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to it for assistance in raising funds to complete the monument 

 before the centennial year. A resolution was introduced for 

 the appropriation of five hundred dollars to the fund; but this 

 was rejected, and another resolution adopted recommending 

 state and subordinate granges to make subscriptions or to 

 endeavor to raise money among their members. Twenty-five 

 thousand letters of appeal furnished by the monument associa- 

 tion were circulated by the officers of the National Grange, 

 and a considerable number of subscriptions were received in 

 response. 1 



Another Grange activity of some interest was the Patrons' 

 encampment at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 

 1876. As early as February, 1874, the master of the National 

 Grange was instructed to appoint a committee " to devise a 

 scheme whereby the Patrons of Husbandry can be fully repre- 

 sented at such exposition." Shortly after this a " Patrons' Cen- 

 tennial Encampment Association " was organized by members 

 of the order in Pennsylvania, and received the approval of the 

 National Grange. This association erected a temporary hotel 

 with accommodations for about four thousand at a railway 

 station three miles from the exposition grounds, where Patrons 

 were taken care of at very moderate prices. The accommodations 

 of the hotel were open to the general public, but it served as head- 

 quarters for Patrons attending the fair. An attempt was also 

 made to have the National Grange designate July 4, 1876, as a 

 date for a special Patrons' celebration at the exposition, but this 

 project does not appear to have been carried out. 2 



Taking it all together, the fraternal, social, and educational 

 side of the Grange movement bulks large. At the time it did 

 not attract a great deal of attention, partly because it was over- 

 shadowed in the public mind and, it must be admitted, in the 

 minds of many of the participants, by other phases of the move- 

 ment, partly also because its work was of the sort which would 

 naturally be carried on quietly and without attracting much 



1 National Grange, Proceedings, viii. 101, ix. 125 (February, November, 1875). 



2 Ibid. vii. 46, ix. 53, 166 (1874, November, 1875); American Agriculturist, xxxv. 

 87 (August, 1876). 



