Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-02-27
The G. A. Z. Camp Fire a Successful
Entertainment in Every
Respect.
The OratOry Was Good, the Singing
Enthusiastic and the Audi
ence ~Appreciatiye.
The Funeral ct the Two Hawkes.
Chtldren--Mrs. Hawkes.
Also Dead.
The Camp Fire.
from Fridays Daily.l

The throng tina gathered at the Grand
Army hall last night clearly demonstrated
to all liberal-minded people that the
Union veteran has yet a warm spot in the
hearts of Bismarck people. The hall was
not large enough to accommodate all who
wished to enjoy the pleasure of a camp
fire. The people realize that only a few
years remain in which camp fires will be
held. Time is slowly but Surely laying all
that is mortal of the old soldiers who de-
Tended the Union, to rest, but their men,
-ory will live on to time eternal.
Commander Hare called the meeting to
order, and made a few appropriate re-
marks.
Governor Burke was then introduced,
and spoke as follows:
y Comrades: Twenty-Five years nave
v passed since the war, with all its glories
and disasters. with all its sutferings and
rewards. has closed. Il has been a busy
quarter Of a century. The telephone, the
monograph, the electric railway and the
astonishing feats and triumphs of science
and mechanism are in its history. A ma
ton of more than sixty millions of people
your valor and patriotism, would have
ceased to exist.
The state of North Dakota has been
carved out of the rich acres which, when
you shouldered the musket or buckled on
the sword to 60 down to the battle fields
OF the south, were wild and almost I'M
peopled, and 1t is a pleasure to me tonight
to greet so many of you in the capital
city of this new state.
The organization to which you belong is
unique in this, that it is the only one re-
.quiring that its members present creden-
tio1c tuvQnt ~. five ypQrc old Thl bQrOiSm
of the charge and the shock at Gettys-
burg; tine feats in the trenches at Peters
burg; the traces of the hardships and suf-
ferings at Vicksburg and the wilderness,
are now being shown on your heads;
crowned and being crowned with gray
hairs. But the spirit of the old days is
with you, and patriotism knows neither
youth or old age.
Within the week, two of the heroes of
the late war have passed away. The
commander of the grand army that swung
from Atlanta to the sea, having passed his
~seventy-first mile post--full of years and
honor-gave up the struggle with life that
he had maintained so long and so nobly,
and left a nation to mourn its loss Of
him. He has entered the portals
with Grant, with Sheridan and with Nc
Pherson; yielding at last to the only ene-
my who could conquer him. His name is
a part of American history, and his
achievements are those of a great soldier;
neither will fade from the memory of the
{ later generations so long as there is a
country Of freemen between the oceans,
over which waves the flag which William
Tecumseh Sherman did so much to keep
afOat.
We mourn also the loss of Admiral Por-
ter, a brave commander and a true patriot.
have gone but a little time before. The
whole OF the Grand Army have not a long
while to wait for their summons to join
the great majority. AS day succeeds day
the list is growing shorter, and the sun
goes down at night Oh many brave COM
rades who shall never again witness its
morning flash. Sherman and Porter
have departed, and but yesterday
were accompanied by that ~well-known pa
triot and statesman, Gen. H. H. Sibley,
fed with the great northwest; and, follow
ing them, come the bent forms and hating
footsteps of the Grand Army. who fought
to take the reprOach from the American
nation and who gave a meaning to the
word lib ,rty.
congratulate the members of the James
B. Mcpherson post on their splendid enter
tainment Of the evening and, in their
NAME, welcome the comrades here present
from other posts with their wives, their
children Il their friends, cordially and
heartily to the camp fire: typical of. though
. NA"o SoubPSic AhS w ~ SNcIlJ oVpVlk
to the camp fires of I'll to rs.
The audience then Joined in that grand
old song America" after which Com
mander Hare introduced Major Hender'
shott, who gave an exposition OF the or.
ganizatiOn known as the "SOns of Veter-
ans" He gave a resume of the cause, or.
ganization and benefit OF the ~order-wEich
is a prominent auxiliary to the Grand
Army. In his way of delivery he was
u interesting, and impaired considerable in.
: formation to the old soldiers as wei! as the
audience, who applauded at the close OF
lis fifteen minutes address. The &. A. II.
members expressed themselves as highly
pleased with the address, and return
thanks to Major Hendershott for the
same.
After another old army song Captain
BrMndage made All eloquent and stirring
address. He spoke OF the young men Of
to-day who speak disrespectfully of the
old soldiers. and had these same wouId-be
statesmen been present they would have
had a good opportunity to learn something
to their advantage.
He was followed by the gallant Colonel
Brown Of Grand Forks. The colonel is
never known in his proper light until he
addresses his old comrades in war and his
bosom friends in peace.
He was followed by Senator Weiser OF
Valley City, whose speech was pleasing to
listen to-, But 1t is not pleasing to reflect
ON now short a time yet remains in which
we will have the privilege of listening to
these old veterans of the union army. Y
Senator Worst. the pride Of the Missouri
slope, in 'One Of his eloquent and manly
addresses, gained laurels for himself and
his state. His speech Was a beautiful
tender memorial to the crowned hero who
has just met his last foe and died as he
lived. brave 70 the last. He also did honor
to the old veterans and won che e~verlast
dng gratitude Of those present
This concluded the programme and sup.
per was served In the post room while
general camp fire amusements were going
On in the hall. The camp fire was a grand
success and was enjoyed by all.
~ A Sad sight,.
From Fridays Daily, 3Otl,.l
One Of the saddest sights witnessed III