guests of the national
capital at the encampment.
Mrs. Mussey felt that 1t was her first
duty to fortify herself woth a good execu-
tive committee, and. after careful consid-
Grafton asked the following named ladies
to assist her:
Mrs. Rosamond B. Meacham, first vice
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Chairman Committee Decorations; President
Legion Loyal Women.
Celynda W. Ford. Mrs. Frances Head. Mrs
Emily H. Hussey, Mrs. E. w. Sumner Kit
telle Miss Jane knight. Miss Lillian Lock-
wood. Mrs. Elizabeth c. Months, Mrs. A.
s. Odell, Mrs. Sarah Pittman, Miss Eliza
beth Poole. Mrs. Libbey NJ. Porter. Mrs r.
A. Pyles, Mrs. George Z. Rose, Miss Minnie
Roth, Miss Title Roth. Miss Mabel c. Scott,
Sprague, Mrs. Harriet l.. Vin.ng. Mrs. E.
M. Zane.
Floral Committee.
Mrs Mary V. Goundie. who is conductor
Of Lincoln Corps, Department of the Poto-
mac, which is said to be one of the largest
corps in the national organization, had the
honor of being appointed chairman of the
floral committee. 1t has not been an hon.
orary position, however, for 1t has involved
a great deal of very hard work. Mrs.
Helen Engle. the vice chairman, who is
member of the Legion of Loyal Women,
where her work has always been of a most
energentic character. has been an able as
mittee. these ladies have secured the fund
for the use of the committee by means of
personal contributions They will see that
the halls Of all the conventions of women
are decorated with palms and flowers, and
will make the headquarters OF all the ma
tfonal organizations sweet with bouquets
of cut flowers The ladies' who have made
all these arrangements are:
Mrs. Mary v. Goundie. chairman; Mrs.
Helen A. Engle. vice chairman; Mrs Anan
Ball. Mrs. Angela III. Bennett. Mrs. M.
Bradt. Miss Mary Mckenzie Byfne. Mrs.
Vina L. Calhoun. Mrs. Mary NJ Carter.
Mrs. Jennie Cusick. Mrs. Mamie g. Davis.
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COLORADO AND WYOMING
Department Is In Flourishing and
Prosperous Condition.

PROSPEROUS COnQ1ClOn.
Two years after the first encampment of
the Grand Army Of the Republic in 1868.
the territories Of Colorado and Wyoming
were organized as the department of Colo
RADIO, G. A. R.. with J. F. Bancroft as
provisional commander. The organization
languiished until 1875. when it was revived,
with Andrew Taylor as department COM
mander. December II, 1879, 1t was organ
lied as the Department of the Mountains
me name was changed to the Department
OF Colorado July 81, 1882. and again in Au-
gust 1889, to Colorado and Wyoming. The
largest number OF members was reported in
1899. being 3,100.
The following are the names of the differ
ent commanders: Andrew Taylor, J. Ban
croft, W. ]. Donnellen. E. K. Stimson, B. L.
Carr, A. V. Bohn, H. Bowman, Geo ADV,
J: w. Browning, T. M. Fisher, L. Holden,
G. w. Cook, ]. c. Kennedy. M. w Reed.
n. Rollins, N. ]. OBrien, Fl. o. Dodge, u.
s. HOLSTER, W. T. s. May, A Royal III.
M. Orahood, L. E. Sherman.
The national encampment of 1884 was
held at Denver, at which time was first
organized the Women's Relief Corps, Far
ragut Post. No. 46, OF Denver has been
organized over nineteen years, and I'D to
the present time has never missed a meet
ing The headquarters OF this department
are located at Victor, Col, near the base
of Pixies Peak, at an altitude of over
10000 feet.
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Chairman Executive Committee for Ladies' Of the
q. A. II.
chairman; Mrs. Henrietta N Rose second
vice chairman; Mrs. Laura V. MCCULLOUGH
secretary; Mrs. Isabel WorreIl Ball, Mrs
Joseph w. Babcock, Mrs. BENJAMIN F.
