Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21

Department Commander Stewart that this
State shall increase its membership. and thus
hold the lead as the banner department in the
interested and good work is being done.
THE comrades who will attend the next ma
tional encampment, at Milwaukee, will be gen.
erously entertained, but they must not expect
that enterprising city to furnish them with
night caps. However, special committee has
been appointed, and will be on constant duty,
to pilot those who may desire such an article to
where it will always be on tap. At "Bests,"
for instance.
The appointment of General James A. Sex
ton, Past Department Commander Of Illinois,
as Postmaster Of Chicago. is merited recog
milton of,a gallant, wounded soldier. He takes
the place Of General Walter G. Newberry, VINO
was appointed by Mr.. Cleveland less than q
year ago. It was understood at the time thai
General Newberry's acceptance was only tenn
porary. whatever the result OF the electlon'
THE next regular Quarterly meeting Of the
Pennsylvania Commandery, Loyal Legion, VII
be held in the Union League building, Philadel-
phia, on Wednesday evening, May i. A num-
ber of the companions resident in Pittsburg
and vicinity will go in a party Ofhcers are TO
be elected, and there is an unusually large
number of applicants for membership TO pe
voted on. Among the latter there are about ID
from this locality.
THE Board of Commissioners on Gettysburg
Monuments" has issued circular setting forth
that the monuments erected on that battle
| field under authority Of the Commonwealth
| will be dedicated on the 2lst and I'D days OF
May next, to be known as Pennsylvania Day.
The cooperation of every veteran IN the Com
monwealth Is solicited by the Commissioners
| in order that the occasion be one of credit to
| this State
A FEATURE Of the National Encampment to
be held in Milwaukee in August will be the re-
union of regiments and batteries. Already
Colonel o. K Pier, the Secretary Of the Com
mittee Of Arrangements, has received requests
| from over 400 different organizations for places
| TO hold their reunions. OF these there are only
| IA from Pennsylvania, while 81 are from Ohio.
Other organizations intending to hold meetings
| should notify Colonel Pier as soon as possible.
WHEN shamokin was selected as the place
for the meeting of the next Department En-
| campment, some doubts were expressed as to
| the adequacy of the hotel accommodations. A
committee of the comrades there have given
| assurance that all who may attend will be well
| cared for in every respect The building in
! which the sessions of the encampment will be
| held its owned by Lincoln Post No. 140, the
wealthiest Post of the Grand Army in PennsyI-
| vania and perhaps in the country.
! IT is clearly evident now to those interested
| that the National Eneampment is not desired
here in 1890 by the business men of our locality.
| But one business man answered the call of the
Mayors of the two cities to meet in Common
| Council Chamber yesterday. Other cities only
secure the honor by the hardest kind of contest
| in the meetings of the National Eneampment.
| and yet, when the honor is almost rendered the
city, 1t is impossible to secure the interest of
| the business men in the undertaking.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER THOMAS ].
| STEWART has sent out General Orders, No. 6,
of the series of 1889. Considerable attention is
given to the work of recruiting during the
present quarter. He has received gratifying
reports from all over the State, but he urges
| renewed exertiOnS on the part of each indis
| vidual comrade. A little work and effort will
be necessary, he says, but he IL hopeful the
comrades will not fail in contributing to keep
Pennsylvania at the head as ''the Banner De-
| partment."
RICHARD G. DRUM, at present Adjutant
General of the army, will be eligible for retire.
ment next month. 1t is understood he will re-
turn to his native place, Greensburg, Pa,
where when young man, December Is, 1S46.
| he enlisted as a private In Company K, First
| Pennsylvania Infantry, then organizing for SER
| vice in Mexico. Hehas been in the army con-
| tinuously since that time. during the past nine
| years serving in his present position, with the
| rank of Brigadier General. 1t is not generally
| known that General Drum is not a graduate of
| West Point.
RECRUITING in the posts In Allegheny
| county is quite lively at present, and the in
| dications are this will continue for some time.
| The offer of a comrade to present the post
showing the highest percentage Of increase
| during the second quarter of the year, over
the first quarter, with a flag, has added to the
enthusiasm. The flag will be selected by As
sistant Adjutant General James Mccormick,
| of the department, and by him sent direct to
the post showing the highest percentage of
| quarter ending June 30. This increase to be
| by muster, by transfer or from dropped or sus-
| pended comrades restored to good standing.