The Portland daily press., 1896-04-18
A FRATERNAL VISIT.
Bosworth Post the Host Last Eve
ming.

Comrades From Bath and Brunswick En-
tertained By the Comrades of This City
Good Things Said by Able Speakers.
Last evening Bosworth Post entertained
mem bers of Vincent Mountfort Post
of Brunswick, and Sedgwick Post of
Bath. The following visitors were pres
emit
From Vincent Mountfort Post-H enry
B. DuDning, Amos R. Niekerson, Thorn
as Ross, James Hammond, W. G. Ross,
Fl. NJ. Doughty, Otis B. George, P. r.
Goodrich, D. E. Stanwood, James <.
Stetson, j. E. Alexander, B. L. Denni-
son, all of brunswick.
From Sedgwiok Post-D. r. Wylie,
Seth L. Snipe, Mcdonald, W. H. Wat
son, Isaac H. Danforth, Joseph H. Lom-
bard, A. @. Reed, H. NJ. Ragon, f. E.
Pond, John 81. Brown, Andrew Perry,
Alfred Pierce, R. q. Thomas.
Frank A. Luce o. Bath, and L. T.
Carleton of Winthrop. Departments Com
mandeT Carver of Rockiand and Assis-
tant AdJutant General Samuel L. Miller
OF Waldoboro were special guests of the
post.
After an exemplification of the work,
Fast Commander E. g. Milliken, who
presided gracefully welcomed the visiting
comrades. and called upon
DEPA RTMENT COMMANDER L. D.
CARVER,
OF Rockland, who was given q fraternal
welcome. He spoke of the breaking out
of the war, and of the uprising of the
people of the North in defence of the
flag. In one year raw recruits were
veteran soldiers, and were fighting grand
ly for their country. He dwelt on tine fact
that the war found the people Of the
North unprepaired, and it took time even
to arm the soldiers properly. Some of
the guns used at the battle of Bull Run
grew so hot after they we're fred few
times that they would discharge before
the cartridge could be sent home. He
expressed his pleasure at being able to
meet the comrades of Bosworth Post, and
spoke in the highest terms Of the home
of the post.
HON. L. T. CARLTON
of Winthrop, spoke of the good certain
to follow fraternal visits In years bye
gone in the annual encampment he had
almost regarded it in the light of a
duty to oppose any candidate presented
by the comrades Of Bosworth Post, be-
cause it had seemed to him to be the
town against the country, and Bosworth
Post against the state, but he had grown
wiser and had come to see that what
Bosworth Post proposes is always for the
good of the department of Maine.
COMRADE 81. l.. DOUGHTY
him great pleasure to be present with
the comrades Of Sedgwick and Bosworth
posts. He voiced the sediment of all the
mem bers of his post when he said that
he and they fully appellate the value of
su Oh fraternal visits.
- EDWARD c. SWEET
brightly referred to what Mr.. Carlton
had said of Bosworth Post. The home
of the post is just as much the home of
the comrades of other posts. Its foun-
| dation stone was laid in the cement of
fraternity, its walls are a monument of
charity, and it's capstone is loyalty SYM
bolized by the flat above it. There Is
nothing local about Bosworth Post
With q full attendance it wouldn't be
possible to fire gun without hitting an
| ind
ernor, OF congressman, and the ambit-
ion of Bosworth Post is ever national in
its scope. 1t has today the Speaker of
the National House, and looks forward
to the time when 1t will capture the
| Presidency itself. Mr.. Swett's reference
TO Reed and Governor Cleaves was loud
ly applauded.
| SETH Il. SNIPE
of Sedgwiclz Post, spoke briefly of the
value to the Grand Army of such fater-
| nal occasions. He was followed by Past
Commander
r. K. GALLEY,
who made bright and witty speech. He
said that although it gave him great
pleasure to meet the comrades of the posts
of Bath and Brunswick, still it seemed
to him that the old familiar campfire,
where the comrades gathered around the
banquet table is after all the best. "Give
the reporters a chance" said the always
popular ex-department commander, land
don't force them to find out after 1t is
all over what we said" Then Mr.. Galley
told good story and sat down, having
made one of the hits of the evening.
MAJOR W. Fl. GREEN,
past department commander, spoke of
the department. Of Maine, and paid
graceful compliment to his successor,
Department Commander Carver, to whom
1t was his great pleasure at the annual
encampment at Bangor to bestow the
badge of his high Office