The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-22
NEW ARMY SOCIETY.
Proceedings at the Organiza-
ton of the Fighters of
Santiago.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. l, 1S9S.-
Major A. c. Sharpe, Assistant Adjutant
General furnishes to the correspondent of
The Associated Press the following sum
mary of the proceedings of the Society Of
the Army of Santiago de Cuba at it's in
augural meeting held in the Governors s
Palace of Santiago. yesterday. July 81
The inaugural meeting of what is de-
stined probably to become one of the
great military fraternities of the United
States was held yesterday (Juiy 80 in the
Governors Palace, Santiago de Cuba, for
the purpose of organizing a society to be
known as The Society of the Army of
Santiago, the purposes of which shall be,
in general, to preserve the archives and
records and perpetuate the memories of
the invasion, campaign and battles cul-
minating in the fall of Santiago de Cuba
and the surrender of the Spanish Army
on July II, 1888.
THE meeting was called to order by
Major General LaWtOn. He nominated
Major General Joseph Wheeler, United
States Volunteers, as temporary chair
man. General Wheeler was unanimously
chosen, and Major A. c. Sharpe, Assist
ant Adjutant General, was elected secre-
General Wheeler, on taking the
chair, said:-I thank you, gentle
men, for the honor of being called
Of my feIloTsbfficers who have met to coa-
slider the advlsability of organizing a So
ciety of the Army Of Santiago. The
rapidly occurring events OF the campaign
of the last five or six weeks have been Of
a character that will ever bring togaiher
the hearts of those who have partici-
pafed.
This army bysits endurance and cour-
age has already won the admiration of
the civilized world, and 1t is most natural
and Appropriate that men who have stood
CHI in rtr
crowned as 1t has been with glorious vic
tory should desire to cherish and perpetu-
ate its memory.
General Wheeler adverted to the his
toric character and value of similar So
cieties which have been organized at the
close of the various wars in which our
country has been engaged, enumerating
the Order of the Cincinnati organized by
Washington's officers at the close of the
American Revolution, the Society of the
War of 1872, the Aztec Society, and the
various other societies that grew out of
the war from 1861 to 1865.
The campaign said General Wheeler,
in which we have been engaged, though
brief has probably been more fruitful in
results than those of any of the wars [
have mentioned, and will certainly be
claSsed as one of the most remarkable in
military history. I repeat, in closing, that
it has made this army famous through
out the world.
ION motion of General Ludlow com
mittee of five was appointed to frame a
constitution and bylaws and to report
at the next meeting. The chair named
as the committee General Ludlow, Cen
eral Kent General Lawton, General AmeS
and Lieutenant Miley.
A committee was appointed to wait on
General Sllafter and invite him to visit
the meeting. Subsequently. en- motion of
General Kent, the Committee on Consti-
tuition and Bylaws was increased to
six, and Lieutenant Woodbury. Kane of
the Rough Riders, was named by the
chair as the additional member.
General Shafter, on entering the hail.
was received by the entire company
standing, all remaining in that position
guished visitor an address of welcome.
General Shafter made a cordial response,
expressing his entire sympathy with the
objects of the meeting.
The Secretary requested all officers
present to register their names before
leaving. and nearly one hundred signed
the roll. Among those present were
Generals Shafter, Kent, Ames, Lawton,
Ludlow, Wood, Chaffee, Bates. Ran
dolph; Colonels Wherry, PeterIn,n, Har-
ries Humphrey, Viele, Carpenter and
Downs; Majors Hine, Baker, Wood,
Boyle, Ebstein, Reade, Miller, Logan,
Gallagher, Tohman, Sanborn, Miley and
Sharpe. Captains Kennon. Getty, McFar-
land, Horton, Terrott, Sullivan, Clarke,
W. o. Kane, Rush. McI<ittrick, Morton,
G. J. T. Clarke, Gilmore. Stanton, Kirk
man, Mendoza and Munoz (Volunteer
Farland Tayman and Others
AT 1880 P. M. the meeting adjourned to
3 P. NJ, August Z, in the Governors Pal
9ce'