The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-07
NEW MILITARY SOCIETY
'THE SERVICE MEN OF THE SPANISH
WAR" is IT'S NAME.
Col. Gunder, of the 16Oth Indiana, One
of the IncOrpOrators, and Also
Treasurer-FOurthO Ohio at Home.

LEXINGTON, KY. Nov. 6-Last night
there was organized in this city a society
which aims to be to the soldiers who en-
listed for the Spanish-American war what
the Grand Army of the Republic has been
to the Federal army of the civil war. 1.-THE
Service Men of the Spanish War; is the
title of the new society, and the plan of or
ganization was conceived by Capt Wilson
l. Davenny, commissary of subsistence of
the First Brigade, Second Division, First
Army Corps. Articles of Incorporation have
been drafted by Captain Davenny, Col. r.
w. Leonard, Twelfth New York; Col.
George ". Gunder ne-hundred-and-six-
tieth Indiana; Col. Thomas j. Smith, Third
Kentucky; Col. NJ. H. McCord, First Terri
torial; Col. William Pew. Eighth Massachu-
sets; Col. William H. Caffee, Second Mis-
souri,; Lieut.. Col. r. w. Banks, Third Mis-
sissippi. This, the primal chapter has been
named Henry Clay Camp, No. 1. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: Commander
Colonel Leonard; vice commander, Lieuten-
ant Colonel Banks; adjutant and chief of
staff, Captain Davenny; treasurer, Colonel
Gunder
A ritual and regulations will be drafted.
The plan of organization provides that the
parent organization, Henry Clay Camp, No.
/, shall be supreme in all matters pertaining
to the ritual and regulations, organization of
new camps and the general government of
the society until a national camp is organ
led The units of organization shall be the
local camps, each to be named after some de-
ceased American soldier, sailor or states
man, and numbered in the order of their
formation. Each local camp shall elect two
representatives to state camp, and one of
these representatives shall be designated to
attend a national camp. Charters for local
camps shall be issued by the commander
and adJutant of the parent camp until a
national encampment is fully organized and
provided with headquarters for its officers
The charter fee at the outset is liked at
$40 for local camps. The funds accruing to
the parent organization to the national
camp as its successor from charter fees,
etc., shall be used to defray the expenses
of the administration Local camps are
permitted to provide for benefits for needy
worthy members if it is deemed advisable.
A review of transportation was held
at Camp Hamilton to-day. All the
army wagons, ambulances and con-
veyances of every sort were inspected
Private William Kane, Company E, Third
Kentucky, whose home is at Carlisle, KY
SIlOI anu hlllSu d WOIlldIl HdHl6Q MAUI NC
Clure at a house of i'll fame here tonight
Kane snapped the gun in the woman's face
several times. He claimed not to know it
was loaded, but other women in the house
said he had threatened to kill the Mcclure
woman.
The paymasters will arrive tomorrow and
pay off all the troops before they leave
Lexington, except possibly the Second Mis-
Major General James H. Wilson, COM
mandng the First Army Corps. and his
staff leave in a private car over the Queen
& Crescent Railway tomorrow for Atlanta,
Ga, where they will establish new corps
headquarters The First Brigade hospital
train of the Third Brigade, under Major
Baker, got away for Albany, Ca, to-day
and the Second Brigade train with Major
Coggswell, surgeon of the Eighth Massa-
chusetts, in charge starts for Americas. Ga.
Only sixty-seven patients are now left in
the hospital at Camp Hamilton, the others
having been sent to Fort Thomas, Ken
lucky.