New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-06
IND ARMY BUGLE NOTES.
QUARTERS OFFICIALS AT ALBANY
r' BUSY.
,s OF VARIOUS POSTS INsrAILED-NEw

al oXY or VETERANS IN GEORGIA.
private's" letter of January from Al
'hN headquarters officials are as busy as
any, now. and the new year opens quite well;
\ psVc is heavy and reports a and Il are
i ear T., large numbers so that there will be but
\ 'oHN"e .,rouents Assistant AdJuant Allen COM
L e" .ha, most commanders throughout the De
i p" have been very dlatory about sending
H", reports of delegates and alternates and
n sec, for 1896. holding them back 10 send in
W. ,,eir reports a and b. when they should
s'n ~, w.. made out signed by the post mander
%" ,.rrardea to tie Department on the night Of
'nu If the Grand Army Ives for 100 years
es' some Of these post commanders may learn
"",hing about the rules and regulations.
"~s, nenartment Commander has been az Depart
sa,douarters looking over the office business
~ .,osde arrangements TO hold the Council of Adj
~.,s,,a,lon meeting January Is, when the spe-
n.ser If business viii be the naming of the
a., Tor holding the next annual encamrmen'.
! s.,cus Auburn Utica and Brooklyn are men,
go a. posshle places. with chances largely in
IN II the Salt City-hrst. because il is easily
l ...b,e rom all points Of the State. east west.
..s and south and second. because the hotel "a
i nrooda,ons are excellent and within the reach
I .syery delegate.
! -. Ro,rd Of Managers Of the New-York STAT
i ,ne fer Aged Veterans. their Wives and Army
i ~-.ss held q meeting AZ the Capitol in Superin-
i ',.,, Perry's o,lce Oh Thursday. January >. The
l 80. a. oxford. y. Y. Is now certainty; the
l snang is already up to its second story. Mrs
l n,,am the president. desires to call the attention
l ,,b. comrades Throughout, the State 70 the reso-
l sion passed at the November meeting OF the
/ I'D and which is published in General Order No.
INST issued. The pth of the resolution is mat the
l o.,-l desires a written Endorsement of this home
- every c. i r. post In the department; that
4 !. the unanimous sense of all the veterans that
l -. legislature should provide literally and
i ,nptlv the necessary means for the opening o.
i =. home for the relief of the numerous persons
| s,kine admission. This is no more than IS right
i "A nroper when the crowded state OF the nome AT
U,,b \ Y IS taken into consideration. All such
Easements may be addressed to Ellen NJ. Put
, president No l.li3 West-ave, Buffalo. y. Y.
NpEs-DE-CAMP APPOINTED.
i The following additional ades-de-camp for New
r,,t ci,v and Brooklyn have been appointed by the
n.,artment Comma nder: John 4. Butler. Post NO.
4 a. owen J. Brady. Post No. 40; ID. z. bowling,
pc, No sI3; Joseph A. Goulden, Post No 25s; J. T.
yrsp post NO 40: Frank NJ. Hopper, Post No. S9i;
~s,us n Hubbell Post No. 1872 q. r. Hendrickson.
v,s, No S9i Harry j. HUMPHREYS. Post NO. 20;
usyander F. Jeroloman Post No. 20; w. }. Kelly
Pa, No. $40: Henry j. Moore Pos, No. II; Phihp
s.hsudt Post No. 1S7. Edward j. Stapleion' Post
(, % and Webster Young. Post No a.
commander Richard W Meade (rear-admral |.
n.
