New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-13
ARMY or TIE POTOMAC VETERANS
AN EXCURSION AND A DINNER.
SAILING UP THE HUDSON AND DINING AT THE
ORIENTAL HOTEL

ORIENTAL HOTEL
The members Of the Society of the Army OF
the Potomac, numbering, with their guests
about thousand embarked yesterday morn
ing on the steamer Grand Republic Tor an
excursion Philadelphia Post No. 2 and Boston
Post No 81, G. A. r.. represented, Philadelphia
Post being accompanied by band. The band of tho
18th Regiment also did its best TO revive the memories
or old campaign days, far they could be DONE Ivy
playing popular airs OF the war. The articles
taken board by thu caterer included 600
quarts Of ice cream, 1,2OO of chowder'
1000 OF salad. 10000 sandwiches cask OF ciaret'
abou hogshead OF lemonade and abundance OF coffee
and pickles When the steamer returned 70 the dock
there little left Of anything excepting the lemonade
The steamer left JEWELS Wharf! Brooklyn at 10 o'clock
and stopped at Governors Island, intending TO take on
board General Hancock, hut he pleaded professional
duties and WAS excused Next effort was made to
give those board glimpse Of the yacht race. but that
failed owing to the fog Then the Prov of the steamer
was turned up stream until Yonkers was reached when
she was turned round again and the course
shaped for Brooklyn where got of; the majority,
however. remained board until Bay Ridge was
reached, where ears taken for Manhattan Beach
The banquet the Oriental Hotel began shortly after
O'Clock The hall was gsyg deoSed Ts nag o ana
stresmes About 600 sat do1 t @ he, Tssf Sp ns
the bsqa0g eoun'ensnce of thG popular S snpS
Mayor MyS q RooccG Tn The left ' of General
S SsEf DG sat General R Henry W sqe1%
10
frosty; musacho. He was received with tremen-
Horace Porter sat next 10 JOIN the poet Of
the previous evening, and kept him 70 an extent
Among others at the table were General Joshua L.
Chamberlain, General and Judge Calvin +. Pratt
n NJ Curtis and General George II. sharpe. When the
guests arrived they were In an hilarious condition posi-
biy due to the combined influence of claret punch and
eon9as Sn% as When be hand psyed Tramp
'rrnu 1pA
strains the veterans the refraiRs with
The toast "The President of the United states was
drunk in silence. all standing Then Henry Ward
satisfied" he said, that # you fought wen as you
eat tonight 9n were ynsSs EVEN In the
graduates Of West Point went TO school again when theWr
in dead earnest when once it had taken the field. The
Northern expected short war and speedy return
S ana bn r on the other that
tho South had of the most defen-
sp De SS@R as as IT was not until the
year Of tho War that the North became perfectly per
that deserved the greatest sacrifices that
could make. When the southern armies attempted
to invade the North they were equally unsuccessful.
LEI in tS as beteen the Army Of the
Cumberland the Army of the Tennessee. orthe mixed
ARMY of the Potomac STOOD SO nigh that il IS no cxeg
a tern-a new expression, and that IN the
It's skin and its want Of skill will he recounted in military
schools for the instruction of young soldiers hear men
bPwaiing the dead. The honored dead were the most
fortunate in many cases IN these great battles:
[ApplaIse They died in good calso but thousands ana
tens thousands back shattered Dame Dack 30 nnd
themselves thrown out from society dsointed from In
dustry. many OF them haudess fOotesS without any oc
cupaon hold that these who lived on In poverty
and neglect bad better have given their lives onhe battle
held We forgotten the soldiers largely The world
don't stand still for anybody but continues TO move on
John Bright said to me In SO If your army suOdues
this rebellion, OF tbiag you may be certain NO
nation In the world will 10 touch you hereafter
We did subdue the Rebellion and We have nothing TO
fear from military invasion from without. hear some
talk about the Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine
Monroe nonsense. The idea that any Nation Il going
to invade prepOserOus to the lowest degree IL mas
gwen the citizens OF Brooklyn great pleasure t9at they
have been permitted to and may ada TO near
seeing you lead charge until tonight
think have the evidence before me that you arc u
body of men that never would HncD.
We have king in Brooklyn. am sorry 70 say tnat no
is a Democratic King / am ted that there VIII De a
great many more Democrats after the next eicctoh.
IAppause Kisses ana uprOaT, and cries or no ponucs
MI 8eechsr looked amused and smiled, anu soon dVer
concluded his speech. 49,. -. ~
York" General King had 10 make fotcble appeal ior
order he fore he could be heard Mayor Low spoke Tor
"The CITY of Brooklyn" III played new roethat OF a
humorst, and with great success. General MclleI-
Ian spoke FOR " The Army, Commodore T. scott rue
brown for 1.-THE Navy" General Joshua l. Chamberlain
for The Volunteers" Judge Pratt for me bonch ana
Bar" and Andrew Mclean for " The Press GeneIal
Horace Porter spoke the toast The orator OF the
Day" John Savage TO The Poet OF the Day, ana GeA-
eral Devens for "WOman IN the War"