| Show i r COL ADDRESS TO WOMEN AT G A R INSTALLATION CEREMONIES Officers of If James Jame B McKenn McKean post G GA GA GA A R and the Womans Relief Relict corps were at the post Most hall in the Odd oad Fallows building on Market Markel street last night An invitation to be present was ex es extended tended to Colonel F M t Sterrett exe executive x xI I ct the director tor of th the Grand Army Anny en which will be held here next August Augu t colonel Sterrett was asked to address the women particularly outlining outlinIng outlining ing to th them in the work they the are expected to perform during the fh encampment In IB his liis address Sterrett said saidOn On Olt the tit wall walls and the corridors of time arc are hung the of the great g t v women om n of history hl Jr They have h ach eyed renown and have hAH held exalted ex aIled rank In InV rv V rj l department of lifes activities Some ome of them have arisen arl n to high mili military tary distinction They have huc led lel mighty armies and at the thc forefront In Inthe Inthe the time white whit heat of battle buttle have inspired men to lo lofty 1111 y deeds of heroism The history of oC toll ton and privation of Indian wars and depredation deeds of Jf f I I daring In the chase ind In defense of pioneer homes hewn from frum the thc primeval forest foreRt iM l l by b the women of the Puritan and the Cavalier Incident to tn true the th growth of the thirteen original colonies was well wen calculated to produce pro produce duce duc people deeply Imbued with the th holy fine of oC liberty A woman oman Harriett Beecher Stowe 1 I in urn one volume dd more to bring about the great war ivr r between betwee the hc states than all uti the pulpit and rostrum orators in III inthe the Union i Pushing from the Atlantic border li h into to the forests of the interior the Pu Puritan Pur Puritan ritan moved westward north of th the fortieth degree parallel and the tile Cava Caa Cavalier Ca a Her lier moved mOEd westward south routh of that pa parallel parallel parallel until the civilization of Plymouth PI rock and the of Jamestown met in c and bloody conflict on the plants f E Kansas Ks s This was the 0 the 11 t stupendous war mar marof wari i of or In that war the army anny nurse and the womans womans sanitary commission lon performed per performed performed formed deeds as and oft oCl times as heroic as those on the battle battlefield battlefield field which have htwe been enshrined In immortal im immortal mortal song and story and andrue true to her mission s iee e the war she ha has has been cen the tho auxiliary and ally aU of the Grand Army Ann of oC the Republic the greatest semi military m III tal body hOtly ever organized and maintained main tamed on the earth The romen Tomen v of Salt SKIt Lake City it will not be found round wanting wan ling when their part par of the work pork connected with the forty third national encampment of the Grand Army Arm of the Republic Rf s 5 taken up In all the part pant Rational national encamp ments HM HI pies ha hu has performed an important and conspicuous pert part pertIn In tn September of 1397 1 I saw aw Union veterans of the civil IU war march manh down Broadway in Saratoga Springs in H R torrential J downpour of rain and the matrons and th nR of that city not to be outdone by y these aged ased men with bared heads heath and ant summer gowns goV 1 r from which the rain fell in streams for hours h l steadily stood along alon the line lino of mate march and antI cheered cheen d the to the I hI echo bo During Durin the of IRS 16 6 the noble matron m and fair daughters of the city i of Toledo 0 O prepared centers of hos hoe hospitality r comfort and refreshment forthe for tor forthe the vanishing army ann und and carried them out at Ume national en encampment encampment in a manner so J perfect as us asto asto to stamp that womans work worl unsurpassed unsurpassed passed pa in the history of oC this country countr It was under r their management that every ever available piece of ot public ground round and anti private residence teas was as planted and ami I embowered in roses and flowers which when n gathered fell upon the heads of men who averaged 67 6 years ean of age uge as they marched over the streets amid the th waving aln of a most profuse dis display display play pIa of ot national colors and to the blare of trumpets the sound of martial music and the wind instruments It was largely largey through Womans work that school children were wen taught and sang the prominent patriotic patri patriotic otic songs of ot the nation and largely larg Y through womans work that 2 school children formed Conned and executed the most perfect t living flag over ever pro po on this continent Its id whit and blue undulations were as regular rf lar laras as the tIle billows of or the sea It will re remain remain remain main a hilltop In the memory of every everyone everyone one who gazed upon it It The mighty chorus of these children seized on the soul goul with an exalted uplifting as from the breath of ot God Its influence for tor good will be everlasting The good people of or Salt Lake City are preparing for the largest average annual gathering gathe in ht the United States The magnitude of this work is scarcely ever eer fully funy comprehended in the begin beginning beginning beginning ning by the host city The executive committee which has just been formed and announced through your our c press pre 5 will u frith Sith twentythree other committees have charge of this work I have advised that a womans citizen committee be appointed by the executive executive tive tIC consisting of oC at least one member of each church society womans clubs or organizations of ofee every ee kind and one from each school recommended by each of such organizations organizations organizations who will when hen appo appointed elect their own officers and conduct all aU aUthe the affairs with which they are charged That ts t s womans omans committee will perform these duties fully full up to th standard of those who have preceded them I 1 have an abiding confidence 1 I pledge myself to give the best there is in me to this work ork |
