The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-02-22

happiest moment was when he turned his
face homeward. Despite the many compli-
ments he had received in Chicago, he had
received the greatest of his life in that very
hall when elected commander of BosWorth
Post.
On his return home the best news that he
received was that of the election of Com
rade Green, the department commander for
Maine.
MRS. ". j. SAWYER.
president of Bosworth Relief Corps. con-
graduated commander Green and Bosworth
Post and said that Maine had honored it.
self in his election. She referred to the
convention at Skowhegan and extended to
Comrade Green the support Of the Relief
Corps.
PAST DEPARTMENT COMMANDER
galley
said that he hadn't expected to say any
thing. and after that good old lady from
Gorham over there had given him such
flashing he felt that he ought not to say
anything. However he evidently forgave
the good old lady, who was smiling very
pleasantly and proceeded TO entertain the
company in his own inimitab BILE way ,eliciting
burst after burst of laughter. He said il
was the most PLEASANT occasion of Bosworth
Post to have a camp fire without any fire
or any smoke. He had been down there
many times when he was almost choked by
the fumes of filthy tobacco. 1t was good
thing to have the ladies present once in a
while.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR W. H. TRUE
spoke of pleasure at being present and said
that he had received the invita- ton when
sick in the house and it did him more good
than any medicine could. He had come
out, that evening for the first time
He wanted to add his eongratu-
lations to the many others to the Post
and to Commander Green because of their
recent victory. =.
EX-MAYOR MELCHER.
Ex-Mayor Melcher was vociferously called
upon and responded with reference to the
recent convention and its important results
and related an Incident of the war and ex-
tended his congratulations to Commander
Green.
LIEUT., JUDSON j. CHASE.
Another guest of the even ng and a
special guest of ex-Deputy Sheriff Herbert
Sargent was a tall elderly man perfectly blind
His name is Judson ]. Chase, of Chase's
Mills, and he is son of soloL Chase. There
are no better friends in this world than this
blind man and ex-sherif Sargent. They
were in the service together, and Chase
. Nv oft
first lieutenant of the Maine company, at
gent was captain. The company had
reached the rifiepits.. beyond
which rebel bullet was snre to find it's
mark. Young Chase was brave and eager,
ard taking rife pushed himself by the
elbow in orderato get a shot at the rebels
but rebel bullet struck his temple and
came out in the bridge of his hose. cutting
the eye from its socket. Elk 1ecting that he
was MORALLY wounded the young fellow
took of his coat and@la down upon it to
die. Captain Sargent, then acting as
colonel of the regiment. came pear, and the
wounded man said: They can't say died
a coward. Captain" You're not going to
Gle, my lad said the Captain. and had him
sent to the rear. He thus saved his life for
had he remained there be would have been
trampled to death in the Charge that i'm
mediately followed. Captain Sargent did
not see him again until after the war when
he met him on the train between Portland
and lewiston. He had lost the other eye
then. fer it had become diseased and had to
be removed to save his life. Lieut.. Chase
at that time gave Capt. Sargent finger
ring He wore it till about eight years ago
when his friend felt of 1t and noticed that
it had worn very thin. He.immediately oh
tanned another ring which Capt. Sargent
now wears.
Lieut.. Chase was called upon to speak
during the evening" He expressed Lis
pleasure at being present and gave an
account of his running away from home to
go to the war at the age of fourteen years.
He became so hungry while running away
that when he did get enlisted in Portland
and was given square meal he ate SO
much that he had an awful dream that
rebel was sitting in his stomach with Bun
X or Hill monument in his lap. In a most
humorous and witty manner and with an
eloquence, worthy of his father he narrated
his efforts to Iun away 10 the war, and his
fathers efforts to keep him at home. ''He
caught me twice in Augusta, once in Lewis
ton and again in Portland He kept his
hearers in continual laughter. especially
when he described his building an effegy of
JEFF Davis, his 'grandfather's friend.'' and
deliberately shooting it to pieces under his
gra ndfatheT's windows.
He then related the story of the loss of
his eyesight as told above.
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