New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-18

WAS TOO OLD TO wORK-NOTEs ABOUT
THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
.rhe Chambersburg PENN Repository points
"a n pathetic story OF soldier who served his
oountrv four years in the New-York Lincoln Cav
olrv who committed suicide in that town after
1Ioke smith had stopped his pension. Jacob Buck.
native Of Wttenburg. Germany. siXty-three years
ola had been a soldier in the Prussian Army.
while vet a young he TO America.
brother having preceded him. When the Rebellion
hogan Buck was in New-York City. and he en-
usted in the Lincoln Cavalry. four companies of
which were made up Of Germans He found his
brother In the same regiment After the Buck
re,urned To his occupation Of stOnemason. and
found employment in Franklin County. Penn. He
ioincd Mccullough Post. No. 49,, Department of
pennsylvania. and faithful comrade He
moved to Chsmbersburg and worked at his trade
until increasing years and disability prevented
s,eadv labor OF late swelling of his feet com
,eIled him to rely on such odd jobs as he
chile TO perform. A pension of Sl2 a month
granted him. and with the little money he and
his wife could earn they managed to live About
August ! Buck received notice that his pension
was suspended 1t a sad blow the old
man and the evidence taken by the Coroner
showed that his mind affected He brooded
and worried his misfortune. and repeatedly
told his wife and friends that he too old
,o work he could not live. Four weeks after his
receipt Of the notice from Washington Bucks life
less body was found his home. He had hanged
himself In the small frame house where he had
lived the inquest was held. on the walls hung
rictures Of President Lincoln and of the generals
and soldiers who had been his comrades in the
ARMY One of the Coroner's witnesses said: The
man who stopped Jake's pension murdered him"
"The Repository" says that this is the verdict of
the people of that neiehborhood. The veterans
of the Grand Army of Chambersburg buried Buck
with military honors.
The Adjutant Generals report. made public at
Indianapolis. shows that the total membership of
the Grand Army in good standing is S97 22S. This
was after dcducting over 1000 who died in the last
year. 467O returned denquent and II SCI the
suspended list At least 5000 of those this list
were reported through the nadvertence or care
essness of post officers. ENCOURAGING features
found in the increase OF the total number OF posts
from 1858 last year to 1926 this year, and that the
recruits 1000 in number overbalance the ,.OCO
deaths The order spent in the official year pre-
cedng June 80 the handsome sum OF S25o,WO in
charity There is no cause to fear that the Grand
Army is going TO pieces. Notwithstanding the
crocodile tears Of newspapers which have always
been inmical to the order. The actual strength is
not less than $4,000 counting the delinquent and sus
pended the sick, wounded and absentees on leave
used TO lie carried on the muster rolls of the Army.
With the vigor and hard work TO be expected under
the administration OF the Commanders in Chief.
enough recruits from the half million veterans still
outside the Grand Army can be brought in TO
raise the aggregate for the next report to 10000
The Commissioners of Chart Is and Correction
Of New York County have placed the sum OF
$1,000 in provisional estimates for 1894 the
amount allowed for the current year. for the
lief Of infrm and destitute soldiers of the
and their families. Only part of the posts of
New-York which dispense charity from their relief
funds make application for a share in the provision
hx-f the arifi los Ieraar mon
entitled under the law TO reimbursement from the
city treasury complying with the statute Bonds
be filed and a notice must be sent to the
Commissioners of the intention to accept the money.
and this must be done before October J. About
500 Of this years appropriation remains undrawn.
Past Commander p. l. Flynn. of Hans Powell
Post No. 6}s. New-York Custom House. will fur
nsh to commanders the necessary blanks.
Two galan, soldiers of the Union removed
by Postmaster Dayton last week to make way for
the hungry and thirsty OF Tammany Hall. Com
rade Z. F. Hayes. of the Money order Depart
meDt had served twenty-eight years in the post
Office, and knowing that he had always done his
duty faithfully. disregarded the Postmsster's
quest to resign. Past Commander Arthur Shook.
of Sumner Post, No "a. had been for twenty years
superintendent of different stations in the city.
The only known charge against them was they
were veterans of the war.
A Washington dispatch tells how the Pension
Bureau has been reinstating suspended pensioners
and Representatives call upon Commissioner
Lochren with evidence that he has been suspend
ing voters Of their party This it is alleged is all
that is necessary. on Friday last Senator Voor-
hees sent his secretary to the Pension Commits
soner in relation to two of the Senator's constitu
ents recently suspended The clerk amply
provided with testimony 10 show that the suspended
pensioners had regularly voted the Democratic
ticket. They promptly reinstated.
COmrade Atkinson the senior ice-departmcnt
commander. has returned from the indianapolis
Encampment and the Worlds Fair feeling well
repaid for the trip Advancing years. he reports.
have perceptible effect in cooling the martial
ardor and patriotism OF the boys Of 1861" Com
rade benjamin F. Finley. member of the Depart
ment Council Of Administration. is also back filed
with good stories OF what he and heard at
Indianapolis and Chicago.
The veterans Of the 18th New-Iersey Volunteers
viii start this morning by way of the Central
Railroad Of New-Jersey for the Gettysburg and
Antietam battefi-ds. Tomorrow will be spent at
the Gettysburg field. a campfire being held tonight
IN the Gettysburg courthouse. and on Wednesday
the annual reunion will take place the battle
field of Antietam The regiment into
action there. 1000 strong and only seventeen days
from home.
York Memorial Committee. IL back from his tour
Of Europe. The Colonel returns In excellent health
His sojourn abroad enlivened by meeting a
number Of Grand Army comrades. He says nobody
knows how beautiful Grand Army button is until
you meet II worn by comrade thousands Of miles
rom home on foreign soil