The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1899-02-23
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1t is reported that there is strong move
ment to have1 Matt J. T. Anderson, OF
Topeka, Kan, appointed Governor OF the
Soldiers Home at Santa Monica, Cal. 1t
would be an excellent selection. He is a
man Of ability and integrity, and an excel
lent comrade. He wis Commander of the
Department of Kansas in 1888. and was
the choice of his Department and many
other comradessof. other Departments for
Commander -insEhief at Cincinnati last
year. ie-~fh
1t was believed that the Trustees of the
New York Soldiers and Sailors Home at
Bath had determined to remove Col e. ..
Sheppard as Governor of the Home, and
elect in his place Maj Jos. E. Cleary, now
Superintendent of the Police of Rochester,
and one OF the Trustees of the Home. COL
Sheppard is known in literature as Capt
Musgrove Davis the, author of In
Bowery Reg imen mt, p and other stories. The
complaint against him is that he is TOO
much of martinez. The meeting took
place Feb 8, and Gov. Roosevelt attended.
In his speech he said plainly that he be-
lieved mucn of the success OF the Home
was due to the good management OF Col.
SHEPPARD and the Trustees, and he
would regard it as misfortune II either
the members of the Board or Governor were
changed. Thereupon Col. Sheppard was
unanimously reelected. Heretofore the
office of Chaplain of the Home has gone
around" four ministers of the town taking
turns at minis teTing to the reilglous
| wants of inmates, and each receiving S3O0
a year for the same. The matter was
submitted to inmates, and 900 out OF
200 of them voted for Resident Chap
lain. ThereupOn the Board elected to that
position Rev. John J.. Arnaud, OF Brook
lyn, a veteran, and Past Department
Chaplain of New York, and Past Com
ma nder of his Post. He will receive 81, 200
a year salary. c
Gen. VIM. Nee. Dye, whom the veterans
who served west of the Mississippi Will
well remember, is still living, and IS in
Korea, W hither he went a number OF years
ago to drill the Korean army. He mas
been ill for some months, and is yet seri7
ously indisposed. Hewas born in Penn
sylvania, and appointed to West Point
from Ohio. He graduated in 1858, and was
a Captain in the 9Th U S. in 1861. He be-
came Colonel of the 20th Iowa, and COM
manded brigade, consisting of the 37th
ILL.,, goth Iowa, 9th Mo. Cav, and Murphy's
Missouri ba ttery, in the Army OF the From
tier. He was breYetted for gallantry at
Vicksburg, on the Red River, and Mobile.
He resigned from the Regular Army in
1870, and went to Egypt to take a commits
sion in the Khedive's S army. Subsequently
he was Chief of Police of Washington, d.
c., and then went TO Korea.
Gen. Thomas Moonlight, who died at
Leavenworth, Kan, Feb. 7, at the age o
&c, had an active and varied career. He
was one OF the original Free State men in
Kansas, and at the outbreak OF the war
raised the 1st Kan. battery. Then he
entered the nth Kan. Cav, OF which
Thomas Ewing, jr., was Colonel. When
Ewing was promoted to Brigadier-GeneralI
he became Colonel OF the regiment, with
the late Senator Preston b. Plumb as
Colonel, He was brevetted a
Brigadier General. President Cleveland,
in his first term, appointed him Governor
of Wyoming, and in his second Minister TO
Bolivia. He was a prominent Odd Fellow.
An effort is being made by the Survivors
Association of Co. e, 11th Iowa, John
.Leet President and Peter r. Bradshaw
Secretary, to secure for Comrades Pitt B.
Herington, Co. E, and W. B. Mayes, Co. X,
medals of h onor for distinguished bravery
at Kenesaw Mountain. 1t was during
the hottest of the fight that these com
rades ran 300 feet exposed to the fire Of
both friends and foes and brought from
midway between the contending forces a
wounded comrade, William Alexander. 1t
is recognition of that brave deed that is
now sought by the survivors of the COM
pany Comrade Herington's home is Wa |
pella, H., and 'Comrade Mayes is living
at Los Angeles, Cal. The petition has the |
of the Regimental Associa- |
ton. Maconah Lemon President and NJ |
G. Virgins Secretary, and of Crocker's |
Iowa Brigade, II. II. Rood President and |
Charles W. Keper Secretary.
First Lieut. Powell Clayton, jr., son of
General and ambassador Clay ton, has
been assigned to the 5th u. S. Cav.
Maj. Webb c. Hayes has been honorably |
discharged from the service of the United
States. Mai Hayes made record in the
Spanish war of which all Sons OF Veterans
can be proud.
Col. Charles A. Orr's name has been
presented to Gov. Roosevelt by prominent
citizens of Buffalo, n. Y, as an excellent
as one of the Trustees of the
Soldiers Home at Bath. 1t is said how
ever, that Gov. Roosevelt will make no
appointments this year, but next year,
" hen five more of the Trustees terms
will expire, he will appoint an entire new
Board.