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Rh women commissioners of the District of Columbia to the Columbian Exhibition held in Chicago, in 1893. She sat in the carriage beside the Duchess of Veragua in the great procession and was warmly received as a member of American Royalty wherever she appeared.

Moreover, Mrs. Logan had found time to carry out successfully the plans of one of the grandest charities of Washington, the Garfield Hospital, having been president of the board for many years, during which time she and the charitable people associated with her built up one of the best hospitals in this part of the country. In fact Mrs. Logan's public activities have been, to quote in all reverence that comprehensive summary, "too numerous to mention."

She was consulted at every step in the erection of the two statues of General Logan, one in Washington and one in Chicago, and they are both worthy expressions of what a nation's pride in a great chief should be. A touching feature of the ceremonies dedicating these memorials was the unveiling of the statues by Mrs. Logan's grandson. It was John A. Logan, 3rd, a tiny lad, then, wearing a sailor's uniform, who was the principal actor in the unveiling of the statue on the beautiful lake front in Chicago. At a given signal the child pulled the cords holding together the eight flags which had concealed the heroic figure, and, amid cheers from thousands of throats, the boy disclosed the statue of his grandfather. The child, a little appalled at the enthusiastic tumult, nestled to his grandmother's side again and asked, "Grandma was he as big as that?"

"Yes," answered Mrs. Logan in a tear-choked voice, "he was as big as that."

The Washington monument surmounting a wonderful base with the scenes of General Logan's life in bas relief, was unveiled by another grandson, little George E. Tucker, who