Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-18
ANNUAL BANQUET
Members Of Burnside Post, G. A. R.,
Hold Reunion,
LARGE NUMBER OF GUESTS PRESENT
Responses to Toasts BY Senator
HawIey and Others.
APPLAUSE FOR EXPANSION

The eighth annual banquet of Burnside
Post. No. 8. Department of the Potomac,
G. A. R., took place last evening at the
Ebbitt House. The event was a great sue
&C SIS and reflected much credit on the com
uittee of arrangements, which was COM
posed of DR.. A. J. Huntoon. chairman, and
Messrs. l. G. kimball, George G. Ross, ].
E. Hart. d. NJ. Goodacre. L. f. Gridey, l..
Nanderhoef, j. F. Johnson and T. w.
Tallmadge. Before sitting down at the
handsomely decorated tables Rev. DR.. Geo.
p Wilson, pastor of Assembly Presbyte-
rtan Church. by request. invoked the di
vine blessing.
Following the banquet DR.. A. J. HuntOn,
who presided made some brief but grace
full remarks and introduced the Rev. DR..
Fiske, who spoke on the toast The Presi
dent of the United States" He paid a
glowing tribute to the present occupant of
that high office. He asserted that the Pres
ident Of the United States has more infiu-
ence than any other man in the world, by
reason or the grandeur of the office he
holds.
Dr. Ffske referred in eloquent terms to
the work accomplished by President Nc
kinley in enlarging the bounds of the
United States and said his actions had
given the country place in the family of
nations 1t had never before enjoyed.
The Grand Army.
The next toast, The Grand Army of the
Republic. was responded to by Mr.. w W.
Brown auditor for the War Department.
1t Is a mistake the speaker said ito
think that the Grand Army of the Republic
was organized in Decatur, H.. In 1866. 1t
was really founded five years before when
the Union army consisted of two and half
millions OF men. OF these 81, 900 stood up
to be killed in battle 10000 died from
wounds. 224,oU We're discharged for dis
ABILITY. and when the remaining two mil
Mons were discharged at the close of the
civil war they went back into society and
dld more Tor their country than had all the
armies that ever trod the earth"
MI George c. Ross effectively read a
poem OF greeting written for the occasion
by r. Z. Long.
MI Ringer Hermann. commissioner of the
land office, spoke eioquently in response to
the toast The Army" He referred to
the army during the war OF the rebellion.
TO Its great achievements and then said;
IN the recent war with Spain which
was the shortest war on record, there were
engagements when the losses amounted to
30 per cent. In loo DAYS this nation was
advanced so far that 100 years cannot over
take them. More was accomplished in that
hundred days than was done in 100 years
before. During that war not prisoner
was taken from the Americans nor color
captured"
The Navy was the toast to which Rev
~ DiN III IL moore OF tinClnnatl spoke,
He referred 10 the achievements of Ad-
miral Dewey and said the navy was start
ed by Paul Jones, whose remains win soon
be brought to this country, and when his
ought to give the old hero hearty wei
come. He paid a glowing tribute to the
men of the American navy.
senator HasSIey's Response
Senator Hawley of Connecticut was called
on and said:
I'VE have a right to be proud Of the re-
suit of the war with Spain We did not
engage in it for hatred. We did it to Sc
cure fair play in the world. It was per-
fectIy right for the government to give
orders to Dewey to take care of the Span
ish fleet in the Philippines. Some people
asked: Why did not Dewey come home
after he took Manila? 1t was because
Dewey was neither a traitor nor fool
Besides. he was bound in honor, when he
found the affairs of an empire on his
shoulders, to take care Of the people of the
various nations in the Philippines, Had
the tiipinos done what they should, re-
turned to their occupations in time OF
peace, they would have been far advanced
in that civilization which is bound to come
after the United States secures peace in
the Philippines"
Col. Charles p Lincoln made some re-
marks on The Loyal Women of America"
in which he paid magnificent tribute to
the sex
i-"N+i Va 'itS ~'P'-4''t' NiI'itSh iiSeiI y dJ-
pause
Commander A. f. Sperry read an inter-
estlng history IN response to the toast
BURNSIDE foSt. ne post has, since It's
organization, he SAID, dlsbursed from its
,,aor 1894 1rha, tba denea,9s ,,,aro Iaot't a.
1914 in 1898, and aggregating up to the
present time a net total of 81 $500, not
including any part of the considerable sum
of dues RENTED to comrades in financial
distress
MAY. ). w. To"eIl' Ioillltiiy cHlel OF the