Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-02
OFFICERS INSTALLED
MISS HARRIET HfAwLEY TO PRE-
SIDE ANOTHER YEAR.
Reelected by Babeeck Auxiliary to
Lawton Command Of Spanish
War Veterans

MISS Harriet e. Hawley, who is known 10
the members of the 1st District Regiment
as the Angel Of Mercy" was last night
installed as PRESIDENT of Mary A. Babcock
Auxiliary, No. L. to'the Henry w. Law
ton Command, Spanish War Veterans, she
having been reelected to that office. The
occasion was the annual installation OF
officers of the former organization, followed
by a brilliant reception at Spanish War
Veterans Hall, 612 street northwest.
Besides Miss Hawleythe following officers
were installed: Senior vice president, Mary
Sanger Driver; junior vice president, Mrs.
Laura Cox; chaplain, Mrs. Chastina E.
Hawley; recording secretary, Mrs. Mildred
Van Reuth; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Maud King; conductress, Mrs. Nellie
Hooper Barret; guard, Mrs. Mary Phillips;
color bearer, Mrs. Mayme Bourke Lewis.
A picturesque feature Of the installation
ceremonies was the flag drill by eight
young ladies, known as color guards. They
executed number Of pretty movements
with military precision, in the installation
of each officer and in receiving the guests
of honor, who were: Mrs. Flora A. Lewis,
president general; Mrs. Eliza V. Hodgson,
inspector general; Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mus
sey, judge advocate general; Miss Cornelia
Clay, treasurer general; Mrs. Hoyt A. Hol-
ton, corresponding secretary general; Mrs.
b. Gertrude Mitchell, national conductress;
Mrs. L. NJ. Huyack, national guard; Mrs.
Agnes Wilkinson, national council of ad-
ministration; Mrs. Henry A. Castle, Dis
trict corps president and Mrs. ]. Ellen Fos-
ter.
1t is estimated that more than 600 guests
were received during the evening. Capt. j.
Lyon King, former commander Of Lawton
Command, and Capt. Sheridan Ferree, the
present commander, assisted the ladies OF
the auxiliary in entertaining their guests 1t
was Capt. King that first advocated the
forming OF ladies' auxliaries to the Spanish
War Veterans.
Prominent Guests.
Prominent among the guests were: Gen
eral George H. Harries, Henry A. Castle,
sixth auditor of the treasury; Colonel Cecil
A. Clay, Major Fred S. Hodgson, District
of Columbia corps commander; Captain l..
c. Dyer, Captain Lee NJ. Lipscomb, and a
delegation OF officers of the Minute Men.
Members of all the commands of Spanish
War Veterans in the District, in their uni
ferns of blue and gray, We're present. Re
freshments were served by the ladies'.
When the District Regiment returned
from Cuba and landed at Montauk Point,
many of them shattered in health, and al
most at Deaths door as a result of their
service under the flag, in the enervating eli
mate Of the tropics Miss Hawley was sent
there to minister to them. Her work there
Is familiar to all the members of the First
District Regiment Mounted upon cavalry
horse and wearing an army blouse and cam
paign hat she went from point to point do
ing all the good she could. Here nursing a
District soldier, stricken down by the pesti-
lential Cuban fever; there, giving da1ntles
to emaciated men in blue, always with
words of cheer and e1coura cement to one
and all.
Her work was brought to the attention of
the late President Mckinley, who ccm
mended it. 1t was Miss Hawley who
marked the graves of many of those who
died, by placing their names in bottles and
burying them at the head of the mounds,
so that when they were disinterred iden-
LITIGATION was easy.
Returning from Montauck Point Miss
HaWley organized 1he Soldiers Rest. at
18th street and Pennsylvania avenue. This
institution furnished care, medicine, food
and rest to the soldiers who were returning
from the south. The first money contrib
uted for the organization OF the Rest came
from the wife of Representative Babcock.