The National tribune., 1882-09-28
GRAND ARMY AFFAIRS.
The Glorious Work that is Being
Done in New York.
vANDERvoORT'S ORDERS.
A Haversack Overlooking
with Fresh Rations.
,pecisl Correspondence National Tribune.

Special Correspondence National Tribune.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-The Department OF
New York is in a most fiourishing condition
Commander Jas. S. Fraser having, on Saturday
last, organized the thirty-sixth Post since the
commencement of his administration III Eeo-
ruarv last. Assistant Adjutant-General hop
per informs your correspondent that foS' @'N
has lust received its charter 1t Is the lhteh-
ton of comrades to give Department. Oohl-
mander Fraser the Grand Army cheer, Will
fittings and trimmings" whenever he an
nounces the fact that Post 800 has been orS'lh-
ized in the State of New York. Considering
tho activity at Department headquarters on
broadway, not many weeks can elapse before
that result will have been reached.
Active work is progressing ia the interior OF
the State, where, during the past month, like,
for instance, at jamestown, all the new Posts
start with membership of fifty to sixty COM
rades. Great credit is due also to Department
Inspector Cantine, of Rome, n. Y, whose ener-
petic movements from one end of the State to
another keep up the enthusiasm among the
boys generally.
Lilly Post, No. &c, of Syracuse, escorted by
the Central City Veteran Corps, fine body OF
men, in Continental uniform, paid visit OF
several DAYS to the Metropolis last week. They
were the special guests of Koltes Post, No. 81,
but leading Grand Army comrades under the
lead of General II. A. Barnum, assisted IN
making the visitors quite happy during their
stay here. OF course, having arrived TOO late
for the ceremonies at Lutheran Cemetery, they
could not participate in the proceedings, Oh
which I have already sent you full report.
But on Wednesday afternoon, under command
of General Gustavus Sniper, the Syracuse vet
Grams, escorted by Koltes Post, Charles Ken
sew commanding marched from their head
ouarters. in the Germania Assembly Rooms, to
Union Square, where they were reviewed by
Department Commander Fraser, assisted by
Assistant Adiutant- General Hopper and nu-
merous staff The bands of kOltes and Lilly
Posts supplied excellent music, and the march
ing of the Syracuse veterans was SIMPLY per-
feet, eliciting great applause on the part OF the
crowd that filled the square. A banquet, at
which 25O veterans sat down, followed at the
Germania where speeches, songs, music, and
SO forth, kept the party in excellent humor till
past the midnight hour.
nic season in New York. Nearly all the Posts
have had their widows and orphans fund
greatly increased by the summer night festivals,
enjoyed by comrades, their wives, sisters, cou-
sins, and aunts during the past two months
This weeks festivities include picnic by
Sumner Post, No. "a George Dusenberry COM
mander, at Elm Park-a Post which negiects
no opportunity to infuse enthusiasm into the
ranks of other Posts not quite as energetic.
VIM. II. Wharton, Benjamin Finley, and
Assistant Adiutant-General Hopper are MEM
bers of this Post, in which they take intense
interest. Tomorrow evening William ID.
Kennedy Post, Comrade AlOnzo Howell COM
rander have summer nights festival IN Old
Joneswood, on the East River, when Mansfield
Post, a thoroughly-drilled organization, Will
be on hand to give us some old-tlme man@u'
yers Robert Anderson Post, No. %, Com
mapder Jules P Rousseau, have pound party
at the end Of this week, all of which Will be
detailed to your readers if anything of interest
bappens to the comrades at large. IL not, then
this preliminary notice will suffice.
Speaking of Assistant Adjutant- General
Hopper of the Department of New York,
ought to call attention to the universal esteem
only son Charles, an employee in the New York
post office, was taken to his last resting place
He was the noble specimen of a man in the
prime of life, only thirty-five years old, anc
died during q brief sojourn in the country
The terrible bereavement inflicted upon th'
devoted father-the energetic adjGtant- genera
of our State-was thoroughly appreciated by
his friends and comrades. The house of mourn
ing and the neighborhood was filed by g. A.
men who silently and without ostentation, BY
their mere presence only, testified their REGARD
and esteem for Colonel George f. Hopper, thai
whom no more energetic q. A. L. cOmradC
exists in our Department.
Brooklyn, under the lead of Comrade Walker
commander of Rankin Post, No. 10, is about
organize memorial committee similar to tn
one existing in this city. The excellent repor
of Decoration Day proceedings, including a.
appcndix showing the work done by the Ne'
York CITY Posts during the past year, has jus
been published in pamphlet, and Gen. Barnur
is universally c0nplimented for this repol
than which no better has ever been issucC
Rrooklyn now is anxious to initiate the metro
nolis and is welcomed for its desire to prir
whatever is done across the East River. Abra
ham Lincoln IDSt, 1'' 1ls9 loA SN 'Si't y va
issued a pamphlet giving in full the Decoratio
Day proceedings. OF course TINS year MaJC
Joseph Forbes having succeeded III naugura
ing the day by most impressive services whcrei
men like General Grant John Cochrane, Re
DIR. ]. =. Newman, Schuyler Hamilton, an
others assisted, has not been slow III coilatH
the speeches and ceremonies at the Llncol
statue in Union Square, and the services hat
under auspices of details from the Post in a II
cality as distant as Chester, Pa, where rest I'll
remains of Dr. 1. 1. Hays polar Hays, at Oh
time member of the Post. All these public
tions show the energy and vim which animal
our New York Posts, and whose influence
the councils Of the Order has always been IL
the good of our noble organization.
PEN AND SWORD.
Reunion at Springfield.