Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26

ent postmaster at West Point Is a grandniece of
MISS Berard and that there has also been trag-
edy In her life. For she is Miss Grace Aileen
harrington and she lis the daughter of Lieut.
Henry Moore Harrington of c troop of the Sew
enth cavalry who persisted with Gen. George A.
Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn ON
June 70, 1876, and who was one of the three Of
ncers whose bodies were never found. at least.
not identified after the battle.
NOT only Is the Ignorance of her fathers fate
one OF the tragic incidents In the life of the
woman who Ia postmaster at West Point. where
so many OF Clusters officers were once cadets,
put there Is another tragic memory which she
has carried through life-a memory of her moth
er' VINO suddenly disappeared several years after
the Custer battle. "Amnesia It would be called
nowadays Miss Harrington says, but at that
time 1t was ascribed to grief and the uncertain
ty Of what had happened to my father. Severa,
times we heard from Indians that a lady dressed
In black had been seen on the battlefield. Other
reports came from Indian territory. We investi-
gated all these rumors and finally after two
years we found her In Texas where q severe at
TACK or pneumonia had served to bring back her
memory so that she knew who she was. Rut
she was never able to give any account of her
wanderings while she was gone or why she was
there"
AS MISS Harrington stands behind her desk
In the post office amid the busy turmoil of mail
distribution for the 1850 cadets at the academy
and an equal number of officers and regular SOL
dlers. she can look up to two pictures on the
wall which serve as a link between the blood
stained battlefield of the Little Big Horn In far
on Montana and the peaceful banks of the Hud-
son. One of them Is a picture of her father in
the regimentals of the Seventh cavalry, the uni
form which he wore on that fatal day In June
more than half a century ago. The other ia n
picture OF Cadet Henry Moore Harrington. IT In
enclosed In a frame made of beads and these
beads we're obtained by her mother from Indians
IN D~akota-perhaps members Of the very same
trlDe VINO overwhelmed Custer and Harrington
and all the other gallant officers and troonera NJ
the Old Seventh.
Among the other West Point traditions Ia ona
OF perfection In attire and one of the require
ments for that perfection is perfectly alIpnad
and perfectly sewn chevrons worn ne tha r..
sigma by the officers and n~on-commissloned Of.
fcers In the corps of cadets. Those ornate chew.
rons of gold lace, black braid and broadclotb
are very difficult to make, since they reouira
great skill and experience In the making bnt
there Is a woman who has proved herself capable
the Job.
For more than fifty years without a break
MRS. Louise Regan of Highland Falls. N. Y. has
made every %cheyron, gold or gray, worn by the
West Pointers. She really start.
sewing them when she was ten wears old
but her uninterrupted service with the cadet
store or the academy began when she was eIpht.
zen and since 1879 all the corporals' stripes and
insignia from sergeants up TO regimental COM
have come from her hands. She 60
past seventy years Of age now and she has made
'lrlpes Tor many cadets who are generals In the
army today.
IL Is difficult, says Harris P. Scott, manager
y the cadet store, to turn the straight-roIIed
lace into the curves necessary to mako
hose long VS. turned up without drawing or
the material. Five yards of gold lace
re required to make a pair of cheyrons for q
adjutant of the corps OF cadets
mere Is also the background Of broadcloth with
ne SIX stripping between the gold lace. This
ace Is OF real gold and is imported from France
is all hand labor and the material must he
'orked In cool weather as hand PRESENTATION
eadens 1t. She works from January to Jnne
ach year making chevrons for the cadet officers
'-be In June after graduation.
Mrs. Regan is a widow and without children
he was born In Highland Falls, moving 10
upon her marriage and then returned
her birthplace. The cadet store has sent
sr the work wherever she was. Her health ia
ana though the work Is hard on the
she hopes to continue as the only maker
the splendid gold and gray and black cbev-
ms that grace the uniformed sleeve of the
est Pointer.
20 By Western Newspaper Union,