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A MUCH LOVED WOMAN.
Kate BrOwnIee Sherwood at the Helm
Big Committees of Women from Al
Kinds of Societies.

Kinds OF Societies.
The grand success attending the 42d
National Encampment, G. a. r., was
largely owing to the work of Toledo
women, as expressed thru organizations.
Toledo excels in the number and
strength of the organizations, patriotic,
church, educational, fraternal and
benevolent, and when Kate Brownlee
Sherwood was named as Chairman of
the Woman's Citizens Committee by
the Executive Committee of the En-
campment, with power to choose her
assistants it was at once patent to all
that our welcome would be royal and
loyal. Mrs. Sherwood is the ranking
National President of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps, and entered actively into the
work at the time of its organization, 26
years ago, tho not elected until the sec
ond year. 1t is due to her pen and
voice and energetic 1abors in every di-
rection that it grew and prospered as it
did in the early years when women's
organizations were not as popular as
they are now. Mrs. Sherwood loves the
work. and being patriotic to the hearts
core has made the organization life
work. There is in the organization to-
day no woman more highly esteemed
than its second National President, and
it was with joy that the National Con-
vention welcomed Mrs. Sherwood back
into active cOnnectlOn aIuer SeEerdi
years semi-retirement because of i'll
health. 1t was assured that success
would attend all her efforts when she
was able to call to her assistance so
many splendid women of all other or
| ganizations, and interest them in the
noble work of preparing for the Grand
| Army of the Republic and its allied
organizations.
Mrs. Sherwood called upon all organi-
| iZations of women to open hospitality
centers for Encampment week, work.
! ing with the Executive Committee
named by her. including representative
of the Woman's Relief Corps. Ladies OF
the GAR, Toledo Teachers Asso-
citation, City Federation of Woman's
Clubs, Veteran Women of America, Col
ored Women's Association, Auxiliaries
of the Sons of Veterans and Spanish
War Societies, Woman's Building Asso-
citation, and the numerous societies
prominent before the public. All the
| organizations named kept open house
| the entire week, and 1t was like the old
war days to see the men who carried
| the guns showered with flowers and
! feted with lunches, as in old war days
when women turned out en- masse to
| honor the soldiers enlisted for the war
All these centers acted with the Execu-
| tive Committee, whose names, as fol-
The National tribune., 1908-10-01
Last Chance--OnIy 100 Copies Left.
Alphabetical LIST of Battles
From the Official Reeords-From ,7s4

Official Reeords-From 1754 1900 With
The date of any of the s99o battles krmhes other
incidents of the War OF the Rebellion of of the
engagements of the War and Philippine
on be referred to sea as to word in the dictionary
All of the battles of the old Wars arranged the
with brief sketch of each engagement including the losses
The Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution will find
things Of interest," the battles of the Revolution full
complete.
It has been adopted authority by the United
Bureau and there are 1,50O copies in nse in that office
1t gives the number killed wounded each
turbance in China
The principal of Rebellion SpanistAmerican War;
Philippine Disturbance China recorded
cronologay they occurred from day. This alone worth
the price of the book
AS book of reference equal Teachers
authors speak in highest terms of the work.
1t will be found ready reference to settle disputes to dates
of battles and other Incidents and by marking the
in which comrades took they will leave record that their
children and grandchildren will be proud to exhibit.
The book will enable comrades rerace memory the long
Marches and engagements which they participated from
Sumter Appomattox, and from Cuba to the Philippines
The data from which this book compiled principally from
official records requiring careful search of nearly 100 volumes of
the Rebellion Records and the the Departments
years.
The book neatly bound clth and contains 252 pages we'll
ndexed. @
If after examination pleased aDiA the book shoo 1t
your comrades If not, return IL and get your money.
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Address, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
. Thirteenth Street N. W.. Washington, D.
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war with 80 army nurses were iunched
at the tables at Memorial Hall by For
syth, Toledo and Volunteer Corps, to-
gether with hundreds more, who came
in to see what was going on, and yet
| there were supplies enough over TO feed
brigade.
For the first time the church socie-
ties. Catholic and Protestant. united in
a Hospitality Center, extending well
come hand to veterans, quartered in
| the schools. with coffee, lunch aud
| couches to rest on. and yet there was
surplus for the Salvation Army and
| City Mission.
For the first time at a GAR Encamp-
ment practical patriotism was taught
| in the schools, the Toledo Teachers As
soeiation, with aid of the boys and girls
of the High School, dispensing hospital
ity, food and fun, music and laughter
and flowers to the thousands of veter-
ans meeting there in reunion. And for
the first time the Federated Clubs unit
ed in similar patriotic duty as especial
hostesses of the Loyal Legion.
| 1t is estimated that $1,000 at low fig
ures was raised and expended by the
women of Toledo, outside the regular
appropriations. OF 2,000 pounds Of
coffee used the Woolson Spice Co. gave
and made 1,400 pounds.
And the flowersi One thousand dol
lars worth poured into Memorial Hall.
where Mrs. Alexander and her commit
| tee received and distributed. Every
veteran in line had a buttonhOle bou-
quet: all the headquarters and centers
] were decorated. and at given point
showers of flowers fell on the veterans
| in parade from the hands of beyies of
white-robed young girls, wearing shoul-
der streamers of red, white and blue
| ribbon
| The army nurses had the time of their
| lives, quartered at one of the central
family hotels, with a special committee
| to have them in care; special seats next
the reviewing stand. receptions, flowers.
badges, automobile rides and other IA
vors. Surely it was an eventful week.
proving the value of organized woman
! hood and the spirit of patriotism and
brotherly love that characterizes the
| Golden Rule CITY
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Survivors Of the Libby Tunnel.

