St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-20
BEN HUR'S BANQUET.
Three Hundred Ex-Army Off.
GERS Take Indianapolis
by Storm.
Organization Of the Indiana
Commandery of the Loyal
Legion.
COmmander-in- Chief Ruther
ford B. Hayes Institutes the
New Commandery.
President-Elect Harrison Att
tends the Business Meeting,
Skipping the Banquet.
Special to the Globe

Special to the Globe
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 19.-The
organization of an Indiana cOmmandery
of the Loyal Legion drew to this city to.
day about 500 eX-army officers, ranging
i'll rank from brigadier generals to sec-
ond lieutenants. During the after
noon, they called by delegations upon
Gen. Harrison, and were also
received and handsomely enter
tanned by Mrs. Lew Wallace and Mrs.
DR.. Allen, at the residence of the latter.
Tonight the Indiana commandery was
formally instituted at meeting presid.
ed over by COMMANDMENTS Chief Ruth.
erfOrd B. Hayes, of Ohio. The
Indiana commandery was organized
with seventy-five charter members.
The fOllOwln officers were elected: Com.
mander, Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace, of
Charlottesville; senior vice commander.
Gen. X. 5. Foster, of Indianapolis
junior vice commander, Col. r. s. Rob-
ertson, of Ft. Wayne; recorder, Lieut.. B.
B. Peck, of indianapolis; register. Lieut.
CIV. III. Kemper, of Muncie; chancellor.
Maj. c. l.. Wilson. of indianapolis:
Chaplain Maj. Will Cumback. of
Greensburg. Gen. Benjamin Harrison
was among the members present and
participated in the formation of the
new commandery. The meeting was
purely of business character and pri-
vate. Gen. Harrison took no active
part in the proceedings, which were
brief. When the president-elect entered
the room where the meeting was in
progress
EVERY MAN AROSE
and tnp general WaC apaOrbab n cordial
greeting. The meeting adjourned at 2
O'Clock and Gen. Harrison, after shak-
ing hands and talking with great
many comrades, returned home. The
banquet rendered the visiting members
of the Loyal Legion at the Bates
house tonight by the newly created
Indiana commandery was one of the
most successful entertainments ever
given in Indiana. Eight o'clock was the
hour fixed, but it was after when the
doors of the dining room were thrown
open, revealing three parallel ta-
bles, running the length Of the
large room, and capable of seating
800 guests. The dining hall had been
tastefully dressed in the national
colorS-and scattered along the inviting
tables were beautiful floral emblems
and baskets of rare roses. Gen. Lew
Wallace presided as toast master of the
occasion, to his right sat ex-President
Hayes, to his left Col. w. II. Howe,
commander of the Loyal Legion
of Missouri. Other distinguished
officers occupying seats of honor
were: Maj. George w. Chandler, re-
corder of the Michigan commandery;
Col. E. f. Cole, vice commander of Mis-
souri,; Gen. w. l.. Merrill, junior vice
commander of Pennsylvania; Gen. J. E.
Pierce, senior vice commander of Mich
igan; Maj. E. c. Dawes, COM
mander of Ohio, and Maj. w. III.
Calkins, of the New Indiana COM
Gen. Wallace rested a magnificent floral
Maltese cross, with center-piece and
motto picked in, being an exact coun-
terpat of the beautiful badge of the
order. 1t was the gift of Col. Lilly, and
is to be sent to Gen. Foster, who has
been lying sick for months. While the
veterans were waiting for the doors to
open, they INDUCED in a
SERIES OF PATRIOTIC SONGS
and entered the great dining hall sing
ing. After spending an hour discussing
choice and select menu, interspersed
with songs by the Chicago and the Mis-
souri, visitors, the programme proper
was entered upon, the first number be-
ing the address of welcome by Maj.
Gen. Lew Wallace. Following the adj
dress of welcome, the presiding officer
announced the toast, ''The Loyal Le-
gion." to which Maj. Gen. Rutherford
B. Hayes, commander-in-chief of the
Loyal Legion, arose to respond. AS ha
did so the banqueters greeted him with
an bathurst that continued sew
eral minutes. At the conclu-
sion of Gen. Hayes speech the
banqueters stood and drained their
cups TO the health and longevity
of the Loyal Legion. The other toasts
upon the programme were: 'Our Coun-
try.'' responded to by Lieut.. James S.
Ostrander. 1.-The Citizen Soldier by
Capt. Eugene Gary, of Chicago. THE
Army Mule" by Col. ID. w. McClung.
"Missouri; ''Then," by Col. ID. p. Dyer,
of st. Louis. Col. Dyer's Grafton was
one of the finest of the evening.
Among a few of the distinguished
soldiers present were: Gen. }. Warren
Keifer, Gen. j. S. Robinson, Gen.
Charles S. Grosvenor and Gen. George
B. Wright. of Ohio; Gen. j. s. Cheltain,
of Chicago; Col. William Cassius Good
loe, of Kentucky; Col w. S. Robinson,
of Missouri: Captain M. III. Insley
commander, of Kansas; Col.
Il. P. Rundlet, Col. Gilbert ID.
Munson, Gen. F. w. Moore. Maj. G. B.
Fox, Mai. w. III. Chamberlain and Mai.
A. III. Mattox, of Cincinnati: Gen. A. ID.
Butler, Col. Fordyce and Col. r. c.
Kerens, of st. Louis; Col. William III.
Sinclair, of Texas, and Col. E. G. Rath-
- a.