Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-11
UNDER NEW OFFICERS
JOINT INSTALLATION BY BURN
SIDE POST AND CORPS.

was crowded with guests last evening. hum
dreds being unable to get into the hall to
listen to the program of music and speak
ing which was presented by Burnside Post
and Corps after the installation of the
officers of the post and auxiliary for the
ensuing year The hall was richly deco
rated with flags and bunting and Christmas
greens.
Burnside Post met in its post hall at an
early hour and completed the business of
the outgoing administration, then installed
its officers, the impressive ceremonies being
performed by Prof. B. f. Janney, assist
ant adjutant general of the Department of
the Potomac. who, by special request act
ed as installing officer. Adjournment was
then taken to admit the members of Burn
side Relief Corps aad ;heir friends, as well
as the crowds of other invited guests.
Burnside Corps officers We're Installed by
Mrs. Mathilda r. Sprague. past president of
the Department of the Potomac who is also
one of the hono-ed members of the corps.
Flowers and flags were the decorations. Mrs.
Ida j. Hart, president of the Department
OF Potomac. w. Il. c.. who is also a mem
Der of Burnside Corps, was present by spe-
ciai invitation, accompanied by the MEM
berS OF her depal tment staff. and escorted
to the platform with all the honors due her
nigh office amid enthusiastic applause and
the waving of the flags in the hands of the
escort The corps room was crowded with
guests, members of other corps.
List of Officers.
The officers installed were as follows
President, Mrs. Margaret Gallagher; senior
vice president, Mrs Rachel Richardson;
junior vice president, Mrs. Mary V Noerr;
chaplain Mrs Lucinda Gruber; treasurer,
Mrs. Emma J. Newton: conductor Miss
Grace Leonard guard, Miss Jennie Hami-
ton: assistant guard, Mrs. Rosa Burke;
secretary. Mrs Anna Sanborn Hamilton;
press correspondent. Miss Vina Crandau;
patriotic instructor, Mrs. Nancy Ayers;
musician. Mrs. Mary Leonard; color bear
ers. Mrs. Gertrude Strickland, Mrs. Chris
tian Carruthers, Mrs. Nettie Lyon, Mrs.
Rosale Shelton.
The officers of the post installed were:
Commander. l.. ID. Alden; senior vice COM
mander. George Newton; junior vice COM
mander. II. l.. Dean; quartermaster. Geo.
T. Carter; surgeon, George II. LaFetra:
chaplain, NJ. l. Leonard; officer of the day,
William Emerson: officer of the guard, E.
B. Gregg; adjutant, Chris. Storm; sergeant
ma jOr, James G. Neatch; quartermaSter
sergeant William W. Wild.
The program which followed the install
lations was of that quality which com
mands attention to the last number. Among
the soloists was Prof. Jasper McFall, who
sang several of the songs which have so
greatly endeared him to the veterans, and
finally responding, on request, with the
song dedicated to General Logan by its
Inspection in the Morning. "A soldiers
welcome" also greeted the singing of Mr.
Harry J. Statam, and the daughter of the
post" Miss Mary f. Wild. whose father
was Installed as quartermaster sergeant,
both of whom responded to encores. The
band of the New Willard Hotel, about 10
o'clock added to the rarely fine musical
features of the evening by playing beau
tiful arrangement of war time patriotic
airs some of them so familiar that the
audience sang as the band played.
Staff Members Remembered.
Just before resign;ng her gavel, Mrs.
Gertrude Strickland, the retiring president,
who is one of the youngest women to hold
that responsible position in the corps, it is
said, presented to each of her staff officers
a handsome handkerchief, the work of her
own hands She said that during the year
she had been most Loyalty supported by her
officers. and that the work of the corps had
gone on very smoothly, for which she wish
ed to thank both officers and members, as
without their united support she could have
accomplished very little.
Mrs Strickland was herself the recipient
of a bouquet of roses and carnations from
members of Burnside Post. and was sur
prised into eloquent silence" by the preSen-
tation, q little later, of dainty gold badge
of the corps The badge is solid gold, with
the emblem in tri-Colored enamel for a
drop, the bar pin being in scroll design.
The presentation was all the more of
surprise, as it is said that Burnside Corps
has never fully Endorsed the idea of presen-
tatious TO retiring presidents, Mrs. Hart,
the present department president, receiy-
ing from that corps, it is said, the first
badge ever presented, until this came to
Mrs. Strickland. The pin bears an appro-
pirate inscription, and was presented by
Mrs. Shelton, the retiring senior vice presi-
dent of the corps, on behalf of the corps
members. Mrs. Strickland, in rather a
still small voice" accepted the badge with
thanks.
The Addresses
Among the speakers of the evening was
Commissioner II. B. F. Macfarland, who
said he had completed a trio of patriotic
meetings of the evening by visiting Burn
side Post and corps installation He said
that he too, was in arms during the civil
war, but it the arms of a nurse" which
was greeted with laughter He said that he
was never happier than when in the pres
ence of men who defended the flag and
saved the nation.
Another guest was Col. Henry A. Castle
former auditor for the Post Office Depart
ment, who happened to be in the city and
was called upon for speech. He said
1t gave him great though unexpected pleas
ure TO speak to his Grand Army friends.
and he spoke of his long service In that
organization, which extends nearly thirty
nine years back.
Col. John Tweedale adjutant general of
the Grand Army of the Republic presented
the regrets Of the commander-in-chiefw who
was unable to be present and then urged
his comrades to newer and more vigorous
effort in recruiting the ranks of the organ
ization which. he said, lost 100 900 members
last year, largely through death. He then
recited d poem, which had been written by
the late John Hay, which aroused great en-
thusiaSm. Mrs. NJ. NJ. Haywood gave a
negro dialect reading which brought her
hearty encore. and she responded with
a dainty bit OF Riley's verse.
Among the guests invited to the MIA form
during the evening were Mrs. Ida J. Hart,
president of the department of the Poto-
mac. w. r. c.; Mrs. Margaret j. Gallagher
president of Burnside Corps; Senior Vice
Department Commander B. f. Entrikin. B.
T. Janney. Mrs. Annie w. Johnson, Mrs
Gertrude Strickland and many others. Mrs
Hart and Mrs. Gallagher spoke briefly on
the work of the Womans Relief Corps and
its interest in and loyal allegiance to the
Grand Army of the Republic.
At the close of the exercises a general re-
ception followed and ices and cakes were
served to the guests.