Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-09
rwErTY-sEvENTH G. v.

y TWENTY SEVENTH g. v.
Their Reunion In walllnRford Yes
terday-Addresses by General Mer.
win, President Clark and Others
Deaths of the Year-Simeon =. Fox
OF This City the Newly-Elected
President.
The Twenty seventh regiment, 9. ",
held their twenty fourth annual reunion
at Wallinzford yesterday. The day was
clear and pleasant, the entertainment at
Wallingford was royalty hospitable and |
the speeches were excellent. Over 800 went |
from this city and probably more than 400,
including about $50 veterans with their
families and friends, attended the reunion.
Headed by Lsndrigan's band the party
from this city marched from the corner of
the green to the station and took the 1915
train to Wallingford. From there they
went to the town hall and held the usual
business meeting.
PRESIDENT cLARK's ADDRESS.
President E. B. Clark of Milford pre-
sided and delivered the following address:
Comrades, Friends of the Twenty seventh
and Citizens of Wallingford:
I am glad to meet 80 many of my brother
comrades again at our reunion under SO
favorable circumstances.
One year has passed since our last meet
ing, and with it have gone three of our es-
teemed members, which shows that our
ranks are fast thinning out. and would
say just q word to those outside our ranks
Chat feel 80 poorly because our government
seems to them rather liberal with pension
ing her soldiers and families. I do not
have as much sympathy for this class as
many do. While we were at the front
they were home accommodating wealth.
ronly wish our soldiers long lives so that
those misery citizens would have to con-
| tribute longer than the average soldier
lives. .
That is just what gives our country its
strength. .eI-presume we have the smallest
standing army in proportion to our in
habitants of any nation, and yet we are
the strongest nation; why? It was said
by the great criminal Wilson, when asked
! why he did not escape from the Connecti-
cut state prison as he had done from many
western prisons, he says, the strength of
| In its walls, but in its officers.
1 The strength of our nation does not lay
| in its standing army, but in the way 1t
| treats her soldiers during service and after
wards, also soldiers families, 80 that
when her flag is insulted, her sons flock to
the rescue, and in forty eight hours a
standing army is raised that surprises the
world.
| We believe in that flag during WAT, alec
in peace.
To the citizens of Wallingford will say
1T nh OF ofr
to prepare for an occasion like this; will
also say that none can appreciate more full
ly such kindness than our soldiers, anc
may the same spirit that caused you t.
give up your sons for our country repa,
you now.
: REPORTs-DEATHs OF THE YEAR.
: George T. Dade of New Haven, tn
B treasurer, reported that the receipts hss
been $99 rs and tina expenditures $3.50
a Besides this there was q bill of $t7-26 t
: be paid, which would leave balance O
d A4s
t The following deaths were reported dun
ing the year as follows: Adrian G. Roshs
David Rockwell and Charles Spsrry O
Company E; Captain James r. Bradley
o John Brady and Henry G. Wakely, Con
b pany F; Frederick Doebele, Company Z
pany B.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The following officers we're elected fc
the ensuing year: S. j.. Fox of New HI
| ven, president; John A. Munson of Ne
Haven, vice president; E. g. Mansfield {
New Haven, secretary; George
Dade of New Haven, treasure
David S. Thomas. B: F: Peel
all of New Haven, executive committee.
AFTER THE BUSINESS MEETING
II The veterans and their friends were pilot
ia graphed and then they went to the amor
{ where an elaborate collation. was prepare
O.. for them and served by the Ladies' Reli
at corps.
II The hospitality of the Wallingford pc
e. pie was so unbounded that the visitors g
ae to with a vim and did full justice to Il
r. good cheer provided. When the inn
ID man had had his full share of attenti
President Clark called the meeting to ord
and asked Attorney G. A. Harrison
y Waliingford to take charge of the POI
ar prandial exercises. Mr.. Harrison said
,v the course of some brief remrrks:
-: In behalf of Company B
us sire to say a few words onl
alb There went to the front
Oh this company twenty-eight men from IL
place. Many of them met their death
the war, others have died since. The
"A are now but seven living in the place q
B. one other elsewhere. The rest have join
of the ranks of the silent majority.
no. want to introduce to you one who b
3 always been friend of the soldier. o
lot colonel of this regiment, than WHIT
.ys no drawer or patriotic soldier 9,
fought. / take pleasure in
Producing Lieutenant Governor Merwi
~ GENERAL MERw1N SPEAKS.
General Merwin said: I think tn
could be nothing nobler than to give
~ friends and home as you did to fight /
ne the country. You have said that am I
- friend of the soldier. God grant that
''s always shall be. 1t has been my good
tune to have a great deal to do with I
~ soldiers; it was my misfortune not to
-. able to 90 to the front. I was in comma
''0 of the Second regiment, G. N. G., duri
zen the war, and it was my pleasant duty
his welcome the soldiers back from the W
er- We have had great prosperity since
re- war, prosperity that would have be
impossible with one-half of our country
slave holding section; for human slave
!. was burning wrong. True, the slave
I'm was not the immediate cause of the "
ian but it was at the bottom of it.
n, Your president referred this morning
pensions. He spoke of those who
eir grudged the pittance that was due
r. soldier. Eut the pension list is growi
oe smaller, %, 900 names were erased DUR
the the past year from the pension rolls to
-, entered on the muster books above.
VII A voice: $4,000 names, general
didn't know the number was so lar
=. added General Merwin, but that makes
still more apparent how pitiful is the
on of those who begrudge the pension to
soldier.
B. There is lady here eighty-four years
the age, a noble patriot. May she live ms
a-s years longer. She brings to my mind
eiS noble service that women did in the "
re- The war would certainly have been lon
his aud unquestionably much more terri
sen without the aid of the woman's Christ
lick sanitary commissions. [Applause].
cen The chairman did not need to admon
AIS, ME, at least, against talking politics hi
was for when am with soldiers my regard