Bingham, Mrs. Barry Buckley. Mrs. Lizzie
w. Calver, Mrs. Cornelia Clay, Mrs. j. D.
Croissant, Mrs. John Dalzell, Mrs. NJ. E. S.
Davis, Mrs. Jonathan p. Dolliver. Mrs
Hazel Doyle. Mrs. John Joy Edison, Mrs
Helen A. Engle, Mrs. H. Clay Evans Mrs
Charles W. Fairbanks. Mrs ]. B. Foraker
Mrs. Celynda Werner Ford, Mrs j. Ellen
Foster, Miss Emma NJ. Gillett, Mrs. Mary
V. Goundie, Mrs. u. s. Grant, Mrs. e. A.
Haines, Mrs Emma A. Hawkes., Mrs An
ME w. johnson, Mrs. Laura Jemmon
Miss Helena Mccarthy. Mrs. Matte %. Nc,
Clure Mrs. Fl. Il. +. Macfarland. Mrs John
VIM E. Mason, Miss Helen B. Matthews.
Mrs: Emma E. Myers. Mrs Ida A. Old,
royd, Mrs Fanny Pomeroy Mrs Libbev M
Porter Mrs. Louis p. Shoemaker Mrs
Clinton Smith, Mrs. VIM s. Spencer Mrs
Elizabeth b. Stanley, Mrs. Nero L. Tanner
mrs E9sene r. Ware. Mrs. B. H. Warner.
Mrs Ada H. Weiss, Mrs F. B. Wilson.
Mrs. Mussey's Assistants.
1T has been essentially a working COM
mittee. for Mrs. Mussey felt that she must
have about her ladies who would help her
organize and push the work needful To en-
tertain the thousands Of women who wera
to be the guests practically of her commit
tee. The first vice chairman, Mrs Rosa
mond B. Meacham. very naturally fitted
into committee whose work was to make
Washington pleasing to the veterans, Tor
she is the wife OF Gen. Meacham. an old
soldier. with a splendid battle record.
and is the granddaughter of a soldier Of the
war Of 1872, while her father was one Of
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the sights Naturally. when they attend
national conventions they expect the same
generous treatment. The business of their
conventions usually extends over two or
three days. and 1t is necessary to provide
for the entertainment of the delegates at
luncheon, so that the work of the conven-
lions may not be Interrupted.
The Manner of Entertaining.
In the manner of entertaining, the dele
gates to these national conventions are i'm
mensely interested. Many of them come
from far-away states, and 1t is their one
opportunity to get acquainted with the
members of the order of other states, and
they make the most of those opportunities
by giving receptions. sometimes by state
departments, sometimes by corps when
large corps come in a body There are
never fewer than fifty OF these receptions.
Then all the national organizations give
formal receptions. To provide places for
all these national receptions and to assist
in locating all the department headquar-
tiers of the several societies is a stupendOus
task. but Il is not ended with the finding Of
suitable quarters. In the case of the ma
tional Orga niZatiOnS a special committee Is
appointed. whose sole business is to look
after these headquarters. see that they are
supplied with fresh cut flowers each day
and that nothing is lacking that will add to
the comfort and happiness of the national
officers while the guests of the city.
committee must have its own badge, and
each organization must have a distinctive
badge. This really is q problem, and has
TO be worked out with finesse or there is
no end of trouble. The problem would not
be so great il there was always Benty of
money to carry out the plans. but this is
seldom the case, and In the instance of pre-
pairing for the women guests of the thirty
sixth national enCampment there was no
money at all and. with the exception of
two or three of the thirteen committees.
each had to raise It's own funds TO carry on
its work and perfect it's arrangements.
At the head of the woman's auxiliary
committee is a woman who has been prom
inent for years in philanthropic and chari-
table work and who has had to deal with
large affairs in large manner. The sec
rotary Of the committee who had to act
very often for her chief has long been
known for her helpfulness in every dfrec-
ton when humanity suffering or the
fallen needed uplifting. The two vice chair
men are known to be energetic and patriot
&c, and ready 10 aid in every way the plans