Proceedings of the annual encampment of the Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic Volume 39 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...pleasantly situated and well arranged for the comfort of the occupants. No complaints were heard and this fact speaks well for those in charge. The managers are to be congratulated for their efforts in erecting and maintaining this splendid home for the dependent ones of our deceased comrades. The Home at Sixty-fifth and Vine streets, Philadelphia, is managed by the local members of the same organization. The veteran and his wife are here admitted and made comfortable. This Home is well built and thoroughly equipped for the purpose intended, and the completion of the third story will afford accommodations for many who cannot now be provided for. The Board of Managers deserve credit for the manner in which the affairs of the Home are conducted, and the best thanks of our comrades are hereby tendered them. All of these Homes should be granted larger appropriations by our State, so as to enable them to improve their buildings and enlarge the charitable work in which they are engaged. PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME. This Home is located at Erie, Pa., and is under the management of eleven trustees, five of whom are to be comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic. It becomes the duty of the Department Commander each alternate year to appoint the comrades on this board. The term of the trustees expired in January last, and, believing that the management of the Home was entirely satisfactory to the comrades of the Department, I reappoint Past Commanders-in-Chief Louis Wagner, R. B. Beath and Thos. J. Stewart, Past Department Commander H. H. Cummings and Comrade John P. Nicholson, of Post No. 19. The Home at Erie is a place where any soldier or sailor residing in Pennsylvania who is incapacitated from labor, can comfortably pass his declining years. I vis...