The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26

s1stness Meeting at Foote Post Hall Old Board Of Officers Re-sIeeted-NsxI Reunion May be fin North Haven Speeches by Various nIembers-Ths Obituary Record.
 About 125 members of the Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers gathered in this city yesterday for their thirty-sixth an- nual reunion. The business session was held in the quarters of Admiral Foote post, G. A. R., in Music hall building on Court street.
 The old board of officers was re-elect- ed as follows:
 President-Colonel Charles L. Upham, of Meriden.
 e-president-Cha Griswold, of Guilford.
 Secretary and treasurer-oscar P. Ives, of New Haven.
 Chaplain-Rev. John B. DoolittIe, of West SuffieId.
 Historian Sheldon B. Thorpe, of North Haven.
 It was voted to hold the next annual reunion in the vicinity of New Haven on August 25. 1904. The reunion com mittee is made up of James A. Church, Sheldon B. Thorpe, Hugh A. Finnegan, Daniel Aekley and Oscar P. Ives.
 The next reunion may be held in North Haven, in accordance with re- quest made by the late Lieutenant Sol- onlon Linsley, of that town, that once every ten years the regimental reunion be held there. s.. ."l..#..
 The business session was opened by Colonel Upham, president of the associ- ation. followed by prayer by Chaplain Doolittle. Then came a programme of informal speaking, in which the follow ing took part Rev. John B. Doolittle, of West Suffeld, Captain Munson, of 'Wallingford, Henry G. Marshall, of Cromwell, Charles Crockett, of Kansas City, William B. Johnson, of Wilkes barre, Pa, Rev. Eugene Atwood, of Hartford, and Lewis B. Brown, of West Haven. who is member of the Tenth c. V.
 Commander Isbell, of Admiral Foote post, G. A. R., member of the Twen- ty-seventh c. V, recited "The Old Cam teen.''
 The neurology of the regiment, pre- pared by S. B. Thorpe, of North Haven, the author of the Fifteenth c. V. regi- ment's history, showed seven deaths during the year. The paper by MT. Thorpe appears below.
 At 12 o'clock the members took trolley cars at the corner of Church and Chapel streets for Savin Rock, where a sub- stantial dinner was served at Putnam s restaurant. The members were delight cd with the dinner and all spoke of it in highest terms of satisfaction It was = recalled by veterans present that the regimental dinner of twenty-two years ago was served by Mir. Putnam, at which time there were over 800 of the veterans and members of their families present
 After the dinner the veterans enjoyed a social time and discussed with much satisfaction the news that the Reliance had won again. The happy participants of the reunion departed at about three o'clock. well pleased with the reunion.
 At the business meeting special refer ence was made by several of the speak CTS in tribute to the late MT. Barnes, who was one of Southingtons leading men for many years,
 The neurological paper by MT. Thorpe Is as follows:
 MIR. THoRPE's PAPER.
 Any doubts as to the truth of the adage that Death loves shining rriark'' must be dispelled as we recall those of our number who have passed away since our last reunion. If the number is less than usual. their value Is comparatively greater @H
 WILLIAM R. MACKAY. Scarcely twelve hours after we part ed year since, Sergeant William R. Mackay was suddenly called to his rest. The summons came August 26, 1902. while visiting his sister in New Haven
 Mackay was born in Pennsylvania in 1840. He was in school in New York city and in Dorchester, Mass. How he clanced to reach Wallingford is not known, but he became an expert work CT in britannia metal there which in one form and another. together with silver plating, he followed during his lifetime. His longest term of service was with the Meriden Silver Plate Co, corporation which he assisted to form and was it's superintendent and assist ant treasurer upwards of thirty years. He was closely in touch with other similar organizations, all of which were glad to avail themselves of his judg- rnent and experience &..- '. ~ . Sergeant Mackay was the earliest promoter of Co. K. He with something near thirty men from Wallingford and Yalesville enlisted August 6. The North Haven and Branford contin- gents came in August g. Thus within four days this famous company swung into the 15th's line, barely escaping as- signment to the 20th Connecticut. Lat CT Mackay brought in others. A press item says he secured ffty-nine men in all. which is an error. The speaker aI-