The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-04-28
THE GRAND HRMY.
What Veterans Are Doing for the
Good of the Order.
NEW YORK NOTES.


Commander Albert ID. Shaw announces
that the 32d annual Encampment of the
NewYork Department will convene at
Utica, May IS, and remain in session two
days. A progra OF exceptional attractive
ness is being arranged, and in view OF the
central location it is believed that the
meeting will be very largely attended, and
prove an occasion of great enjoyment to
the veterans and their families. The rail
roads of the State have acted very gener-
ously, and for the first time have granted
ono fare rae for the round trip.
The thanks of the New York Department
are extended to Gov. Black by Commander
Shaw for the consideration of the rights of
the veterans which has marked his ad-
ministration. The Governor has ordered
the reinstatement of old soldiers dropped
from the public service, and has shown his
Willingness to consider pleas for pardon,
in worthy cases, where it was Just and
right To extend executive ciemency to
veterans who had fallen under the penalty
of broken laws.
The Department Commander is cratified
to be able to announce that bill in be
half of promoting patriotic exercises IN the
public schools was passed at the late SeS-
sion of the Legislature. giving the Superin-
tcndent of Public Instruction authority TO
developc q proper system of culture along
was also provided to duly develops this
most important work. Thus promptly the
able laborS of the Committee on Patriotic
Teaching and Civics is rewarded by hav-
ing their recommendations fully accepted
and adopted by the State, and provisions
made for carrying them Out-reSuitS that
will cheer every comrade in this Depart
ment.
DEPARTMENT DOINGs.
James O'Donnell will be presented at
the Illinois Encampment as Il candidate
for Department Commander by Gen. George
A. Custer Post, 40, Chicago, W. j. Smith
Commander. His service is given as fol
lows in IL circular letter issued by the
Post: "Comrade O'Donnell enlisted Apri
Is, 1851, in Co. a, It'll ILL.,, and served with
his company until July 8, 1865. He TOOK
part in all the bloody engagements of this
raIlant command. He was wounded al
Shiloh, and lost his right eye at AlIatoon;
Pass. where Gen. Corse held the fort. He
was the first man in the regiment to buy
16-shoOter paying So out OF his own pocket,
az did all members of the regiment except
four He has represented the Department
at the National Encampment every year
except one since 1888 No work ever as
signed him has been neglected. Though
in moderate circumstances, no comrade
has ever appealed to him ,n vain for assist
ance."
The 10Th annual Encampment of the
DEPARTMENT of Indiana will convene at
Columbus, May Is. Commander-in-Ch Chief
Goblin and his staff will be present. A
rate of one cent per mile each way has
been granted by the Central Traffic Asso-
citation.
$. V. C. John W. Tingle, J. V. c. Daniel
White, Asst Adi't-Gen. r. NJ. Smock,
Department Inspector Amos X. Waiter,
Chief Mastering Officer VIM. ID. McCul-
Tough. Color Bearer James ID. Braden,
Elder Cooper, Lee l.. Martz and James II.
Mitchell have been announced as Com
mittee on Credentials by Commander
Dodge.
Mai. Leonard Post, 1853, Department of
Missouri, Higbee, Mo, has passed resoiu-
tons expressing confidence in COnsul-Gen-
eral Lee. and thanking him for his serv-
ices in guarding American rights and in
terests in Cuba. They extend to him the
greeting Of the "boys in blue throughout
Missouri.
Regarding Memorial Day, Commander
Charles W. Keeling, of the Department of
Louisiana and Mississippi, in General Or
ders says: "At this period when the peace
of our happy land is again threatened with
the calamitieS of war, the remembrance OF
the brave men whose strong and SteadfaSt
attachment to country caused them 10
| freely give their lives 1OI 81
dearly loved, will act as q holy inspiration
to fire the hearts of the young men OF our
Nation to patriotic acts and heroic deeds in
defense of our National honor. Let us re-
main ever faithful to the sacred trust
placed in our charge and continue true to
the beautiful custom observed by us dur
ing the past few years, in having the flag
of our country mark the resting place OF
every one of the nearly $4,000 hOnOred
heroes located within the limits of the De-
partment of Louisiana and Mississippi"
Commander w. ID. StaufTer urges upon
Pennsylvania comrades proper observ
ance of Memorial Day. He says in part:
Our Memorial Day is not a day for sack
cloth and ashes; it is not a day for mourn
ing or for fasting, nor should it be a day
devoted by any patriotic American to
frivolous festivities or to holiday paStimes.
1t is "a day for the flag, for flowers, for
music. for patriotism, u day for cOmmuning
with the dead who died that the Nation
might live for the dead who offered all that
they had that this Nation might not perish
from off the earth" The success attending
the visits to the public schools by com
rades on the sonOolday preceding May 30
has been so great that a continuance of
the custom is urged. Commander Staulfer