The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-23
new JERSEYS 0FFICHRS
Order of Cincinnati Dine at
Trenton Yesterday-Guests
Present.
Special to the Jersey Cttp Nepe.

TRENTON, Feb. 23, 1897.-The New Jer-
sey Society of the Cincinnati held its an
nual meeting at the Trenton House yes
terday. The meeting was one of the
largest and pleasantest that the society
has ever held, and was made the more
auspicious by the presence of Governor
Griggs of New Jersey, and Governor
Hastings of Pennsylvania
At the business meeting which took
place at eleven o'clock only business OF
minor Importance and of interest to the
society was transacted.
At the conclusion of the meeting an
elaborate banquet was served in the large
banquet room of the Trenton House by
Mr.. F. F. Katzenbach. During the BAN
quet the customs of the society of drink
ing a standing toast in honor of the
memory. of George Washington and the
reading of Institution or charter, of
the society were carried out.
The Institution was read for the one
hundredth time in the history of the So
csety, it being the custom to read it at the
annual meeting. At the conclusion of the
banquet toasts were responded to and
papers appropriate to the occasion were
read. F. Wolcott jackson read some ex-
tracts from the farewell address Of
President Washington. Rev. DIR. George
S. Mott of Newark read a paper espeoi-
ally prepared for the occasion on ssrhe
circumstances Connected with the Pre-
dngtOns Farewell Address,
General William S. Stryker read very
interesting IN paper on What the ofleers
tingent and the People Of the Country
said about General Washington during the
eight years Of the Reyolu utfohaIy War
The lnuence % of the & RsAsi Rsvetie5eapy 5e9ys efs e
Gers 3 Sc en- NTH the FSEnding Of the Goternment...
Jersey officers who took part n the strug-
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Governor Hastings was accompanied by
one OF the members of his staff, Captain
Cavalry. =
The active members of the New Jersey
Society were present.
Messrs. Ogden Armstrong, OF Philadel-
sphia; William Panoeast Barber, of Eliza-
beth; Lewis Durham Boggs, of New York
City; Thos. Jefferson Bonnell, of Port Jer-
Wis; William Bowen Buck, of Philadel-
phha; Hon.. John Lambert Cadwalader,
man campbeal, of Freehoid; Timothy Timothy
Matlack Cheesnian, of New York City:
Alexander McWhortler Cumming, of
Elizabeth; Aaron Ogden Dayton of Cam
den; den HUGHES hes, Dayton Of New York City;
Paul Augustine Hendry, of Philadelphia;
Vessel T. B. Stout Inlay of Brooklyn;
Hon. Frederick Woicott Jackson. of New
ark ark; Major Hamilton Marksy. Of Gam
Easton; Hon. Flavel MCGEE, Of Jersey
William Case Osmun, Finderne; William
Bennington, of Newark; William Mc4
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Abercrombte Sims, of Mt. Holly: JOAN
Clarke Sims of Philadelphia; wilhelm
Chetwood Spencer, Of Elizabeth; Richard
Wayne Sites. Morristown; General Will
lam Scpdder Stryker, of Trenton; Chsls
Hornblower Woodruff. of New York City.
The honorary members in attendance
were Hon. Samuel Grey, of Camden; the,
Rev. Rev. Frank I Humphreys, of Morris
of Camden; General Robert F, Stockton,
Of Trenton.
The officers of the society are:-Presi-
dent, William s. Striker, Trenton; Vice
Secretary, W. Ten Brock S. Inlay,
Brooklyn: Assistant Secretary, william
Nick. Reckless, Freehold; Treasurer, Jas.
W, s. Campbell. Freehold; Assistant
phia; Chaplain, Samuel NJ Shute, Ker-
foot, Va; Standing Committee. Henry S.
Harris, chairman; John G. Sims William
W. Ballard, William F. Barber, Paul A.
Hendry F. Wolcott Jackson, John L.
Cadwallader; Delegates to the General
Society, William S. Stryker, Henry S.
Harris, Samuel NJ: Shute, william c.
Spencer, John G. Sims: Alternates. John
L. Cadwallader, Timothy M. Cheesmsln
Frank L. Humphreys, F. Wolcott jack
son, Franklin D. Howell; member of the
Standing Executive Committee of the
General Society, William S. Stryker
From Trenton the invited guests were
Hon. Henry G. Kelsey, Judge William Il.
Dayton and DR.. Charles E. Green.