The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-18
GALLANT THIRTEHNTH.
Pleasant and Patriotic Re-
union--G Governor Abbett'S
Telling Speech.


veterans of the war than the people of
Jersey City. This was thoroughly de-
monstrated yesterday during the fifth
annual reunion of the veteran association
of the Thirteenth New Jersey Volun-
teers.
The rain was pouring in torrents when
a double file of the old heroes, headed by
a single drummer, marched up Mont
gomery street to the City Hall through
the drenching torrents with almost
the same. vigor that characterized their
steps in the march with Sherman to the
Sea. A red star fixed in the crown of
each white hat told the onlookers that
these were the vets who figured in the
heroic history of the First Division of the
Twelfth subsequently the Twentieth)
Corps. Pedestrians applauded them as
they passed.
The reunion was held III the Van
Houten Post rooms. Over one hundred
of the one hundred and fifteen survivors
gathered to give hearty hand shake and
recall the scenes OF a quarter of century
ago. They gathered from all over the
northern part of New Jersey. for Jersey
City, Paterson, Orange. Newark and the
surrounding country sent many of its
bravest men south in the .Thiretenth
Regiment.
Two hours or more were spent in the
transaction of the associations routine
business. All the officers were reelected,
to wit:-Dr. J. ]. H. Love, Montclair,
president: Jacob White, Paterson. vice
president; A. Delano, Newark, secretary;
Grant A. Wheeler. Bloomfield, cores
ponding secretary and historian. The
Rev. e. Livingston Allen, Camden, was
elected chaplain.
At night detachments from Van
Houten, Wilson, Zabriskie and George II.
Thomas Posts and the General John A.
Logan Camp, Sons of Veterans. joined
the visiting vets in parade through the
principal streets, thence to Woods Hall,
where elaborate banquet tables had been
spread by a committee of the regiment,
assisted by private citizens. Ali along
the line OF march the vets where cheered.
Rockets and bombs burst above them and
Greek fee flashed its hues around them.
A number of business houses were decor
ated in honor of the occasion At the
Boston, in front of which the parade
formed, the decorations and display of
fireworks were credit to it's enterprising
owner. A platoon of police under Ser
geant Cox headed the procession followed
by Wilson Post with McCarty's drum
corps, OF New York. Then came the
vets of the Thirteenth, headed by the
Van Houten flute and drum corps Fol-
lowing these were detachments from
various posts.
IN WOODS HA L.
Woods Hall was a picture during the
banquet. Three long tables decorated
with pyramids of fruits and flowers, sur
rounded by hundreds of uniformed vets,
extended along the entire length Of the
hall. On a raised platform at the upper
end was another long table, with floral
pyramid in the centre, offset by the tints
Of lighted candelahras on each side.
Above this was suspended an arch of
"Welcome'' in blue and white immor-
telles. Above the centrepiece of national
colors surrounding the insignia of the
corps were the words "Sheridau's Dash
ing Yankee Boys" in large letters of
side OF the Hall We're the inscriptions
thirteenth Veteran Association" and
"Heroes of the Drama of the Civil War"
The ceiling and galleries were festooned
with evergreens, and the platform upon
which sat the guests was framed with
the same decorations
Seated at the centre of the table was
the president of the association, DIR. J. j.
H. Love. On his right sat Governor Alb
bett, on his left the ''oleaginous' coun-
tenance Of his Fraudulency. the de facto
Mayor, upon which even the tints of the
lights and flowers refused to rest, was
possibly the only blemish to really
pretty picture. That lightning change
artist, the eloquent Major PanGborn, and
Mr.. Cleveland'S journalistic Police Com
missioner, Mr.. Benson, sat immediately
to the left of his Fraudulency There
were three crows sat on tree, and they
were"
President Feeney County Clerk Denny
Mclaughlin, General John Ramsey, Fire
Commissioner John Brown, Charles D.
j. Noelke, Gilbert Collins, the Rev. E. H.
Stewart, Frank Joseph Noonan, the elo-
quent toast master, Cole, Colonel Horatio
q. King and several other honored gen
tlnYnnn on tho r,lo rA tbo
tables. l recognized the familiar coun-
tenances of Chief of Police Benjamin
Murphy, Captain Fred Farrier, Police
Justices Samuel Stilsing and Colonel
Wsnser. Colonel 'Gil' Robinson clerk
of the Police Board; Chief Farrier and
Assistant Chief Denmead, of the Fire De-
partment; ex-Fire Commissioner Daniel
Shea and Daniel McAghon.
An orchestra to the right of the stage
played, and from the galleries aoove
many ladies looked down upon the scene.
Morrow & Day served the supper.
THE SPEECHES.
Then the speeches began. President
Love started the ball with an eloquent
peroration of the achievements of the
gallant Thirteenth.
The eloquent Joseph Noonan felt high
ly honored ut being selected as toast
master. He recognized in the selection q
hattering interest ana regard, but he
recognized also the wisdom of the choice,
because a man had been selected who did
not propose that one man should do all
the talking. Nor did he propose to cast
gloom upon the festivities by making a
speech himself. He eloquently but briefly
eulogized the Grand Army people in gen
eral, the Thirteenth Regiment in par
ticular, weaving incidentally few rare
bits OF personal allusion that greatly
pleased his audience. Then he introduced
Governor Albeit as man who though
perhaps had never fired musket had
been through enough campaigns to make
man bold. The Governor was received
amid enthusiastic cheers.
Veterans and friends, said the Gov
ernor, cit is pleasure for me to see in
Jersey City tonight this assembly This
is the second tire / have had the pleas
ure of attending these reunions. That
great civil strife is made more fresh and
green by these reunions, not alone by the
Grand Army OF the Republic, but by the
entire community. l take pleasure and
interest in them because they do not
bring you together for the purpose of
animosity. But we must not forget that
this country must be united even if it
takes blood to do it. [Applausel
ut gives me great pleasure to speak
for the State. 1t is a conservative State,
where the people obey the law. where
justice is administered by God-fearing
people. All that goes to make u State is
in it. And it is aproud recollection when
we recall the fact that the little State of
New Jersey sent eighty thousand men
in to the field in the hOur of the nation,a