New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-13
GRAND ARMY BUGLE NOTES.
MANY LETTERS OF CONGRATULATIONS FOR
COMRADES PALMER AND ROBERTS.
SOLDIERS HAPPY AT THEIR ELECTIoN-MANf
poSrS TO CHOOSE OFFICERS


umphant election to the places OF Secretary Oh
state and State Controller furnish some evidence
Of the feeling OF qualification which permeates
the posts OF the Department of New-lork in conse-
ouence Of the glorious victory The success OF
these comrades was exceedingly near the heart OF
the Grand Army in this Department.. and the
great majority OF the members thought so weii
of the convention which placed Comrades faI"e'
rrd Roberts in nomination. that they seem 10 nave
voted not only for the Grand Army candidates. put
also fer their GATES on the ticket Inc reS"'
is therefore received with JOY and pleasure D!
ex-Union soldiers generally, and veterans SONS Vi
veterans grandsons of veterans. ana their irlehoS
are naturally taking some of the credit go mem
elves for giving the soldier-hating eien'eh' the
backset 1t received last Tuesday. Ihere are III
this State nearly 100000 voters who responded to
tie country's call thirty odd years ago. ABOUT nan
Of whom are members OF the Grand Army bu'
whether inside the order or not their interests are
Identical Ther, Is strong feeing aoroau INA.
the defeat of the class of politicians whch "ouiu
withhold from the soldiers of the war the circuit
which Is their due and would. If it could be done.
blot cut the remembrance Of their valor ana sacri-
flee was most timely and must result In gooo.
PREPARING FOR ANNUAL ELECTIONS.
Comrades are beginning to turn their attention
in all the posts to the annual election OF ohceis
which takes place next month. One OF the nrst
elections to be held is that of Lafayette POST NO.
lN which is fixed for Friday evening. December l.
r'be posts Committee on Nominations has reported
the following candidates for the several elective
Offices: Commander. William A. Copp. Meredth
J.. Jones: senior vice-commander, H. H. ADAMS
G. W. Pancost c. b. Oucalt: junior vce-com-
,nander Alexander THAN. Waldo Sprague; quarter
master Frederick Foster; surgeon James L.
Beyer; chaplain Arson h. Hoyt; officer of the
day. Josiah c. Long, Jr officer of the guard
Gilbert n. Kinglet; delegates TO the State En-
campment and Memorial Committee, Abraham g.
Mills James A. Blanchard. William S. Coggs-
we'll C. II. T. Coils. George p. Edgar. William
J.. Darling c. l.. Gunn H. II. Holly. r. ID. Evans,
r. L. Salisbury, A. NJ. Kirby. II. F. Herkner,
Edgar Williams. ". j. Kelly.
The members of the Veteran Zouaves. whose
association gave its twenty-second annual recep-
ton and ball Wendels Assembly Rooms on
Wednesday evening. are TO be congratulated upon
the unusual brhancy and success of the gathering.
Those who took part included General o. o. How
ard and staff. of Governors Island; Adjutant
Humphreys of BendiX Post; Captain John Nor
man. of Continental Guard: Captain Louis Wendell.
of the 1st Battery. National Guard; John G. Jansen.
First Sergeant of wendels Battery Post Com
mander Max Reece; Major Frederick Schaffer and
daughter; Lieutenant Otto Gudice. wife and daugh-
tiers: Captain John Festgar and wife. Sergeant
William Wright. William Maher, Charles Winkert,
Sergeant Burnham and wife, Private John Hemp
hill and wife, William PETER and daughter. Will /
lam Burke. William Ferguson, William Clements, |
John Anderson. Drum Major Tracy Reilly, John /
Ferris. Richard Conkng and wife. Jacob Sharkey /
Wife and daughter; Miss Carrie Lear, John O Bren J
and wife. Chaplain William Smith, Joseph Long |
and wife, William Lear, Jr., Miss Katie Victory |
William l.. Walsh Joseph Hatch, Jr.. John L. /
Hay, Miss Frances Fleming, George ". Haskn /
and daughter Lieutenant Joseph G. Belts and /
wife. C. G. Williams. of Bendix Post; Harry New
haus Frederick Eulse, Frederick Kissell. Henry |
Kisseil Louis Grenkel, Edward Dodd and Charles |
Figaro
After the nomination of Past Commander in CHER
Palmer for Secretary of State last month of
his political opponents began 20 agitate the cancella
ton OF his pension on the ground that he able |
peecS In one OF e fDu WHICH fk
Palmer took part-that of Five Forks under General
spine Medical treatment in the hospitals of Paris
and from some Of the ablest practitioners in this
country has failed TO give him more than temporary
psh h but lco has cost cost him ten times macn
Bureau Sine the election however nothing has
been heard from the advocates who favored with /
ooI The 600 members of Lafayette Post represent
snds Whcb opms pa Daeps and other
or these New.York furnished rs; Massachusetts, /
diana s. Wiseonsn n, conDeceu Maine ~ IN
ssouT 3 STpmOn & ncs Mshgan
2; District of Columbia. 2; New Hampshire. ?; Kan
T. tinted States II IL N Ssas caTSna
Troops. IA; staff officers, 3.
MILITARY RESERVATION TRANSFERRED
The Secretary of War has issued an order turning
over to the Interior Department the military reser-
walton Of Fort Randall, the same being no longer
made under the act Of Congress. approved July
lsst providing for the opening to settlement of
no further use for The Fort Randall reservation Is
on the right bank OF the Missouri River in Todd
Comrades Of New-Jersey are jubilant over the
HSdsom q s9P bv Ty as shs of
Somraade Toney Is Past Department Commander of
Army affairs for quarter OF century. He is a
native OF New,York state having been born in
Volunteers and was badly wounded at the battle
been h sse ao been f ere mas
Of aHa Sae and of the
District concentrating themselves that they are
TO have g representative worthy of the Grand Army
person Of " Robinson e' Past Come
ertson defeated Alfred H. Morris OF ''racetrack'
fame r., and won by a majority highly faterng to
make good Senators.
BURIED WITH MILITARY HoNoRs.
comrade who died last week Charles
Holder. of Sumner Post, No a. aged slxty-two
years. lie entered the Goth New-York the first year
OF the and served three years. Last summer
his pension of si2 month, granted for disability.
was suspended and he ordered to prove that
he was not able 10 support himself by manual
penniless. and doubtless nastered his death The
Post buried him with military honors.
worth Post. No: 81. passed resolutions on the death
ing testimony to his nigh qualities as s sii and
citizen and teStifying to the severe loss the
deared himself TO all who knew him
Robert Anderson Post. No. %. and A. s. Will
Jams Post. No. 1874. have agreed consolidate The
union viii be effected in time for the coming cleo
ton. Robert Stackpoie is commander Anderson
Post. and Robert j. Cutler, OF Williams
The Veteran Association OF the 9th Regiment !
November L. at the Columbia Gaze no. IS East o
Fourteenth-st. near Broadway.
COmrade Philip y. Wilson. of Simmer Post No I
"a. Is the law partner OF Edward r. Bartlett Jus /
tice-eect Of the Court of Appeals.
High Private" at Albany. writing OF the vari-
themes with which comrades over the State
manage TO keep the department officials busy :
says:
The interest centres in the estate
purchased with pension aud the AMOUNT Of
correspondence IL upon this subject. The is 40 :,
clear these that it does possible that
misunderstood H. Yet scarcely dsy passes
iuforna