New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-22
GRAND ARMY BUGLE NOTES
AN ELABORATE RECEPTION TO BE GIVEN
BY LAFAYETTE POST.

AN ELABORATE RECEPTION TO BE GIVEN
BY LAFAYETTE POST.
1T WILL BE IN HONOR or COMMANDER IN-CHlEF
AD,Ms-ruE TOUR WHICH THE LEADER
OF THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
IS MAKING.
LAFAYETTE Post Is preparing for one Of its famed
receptions on the evening Of February 10, when
the guest of honor will be the National Com-
masder-in-Chief Comrade John G. r. ADAMS oi
Massachusetts, He will be accompanied ny MS
Adjutant- General, James +. Mech ana se'erai
other members of his staff. Commander Copp' al
. iutant Gum all the past commanders of Lafayette
and other weI-known comrades will see TO 1t mat
the occasion Is one Of moment In Grand Army
circles Secretary of State Palmer and state Con
troller Roberts will be present. with other honored
veterans from all parts of the state. Tine recep-
ton will be a National affair. Speeches Will be
made by commandments Adams Past Com
mander-n- Chief Palmer, Commander Copp' CON-
rade Blanchard General Niele and others. re
freshments and an old-fashioned campfire VIII ioi-
low the stated programme.
pafor. coming 70 New York the National Com
mander and staff will make official visits as fol-
lows: On January 80 and 81 they viii attend the
Department Encampment of Vermont at Bur
lngton: on February they VIII visit the
Department Encampment at Augusta; they VIII
be present on February at the Encamp-
ment of the Department OF Massachusetts,
when a Grand Army dinner and reception VIII
take place in Music Hall. Boston, in the
afternoon On February - they will so to Con-
cord TO take part in the department Encampment
Of New Hampshire 10 be held in the State House.
The Governor Of New Hampshire and his military
staff and man. prominent citizens of the State
have been invited.
TO ATTEND OTHER ENCAMPMENTS
After the Lafayette Post reception in this city
Commander Adams will go TO Washington where
the Commander and National staff will attend
the Department Of the Potomac's annual encamp-
ment to be held Monday. February 49, On the
following evening, February 20. they Will be re-
ceved at rousing campfire. given IN their honor
nv the posts of Baltimore, In that city. The Mary
land Department Encampment will be convened
at HaSarstown. on February % and %. but the
Comma nder-in Chief and his staff will not be able
10 attend as they have accepted the invitation OF
Department Commander Cleary to Join the COM
rades Of New-York State at their Department En-
campment at Rochester on the same days On
February q the commandments and staff
will be at Providence. r. l.. where public re-
cepon in their honor will take place in the par
lors of the Narragansett Hotel from TO p. m.
His Excelency Governor Brown and staff. Mayor
Olney the members Of the Legislature Of Rhode
Island the city council and prominent citizens OF
the State Will be present. In the evening
campfire will be lighted at Infantry Hall. where
100 members of the Grand Army will sit at din
ner to be served The newly elected Department
Commander. c. II. Baker, will preside. Speeches
will be made by the Governor. the Mayor and
prominent members Of the order from all
New England and other parts of the country.
TO PRESERVE SHILOH BATTLEFIELD.
The committee OF the Shiloh Battlefield Associa-
ton. composed Of the secretary. Colonel F. T. Lee;
the treasurer, DR.. J. W. Coleman, and Captain r.
c. McMochan. of the vice-presidents. recently
visited the battlefield ard were successful in secur
ing about $500 of the land which this
They viii recommend to Congress that the battle
field be purchased by the Goyer RIM and made
Chickamauga. and that the graves OF the dead
% sTs the on be s oa
this year-one on April and I. the anniversary Of
the thousands Of sleeping heroes there viii be
decorated With flags and flowers On both Of hsse
able to the place and occasion Secretary r,,, f. T.
tinuaily reporting: a complete, roster, Of the men
ing every command that took part in It.. Send
Win posSTe GSmpah 6o and reE
field Association, Monticello. Ill.
elected at the State Encampment at Rochester,
February p and %; is stil a three-cornered one
State will present the name of Senior vice-Depart-
ha se Of h
seems to be about solid in favor of his promotion.
Past Commander John C. Shots of Kitching Post.
Yonkers. will be backed by all the Wes,chester
County posts, and will have strong support from
comrades and posts in upper New-IOrk State and
in the west and centre. also. his friends assert.
Twenty-six posts in Kings and Queens counties
Joseph W. Kay. Of WINCHESTER Post, No, 1871 Brook
Ign. There has been talk about dark horse" in
carefully guarded. The honor, ii is conceded, be-
longs to this quarter of the State, though division
this end may send 1t again TO the west or centre
IN. MEMORY OF LINCOLNs BIRTHDAY.
Joseph d. Maccabe commander n-chef Of the
Sons Of Veterans. L. s. A.. calls attention in Gen
eral Orders No. /. just issued. to the near APP
proach Of Union Defenders Day." February II.
the eighty-ffth anniversary Of the birth of Abra-
ham Lincoln. and says: ITO the Of soldiers
who under him fought for the flag and the Union
there can be no more precious privilege than the
honorlng of his memory; and 1t is earnestly hoped
that, by general public observance OF the day. not
only we. but all those whose ihoughts shall thus
be Quickened in remembrance OF his life and work:
may be inspired anew with patriotism and loyalty.
The members of the 18th New-York Volunteer
Cavalry Association will hold their fifth annual re-
West Thrty-second-st. President Canfeld and Sec
rotary Moore have procured Gettysburg medals for
all 4th Cavalrymen who took part IN me batttle
at the reunion The secretary wants the names
OF all who served m the regiment who have not
Joined. .. ~.
tional Encampmen of 1895. and is trying TO snatch
the prize from Louisville. Ky, which was the first
s1s as co S ea' E. j. Atkinson senior vice.
department comma nder. installed the officers OF his
old post II. b. ClaNn. No. 57S on Thursday evening
MANY LISTEN TO CARDINAL GIBBONS.