The National tribune., 1908-09-10
THE DAY THE
lORDHATH MADE.
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in-Chief att. 13th5 and Madison streets.
As the mayching. lines came up the
street they ,passed first the section as
signed to the Army Nurses of the Civil
| War. Yos would have to see the
marching veterans do honor to these
women to de able to appreciate the
feeling they have for each other, but
more particularly (the love and venera-
ton in which the,Army Nurses are held
| by the veterans. The stand for the
nurses had especially handsome decora-
tions. and in the center front, its folds
tossing on the soft breezes. was the
handsome silk flag which the night be-
fore had been presented to them by
Lafayette Post. of New York. About
| 90 of the Army Nurses were upon the
stand, where they bad been provided
with chairs, and were shaded by two
giant maple trees, SO that the suns fer
vid rays did not at all disturb them.
Mrs. CIarissa +. Dye. Natiena esidcnt
of the Association of Civil s.... Nurses.
occupied the seat of honor directly in
the middle front, and around her were
| grouped the National officers, Senior
Vice President Rebecca l.. Smith, Min
neapoiis; Junior Vice President Mary
L. Smith, Lowell, Mass. Secretar Kate
M. Scott, Brooi1ville. Pa; Treasurer Sa-
lone NJ. Stewart Gettysburg. Pa; Con-
| L
Counselor Fanny r. Hazen, Cambridge,
Mass; Chaplain Rebecca L. Price, Lam
/ caster, Pa, and Guard Catharine L.
| Taylor. Yonkers, n. Y, and the other
| members of the Association who were
able to be upon the stand.
Among the nurses was Mrs Louisa
Lacey, of Salt Lake City. Mrs. Lacey is;
| little, with snow-white hair, but her
eyes are bright as stars. IL stars are
ever blue like her eyes, and she has a
chirrupy, singing voice. She has the
great distinction of being able to vote
and to hold office, and she has several
women and men votes in her family in
Salt Lake. So that she is factor in the
! political campaigns out there.
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, Past De-
partment President of the Department
Of Potomac. and Mrs. Ida A. OldrOyd,
Past National Junior Vice President of
| the Woman's Relief Corps, also of
| Washington, whose home is in the
house in which Lincoln died in Wash
| ington, and who had the distinguished
| honor of entertaining the Army Nurses
when they were in Washington at a re-
| ception in which they were invited to
| inspect the Lincoln memorial collection
which is owned by Capt. o. II. Oldroyd,
were the guests of the Army Nurses
upon the reviewing stand. AS the vet
Grams approached the stand they looked
| eagerly for familiar faces among the
| women who cared for them upon the
| battlefield and in the hospitals. With
cheers and tear-filled eyes they would
rush to the stand to reach up eager
| hands to those whom they recognized,
| but It made no difference, really, whetb-
er any particular one was recognized,
! for each and every one is an object of
veneration to the veterans. The nurses
We're cheered by each division as it
passed, and almost every standard in
the line was dipped to the dear old
ladies. ,-ys
e Mrs. GridIey.
In the front row near to Mrs. Dye was
Mrs. Anne T.. Gridley, mother of Capt.
Gridley, of the Olympia. who died a
month afterit the battle at Manila Bay, in
which he took such a prominent part.
Mrs. Gridley is S3 years old, and is
still working for her living-as Official
Sealer in the General Land Office
where she has been employed for the
past 20 years. But she says that she is
happy, and that she loves her work.
noble work. as a nurse in Washington,
tGeorgetown, Alexandria and Annapolis.
Many of the nurses are gifted with
strong voices and they, firmly believe
that the veterans should--be greeted
with songs as they march. and these
nurses object strongly to singing to
them anything but the music of war
days. They say that the tired feet of
the veterans cannot take up the time
and step of the new tangled songs and
so what they need in parade is the
wartime music-Marching Thru Geor-
gia, Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,
John Browns Body. In the Prison Cell.
Red, White and Blue, and kindred
Songs. md put this in your think tank
n, ut In A rNf
the Civil War do not want Dixie played
for the veterans of the Grand Army of
the Republic. They think it is out of
place because its words are doggerel,
and for the reason that it is the Off
cially recognized patriotic" air of Con-
federate Veterans and their auxiliary
associations, for which they are to rise
and uncover whenever it is sung or
played
And how those purses sang as the
boys" marched BY them. The bands
sometimes played the familiar airs, and
as they did so. the faint refrain came
to the ears of the nurses and a full
volume of song Immediately went up.
And when the bands were far between,
then the nurses sang anyhow.
Taft, Foraker and Dick.
You should have seen the enthusiasm
of these ladies when Secretary Taft
upon the reviewing stand, just at their
left. They clapped and cheered and
waved flags just as vigorously as the
Youngest. 1t was suggested that Judge
Taft might be pleased to greet them.
Mrs Kate BroWnlce Sherwood, who had
the nurses under her particular care.
Immediately asked Judge Taft to step
to the railing to meet the women vet
Grams. and he quickly and smiiingly re-
sponded. Such handshaking as then
ensued Not one was missed, and the
smiles of the Republican nominee for
President were just as broad for them
as tho those women had votes. Mrs.
Lacey, of Utah, triumphantly declared
that she controlled four votes, and they
would be all cast for Taft, which state
ment brought a shout from those within
hearing
About noon all those in the official
reviewing stands were given a delicious
lunch of sandwiches and hot coffee.
The coffee was served In tin cups, paint
ed red, white and blue on the outside,
and bearing the Inscription, "42d Ma
tional Encanpment, G. A. r., Toledo,
O., 1908" with the Grand Army badge
in gold in the center. There were more
than $4,000 bof those tin cups. They
were made especially for the veterans
who were in line, and before starting
out upon the parade each division in
the line of march was served with sand
wishes and coffee, and the coffee was
given out in the pretty souvenir tin
cups, which each veteran was permitted
to carry home with him. The courtesy
of the "bit and sup was appreciated by
all who marched, and rcjuvenated them
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