Apropos of the statement that God-
win Scudmore, who died at Lake Port.
Cal. last May, being the last survivor
of the Union officers who made their
escape thru the tunnel from libby, Col.
W. r. Adams writes that, beside him.
self, he knows of at least one moro
survivor. That is Capt. f. S. Scott, who
belonged, with Col. Adams, to the 89th
Ohio. They escaped at the same time,
and succeeded in reaching the Union
lines at Williamsburg, Va, after an
eight-day tramp thru the Chickahominy
swamps. Capt. Scott is a Presbyterian
preacher at Winona Lake, Ind, and Col.
Adams has lived in Larned for the past
35 years. He has now passed his three
score and ten, but is very much alive.
and takes care of all the rations that
are issued to him daily.
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found in his room the bags of rubber
which he expected to float his money
down the sewer in, and they finally
learned from him all his plans. but,
strange to say, the man was never pun
ished. In fact, he finally leaked out of
the landscape, so to speak, and never
was heard from more.
1t was Secretary Folger who con-
cluded that the Treasury ought to be
guarded better. SO he had the old safes
replaced with modern steel affairs, with
time locks and intricate combinations.
The gold and silver vaults were fitted
with steel castings and time locks, and
different parts of the combinations dis
tributed among different officials, so
that their vaults could be opened only
with and by the concerted action Of sew
eral people. Then perfect watch"
was set OF picked men, and, as q matter
of fact, the safety of the money in the
Treasury depends upon the watchmen
after all. Not such a very great while
ago it was necessary to have the lock
of one of the most up-to-date safes
picked A safe expert was brought
here, and he picked that elaborate lock
in exactly two minutes by the watch.
Then, to show what he could do. he
proceeded to pick dozen Of those in
tricate locks whose combinations were
in the hands of a dozen men, not one
of them knowing all the combination of
any, He then told the Treasury officials
that an expert craftsman didn't care a
continental about the lock on a safe;
there was not one made that couldn't
be got into in very few minutes, which
is discolcerting, to say the least. But
the fact remains that the United States
Treasury is quite safe, even if they peel
the sides till you can see the ribs.
C. II. Andrews, of Honolulu, a sugar
planter in the Hawaiian Islands, ad-
yances the fish idea concerning 1eprosy.
81 attribute the great number of lep-
ers in Hawaii to the large consumption
of raw fish," said Err. Andrews. "Lep-
rosy is more prevalent in the coastal
countries than in other parts of the
earth, and this, believe, is because the
people consume large quantities of un-
cooked fish. In Norway and in Finland,
and in other countries that have exten-
sive sea coasts, the inhabitants eat raw
fish, Just as we eat raw oysters, and
this, in my opinion (altho 1 know it is
unscientific), results in leprosy."
Foods especially prepared for infants
and invalids will be scientifically inves-
tigated by the Bureau of Chemistry,
Department of Agriculture. to deter
mine whether or not they are Injurious
to health. While there is no specific
authorization to make the proposed in
quiry, the work will be under the gen.
eral authority given for the enforcement
of the food and drugs law.
The first important step in the inves-
tigation will be the collection of data
from physicians. particularly specialists
I'm childrcn's diseases, authors, manu-
