Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-10
GEN. WOOD AS GUEST
WHIP-POOR-wILL CLUB TO DO
HIM HONOR.
Function at River View July 12, to
Which 100 Invitations Have
Been Issued.

function in honor of Major General Leonard
Wood U. S. A, whom the veterans Of the
war of the rebellion are preparing to honor.
Saturday evening. July r. The Whip-Poor-
Will Club. composed of veterans Of the
war of the rebellion residing in the District
of Columbia. will entertain Major General
Wood the evening Of that day at banquet
at River View. The invitations state that
1t is believed each OF the expected guests
is entirely in sympathy with the funda-
mental idea of the Whip-Poor-Wnl Club
the greater glory Of America-hence Is cor
Gially invited to join with the club Sin a
demonstration Of honor to and hearty APP
prevail Of the man who has been conspicu-
GUS In the recent national act-the liberia
ton of Cuba-which has crowned our coun-
try with imperfshable glory, Major Cen
eral Leonard Wood. u. s. A.
1t Is understood that Gen Crozier chief
OF ordnance. and Gen. Randolph, chief of
artillery, will respond to toasts to the War
Department
The "Whip-Poor-WfIT invitation is an
elaborate efght-page affair. printed as
booklet. and is No Of volume 1. the first
number having been dedicated to Colonel
Eugene F. Ware, commissioner of pensions
who was the recipient of like honor from
the club a few weeks ago The editor of
the organ of the Whip Poor-Will Club is
Col John McElroy. senior vice commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie The committee on invitations is r. H.
Warner, chairman: Thomas S. Hopkins.
Brooks, John McEIroy George q. Gibson,
5. s. Burdett. H. l.. Johnson. George H.
Slaybaugh.
One page of the Whip-Poor- Will is devot-
ed to a fine picture of Mai. Gen. Wood en-
twined in laurel and draped with the Ameri-
can and Cuban flags, while perched above
with cavernous mouth wide open. is whip
pcorWlll, singing welcoming song, sup
lonL h
yearnng to swallow the honored guest
The editor says of this remarkable bird:
To the veteran there Is no memory more
vivid and enduring than that of the whip
poorWills. which were constantly about our
summer camps. and morning and evening
mingled their loud voices with our discus
sions of the past and prophecies of the fu-
ture They called about us on the lonely
closely associated with every thought that
stirred our minds in those eventful days
with the hopes and fears. the joys and sor-
rows, the triumphs and defeats, the hard
ships and the enjoyments.
Their notes seemed gloomy and forebod-
ing when We were sad and despairing
bright and CHEEKY when we were glad and
hopeful We came to regard the birds with
something of the the Indians do, who
think that they are possessed of more than
mortal knowledge. and may be the resi-
dence Of the spirits of their ancestors
rev OF us ever saw one. to consider
HoIi IuiiS TIE Oh tHelr De1nS the
abodes of Indians become good but they
certainly had as much to say as If possessed
by the spirits of all the Indian orators from
Metamora to Tecumseh."
"Deed We Celebrate"
The leader" in the Whipoorwill is enti-
tied THE Deed We Celebrate" and is "A
soldiers tribute to a soldier"
Under the head of Things Well Said"
copious selections are quoted from speech
eS by Senators Nelson of Minnesota For
aker of Ohio, Lodge of Massa chusetts and
Spooner of Wisconsin,: also from speeches
of Governor Taft, Professr j. G.. Schurman
president of Cornell University; Rev JAS
Thoburn. and from religious journals all
cOmmerdatory of the course of the United
States.
The humor of the organ is found in testi-
mcnials to the water cure from Noah.
Shem, Ham, JOphet, Moses, Pharaoah JO-
nah, King Canute Dives, Sodom and Co
morrah, and Satan.
The "Whpoorwill' takes a swipe at the
ants in several sarcastic paragraphs, and
is from start TO finish an administration
organ
Gen. Wood is said to have expressed
great pleasure a the honor thus rendered
him BY the veterans of the "old war" He
is himself without notable military record
up 10 the time of the Cuban war having
entered the service as assistant surgeon in
1885. but his course has been regarded as
-four square to the American flag since
the trial came. hence the veterans inten-
ton to honor him.
many prominent men have signifed their
intention to thus honor one of the most
brilliant military careers of modern days
as personified by Gen. Wood.