The Portland daily press., 1898-08-20
UNION VETERANS OF sACo.
Sherman Command Enjoys An Outing at
Eagles Nests
"a ,orrssnondent writes:

A correspondent writes:
The Union Veterans of Sherman Com
mand No. /. of Saco, had their field day
Wednesday last at "Eagle's Nest,'
Pine Point, Scarboro the guests ! OF
mine host comrade Walter Rounds OF
Dunston, who did the honors OF the DAY N
| the most approved style The comrades
left their hall about O'Clock in the
morning in teams.
Arriving at Comrade Rounds's resi-
dence collation. was served, consisting
in part of watermelons,l procured from
the farm of Comrade Owen Stacy In "Ole
Virginney," where he is about to return
were furnished BY Comrade Rounds
from our Spanish friend, Don Carcalltte
of Manzanillo, ECuba, now summering
| on the banks Of the celebrated Dunston
river. From Comrade Rounds's home
we were escorted by the short line road
| to friend Leavitt's homestead, where
our steeds were cared for by legions of
| assistants and attaches Of the farm
| Thence we were ''driyen" to fine piece
Of woods called Eagles Nest border
| ing on the river, prettior place for
camping and picnicing the writer has
| seldom seen. Here we were monarchs of
all we surveyed and number of sur
stretched our weary limbs and busted our
| backs, large team drove up containing
scores of elegant reed chairs from the
factory of Comrade Chaplin Virgin OF
Saco, for our use during our stay. The
| team was in charge OF Comrade Il. j.
Hackett, who is an expert in handling
| that kind of goods, SO we sat in comfort
when we so elected. A beautiful clam
bake was furnished with all the "fxins,"
| including hard tack, salt horse and coffee,
and in fact about everything from picked
cells feet to Virginney hominy and
| ssspring water" by Comrade Rounds.
We were raped to order by Col. James
National Chaplin George W. Aver. Col.
Henry /. Lord was toast master. When
the fife and drum corps in charge of
Drum MAJOR George A. Willett, struck
up with "Down with the Dagoes in the
dewey MORN" who should surprise us
but the only Thomas B. Reed, NJ. c..
who fell upon us unawares, but as soon
as we recovered from the apparition and
surprise the old vets made the woods echo
| and re-echo with their hurrahs. 1t seemed
| to be a surprise to him as well as to Mr..
Croker of Portland who accompanied
| him.
| Next in order were the amusements
after the inner man had been satisfied;
various games were participated in, but
to cap ali, comrade officer Of the day J.
E. Moody, opened his tent and exhibited
his full menagerie consisting of about
everything in the line of live animals.
| both tame and wild. Assisted by his
aids, Comrades Fl. l. Haokett and AL
| bert N. Hanson, the wild show was
| feature of the day.
Among the amusements was a friendly
game of cards, when Col. Henry L. Lord
and Comrade Owen Stacy challenged the
| whole field to play them for ''fun or
skunks," which was accepted by every
player in the party with the result that
out of 40 games the challengers won 45
and skunks, being declared the cham
pions.
Major Orren Rollins was put in charge
| of the water apparatus and acquitted
himself with distinction of his task. A
duet was sung In French by Col. H. I.
Lord and Comrade Narcisse Dubois, also
the "Marseillaise" and Portland from
| La Syrie," and were much applauded
by the knowing ones.
tinguished themselves in one way and
another, especially in the other is zoo
| numerous to mention. Speeches were
| made and lies snapped, but an eloquent
| tribute was paid by comrade who is
| too modest to be named, ito the soldiers
Of the LIST Maine now in the service.
| Camp broke up after burlesque dress
parade on the Champ de Mars.
On the way home we stopped at the
home of Comrade Aver, who flung to
the breeze an elegant American flag, at
which time Comrade Al Clark. Quar-
termaster Charles Harris, Major Orren
Rollins A. Fl. Mason, Alonzo Hill, 2.
Il. Stockbridge and Geo. Boothby made
eloquent and stirring speeches, some of
which electrified the assembled com
rades. On reassembling a unanimous vote
of thanks was tendersd with cheers to
Major Orren Rollins, Comrade Rounds
and others.
The following are the names of those
| who took prominent parts and enabled
us to make this 1898. outing OF the Saco
command a grand success. Walter
| Rounds, Howard Atkinson, Col. J. Il.
Shannon, Harris Leayitt, Col: H. ].
Lord, Irvine Leavitt, Major o. Rollins.
E: A. D. Rodman, Drum Major q. 4.
Stockbridge, J. E. Moody, G. Harris, Q.
Stacy, "A. Hill, G. F. Boothby. A; N.
| Mason, N. Dubois, All Clark, Alarie
Phaneuf and Cadet Alaric Phaneuf.