facturers and others. The next step
will be the collection of samples of in
fants' and invalids' foods that enter into
Interstate trade or are imported from
abroad. These foods will undergo a
careful chemical analysis, TO determine
whether they comply with the require
ments of the pure-food and drugs law.
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for all they did in the days of 1908 for
the surviving veterans whom they could
not sufficiently honor:
Executive Committee.
Mrs Kate Brownlee Sherwood, Chair
man.
Mrs. Sarah D. winans. Vice Chairman.
Mrs. Anna T.. Howe, Executive Chair
man.
Mrs. May H Baldwin, Secretary.
Mrs Amelia G. Alexander, Flowers.
Mrs. Nellie b. Brigham, Badges and
Souvenirs.
Miss Emily s. Bouton. Press.
Mrs. A. w Crane. Lunches.
Mrs. Olive j. Bowling. Reception.
Mrs. Sarah A. Egelton, Halls and Cen
ters.
Mrs. Deborah f Harvey, Army
Nurses.
Mrs Elizabeth Mansfield Irving.
Ca m pfires
Miss NJ. Louise Koch, Decorations.
Mrs d. r. Locke, Courtesies.
Mrs. Carrie Norton Lowery, Publicity.
Mrs. Lenorc Sherwood Pyle. Music.
Mrs. Julia Rice Seney. Invitations.
Mrs Mary Z. Simonds. Accommoda-
tons.
DR.. Emily c. Willoughby, Physicians.
Hospitality Centers.
tSelleI tOTpS-tIldunlafl,
Ada n. Zimmerman.
Ladies of the G- A. R.-President,
Mrs. NJ. Philes.
Toledo Teachers Association-Presi-
dent, Fannie NJ. Perkins.
Veteran Women of America-Presi-
dent, Mrs. Ruth Arnold.
Peoples Forum, colored-Chairman
Mrs. Annie NJ. Fields.
Auxiliary Sons of Veterans-Chair-
man, Mrs. Kate G. Raynor.
Spanish War Auxiliary-Chairman
Mrs. Marie Oatley.
Woman's Building Association
Chairman, Mrs. Dan. Jones.
City Federation of Woman's Clubs
President, Mrs w. A. Humphrey.
Knowing that the usual courtesies
would be showered on the officials and
delegates of Encampment week by the
Citizens Committee and their woman
helpers, the Woman's Committee, which
had an appropriation all told of S1,400,
of which they have refunded $500,
turned their attention to the Hospitality
centers, and the men and women of
Toledo and the surrounding country,
soliciting flowers and food, which came
in by carloads, moving vans, baskets
and boxes. Everybody grew flowers at
the request of the women, and every
part of Toledo, to the humblest little
home, blossomed with the glorious col
ors, the red, white and blue. They made
a house-to-house canvass in the hot
Summer days, quartering all guests who
applied, to the number of 40. 900. Twen-
ty-five thousand veterans were given
coffee and fine meat sandwiches before
marching, and the $4,000 red, white
and blue cups they took home as SOU
venirs. Five hundred ex-prisoners of
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Capt. Grayson v. Heidi. nth Cav,
whose wife was Miss Grace Mckinley.
niece of the late President Mckinley,
has been found incapacitated for active
service, and will be retired. He is sta
toned at West Point. Capt. Edward N.
Macon, Coast Artillery. Fort Washing
ton, Md. and Second Lieut.. William H.
Hawes, 4th Inf, have also been retired
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Walter Il. Smith, Assistant Attorney.
General under President Grant, died
last week at his home In Catietts, Va,
Mr.. Smith was born in Connecticut
After his graduation from college Mr.
Smith read law in the Office of Colum-
bus Delano. When Mr. Delano accept
ed the post Of Secretary of the Interior
in President Grants Cabinet and came
to this city Mr.. Smith accompanied him.
and was made Assistant Attorney-G
eral for the Interior Department.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

President Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt.
Ethel and Quentin are back in the White
House for the Winter. The President
looks brown and happy as always. He
was delighted to get back to Washing
ton, and was met at the railway station
by several members of his Cabinet
notably Secretary and Mrs. Straus. Post
master-General Meyer. Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson, and number OF
personal friends, all OF whom he greet
ed with handshake and hearty greet
ings. 1t is thought there will be great
doings at the White House this Winter
Miss Ethel will probably make her de-
but at a party early in December. and
Mrs Roosevelt will give round OF
parties and "girl" affairs for her favor.
lite child. Miss Ethel looks and acts like
her mother. but she has many of the
characteristics of her Dutch ancestry
and one of these is sturdy build. In
that she is very unlike her sister. Mrs
LongWOrth.
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lows, should be written in letters of gold
for all they did in the days of 1908 for
the surviving veterans whom they could
not sufficiently honor:
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Just now Theodore, Jr.. is in the pub
lie eye as a possible lover. 1t is said
that he would like to be considered a
suitor for the hand of Miss Carolyn
Mum, whose brother is chum OF
young Roosevelt at Harvard. Miss Mum
is a young Washington debutante, very
charming and with plenty of money
She says there is no truth in the report
that she is enga ged to Mr.. Roosevelt.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

Mr. Robert Alphonso Taft, elder son
of former Secretary of War and Mrs.
William II. Taft, has gone to New Haven
to join his class, the juniors, at Yale.
which he leads in scholarship. Robert
Taft is athletic, but not an athlete. and
spends more time IN study than in ex-
eccise.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

A little colored girl, just snip of
chocolate flesh and drift of pigtails,
with a cotton dress of nondescript color
and make to hold her together, was
hauled up in the Police Court the other
day for stealing pair Of roller skates.
-'What made you take the skates? ?"
questioned the benignant Judge, as he
peered down on the snip Of a girl.
"Ah JUS has to have 'em, Jedge, yo'
Honah! All suttenly does. Nah bo, ne
Gums erlon' an he says, he does, des
cum skate wifi me, an, Jedge, yo' Hon.
ah, All amt got no skeets, an A n JUS
hez to go. So when All seed desc yer
ones in de ya'd All JUS picks 'em up.
All KANT hep 1t, Jedge, yO' Honah.
Wen NAH DO he wants me All JUS has
ter go, All suttenly does. Yes, indeedy,
yo' Honah."
And this handful of rags and hank
of WOOL was only 10 years old. That's
all.
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

And nowi Just exactly as The Ma
tional Tribune predicted a brief two
weeks ego. Washington Is tired Of her
new sensation. and wants another. The
sensation was the supposed leper, Ear
ly. He has settled right down to con-
tent and comfort, not to say luxury, In
his fower-lined tent, and Is having a
better time than he ever had in his
whole life put together before. He has
ceased to be an object Of interest, how
ever, and now dull, cold facts about this
leper is going to get into print. He says
he IL being cured right up, don't you
know. Now, how does that comport
with the history OF leprosy? Mr.. Early
says he never felt better In his life!
The National tribune., 1908-10-01

There is much rejoicing on both sides
of the family because Of the birth at
Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. IA, of a
son to Count and Countess Won Moltke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, parents
of the Countess, are now. at the home of
their son-in-law and daughter in Den
mark. Count Won Moltke has been
| named to succeed Mr.. Constantin Brun
as Minister here. His marriage to Miss
Cornelia Thayer took place year ago
| last Summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
SPECIAL EXERCISES
FOR CAMP HARDEE

