The National tribune., 1902-09-04
Texas at 800 Fourteenth street, opposite
franklin Park.

| Mrs. Della A. Is. Fay. I,resident of the
National Association of Army Nurses. has
delegates in October at thE National En-
eampment. Mrs. Kate M Scott is Ma
tional Secretary. The erdx says in part
| 1.-The 36th National EgeaSnpment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be held
in the city of Washington, Oct. eli, NJ
which time the National Association of
Army Nurses of the Civil War will hold
its Annual Convention, i
Through the courtesy Oh the Encamp-
ment Executive Committee of Washing
| ton entertainment is provided for all mem
bers of the Association for three days
Oct Z, 8. and 9-at the Bancroft Hotel
corner H and 11th Streets northwest
where headquarters will be established
Tuesday morning. Oct. Z"
Comrade Geo. Burgoon, of Uniopolis
O., writes that he intends to be present
at the National Encampment, and fur
ther that he will walk the 800 miles, aver
aging about 30 miles day. Comrade
Burgoon is now 60 years old. but he ex-
poets to make the trip without difficulty.
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles will not
assist in reviewing the Grand Army pa
rade, as he will be about 10000 miles
away. Gen. Miles, accompanied by Mrs
Miles, leaves the United States for the
Philippines Sept. 6, where he will remain
for about month, inspecting the cOndi-
ton of the troops there. Gen. Miles ex-
presses profound regret that the duties of
his position will take him a way at that
time.
The Twenty-third Corps. Capt. A. +.
Mcmillan, chairman of the Reunion Com
mittee, hopes to have with it at the Ma
tiOnai Encampment Lieut.. John Nj.
Schofield, who commanded the Twenty
third Corps and the Army of the Ohio.
The Reunion will be held in the big
tent at Camp Roosevelt on the evening of
Oct. Z. The subject upon which they
have requested Gen. SchOfeld to address
them is ''The Union Soldier
The Associated Survivors of the Sixth
Corps are arranging to dedicate the monu-
ment at the grave of Gen. III. G. Wright
in Arlington Cemetery Oct. Z. Gen.
Wright succeeded to the command of the
Sixth Corps at Spottsylvana when the
gallant Sedgwick was killed. The exact
hour of the dedication of the monument
has not yet been decided upon.
So
Winton, the famous automobile racer,
is intensely interested in the Automobile
Parade for the Encampment, and pro-
poses to bring his great racing machine
here, if he can make arrangements for it.
Mrs S. Jefferds, of Woburn, Mass,
writes that party composed of members
of Corps 161 and members of the G. A.
X. of WOburn will attend the National
condition. Its President is Miss Susan
Tebbetts.
Mrs. Ellen Applebaugh, Department
President of Ohio, w. r. c.. will estab-
lish headquarters at the Ebbitt House
during the National Convention.
The Illinois w. Il. @: will attend the
National Convention with ailarge delega-
ment are as follows: President, Sophia
Il. Spaulding, Rockford IH.pS. V.-P., Syl-
Wit Hemingway. Rock Island, ILL.,; ]. "
T., J. May Kicker, Aurora. ILL.,; Treas,
Sarah NJ. Evans, De Kalb, ILL.,; Sec.
Lindayah Moorhead, aSpringfeld, ILL.,;
Chap, Mary e. Efner.l Galesburg, ILL.,;
Inspector Bessie Jenkins, Portac. H.; 1.
and l. Officer, Anna B.iTuck, Plymouth,
ILL.,; Counselor, Elizabeth Means, Chicago,
Ill. no
Comrade J. n. Stanford. of Shelbyville,
Tenn, makes the suggestion that when
comrades find their Resimental headluar-
tres they record an hour when they will
be found at those headquarters each day.
making this record right after their sig
nature. Then if a comrade has friends
on the lookout for him no valuable time
will be lost in the search.
Something of n sensation was created
in and about the Treasury Department
last week, when Secretary Shaw or
dered the dismissal of Lorenzo G. War
field, s.. 900 clerk employed in the Book
keeping Division, for being interested in
an alleged "sure-thing'' racing and gamb-
ling concern. The thing which precipi-
tated the dismissal was a circular which
the "sure-thing' company had issued. and
it had as one of its inducement clauses
the statement that the inventor of the
system was "Mr. Lorenzo G.. Warfeld,
who holds an important position in the
Treasury Department. This fact alone is
an evidence of the respectability of the
association" 1t is said that the company
no longer exists, but Secretary Shaw held
that the use Of the name of the Treasury
Department was serious misdemeanOr.
to say nothing of trusted employee of
the Department being interested in such
affairs. This is in line with the jolt that
was given not long ago, when it was an
nOunced that clerks had to quit playing
poker and pay their debts. or hunt new
jobs, as Uncle sam had plenty or nOneSt
people whom he could employ, and that
he proposed to do it.
The first fre-prOOf dwellings in the
world were erected in Washington. Fire
proof business houses are not new, but
dwellings are. 1t was the whim of a
woman that gave impetus to the move
ment for greater safety in the home.
Mrs. Christian Heurich. of Washington.
planned a fre-proof building for her new
residence few years ago. Architects
laughed at the idea. Decorators said if
she persisted in her plans it would be at
the expense of an artistic interior. She
did persist, and has one of the most beau
tiful city homes in the United States.
Since then the French Embassy and the
Chinese Legation homes have been con-
structed along the same lines. Many 9th
ers have followed suit, and fire-proOf
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