Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-16

in all parts of the world. The present head
quarters are in Washington, and the adjutant
generals Office at Columbus, Ohio. The
membership is over six thousand, and the
rumber of garriSons 146
1t numbers among Its members, both &C
tive and honorary, some of the most dis
tinguished names borne upon the army
register. Among them Lieutenant General
John NJ. Schofield, Major Generals Nelson
A. Miles and Wesley Merritt, Brigadier
Generals John +. Brooke, James w. For
syth and Edward 8. Otis. In the navy
Rear Admiral George Brown heads the list.
Rear Admiral Thomas II. Stevens, retired,
was an active and Jealous member Of Gar
ison No. 2S of this city. This membership
is not confined to the service alone, as the
National Corps has made some of our great
statesmen honorary members in consider
alton of the active interest taken by them
IN the welfare of the order.
The meeting next week of the National
Corps will probably be the most important
stree the Union was organized. Upon the
result of its laborS depends largely the flu
tCre prosperity of the order. The session
will last for several days. During the stay
of the National Corps the local entertain
ment committee, composed of members of
the four garrsons in this city, will endeavor
to show the visitors appropriate hospitality.
On Tuesday, the 10Th, at pm, a grand
ball will be given at Washington barracks,
and in the evening large complimentary
excursion and planked shad dinner will be
given at River View.
There will be over one hundred delegates
present, and there will also be a large at
tendance of members of the order, accom-
panied by ladies and friends. A report will
be made to the press each day Of the doings
Of the convention. Nearly every state in
the Union will be Represented by the dele
gates. The headquarters have been es-
tablished at the Hotel Vendome, corner Of
third and Pennsylvania avenue where a
great deal of business will be transacted
through the work Of the several commit
tees.
National Commander Morton.
Joseph Bruce Morton, past co,nmsn der
of Gen. ]. NJ. Schofield Garrison, No %, of
Washington, D. c., and ex-chairman of the
committee on the state of the order, was
bern In the city of Madison Ind. His
father was an 1riShman and his mother the
descendant on her fathers side of Irish
blood, his maternal grandfather being the
first cousin of the illustrious Horace Greeley,
whose mother was WOODBURY.. At the age
of nine years he was sent, with his two
brothers, to England, where he received a
collegiate education, graduating at the OK
ford examinations at the age of fifteen
years. He stood third in class of 945.
On his return to his native country he
engaged in business with his father in
Michigan and Chicago, and at the age of
twenty-four years was enlisted in New
York city by Col. Arthur Macarthur, as
sistant adjutant general. He was assign
ed to the second cavalry, and served for
made a corporal and sergeant, and dis
charged as such in 1875. His next service
was as clerk for the equipment board of the
marine corps at Washington, d. c., and
on the dissolution of the board he enlist
ed in the second artillery at Fort Nc
Henry, Md, serving at that post and
Washington, D. c. At the former place
he served under Generals French and
Bury. and at the latter under Captain
breckenridge, now the inspector general Of
the army.
Upon his discharge from the second ar
tillery he enlisted in the general service de-
tachment at headquarters division of the
Missouri. under General P. H. Sheridan.
In 1884 he was transferred to headquarters
of the army to perform the clerical work
incident to the target practice of the army
under Colonel Blunt, who, upon Morton s
promotion to be chief clerk at army head
quarters, considered him expert in all
that pertained to his special duties in that
line From the time he organized Gen.
Schofeld Garrison, No. %, until the pres
ent he has been a conspicuous figure at
every annual session of the National Corps,
always Jealous in the performance Of his
duties as chairman Of the committee on
the state of the order, always solicitous for
the welfare and the prosperity of the Or
der.