New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-27

| moars rbev have invited LAFAYETTE Post, No H0.
| 70 accompapy them and act as escort. and bat
talon of the post with few invited guests. Will
| accept.
SERVICES IN THE TEMPLE.
VI p Clafin Post No SIS, has been invited by tho
| CONGREGATION of Temple BETHEL to attend specai
| services in the temple on Memorial Sunday, May
a. The post has accepted. and the members OF the
post in uniform will march to the temple at flfth-
ave- and Seventy -sixth-st.. and occupy the 'front.'
| pews Rabbi Kaufman Koher will conduct the
| services, and an address will be made by some
| prominent Grand Army This will be the first
! time that memorial services have been heid IN a
Jewish temple. and the occasion will be made
annual reunion Of the 9th NswYork w vets Gs,
Cavalry Hawkns Mogayes was ee0 a. aay
veterans sat down to dinner. miniature repre-
sentaton of the regiments memorial to IT'S men VINO
Judge Julius j. c. Ianbein presided Others present
Colonel Rush G. HaThins AdJuant . nnHmas
G. A. c. Barnett. Lieutenant John b. Pannes the
Rev Dr. Clark Wright Joseph ~ Kohntds ee seT
w. Debevoise. most of whom responded TO toasts
e asing joins Miner john
Hassall. James II. Folan. Matthew j. Graham ana
Charles II. Hankinson.
Eble. He seventy-eght years OLD. and enlisted
September j. 1851 In Company sStn cioSei
l. 1855 He severely wounded In the neck. he
had been comrade Of The post nd scn
and daughter lie was buried in the post plot at the
Lutheran Cemetery with military honors -
Justice william r. Dickey. Of the Supreme Court;
of the lid Judicial District OF the state and Grand
The Memorial and Executive Committee Of Kings
County to deliver an Grafton on Memorial DAY az
Cypress Hills Cemetery, following the decoration OF
"a At the last encampment Of Hans Powell Post a
T pasf C % Thomas f. C. Knkaid for the
place of Department Council OF Administrator
Comrade Knkaid has been an active comrade for
twenty-eight years and commander OF his post sew
eral terms has been a delegate to Department En-
campment for twenty-five years. and several times
H Wisn and assistant Weber
hard work at their headquarters in the Ist ReS-
parad AT% c"mra piPa viii nd them on duty
10 a. m. to p. m. daily.
AIDS APPOINTED.
The following aids the STAFF Of the Commander
n-Chief are announced for the Department: OF
New-York George W. Marion. David McMungle.
Jacob Jacobs, +. j. Hawks. Charles F. Street.
James Boss On military instruction. William A.
Treadwell From Brooklyn. Charles w. Heath.
Among the appointments from Connecticut Is Com
rade Henry Huss. ~
A new Grand Army Post. to be known as No 2oa
has been Instituted by the Department Commander
at Kingsbrdge The names of thirty members ap-
POO Commander James F. Butler. of Kimball Post.
No 100. whose death has been announce. wa, was
The funeral held at his home. No. 80 Goerck-
The House Committee on lnVdNd PENSIONS al
Washington has ordered a favorable report on a
bill TO adjust the pensions OF manned Union soldiers
and sailors who served during the War OF the Re-
bellion The measure makes an average Increase in
the pensions of this class of about $3 per month IL
provides that all persons now on the pension roll
and all persons hereafter receiving pension who
while in the military or naval service OF the United
States during the late war Of the Rebellion and in
the line of duty lost hand or foot or were totally
disabled in the same, shall receive pension or $5
a month that all such persons. who In like manner
lost an arm at or above the elbow joint, or leg at
or above the knee Joint. or were totally disabled IN
M In ikn ma
the elbow joint or leg below the knee Joint and
suffer from total or partial stiffness OF the joint
or other cause which renders the stump useless
shall receive pension OF $50 MONTH that all such
persons who in like manner lost an arm at the
shoulder joint leg at the hip Joint or 80 near
the Joint prevent the use OF an artificial limb
or were totally disabled in the same, shall receive
a pension Of s55 a month: and that all such persons
who In like manner lost both a hand and a foot, or
were totally disabled In the same shall receive
pension Of $72 a month.