The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-07

W. H. Page, driver of Libby's barge
waited patiently yesterday morning for the
gathering of the white coats'' A delega
ton was there early. John d. Williams was
one of the first on the grounds, as well he
might be, for he is the baby of the or
ganization, having paraded when only
| sixteen. and on that occasion acted as one
of the escort of H. R. H., the Prince OF
| wales. ID. g. Drinkwater was the next or
| the list. and then they gathered one by one
until it was evident sthat there would be 8
large load. D. H. Chandler strolled III
| just as the start was to be made, and there
| was "a general shout of welcome At first
| the veteran bandmaster thought it would be
out of the question for him to go, but
gradually yielded until he had only one OBJ
| lection and that was, boys, l can't go. ]
| have no overcoat with me-
''You stay right here,'' shouted j. H.
| stickney. ''Pl get coat for you,'' and in
few minutes he returned with coat and
| handed it to Mr. Chandler withkhe remark
There Dan, 1 hope that will large enough
| for you" and the veteran was almost out OF
| sight when buried in it's ample folds.
Where is the general and the major?''
asked J. W. Plaisted anxiously, and Secre-
tdTy IIuulIHef f0pll6u. OOno duedU III the
majors team That settled it, Gen.
Anderson and Major Yarney were to be
| there, had in fact gone ahead, and start
| was made, but was interrupted by Mr..
| Drinkwater, who asked, What has become
of Sam Teague?'' and once more Mr.. Plum
| mer replied, 'Sam's on the other end of the
| BRIDGE Every member of the organization
was accornt ed for and the party was off.
Co4@ IL.
little past ten, and from that time onward
story telling was the order of the day.
Major Jordan recalled the king riot and
the part played in putting it down by Gen.
Anderson, then in command of the COM
pany. Major Jordan, then a private was
struck by a brick, for bricks were flying
freely about. AT that the indignant captain
walked over to the mayor, who was watch
ing the mob and doing nothing in particular
and said: IF another of my men is hit
will fire whether have your order Or not. =
nota BILE arrival called the boys from
all directions to welcome Captain John NJ.
Beal. veteran alike of the old White
coats and of the civil war. The old
soldier is unable to walk, but was tenderly
looked after by his old comrades. At one
time it was thought that he was too much in
the shade, and at the suggestion of Gen.
Anderson was taken out of reach OF the
wind and from that time onward his chair
was the centre of group of story tellers.
When lunch was served, and "mine host
G. Hoyt Greene looked we'll after the in
terests of his guests, the following sat down
at the tables: Gen. S. j. Anderson, j. W.
Plalsted, Samuel Rolfe, Major G. B. Varney,
q. W. Merrill of Bangor, G. F. Plummer,
Albert Harmon, Joseph A. Tenney, George
E. i4uscombe, Charles A. Donnell, J. T..
Emery, CIV Furlong, Elish A. Wheeler, John
ID. Williams, d. 6. Drinkwater. Capt.
Frederick Drinkwater, L. Wyman, John
Greene of Fairfield, j. f. Libby, D. H.
Chandler. Charles e. Odiorne of Gorham,
William H. Roberts, John I, Winslow of
Deer1ng, Samuel league, Major William p
Jordan, j. II. Stickney, Joshua Bracket
and Captain John M. Beal, Mr.. Barbour of
Ohio, A. j. Cummings, g. 0. Bailey and f.
R. Fay, were the guests of the association.
General Anderson presided over the after
dinner exercises and made a graceful open
ing address. A special feature of the exer-
cises was paper read by Albert Harmon
who told of the war" to settle the question
of the northeastern boundary, which was
actually settled by General Scott on the
part of the United States, and General Sir
John Harvey, who acted for England. A
large number of Maine men were drafted
and went to Augusta. This was in 1889 when
Governor Fairfield was governo r, and in all
"seventy-five were taken from the several
Portland companies, with enough from the
several towns in. Cumberland county to
make up regiment which in due time
arrived at Augusta and encamped until the
difficulty was settled by the United States
government. Accordingly the troops were
paid off at Augusta and discharged. After
Congress passed a law giving a land warrant
for 100 acres of public land to those
that had been in service SO many
days (dncluding the troops for Mad
awaska). The Meain troops bein5
discharged at Augusta. instead of at Port
land. were just two days short of that limit
At that time Hon. John Appleton was
member of Congress from this district, and
he succeeded in having that changed, so
about seventy Portland boys received their
land warrants"
Mr.. Harmon presented, and the White
coats" examined his honorable discharge
from the service. 1t may be ssid, Tin pass
ing, that this discharge, as well as COM
plete account of the expedition kept by him