Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-04
THOSE WHO FOUGHT SPAIN
Meeting of Veterans to Arrange for Annual
Encampment and Reunion.
Organization to Hold It's Sessions in
This City-President Mckinley
to Deliver Address.

There will be meeting this evening at
| 1870 o'clock, at the Central Armory Drill
( Hall Of the District National Guard. of Of
| ficers and privates who served in the
| United States volunteer army during tho
| war with Spain. for the purpose of electing
! committees and making other arrange
ments for the coming session in this city
| of the first annual encampment and
! union of the Spanish American War Vol
unteer Association. This encampment and
| reunion will be held at the Central Armory
| Drill hall Friday and Saturday, the Sth and
9th instants, and it is expected that dele
gates from about every state and territory
| in the Union will attend. District Commits
| soner John w. Ross will be invited to
welcome the delegates, and President Nc
kinley has promised to address them
| To the meeting this evening all who
served in the volunteer army during the
| war with Spain are invited. and 1t is ex-
| pected the meeting will be largely attended.
| In the call for the encampment. the OBJ
| jectS of the organization. which is de-
scribed as "a grand patriotic fraterno-
beneficial society, or a grand army of 1898.
are stated to be, among others, the wiping
out of sectionaism in the land, the promo
ton of closer fraternal relations. the fos-
tering of more unselfish patriotism and
the corporate effort TO secure the enact
ment of legislation. in state and nation, in
the interests of soldiers, the army and
navy generally.
Qualifications for Membership.
The qualifications for membership set
forth in the call for the encampment as
follows:
EVERY officer, army or navy, commits
stoned between the date of declaration OF
war with Spain and the signing of the
treaty of peace. and every enlisted man
who has been mustered out of service shall
be eligible to membership in the organiza-
ton. Dishonorable discharge from any
branch of the service shall be bar to
membership
time Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives, is the commander-in- chief of the or
ganiZation. having succeeded Gen. Joe
Wheeler such. when the latter resigned
the Office upon his departure for duty in the
Philippines. The aGjutant general is VIM.
Christopher Liller of Lancaster Pa.
A recent order designated the department
commanders and council of administration
as follows:
Department commanders-Pennsylv ania,
Brig Gen. John A. Wiley; District of CO.
Col George L. Pittenger; Michigan, Col. c.
l.. Boynton; Iowa, Col. William b. Hum
phrey: New Jersey. Col. Edwin w. Hine:
Delaware. Col Theodore Townsend; Vir-
ginia. Col. George w. Taylor; Wisconsin.
Col. Martin r. Moore; North Carolina, Col.
w. H. S. Burgwyn: South Carolina. Col.
James H. Tllman; Florida, Col. Charles P.
Lowell: West Virginia, Col d. T. f. Cas-
teel; Nebraska, Col. John p Bratt Ten
nessee Col James P Fyffe Arkansas Col
Virgil Y. Cook; Alabama, Col. f. L. Hig-
don: Texas, Col l. NJ 0ppenheimer; Mon
tana. Col Charles F. Lloyd.
Council of administration--Col. Milton
Moore. Kansas City, Mo. Col. James w
Cox. Mobile. Ala; Col. James B. Coryell
Wiliamsport. Pa: Col Wendell p. Bow
man. Philadelphia, Pa; Col. William j.
Glenn, Pittsburg, Pa; Maj. c. S. w Jones
Tyrone, Pa; Capt. Champe S. Andrews, 81
Williams street, New York: Capt. Chas S.
Wood. 464 City Hall. Philadelphia. Pa.