The National tribune., 1906-08-09

these stands the Woman's Relief Corps
!, nc rea1srs of The National Tribune
will therefore welcome any Information
of the lady who this year stands as the
Hostess Of the Department of Mime
sofa to the multitude who will gather
within her borders.
Mrs. Ida K, Martin was unanimously
chosen President of the Department oi
| Minnesota for this years work. because
the women of her Department recog-
nized in her a representative of whom
they would be proud and leader il
whom they could place perfect and en-
| tire trust. a little above the average in
height, her carriage is marked by q
| quiet dignity and gentle firmneSS that
at once attracts the confidence and wins
| the respect of all who meet her. Warm
| hearted and generous, she is still con-
servative in opinion and her judgment
| is never swayed by the emotion of the
hour, but is marked by justice to all
| rather than partiality to any one indi-
| vidual. Her manner is marked by that
| quiet self-control that enables those so
| fortunate as to possess 1t to control 9TH
ers, and as l watch the women who
daily crowd the Office of this busy wo-
man and listen to the quiet counsel or
the kind suggestion that falls so easily
from Mrs. Martins lips. l can under
stand how the counsel is so easily trans
muted into law and the suggestion into
order.
Compared to many of the ladies who
daily come to her for guidance Mrs.
Martin is young woman. but she pos
sesses in rare degree the faculty of
drawing from each person with whom
she comes in contact lie very best there
is in them. and the ideas of the hum
blest are listened to with the same cour-
tesy accorded the most distinguished.
Modest and unassuming. she still knows
and maintains her rights, but so grace
fully and easily that those who differ
from her go away with the impression
that her way is, after all, their way and
the very best way, beside.
l questioned a member of the W. r.
c.: what offices has Mrs. Martin
held?" "Oh!' she replied, II don't
know; Corps Treasurer and Secretary
and President and Department Execu
tive Board and Soldiers Home Board,
and lot of things and President. But
it isn't SO much what offices she holds;
she's just Mrs. Martin, and helps every
body" This is the sort of woman who
will welcome you to Minnesota, welcome
you with outstretched hands.
At Mrs. Martins shoulder in all these
weeks Of arduous labor has been a
plump. smiling. dark-eyed lady, Mrs.
Bertha NJ. Allen daughter. niece and
wife of veterans. Mrs. Allen is Chair
man of the Committee on Accommoda>
tions, and a more accommodating lady
you will travel farther than Minnesota
to meet. Mrs. Allen has been Depart
ment Press Correspondent, Inspector,
Treasurer and Chairman of the Depart
ment Executive Board, and, of course,
has filled most of the Corps offices. She,
like Mrs. Martin, has been an active
and influential member of the State Sol
diers' Home Board, and where there is
work to do for an old soldier Mrs. AL
lens presence is usually felt.
1t Is very hard to differentiate among
women where all are so universally eff
cient. 1 think have never before met
a lot of w. r. C. women where it SEEM
ed to me that each had work to do
and was performing it properly.
Commander LOngfeIIOw.
Commander, Levi Longfeliow, who Is
the proud veteran who will lead the De-
partment of Minnesota in the grand
parade. declares that the thing of which
he is proudest In all his long. and his
friends say his eminent and honor
able" career is the fact that he was
many years on the Soldiers Home
Board, and that he was instrumental in
having attached to the State Home for
old veterans and their wives an annex
where the widows and mothers of vet
Grams may also find beautiful home in |
their declining years.
Commander Longfellow was born in |
Maine, but has lived most of his life in
He was Chief Musician Of
the 9Th MINI. throughout the war. |
When he came to Minnesota in 1851
was st. Anthony's Falls, so
he has been identified with the interests
Of the town ever since it was started. |
He established the Minneapolis Thrash |
ing Machine Co., and was for nine years
It's treasurer. He was for nine years
treasurer Of Asbury Hospital. splendid |
institution of the benevolent character, |
which was established by his cousin.
He and his brother are partners in an
immense wholesale fruit business which |
has been established for 36 years.
Commander Longfellow Is one Of the
two surviving founders of the Hennepin |
Avenue Methodist Church, with which
he has been identified since its found
ing. He is member of James Bryant
Post, and has filed all the offices in his
Post at various times. 1 attended last
week a reception given Commander
and the Department Presi-
dent, Mrs. Ida X. Martin, by Morgan
Post and Corps, and the whole evening
was given over to a paean of praise of
the Commander by the many veterans
who spoke. It seemed to me that he
must be a very philanthropic sort Of a
hustler, as we'll as loyal to the back
bone. The meeting also developed the
fact that Mrs. Martin is 'it'' In this De-
partment. Commander Longfellow has
two very charming daughters, who are
Just as earnest in the work as himself,
and they, too, are musicians. The Com
mander sings. he really and truly does
sing, and sings mighty well, and be-
ongs to a Veterans Quartet which will
sing during the Encampment at some of
he Campfires, and one or the other of
he charming daughters will accompany
he veterans on the piano. 1 can assure
4 treat for those who may be present
Commander Longfellow gives the Wo-
mans Relief Corps splendid praise for
the tremendous work they did in Sc
curing the appropriation Of $4,000 for
the Woman's Building at the Soldiers
Home and spoke of Mrs. Perry Stark
weather in particular, and the stalwart
efforts put forth by her.
Encampment Notes.
Ex-Gov. Van SAINT. of Minnesota, has
been appointed Chief Marshal of the
Grand Army parade. an appointment
made by Commander-in-Chief Tanner
md eminently satisfactory to all veter-
ms. Gov. Van SAINT is now busily en-
saged in appointing a long list of Aids
Ind Division Marshals.
1t will be remembered that at Wash
ngton in 1902 and at the National En-