The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-08

ment to the constitution was adopted
changing the annual dues of members
from fifty cents to one dollar, with the
idea of securing independence to the So
ciety in the matter of the place of meet
ing and entertainment each year. The
selection of place of meeting for the
reunion of next year was left to the Ex-
ecutive Committee, with suggestions of
Milburn, Newton and Lake Hopatcong.
New officers were elected as follows:
President, Walter |. Ross, Co. D, Stan
hope; first vice president, John M. Bald
win, j. M. S., Newark; second vice pres
ident, Co. @, Dover; secretary, E. Clark
Lane, Co. D, Newark; treasurer, Lieut..
L. v. Wolfe, Co. O., Dover. The follow
/ ing were elected honorary members: L.
Nv. Blanchet and son, Louis T., Silas
IT. Loree, Morristown, and Theodore A.
Squire, II. FL. Van Nostrum, Samuel M.
Cook, Mrs. Fall, widow of Chaplain John
Fall. Mrs. G.. W. Windel was elected a
daughter of the regiment. Letters of
regret were received from Charles T.
Baxter, Plainfeld, and Hon. Charles F.
Hopkins, Boonton.
Dinner was served to the veterans,
their friends and guests at Fagan's Hall.
It was a beautiful and tasty spread,
arranged by the kindness of the local
| Womans Christian Temperance Union,
that served to make all happy. Grace was
said by DR.. Richmond, the regimental
surgeon. With the disappearance of the
ice cream the soldiers lost interest in the
collation. and turned to the entertainment
of speech and song which always
give tone and spirit to these gatherings
| of old veterans. Mayor Albright
of the borough made brief address
welcoming the veterans in the name of
the people of Madison, to which Colonel
Minded, honorary president and toast
master, made grateful response. In his
short address he referred with kindly
feeling to the late Mai. A. D. Blanchet,
faithful soldier and officer of the
Twenty seventh, who long held residence
in Madison.
Following the sweet and excellent
singing of the old soldier song, 'sJust Be-
fore the Battle, Mother" by Miss
Walker of East Orange, the Rev.
William Russell Bennett of the Pres
byterian Church Of Madison, made
strong address of deep interest to all
patriots, reviewing Antietam battle
scenes, and depicting well the spirit of
the days of 63. His remarks were fol-
lowed by the recitation of touching in
cident of the war, given by Comrade G.
F. Fredericks, Battery B.
The reunion was fortunate in the
presence of Comrade w. o. Stoddard, a
resident of Madison, private secretary of
President Lincoln and author of a life of
the martyred President. Mr.. Stoddard
told some incidents Of the opening days
of the war and related the
story of Mr.. Lineoln's death, and Of the
impression of that event upon the eoun-
try, closing with the words "To-day the
gun that announced the death of Lincoln
sounds,as loudly as. the guns Of Sumpter.
Mrs. Allston.t of Newark one of the
daughters of the regiment, followed
with patriotic vocal solo.
DR.. Pierson of Morristown, who is al
ways in a happy mood on reunion day,
was called upon to speak for the ladies.
He told them in his own inimitable way
that they had given 'sa right royal well
come and right royal feed" and
thanked them with praises of the virtues
of the sex, drawing out enthusiastic APP
plause with the remark, cat the bottom
tof every enterprise that amounts to any
thing in this world, there is a woman
every time, and no man can do his best,
whether it be in fighting or working or
any sort of thing, unless there is behind
i and back of him and looking
at him and watching him and
patting him and urging him on all the
time, some woman" Chaplain McCor-
mick of Dover, who was the next speaker,
declared that all the brave men had not
died in the war; las brave men lived to
get home as died upon the field of battle.
Our Grant lived to get home; our Han
cock lived to get home; Fighting Joe
Hooker lived to get home; General Win
del lived TO get home, and host of