The solidity and good condition of Camp
Hardee, United Confederate Veterans.
was exemplified yesterday afternoon by
the exceptionally large attendance of the
regular semi monthly meeting which was
held in the rooms of the Commercial
Club.
The meeting was a very interesting
one. The address Of Prof. j. c. DuBose
on 1.-THE Life of Admiral Semmes' was
one of the finest eyer delivered before
Camp Hardee.
On behalf of the camp Comrade w. c.
McTyiere presented Pelham Chapter
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
with a gavel which was received with a
pretty speech of acceptance by Mrs. c.
M. Tardy, president of the chapter. The
ladies of Pelham Chapter presented a
number of crosses of honor to veterans
who were without them.
Miss Genevieve Burt recited a poem
Of greeting written by Mrs. c. M Tardy
and Miss Frances Woodrow Long gave
a recitation of 1.-THE Badge That He
Wears On His Coat" Both >eoitations
were excellent.
Two new members, e. H. Bonham and
d. C. THORN, were elected by the camp
Notice was given that on next Satur-
day the annual county picnic for the
veterans will be held at East Lake park
All veterans were requested to bring bas-
kets,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
MAYOR VETOES THE
ALDRICH FRANCHISE

Mayor Ward has vetoed the resolution
passed by the city council at its last meet
ing extending the gas and light fran
ohise of T. II. Aldrich and associates,
issued originally in 1903, for six months
from October 1, 1903, to March 10, 1909
In vetoing the resolution passed by the
council Mayor Ward makes several sug-
gestions to the board, the principal ones
of which are included in the following
paragraphs of his letter to the coun-
Gill;
THE council should consider that while
the terms, conditions, etc, of the fran
chise may have been advantageous in
1903 they may not be now.
Conditions have changed: inventions
and improvements in electrical work
making far cheaper prices have been
made; our population has increased /;
physical problems and mechanical COM
plieations have multiplied; in other
words franchise of the city of Biz
mingham covering AZ square miles is a
proposition entirely different from one
five years ago when our limits were
about six square miles.
THE proposed rates are about the same
as those charged by the existing COM
pany-shghtly lower. However, pro-
posed rates do no good while they are
up in the air and serving mainly as d
buffer between possible new concerns
that might reduce rates and the old
company that maintains them.
ct is herewith recommended that the
council decline as a matter of policy to
extend further this or any other fran
chise
IF the time should come when the
owners are ready to do business a new
application can be made. If 1t is grant
ed the franchise should be revised SO as
to preserve up-to-date regulations now
in force in this city; to provide for UNI
derground construction as far as pos
sible, thus relieving our highways of un-
necessary burden In the shape of wires
poles, etc: that further reductions ii
price of gas and electricity be made
that a $1,000 forfeit be given as a guar
antee that work will be begun and fin
isned within a certain time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-27
ADJUSTMENTS.
"BreWster's Millions"

Robert ODER, as Monty Brewster,
scored just as decided a hit in BREW
sters Millions" yesterday afternoon and
night at the Jefferson theatre as did the
show on it's first appearance in Birming-
ham. The natural comedy of situations
coming before a man trying to spend
"a million in a year" were acted by Mr..
Ober in a most ideal manner.
'Brewster's Millions is no doubt one
of the most unique shows ever staged. 1t
Is a show of opposites Monty" Brew
ster does everything a man would not
do under ordinary circumstances. In or
der to inherit 100000 left him by his
uncle he has to spend in a year $1000,0O0
left to him by his grandfather. He plays
horse races against great odds and wins,
buys unsound stocks and they rise, and
at every moment he is seeking SOME
scheme by which to rid himself of the
money which he must spend or go COM
pletly broke The situations are conf
cal In the extreme. OF course he succeeds
in his efforts and wins ''the' girl at the
last moment.
The scenery of the play is most at
tractive and the yacht scene in the third
act is one of the most remarkable ever
shown here.
A better cast could not be selected than
the one which presented the play last
night. Robert ODER as Monty" Miss
June Mathis as Peggy Miss Marion
Horton as Janice Armstrong, are the
leading characters and all are splendid.
one carried their parts in the most ma
tural and most pleasing manner.
BY way of its originality "Brewster's
Millions" is a play that should live for
many years, and with the cast of yes
terday's performances it will always be
welcome in Birmingham.