The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-27
CAPT. BIBB BANQUETTED
OLD TRUE BLUES HoNoREu
 FORMER COMMANDER,
Many Gathered Around Board at Fleming's Last Night and Re- newed Friendships of the
 Olden Days.

There have been many banduets in Flemings Famous old upstairs dining halls-affairs with more ostentation, more frigtd ceremonious pollteness, but 1t would hardly be an exaggeration to. say that never before have those old halls held a more delightful company than when Captain Peyton B. Blob was banquetted there last night by the members of his old company the Montgomery True Blues.
 Captain Bibb was commander of the Blues when that company was in the flower and zenith of fame in the good old days of prize drills. He has been away from Montgomery number of years Catching him in Montgomery the mem hit on the dinner as the best way to show the little captain" that the spirit of the company burned as brightly as in the dear old days. Hence the excuse for this story.
 Covers were laid for thirty. and with the exception of the invited guests, the men at that table were closer to each other in the bonds of brotherly affec- tion than If the ties had been those of blood. On tented fields innumerable they had slept and messed together under canvas. They had ohaffed each and had stood ever ready to fight to the death for each other. Shoulder to shoulder in never to be forgotten days had they stood unflinchingiy facing the guns. of frenzied mobs. Time and again had they slept on the ground in thed irving rain and they were drawn close together. There was sorrow in the room last night when the roll was called and It was shown that more than a score of the "old boys had passed over the river. Nc sergeant was there to report. ''all present or accounted for and voices which had cheeriy answered "here" in the olden days are now stilled in the silence, of the tomb Many of the soldiers have moved away from Montgomery.
 A letter of regret at his inability to be present was read from Arthur Eiisoerry' one of the two guides of the drill team that made the Blues famous. Harry Stringfellow, the other guide of that team and later captain of the company, Is living in Birmingham, but he Is traYeilng and could not be located to be invited.
 Captain Bibb, in whose honor tne pan duet was given, is living near Carters- vile, Ga, and Is in Montgomery on a visit to his mother. He was elected cap tain of the Blues in 1885, serving four years, and with the possible exception Of Colonel A. B. Garland tor Lieutenant Hustler as the old boys lovingly call him) was the most popular commander that the company ever had.
 Judge John c. Winter was the first commander of the re-organized company Colonel Garland. Then came Captain Blob, Harry Stringfellow, Richardson. Teague. Anderson, Allen, whose tragic death will be remembered. and Captain Baber. the present commander.
 Toasts were responded to and jokes told last night that the public, not understand ing, could not appreciate:
 The guests were: B. M. Washburn, President of the Survivors, Association of the company that served through the Civil War; Captain Baber and Lieuten- ants Weiss and Simpson of the present company. -, "perpetrated' the surprise on Captain
 J. P. Bullock. J. K. Barry. J. L. Barry B. H. Brown, c. c. Cobbs, H. P. Carter W. c. covington, H. Douglass, K. II Davis, J. A. Elsberry, J. A. Fillmore, M A. Graham. A. B. Garland, pr. l.. l. Hin, J. A. Haardt. E. F. Haardt. R. II Jones, Halls Janney, w. B. Jackson. l. H. Rambo. T. J. stringfeliow, John Spar renberger J. C. Stratford, J; Fl. Strat ford W. B. stratford, J. snlpes. R. 8 Teague, R. L. Todd, J. G. Winter. II Walker