Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-02
THE ". R. c. CONVENTION.
Delegates. to Assemble This Evening
in G. A. r. Hall.

The fifteenth annual convention of the
Woman's Relief Corps, Department of Po-
tomac opens this evening in Grand Army
Hail. at 1:3o O'Clock. The department pres
ident Mrs Rosamond L. Meacnam. will
preside
Mrs Ida J. Hart. past president of Burn
side Corps, has been appointed chairman or
the committee on courteses. Mrs. Ida L.
Chase, past president of Lincoln Corps
and Mrs Clara Magee. past president OF
Thomas Corps. will assist her.
The committee on credentials is composed
of Mrs. Matte T.. Mcclure, past president
of Thomas Corps, and department secre-
;ary, chairman; Mrs. Chase, past national
assistant Inspector. and Mrs. Francis Erie
linghuysen.
The department president has extended a
cordial invitati to all members of the Re-
lief Corps in the city to attend the sessions
of the convention. which will probably con-
tinue until and including Thursday night.
None of the sessions will be open to the
public, and the password must be obtained
from the president of the members corps.
or as otherwise provided by the rules of
the order for members who are temporarily
outside the jurisdiction of their own corps
president.
The principal talk at the present time
among the w. r. c. members seems to be
over the choice of president. 1t is said
there are two tickets i'll the field. and that
have been held weekly to fill up these tick
cts and plan a campaign to elect them.
The opposing candidates are Mrs. Edith
Emmerson of Burnside Corps and Mrs Ida
L. Chase of Lincoln Corps. Both ladies are
past presidents of their corps and are held
In high esteem personally. Mrs. Emmerson
is said to be both poet and short story
writer, and an artist as Wen. She has been
enthusiastically Endorsed by Burnside Corps
and by the members of Charles Sumner
CORDS. Mrs, EmmerS0n is daVOfad tn
corps work
Mrs. Ida l.. Chase. her rival for presi-
Dental honors. has been twice secretary
of the Department of Potomac and is said
to be one of the most indefatigible workers
IN the organization. Mrs. Chase has the
unanimous Endorsement of Lincoln Relief
corps, which brought her forward for presi-
dent. and of George H. Thomas Corps The
day evening
The national president, Mrs Sarah G.
Wlnans. has appointed Mrs Ida A. Old
royd or Lincoln Corps assistant national
Inspector MIS- Winans also announces the
death of Mrs. Ellen Putnam of New Yorl
Mrs PUTNAM was we'll known In patriotic
c!rcleS III washington. She was three times
elected president of the Department of New
orh; Noman's Relief Corps. and was the
FOUNDER and superintendent of the Wouan's
Relief Corps Home of New York located
at oxford. where she died
Mrs: 1da L. Chase of Lincoln Corps re-
ported at the last meeting of the corps that
.ns soi!ection OF sum for placing the de-
Penoent WIDOW Of a veteran in the Metho
dist Home has been almost CONNECTED tn
sum required to accomplish this amount.
10 about $50 Mrs. Chase threw onan 49,
h hoIae IN Anacostia for an entertainment
dement, for this purpose and the corns raai
lied $50 from this source. 'eS''-
Inc lady for whom the benefit was ,sya,
.ifae psen ENJOYING the comforts of the home
ioe" ior her Tor several months