The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-10
THE VETERAN VOLUNTEERS
That's the Name of the Organiza.
ton Perfected Last Night.
SOLDIERS OF LATE WAR
Enthusiastic Meeting Held at A. o. "A
Hall-Fifty-Fou Who Answered
the Presidents Gail Last Year
Sign the Roll,

Veteran Volunteers of the Spanish
American war. That is the name of an
organization of returned Montana vol
unteers perfected in Anaconda at
meeting at A. o. H. hall last evening.
1t is the first of the kind in Montana,
although in other states there are many
similar organizations. At last nights
meeting the 81 volunteers present sign
ed the roll and temporary officers were
elected as follows:
President, First Lieutenant Gerald
Sullivan, Company NJ; vice president,
First Lieutenant J. NJ Kennedy, Com
pany X; secretary, Private John Alex
ander, Company K. A treasurer was
not elected as there are yet no funds
to handle
The second meeting of the organiza-
ton will be held at the same place next
Saturday evening, when it is expected
the constitution and bylaws will be
presented by the committee appointed
last evening to frame them. This COM
mittee will consist of Lieutenant Sui
Ivan, Lieutenant Kennedy, Sergeant
Phil Mcdonald of Company M; Ser
geant John F. Corrigan of Company X,
and Private Harry Green of Company
d Virginia City, and the hospital
corps.
The meeting was called to order by
Lieutenant Sullivan, who had taken the
initiative in calling the volunteers to-
| gether. He said:
Comrades, the object of this meeting
is to establish an association which
shall tend to preserve among the sur
viving volunteers that spirit of close
| friendship and brotherhood which re-
| suited from perils encountered in COM
| mon cause in a land lying at the gates
| of the dawn.
1.-The willingness and alacrity with
which you responded to your country's
| call, your cheerfulness amid privations
and the manifold sufferings under the
ardent sun of Luzon, are written in
characters of light whose brilliancy time
| shall De powerleSs to dim.
ITO guide US in the formation of an
| association which may enable us to
acquire and practice habits of brother
| ly assistance in sickness and distress
| by which the vicisstudes of human life
| too often impose, we have a shining
model in the Grand Army of the Repub-
| lie That glorious association which
! has enabled the heroic veterans of the
| civil war to oppose the iron strength of
| its formation to the onslaught of human
Ills as effectually and triumphant1y as
when erstwhie at Gettysburg they re-
| PEELED the fiery onslaughts of the
| enemy, should in all it's essential fea-
| lures be adopted as the model for our
own.
I'm addition to the material benefits
to be derived from such an organiza-
tions. there are others of social char
| acter not less admirable which shall
| be better appreciated in the future.
AS time rolls on, every" day bringing
| one nearer the inevitable when the
\ lights that illume our road to life wax
| = S~Ftn
| haps those who are dearest to our
hearts have Joined the silent dead, how
passing sweet to the burdened and
aching heart will be the sight Of a
brothers face, the ring Of a comrade's
voice?
when in the course of nature the
noble veterans of the civil war shall
have vanished from our midst, when
the ever welcome sight of their gather
ings, growing yearly more pathetic by
| reason of the inroads made in. their
| ranks by death, shall have ceased to
gladden. our eyes, it is upon such asso-
citation as this which we propose to es-
tablish here tonight that the duty shall
devolve of seeing that the vestal flame
of patriotism. which they so long and so
vigilantly tended, shall continue tC
burn with undiminished splendor to en-
liven the rising generation with Its
beams until our turn comes to deliver it
into the guardianship of our successors
Respondent and undimmed."
Lieutenant Kennedy, owing to his ILL
ness was unable to be present, but a
letter was read from him in which he
expressed his enthusiastic support OF
the movement.
Equally enthusiastic speeches We're
made by Sergeant Corrigan, Private
Green. Private Harold Tonseth of K;
Sergeant Con O'Connor of M and Ser
geant Mcdonald.
AS the name indicates, the organiZa
ton is broad in scope and proposes to
take in all volunteers, whether men,
bers of the Anaconda companies or not,
residing in Anaconda.