The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-08
THE GRAND ARMY.

Friday evening one recruit, Charles +.
Harvey, late corporal Company +, Tenth
Connecticut Infantry, was mustered 10.
A certificate was received from the Cor
poration' OF Brown University acknowl-
edgin2 the donation of money contributed
by this post for the benefit of the Grand
Army Fellowship Fund Of that institu
ton. Past Senior Vice Department Com
mander. George w. Bryant was present
and made an eloquent statement of the
cause he represents, namely, the raising
OF fund for the purpose of erecting a
monument in commemoration of the
valor of colored troops at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition in Cnicsg, In 1898.
The sum OF $lL02 was contributed to that
object. Comrades Joseph w. Dudley
and Henry kirschner were reported sick.
Comrade stanton n. Gray has had quite
a siege OF sickness, having been confined
To the house nearly six weeks by inham-
matory rheumatism. Remarks were
made by Comrade Kenyon of Tower Post,
Comrade Bullen OF John A. Andrew Post,
Department of Massachusetts, Surgeon
George Is. Peck of Prescott Post and Past
Posi- Commander Comrie of Bucklin
Post.
Tower Post No. II has issued circular
In relation to the excursion TO Washing
ton in September. The post will leave
PROVIDENCE Sunday evening on char
tered steamer Of the PROVIDENCE line,
and land the following morning at the
dock of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
at Jersey City. 1t will proceed to Wash
ington, arriving on the afternoon Of
Monday, the 18th.
The headquarters of the post will bs
located in Good Templars Hall, at the
corner OF Pennsylvania avenue ami Forty
second street. 1t Is expected that 100
members of the post will make tn. trip.
The following recruits were mustered
in Slocum Post Wednesday evening:
Zephaniah A. Sarle, late private Com
pany b, Second RHODE ISLAND Infantry;
j. B. Batalitzky, late private Company
Fourteenth Connecticut Infantry; Will
liam ii. Arnold, late private Company X,
Twelfth RHODE ISLAND Infantry; Edward
L. George, late private Company /, FIRST
Massachusetts, Cavalry; George A. Nun
roe, late assistant surgeon Third RHODE
ISLAND Cavalry. This post kept open
July 4th, and lemonade, crackers and
cheese were dispensed to the comrades In
attendance.
The movement of celebrating Colum
bus Day was inaugurated by the Youths
Companions, paper published In Boston
in the Interests OF young people. This
paper makes the following pertinent sug-
gestions: That the celebration of this
day be participated in jointly by the pub
lie schools aud the Grand Army of the
Republic throughout the country. IL also
suggests that the American flag be raised
over every schoolhouse by detail of vet
erans, the same songs sung, the same ode
read, the same sentiments uttered in
every country OF every State in the union.
A corresI ondent of tue executive commit
tee in charge of the National Columbian
School celebration said the day should
also be observed by planting long-lived
trees TO the memory OF Columbus and his
discovery; and further says that the plan
is feasible not only for schools but for
other bodies of people, and even for sepa-
taf fo,, Inn MI Than IA
the years from the present until 1892,
young and old, will guard them as pre-
cious landmarks, and when our countrv's
500th anniversary shall have come men
will see in the elms aud magnolias and
everoreens planted in 1892 n strong link in
the chain that will bind all the parts of
Americas life into one.
Should this monument meet with
favorable consideration in PROVIDENCE,
there Is no doubt but the Grand Army o
the Republic in this city would gladly
unite with the school committee, and
render all practical assistance possible in
the furtherance OF such patriotic and
praiseworthy object. Patriotism and
education should be linked together.
Already in the state OF Massachusetts
n law has been enacted rs follows: I'm
all the public schools OF this Common
wealth the- last regular session prior to
Memorial Day, or a portion 1hereof, snail
be devoted To exercises OF patriotic ma.
ture"
RHODE ISLAND has set apart by law
October II as Columbus day.
Men who Carried Guns.
An article from the Exchange entitled
"The Day of Recognition" says: "rhe
Governor Of Ohio carried musket I'm the
Uniol Army. The Governor of Indiana
WIS "a private soldier In the sa me army,
ani so was the Governor Of Illinois. 1t
l..x. k..t H..
OF recognition for the men who packed u
gun To save the Union i surely coming"
Ii is AN indisputable fact that the men
who carried the musket in the Union
armies were the most Intelligent that
ever fought In any army in The history
private soldiers from Little Rhody,"
who nave since distinguished themselves
in military and civil life were men who
bore aloft the thinking bayonet or WELD
ed the sponge stall or sabre. cite few
samples of those now living i'm RHODE
ISLAND who have risen from the ranks"
Our houored senator, Nelson w. Aid
rich saouldered his musket ~ a private In
the ranks of the Tenth RHODE ISLAND In
fantry, and Hon. Charles ii. Page, Rep
resentative to Congress, was an enlisted
man in the old "Trotting Twelfth"
Hon Adm B Capron,. Speaker OF the
RHODE ISLAND House OF Representatives,
commenced his military career as n serg-
ent in the secold RHODE ISLAND Infantry
aud afterwards attained the position OF
captain In the United States Signal Corps
aud was subsequently, brevetted major.
Among the representatives to the General
Assembly we find David ;. Ray, our pres
ent department commander. lie was n
gallant soldier in tue First RHODE ISLAND
Cavalry. Senator George Il. Cranston,
the present senior vice-department com
mander served in the Third RHODE ISLAND
Heavy Artillery aud afterwards In Battery
y, First United States Artillery. The
senator from Burlington, George T..
Baker. was soldier In the Tenth RHODE
ISLAND, aud representative ;. w. N.
Allen from East Greenwich was an en-
listed man In the regular army during the
W ar of the Rebellion,
Gen. Elisha III. Rhodes, one OF the
assessors of taxes in this city, and who
has recently relired from the Office Of
brigadier-general Of the RHODE ISLAND
State Militia, has an army record OF which
he may justly be proud. lie entered tue