Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-09-11
soc!ETYCF BUTT0NISTS
Unique Organization to Further
Historical Research.
EACH MEM9GRHAS HIS SPECIALITY

Interesting Collections Have Bee
NJ, !c of Soldiers Buttons From
Famous Ea.tlefeIds-SOme Recon
Finds In New lOrk-Gencral ttei'
Fay soon to BE Held.
The Society of American Buttonists
a remarkable society with "A still more
remarkable purpose, has just been or
uuuIZed says the New York Times
It's charter members are five in mum
bcr bat they are Lel OF mark III incl
part, Of the world even If tie purpQat
for which they will hold annual meet
i'm, did Eol make them SO. They are
| Colonel Daniel Stevens Of Bristol X.
l.. president; W. l.. Calyer, l4U West
one Hundred and Twelfth street, New
York, vice president; Reginald l..
Hart, Wayne, Pa. secretary; Louis F.
Emilio % West Forty-seventh street.
New York, historian, and Samuel
Milne Milne of ,alverly House, Cal
verify, Leeds, England, foreign repre-
sentative.
The purpose Of the society is to sup
plement history by evidence contained
in old buttons found on ancient and
modern battlehelds but each member
has his specially and each possesses a
museum that would delight the heart
of an antiquarian. at the same time
facts Of historical value have been un-
earthed by the .emlers. The society
expects soon to have a general field
day, but in the meantime each member
is delving in the battletelds of his re-
spective section, gathering material
for papers to be read at the first an
nual meeting.
W. l.. Calver w.Io has a complete
collection of buttons dropped from the
Uniforms II British soldiers on Man
haitian Island during the Revolution,
left the othor day for Niagara on-the-
Lake, where he will probe the site OF
Fort George. There is much OF util.
Harlan value in the purpose of the So
ciety.
Tie president, Colonel Daniel Ste
vens. Who was Il captain in a Massa-
chusetts regiment during the civil war.
has a general collection of buttons Of
the armies of every country in the
world with the single exception of
Brazil. He has thousands of speci.
mems. some of great beauty and some
very curious, particularly those of the
soldiers Of Java, Korea and other
Eastern countries He even has but
tons from the uniforms of the soldiers
there was only handful in the army,
of that defunct republic that existed
for a short time high up in the Alps. !
lie has the original button mold be- |
longing to the First Connecticut reyi-
nent Of the Revolution that was
'ornled in Hartford. And let it be said |
hat button molds are rare even il old |
spoon molds are plentiful.
Jle vice president. W. L. Calver as
EenlOned above, has complete col.
ection Of buttons and other metal
PARTS OF uniforms which he has found
N Manhattan battlehelds. He has
ound buttons of every British regi.
nent that ever served on the island.
Mr. Calver owns the only specimens
t buttons worn by Tory regiments
kept one OF the Kings American
egiment obtained in England of a Gu.
iosity dealer by Mr. Milne Milne. Mr.
'alver found his New York volunteer
uttons on the site of the Seventeenth
eglment camp. on what Is now Pres
oft avenue, in Inwood. He found
uttons of the volunteers of Ireland at
ort George. This was Lord Raw.
on's regiment.
He found the only existing button
the Forty-sixth regiment of infan.
y This find adds to the evidence
the 1naccuracy Of General Wash
gtons information at one period of
le war In his notebook Washington
ates that one of his spies, one rs. G.,
- had reported that the Forty
Xth regiment had left New ork with
her troops on an expedition. Wash.
gton notes that this could not be SO.
the Forty-siXth was Rurgoyne
regiment and could not
in New York. 1t has since been
und that the spy was right and
ashing,on wrong. Now the finding
the button adds to the evidence of
e spy ~
Mr.. Calve! has the only existing but =
Il Of the Forty-secont! hiyhlanuprs
10 fought in til" battle of Harlem
ne of the Srvcnty-tirSt. the most III
'tunatc British regiment of the war
lich left tirtenock. Scotland. with
90 men and surrendered at York
WI with 800. and some of the his.
&c Seventy sixth.
.he secretary. Reginald l.. Hart
rt"d bis museum by collecting Con.
Crate buttons. of which he has soma
y rare specimens. particularly ~
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