The National tribune., 1900-12-13
PERSONAL.

IL VI INC uedlUS WHICH the
comrades have had to mourn recently
there has passed away no truer cOmrade,
no nObler man, no more enthusiastic G.
A. r. member, than Maj. Thos Bell, one
of the oldest Inspectors of the New York
Custom House. and who died at his home
in Brooklyn, Nov. IS, of cerebral hemor-
rhage, at the age of SO. Mai Bells
whole life was given to patriotic effort.
and he leaves behind record of good
deeds that few can equal. He was born
In Rochester, n. Y, and was one of the
first men to enlist in 1861, which he did
in the Sth n. Y. Cav. Well-won promo
ton came to him, and in 1862 he was a
Captain, and commanded a battalion of
his regiment il its famous exploit of cut
ting its way out of Harper's Ferry, and
capturing LOngstreet's ammunition train
en- route. He was brevetted Major for
gallantry. He became an early member
of the G. A. r., and was a faithful and
indefatigable worker throughout, not only
in the Post and Department, but in all the
subsidiary committees ana organizations,
and he was equally jealous in work for
the Republican party. He was nominated
for Congress in 1892 but defeated after
a splendid fight. When Comrade Jos. W.
Kay was elected Commander of the De-
partment of New York he appointed his
old friend and co-worker Chief of Staff
He was President OF the Sth y. Y. Cav.
Association, Director of the Brooklyn War
Veterans and Sons Association, a SD de-
gree Mason, and had been Master of his
lodge. The remains were taken to Al
bion, n Y, and buried there in the pres
ence of Il large concOurse of G. A. r. men.
Masons, politicians and personal friends.
DIR. H. A Robbins, well-known and
highly esteemed comrade of Washington,
d. c., has been appointed Lecturer on
DermatolOgy and Syphilology at Howard
University. and will shortly enter upon
his duties. He served through the war
as Medical Cadet and Assistant Surgeon,
and was with the I'd Wis, of the Iron
Brigade, from Gettysburg to the Kappa
hammock being most of the time the only
medical officer present.
Col. John S. Williams, Third Auditor
of the Treasury under Cleveland, died at
his home in Lafayette, Ind. Dec. 3, at
the age of IS. He was born in New York.
but settled in Lafayette, Ind, in 1888. and
began the practice of law. He became u
leading figure in the Indiana Democracy,
and was one of the coterie, composed Of
Voorhees,. hendricks. Mcdonald and 9th
ers. who managed the party. Sept. j,
1862, he was appointed Colonel of the SD
Ind. but resigned June 16, 1863. At time
of his death he was editor of the Lafayette
Sunday Times.
The Posts of Toledo. o.. supported by
a majority of the Posts in the northwest
ern part OF the State. have decided to put
up W. l. Squire. Commander of Forsythe
Post, No. 10 of Toledo. for Commander
of the Department of Ohio.
Maj Milton Mccoy has resigned the
post which he has long held, to the salts
faction of everyone. of Treasurer of the
National Military Home near Dayton, o.
This is the first break in the official fam
lily of the Home, which has held together
FL, and mazda n mnI VI n
stitution.
Capt. John Maralious. a prominent vet
eran of New York, killed himself by
shooting, in Brooklyn, Dec. Z. He served
in the 18th N Y, and was afterward
transferred to the Signal Corps He held
for many years responsible positions on
the New York Central and other railroads.
He was II years old, and had Brights
disease for Is years, which probably led
to his act He lost his wife six years ago.
Mai. Horace ]. Hayden, YicePresident
of the New York Central & Hudson River
Railroad, and director in a number of i'm
portaut corporations, jumped or fell from
the fourth story window of his residence
in New York City on the night of Dec.
and was instantly killed. He was 81 years
old, Harvard graduate and served during
the rebellion in the Regular Army. and
in the 4th n. Y. H. A. He received two
railroading after the war, made success
Of If. and about 20 years ago attracted the
attention of the Vanderbilts, who made
him General Traffic Manager of the New
York Central, and se finally became Sec
md Vice-Preside1It. Senator Depew re-
yarded him as the ablest traffic man in
he United States. He was sufferer from
lervousness and heart trouble, and it is
possible that he opened the window To get
fresh air and fell out. He was quite
all. heavy man, and the window was very
ow.
Can't. Wilson Manning. who was the
thief Engineer of the Merrimac at the
ime she attacked the Union vessels in
hampton Roads, died at Wilmington, N.
:. Dec. 8. He was in the hotel and in
mrance business. lie was shipmate
4 Admiral Dewey on the Wabash before
Ie left to join the rebels.
Mrs. Rohl-Smith, widow of the sculptor
f the Sherman statue, says that she will
AIRY out her late husbands designs as
oon as she can secure competent artist
0 interpret them.
The visit of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis
, Washington stirred up rumors that he
yas to be appointed to some office, As
istant Secretary of War, or Secretary,
eing the favOrite surmises. But he de-
les emphatically that he desires or would
ike any place. He says that his paper,
ne Los Angeles Times, engrosses all his
nergies and ambitions, and he wants to
evote himself to it.