The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-23

URNAL AND COURIER
 shown, they will never be forgotten by
 me. It is with feeling of pride and satisfaction that I can say at the close of the official year that the division
 has gained in number-a statement not | made before in the past four years. l Honorary membership. I would like | to ask your careful consideration of
 this matter of honorary membership. 1 It has been of great value to A. H. l Terry regiment, both socially and | financially. Terry regiment has fifteen | honorary members, composed of the l best citizens of our city. In the last 1 two years they have helped our treas
 ury by the large sum of two hundred
 and forty dollars, and socially even
 mose than that. Great credit is due to | the assistant quartermaster general,
 Thomas Hayward he having presented | the names of all but one of the honor- | ary members
 Our sisters of the Veterans Relief
 union: I feel sometimes, comrades, that
 we do not fully appreciate just how
 much this auxiliary of our order is to
 us. They take their position as our helper so naturally and as a matter of | course that perhaps we have grown in different and do not always give them l the thanks which are most certainly | their due. I wish to take this oppor- | tunity in the name of the division of | Connecticut and Rhode Island to ex- l tend to the sisters of the Woman's Vet | eran Relief union our most hearty and | sincere thanks for their cheerful co-op- | eration with us in all our efforts for the good of the order And I wish to add, | that never have we found them lack | ing either in good will or ability to help us.
 In conclusion I would say a word in memory of those whose hands we shall | never again clasp, we miss their faces at our table, their voices at our meet ings, but their spirit of devotion to this order, founded on an unswerving de- votion to the old flag is still with us, and as the years pass on and the old veterans pass with them, we shall hand on the torch of liberty lighted at the camp fire of freedom to younger hands and stronger arms. In this connection it is perhaps fitting that I say a word
 in favor of the funeral aid. There are seasons in life when little timely aid is worth much. Let us then join this beneficiary society belonging to our or der. If we do not need the benefit for ourselves, surely no one will begrudge a trifle to help give honorable burial to an old soldier.
 And now one last word of grateful thanks to the faithful officers of my staff, and the colonels of the different regiments, most cheerfully have they worked with me and I desire to ex- press my gratitude for the uniform courtesy and good will they have ever shown me. I can only say, I will most gladly return to them (when they shall fill this position) good measure of the eame-pressed down and running over.
 Division Commander.
 Mrs. PIntt's Poem. have a word of greeting At this most happy meeting With good old friends of yore We mean to be most gracious So don't be contumacious
 Within these walls so spacious; Perform no deeds pusnacious As has been done before.
 You've had a good convention, You've paid the best attention. Of course we all could mention Within our comprehension Some causes worth dentention Within your august Forum. I cast about a critics eye And who is this that I do spy? He's occupied position high, Who but our saintly Whittlesey, Our grand high cockolorum. And there sits Snow, as white a man As can be found within the clan. You all do know I'm not liar, To any height he may aspire, The word will be, Oh come Up higher. And Edmonds, from the Bridgeport lot I'll not abate in praise one jot; For laggard souls he makes is hot, A lazy bone! he has it not; A better man we ne'er have got And Cook from Meriden afar, He is our bright and shining star; He's Cook by name and cook by mater; Of meals we never ate a swater, I'll tell you more about 1t later Our chief of satff from Norwalk comes, He should be hailed with beat of drums For Sharpe he is and sharp will be And very glad we are to see He's still with us and e'er shall be. What shall we say of Shelton's Band? Thadeayne their chaplain is at hand; When our good cheer shall warm his
 heart
 He'll doubtless perform we'll his part And help to push this jolly cart. And there is Hayward, quartermaster, dire disaster f we fall not at his feet Ind do as he considers meet Talk of a lion in his den, Ie isn't in it with some men. Do as I say--if not, what then? And there is Caffrey suffering much; We hoped to see without a crutch;