Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
ITS SECOND SESSION
National Assembly of Spanish
War Veterans Auxiliary.
INITIATORY CEREMONIES
Color Work Exempli6ed by Team
From Cleveland.
GREETINGS TO ENCAMPMENT
Committee Bears Message From Aux
GREETINGS TO ENCAMPMENT
Committee Bears Message From Aux
Hilary to Veterans and Returns
With Reciprocal Expressions.

The national assembly Of the auxiliaries
of the United Spanish War Veterans met in
it's second session this morning at 9:30
o'clock in the long parlor at the Ebbitt
House. To the surprise of the members OF
the assembly, the hall was not large enough
to hold the assembly delegates. and each
member took a chair and paced down the
long hall to the big red parlor. which was
arranged as a convention hall in short or
der.
The assembly was called to order by the
president general and prayer offered by
Chaplain General Mrs. Mannion. The busi-
ness Of the morning was the initiation of
twelve candidates into the Edith X. Roose-
welt Auxiliary Of the District Of Columbia
Department. The officers Of the Edith K.
Roosevelt auxiliary are: Miss r. Frances
Duffy, president Mrs. Harriet L. Scribner.
acting senior vice president; Mrs. Ashton,
Junior vice president: Mrs. Elmira Foley,
chaplain; Miss Minnie Roth. treasurer; Mrs.
Isabel Worrell Ball. secretary. These off,
GERS had previously announced a special
meeting. and at the proper time took the
various stations and inaugurated the work.
which was then taken up by the Isabelle
Alexander color team Of Cleveland. The
team was composed Of twelve whitegowned
young women carrying silk flags.
The initiatory work was quickly over, and
the team was complimented by the ladies
Of the assembly, many Of whom had never
witnessed the color work. which is to be one
Of the prominent features Of the auxiliaries
hereafter.
The ladies initiated were: Mrs. Margaret
Buckelew. Washington, D. c.; Mrs. Bessie
Dick, Detroit. Mich: Mrs. Albert Hasten
string Detroit Mich; Jennie s. Edmonds,
Rochester, N Y; Mrs. A. c. Stear, Cur
nensvile, Pa: Mrs. Anna Hunt Epps. Ben
nings. D. c.; Mrs. Olive L. Marshall;
Brooklyn; Grace F. Cramer, Pierce. 8. D.;
hardt Wall. New York city: Marie Water
man LESLIE Rochester, N. Y: Mrs. Chris
tine Dunlap, Washington, D. c.
Members of Color Team.
The ladies who exemplified the color work
are all Of Cleveland. Ohio and were drilled
by Mrs. Isabelle Alexander, past president
general. They are: Ella Gidecke. Clara
Bailey, Eugenia Miller. Mayme Duff 'tty
wyland. Alice Rodgers. Jennie Stroud.
Lucy Keen, Minnie Male. Bessie Runker.
Caroline Patton. Florence Clark.
Elizabeth Creighton. Emma Howard.
Emiline Shultz. Julia Hoyt.
At II o'clock Commissioner mcfarland
came to present the greetings Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. and was received with
enthusiastic applause as he welcomed the
ladies, whom he told might have every
thing they could pry loose, except the
Washington monument He insisted that
we could not spare that. but all else was
theirs.
Pleasure in Welcoming.
THE national capital has peculiar pleas
ure in welcoming you." he said. because
of what you have done for your country.
Women have caused many wars from
Helen Of Troy down, but generally as the
inspirers of patriotism and the remem-
the best bequest of the fathers and moth
ers Of any country. They have sent the
men to fight when men might have shrunk
from fighting, because they believed that
than the and
that it demanded the best they could give.
And then, in every war. the women have
suffered at least as much as the men. and
suffered without the aid Of excitement OF
battle or the rewards of glory.
1.-The sword has pierced. the womans
heart in the silence OF her home" Mr.. Mac
farland stated. land she has not ceased
to cheer on the men at the front. During
the Spanish war, short in time, small in
cost, but vast and momentous in its ef-
fects, you and those you represent showed
once more the spirit Of our American wom-
anhood. as noble. as brave. as gentle. as
helpful, as patriotic. as that of the civil
war time, or of the revolution. We are
the better for that war in many ways,
much as war is to be deplored. And in
none more than in what you women did
and are still doing In the common cause.
That was a holy. because an unselash war.
and it had back of 1t womanhood as
fine, as gracious. and as sympathetic with
the suffering and oppressed as this world
has ever seem"
Past President General Mrs. Isabelle
Alexander responded in a few words Of APP
probation.
Exchange Of Greetings.
The color team escorted the committee on
greeting to the Spanish War Veterans. Mrs.
Clara Bailey, Lucy Wolfsram and Lucy
Keen. to the hall Of the encampment. and
were In turn escorted back to the encamp-
ment by committee on greetings from the
United Spanish War Veterans. Amid ap--
plause the veterans, were escorted into the