acsrs Of LAFAYETTE Post. No. 40 were Installed
nth brilliant and imposing ceremonies last FRIDAY
rsnng by Past Commander-n-Chief X Il. beath'
= Philadelphia. installing officer. with me stall
IN excellent supper was served after the ceremony
-ier the supervision of Comrade Banta confer
as oh Regiment Band furnished the instrumental
,usic and introduced among other things, the new
-arch dedicated TO Lafayette Post by Comrade
K ucen Conterno War songs We're sung ana at
l. m dancing was In order. The Executive Com
| -,,ee in charge was composed Of William y. topp,
ss,rman: T. G. Mills. Wilbur !. Brown, +. a
a;rfeld treasurer: George = Edgar secretary
I'd Commander Henry n. Adams eX-officio. TIE
i-,lc ana Dancing Committee were Comrades az
smarre Joseph Blascheck ard +. y. Whitfield
omrade E. J.. Salisbury was chairman of the
rrlnit;ee on Rooms and Reception. Comrade X +
rsre vas corapimented on his good taste in deco
sfng the hall
Past Iepartmcnt Comma nder Albert f. Sholes OF
.ylnnah ca sends this interesting news from
h co'ony Of veterans started in that State by com
sles mainly from Indiana and other western
a,es ard named Fitzgerald Comrade Sholes
tro,e o. Chrsf mas Day to a Northern comrade:
Il viii rrobablv hc Of interest TO YOU 20 learn that
n saturiay evening last l.. assisted 10y Conrad"
"a Madison. A. g. NJ. G.. of this Department oi
Georgia. mustered probably the largest new post
no the g. A. r. which ever formed. This
|rss the colony of Fitzgerald IN ihls ota't'
The post. which named the Colony fost; NO,
IL Department Of Georgia was must. feu WIN -
-cruits and over thirty were those who had sew
s~d their c. \ r. relations ten. fifteen or lWentE
ards and | was informed that fully as many more
are already there. and only waiting Tor tner trans
over 1900 people have already arrived TO become
strens Of the new city and they are coming III a'
On the same EVENING, that Colon posa va "a
xmed camp of Sons Of Veterans was 9Isah'zdc o
RIB Ave- 1lerS
aied and pans drawn for a G. A. X. building which
Is Intended shall be ready for occupancy WITHIN
,,ey days
A LECTURE BY ELI PERKINS.
ri Perkins the humorist. who is a comrade OF
.dson Fitzpatrick Post, No l43. lectured in
NJ c A. Hall Observation-Disclosures -ffth-st
sarlem on Friday evening. on THE Philosophy OF
Es" Interspersing his lecture with anecdotes OF
;sreral Fitzpatrick. whose name the post bears.
he lecture was given in aid Of the fund which XII
a,rick Post is raising. 10 erect a monument to the
ANGUS cavalry leader The Board Of Aldermen
las named the square at One-hundred- and-thirty-
nyenth-st and St. Nicholas-ave.. Fitzpatrick Square
md this is 10 be the site of the monument.
General Alexander Shalcr. president Of the New
FORK City Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of
Mar. gives notice that the annual meeting VIII be
'sd Friday evening at the list Regiment Ar
sory. In the headquarters OF the First brigade,
@. s. y y, at j. m The annual election OF
scers will take place. An amendment offered at
- last meeting strike out the word city from the
isne OF this association will be taken up ana acted
pon Al this meeting a recent amendment fixes
n ANNA dues OF nonresident members living out
.3s Of 4 radius OF twenty-five miles from New
FORK City al 81 a year, payable In advance. mn
xaerwl,e directed this association meets four
ines year viz: on the second Fridays OF Jan
4.y. March May and October.
1erhaps the most interesting OF the annua me-
-al services which Lafayette Post NO. 1870. IS ac-
1s''omed 70 hold In honor of her comrades VINO
have Joined the majority during the year took
pace al the post rooms in the Masonic Temple on
y Johns Day last. The order of exercises was
.aeofate and appropriate. the prominent parts pc
= by Past Comma nder Adams. Adjutant brown
no read the records OF The dead comrades zen
sel Vlelr. who delivered the Grafton ana 'haP-
an, the Rev Wilbur r. Wood The post lost FOUR
zen comrades by death last year, namely: Henry
Randall. Thomas ID Mason. Ira W. stewart
ean Newton Nathan Clarke. Locke W. WIN
ssier. Edward W. IIutchngs, George W iet,'
esph LonthOn. William Hamilton Harris. Frcu-
ek Baldwin Edward Phillips, George W
sslen and William ~. Montayne. ,
ne public installation Of Nicers OF Farnsworh