New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-10

| Republic ia being worn by people who have no
right 70 that decoration Commanders who have
sun impostors continue to the badges and
70 use them rs passports and a means for gain.
iHs employment and In some cases, aims
The flags for the Porto Rico schoolhouses which
Will be sent to that island about November are
nearly ready. The consignment will consist Of
about four hundred flags. and will be delivered at
VINO VIII be appointed for that purpose.
Department Commander Wood evidently desires
To see further progress made in the teaching Of pa
| triotism and cvics in the public schools and has
called attention to the fact that the summer vaca.
| lion has Closed and that the schools are once mora
| open.
The efforts heretofore made" he says by this
organization to encourage the teaching OF patriot
ism In the schools are worthy OF communication
that 1t is deemed most fitting to call attention to
paragraphs and OF General Orders No g.
| which dwell on the necessity for the development
OF uniform system OF teaching patriotism and
encourage the system. When the order was pro-
mugated the following comrades were appointed a
s'""s a Ts1S' the 70 b ss:
P1af Sb methods Of TEACHING patriotism and Gives
| l. Saxton. Albert Wander Veer Charles 4. Baker;
william Morey. a. C Pickard . George n. sso~
az n1a noah Inbeitts w H. Scott. Charles A. Pierce
IT The eSmmlt,es appointed at that time is contin:
ued and the Following comrades have been named
a. a., addltional members Joseph " Kay. Post No.
W. w. tbro%okyn' George B. Loud Post No. 25s New
| H. jenkins. Post No. i7O, Mount Vernon.
At the last meeting OF Lafayette Post which
was held on Friday evening. General George l..
Gillespie was mustered a comrade OF tho post
The following communication from George w.
| DE Long Post No IS. Honolulu. Phil Sheridan
| Post No Il. Department Of the Potomac was read
| before that post Friday evening
| AT the last regular meeting OF post. held
| on the 1th Inst. your greeting read TO the
officers and members. and the same was most cor
| daily and enthusiastically received and I was
| instructed to acknowledge the receipt OF the same
and have the'card appropriately framed and placed
In our post
| Il can assure you that IT gives every member
of George w. De Long Post great pleasure to know
| that our former comrades in arms recognize tho
successful efforts we have put forth to assist In
| bringing Little Hawaii under the glorious ana
triumphant flag of our Nation. and feel par
ucuary grateful to Phil sheridan Post a. being
the first to welcome us 'fraternay and loyalty as
part Of the great empire OF liberty. the United
States of America
THE fraternal bonds of our order are such that
we feel that no further assurance Is required from
us comrades OF our noble institution to convince
you that the same fame OF patriotism that burned
within bosoms In 1851 and 1865 burns bright
ly as ever and It with feelings of great regret
that We realized tina. the hand OF Father Time
| had dealt with us TO the extent that de-
| privei Of the pleasant duty of following the old
| flag through the last campaign and again Witness
ing the triumphs of liberty oppression
We shall ever cherish fond remembrance OF Phil
Sheridan Post. and now that the annexation OF our
| little island republic TO the mother country IL ac-
compshed. and noble flag floats so protecting
ly over us; never again 10 be hauled down. we tel
that the last link is forged TO bind VS. all NOR;
strongly In the bonds OF friendship. charity ant
loyalty until called to answer the last rollcell
and that may all enjoy the liberty which tn.
| Stars and Stripes assures us. we greet you with
our warmest aloha"
Past Commander j. II. Jennings also received q
Letter from the Honolulu post w@1nns mrss
they are provided with sufficient funds to invest IN
The circular is addressed to AL comrades" and
| reads as follows: .
States has caused many comrades TO project at.
tempts to better their condition or TO find employ
| ment n what they consider a new country.
such we consider II our duty TO warn and to
| speak TO in plain terms.
This is in no sense a new country.
The only opportunity mere Is for the man OF
There Is but limited employment here for me-
| chanics of any kind or for unskled labor Man,
OF a OF good habits ana
There were idle men In Honolulu before the Ameri.
small business are fully filled and in most casea
| overcrowded. DO not come here unless you hayo
| have the capital to in and-development en-
| terpriscs requiring means.
sDes s snd WH We 20
| the fact as In more than honor bound ana trus,
sincerely that this circular will accomplish its mis-
sion"
The 18th New-York Cavalry. SCOTS Nine Hun
dred." held its annual reunion in Brooklyn
Thursday evening. About fifty survivors OF the
regiment, with their wives and children. met at
Prospect Han where dinner served at D. m.
The session lasted all day. and in the evening the
veterans and their families were entertained BY
Thatford Post.
The following officers elected: James II.
taight, OF Company F. president; John w.
Stuart. Company L. vice-presdent; John Quinn,
Company +. chaplain: Thomas W. Smith, Com
pany F. secretary and treasurer; Captain Dagwell.
Company c, and Sergeant Mcdonald, Executive
Committee
At the afternoon session eloquent addresses were
delivered by Captains Henry NJ Calvert and f. D.
Benedict. Captain calvert said in part:
I'VE assemble nowadays only as the remnant
Of a once-powerful organization, with kindly re-
membranes for those whom shall never
again"
Speaking of the history recently published. no
said 1T is much more cheerful in divers places
than the realities This IS fortunate for US.
The comforts of citizen lie have effaced the mem
DRY OF the mseries Of our life in the field I re-
member that hat, on one Of the sTael nights OF the
wet, cold dirty. tired and famished and bareback
WAS valued at a dollar apiece. heard n private OF
Company complaining aloud OF his lot and de-
nouncing the whole proceeding. and assured him
that in the coming years ne would forget the
misery and speak to his children only OF the good
old times
1T is well that we cannot live those days over
again. recall sensibly the wretcheiness Of our
exposure In the reptile and insect infested bayOus
Of Louisiana. while lying in the long night
watching for guerias We remember how We
often lay in the mud and In the rain without any
thing between us and the sky: how tasted for q
day or two al time from other than religious
motives. drank dirty water, and ate ,wormy bis
cut. repusiye by day but quite edible at night,
suggesting butter. Wonderful was the sudden man.
II In which the warning sections OF our coun-
t.y became reconced Men thought that tho
deadly hate born OF furious fighting for four years
and the desOlatlon Of the South would have re-
CURED generations to allay. and yet only thirty
three years aftsc the surrender at Appomattox the
whole Nation knit together the heart Of
by the act OF outsiders in foreign har-
hnr md he hlla nj he shnOk and