New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-07
LATE WAR COMRADES DINE.
TIE NEW YORK COMMANDERY OF THE MILL
ITARY ORDER OF LOYAL LEGlo''
MEETS AT DEI.MONICO'S.

MEETS AT DELMONlCoo.
Tho Now.york Commandery Of the Military Order
~ roval Legion not only had its annual meeting las.
r,gbt but II had a dinner at Delmonico's that VIII
long no remembered by the comrades VINO ious"''
t-d and lived TO cheer "Old Glory, to TIE echo as
q was brought into the dning-hal last hignt w, VT
color guard. The men who commahneu anu ~
tho soldiers or sailors in battle tniro Oh ce"'
ago and directed the firing Of guns or the c'ais e
% bavonets upon the enemy made an assaut "po"
~, - ,h,rgs a. old veterans can do, but there was
M mood of scaling the breasworks or throwing up
earthworks nor OF laying mines or poa'ui"s ''e
enemv's ships the Siege was weli-piaiFu was "
short one and everything In front was cap'uie'
there being several dead marines as empty oo''e
are called afterward Everybody had royal goou
H.. ,a a, tho end separated not 10 meet again az
h dinner table til October next. and in this there
was one source of qualification. that ne VINO pre-
sided General Horace Porter. had been re-eiecteo "
nresde over this body Of land and water heroes ioi
another year - .o,,,a
Tho dinner was all that ordinary man couid
,h for There were fully four hundred present.
,,,,v ~ them in the nature Of things members py
inheritance and succeeding their fathers VINO nave
passed from earth. with few EXCEPTIONS "n''o ''e
members Of the second class sat Win the'r ia'"e'
General Porter was in his usual vein OF huio'' anu
.,1 tho literary and musical part OF the pro-
ramme IN a happy manner. There was no RUE tnat
..h ,vho can sing and won't sing ought 10 be made
. atm, hut everybody felt that he could sils anu
Joined with the others in the old war oa''aus' nv.
tbere was an interesting paper In Memory Vi inc
,,a N,,or-General John Gibbon. COMMANDMENTS
Ch,.f" read by Major Charles A. woodruff o. 'he
Army ,, ,,oorsa q
.mone the many present were General ueorse o.
Greene the Oldest living graduate OF the west ro"'
Academy whose birthday-his ninety-hth-' wa
| Roar Admlrals D. l.. Braine and Henry hroel, "sn-
erals Wager Swayne. +. l.. MolyheuH' C"aiieS a.
Carleton. Nicholas W. Day and Alexander shaler.
Medical Directors A. l.. Gihon. c. c. Bogert ana
! no,.yon R,oodpood Chief Engineers John w. Moore,
u @ HAMPTON. Edward A. Magee and George w.
| N,gee I,eutenants John c. Kafer. X. H. Patterson,
II Eugene Smith and Henry f. Rhoades Majors H.
| A wilkins Joseph f. Land. A. NJ Underhll. r. VI.
! Clark T. F. Rand, Charles r. Hckox. G. G. Byrne'
! n Meeker Colonels Il. VI. l.. Enlers; W,ihaH y, ~
| Church o. f. Middleton. G. c. l0Vsiand r. NJ
Clements Joseph Pool and j. Llngdon "ard' Nv " 10
s s% %;'P &; ar Sfrsd S Sss
Almon F. Goodwin. c. F. Leeper Paymasters Ge9[se
| Wilson Allen X Apgar. George DEF Barton
J Thomas Barrett, steamboat INSPECTOR |"arie' N''
| The election resulted follows; Commander Cen
eral Horace Porter; senior vce-commander. Leu.
tenant Commander Charles +. Mckay OF the Nayy
brook recorder. Assistant PaymasteT A. Noe S,ah s
man: registrar. Colonel Horatio C. KING; treasurer,
| Tor Captain Orville W. Leonard; chaplain, Major
| Franklin d. Miller council-generals. Henry L. Bur
| nett and Thomas Wilson; major, William H. Nae
| captain James c. Cooley, and assistant surgeon
The following were elected to membership. Cen
ea Calvin Pratt Rnyee Wram smth
and Nathaniel <. Wright Captain Clinton e BrSwm'
! Lieutenant Henry II. Lyman. William A. Campbell
Leonard franklin Murphy, IT,. Albert Rathbone and
| Charles s. Tracy.