The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-09-17
W. R. e.
An Enthusiastic, Patriotic, but
Business-Iike Convention.
IDelayed RepOrt.l


cisco, in Golden Gate Hall. Thursday,
August 90, at 10 o'clock. The hall was
handsomely decorated with flags and
Oriental draperies in velvet and gold EN-.
broidery, and each delegation was marked
by handsome yellow satin banner upon
which was printed i'll plain black letters
the name of the Department.
These banners, Mrs. Elizabeth Darcy
Kline, of California, Past National Pres
ident, presented to the National organlza-
ton, to be used ut future National Con-
ventions. They were gift, she said, from
the Department of California.
The stage was SO lavishly hlled with
palms and cut flowers that many had to
be moved before room could be made for
the National and Past National officers
who thronged the platform throughout
1.-THE Convention.
The National President was able to pre-
sent to the National Convention all of her
personal staff but two. Those presented
were Mrs. Geraldine E. Frisbie, Senior
Vicc-President; Mrs. Mary Nj. North, Ju-
nior President; Mrs. Ada Il. May,
urer; Mrs. Abbie A. Adams, Inspector;
Mrs. Mary l.. Carr Counselor; Mrs. Sue
Stuart Wadsworth, Patriotic Instructor.
OF the National Executive Board, only
one member was present. Mrs. Sarah y.
Fuller, of Boston, the only living life
member.
The Past National Presidents who were
presented to the Convention were received
with the waving of handkerchiefs and
flags. They were: Mrs. Sarah Il. Fuller,
Boston; Mrs Elizabeth Darcy Kline,
California: Mrs. Emma Stark, Hampton,
Michigan; Mrs. Emma X. Wallace, Hi
nois; Mrs Lizabeth II. Turner, Massachu-
sets; Mrs Agnes Hit, Indiana; Mrs.
Harriet j. Dodge, Connecticut, and Mrs.
| Mary l. Carr California
Past National Secretaries presented to
| the Convention were: Mrs. Sarah Il.
Fuller of Massachusetts, who was the
first National Secretary, the second Ma
tiOnal Senior Nice-President, and the
Third National President; Mrs. Abbie
National Senior Vice-President; Mrs.
Sarah +. Phillips, New York, VINO is now
serving her third term as National Treas
urer; Miss Jennie Brass, of Illinois, and
Mrs Harriette l.. Reed, of Massachu-
sets.
The National officers unable to be pres
cnt were Mrs. Jennie l.. Day, Maine, Ma
tional Chaplain, and Mrs. Emma f. Eos
ter, Kansas National !. and. /. Officer.
In the absence of the National Chaplain,
| the Convention was opened with prayer
by Past National President, Mrs. Harriet
J. Dodge. The opening ode was then
sung and the flag salute given.
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The National President, Mrs Lodusky
Taylor, of Minnesota, then presented he
annual address, the National Senior Vice
President, Mrs. Geraldine Frisbie, presld-
ing Mrs. Taylor's address was an adj
mirable document. being a brilliant review
of the work of the year. She urged re-
newed effort in recruiting the Corps and
spoke in high praise of the excellent work
done by the National Patriotic Instructor,
! Mrs. Lue Stewart Wadsworth, and sug-
gested that as the work of the Patriotic
Instructor is difficult and not easily pro-
ductive of results, that it would be the
part of wisdom to retain a good officer
when such one was secured.
The National President spoke with
pride of the cordial welcome she had re-
ceived at each of the Department Conven-
tons she had attended and regretted that
she had been una bic To extend her visits
| 70 more Departments. She referred to
Memorial Day and urged larger particpa
ton in the sad, sweet duties incident to
the observance of the day.
The National w. X. {. Home at Mad
ison, Ohio received considerable attention.
Mrs. Taylor urged that some action be
taken toward the closing of the Home
which never has subserved the uses for
which it was designed and which has been
a constant and increasing expense to the
| National organization from the very begin
ming.
The National President made number
of recommendations looking to corrections
of errors in the Rules and Regulations.
She also recommended that Press Core
spondents be installed. She said they of
all officers of the WOman's Relief Corps
were charged with the serious duty of
giving to the public information of the
work done behind closed doors.
When this recommendation was cOnsid-
cred, it was decided that all assistant off
GERS to whom badges were given must be
installed from National to Corps.
Mos: of the recommendations of the Ma
tional President were adopted without dis
cussiOn.
The report of the National Secretary.
Mrs. Ada f. May. and of the National
Treasurer. Mrs. Sarah Il. Phillips. both
show the Woman's Relief Corps 20 be in
splendid condition financially, with Il grow
ing membership.
THE ANDERsoNvILLE PARK.
The report of Mrs. Lizabeth A. Turner,
Chairman of the A, Jacksonville Prison
Board, was full of gratifying information
concerning the AndersOnville Prison Park.
The work of identifying this property is
progressing finely. Many monuments and
memorials have been erected there, end
others are promised.
The Board is DESTROYS Of having the
monuments planned for erection in the Ma
tional Cemetery, half mile away from
the Prison Park, placed in the Park,
which comprises all of the old prison
stockade grounds. Mrs. Turner said that
there could be but little of the sentiment
clinging about the cemetery grounds that
fingered around the prison stOckade. The
cemetery grounds We're laid out and beau
tilted after the war, and the bodies from
the prison reinterred there, but it was III
the prison stockade that the souls were
tortured out of those poor bodies by starva-
tiGn and slow torture of unattended
wounds and disease. For this reason
Mrs. Turner argued that sentiment would
seek to mark the stOckade grounds.
large number of resolutions were in
troduced, but very few of these were
adopted.
THE LINCOLN COLLECTION.
The first resolution was presented by
the Department Of California and Nevada
and asked that the National W. X. G. pc
tition Congress to purchase, and hold all
of the memorials and relies of the life AMI
. national service Of Abraham Lincoln
known as the Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial
Collection.
The Committee on Resolutions for some
reason did not approve this resolution, but
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, of the Depart
ment of the Potomac, where the OIdroyd
Collection is located in the house in which