Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-21

4soOCAt "a. WoOO,
OF National Council of Administration.
ice Men of the Spanish War-were well rep
resented at the encampment. Capt. Will
liam E. English of Indianapolis, who sue
ceeded Col. Harold C. Megrew as COM
mander-in-chief, will retain that office
under the arrangement made at the time of
the amalgamation.
Officers Elected.
The other officers elected at yesterdays
session were: Adjutant general, Col Rus
sell b. Harrison, Indianapolis; quartermas-
ter general, Lieut. George T. Powell, In
dianapolis; commissary general, Philip
schumacher, st. Louis chief of engineers
Robert l.. Patterson. Elizabeth N. j.; chief
signal officer, James H. Nolan, San Fran
cisco; chief of ordnance. w. Fl. Davis, Pitts
purg, "a; chief of artillery, Herbert w
Meyers, District of Columbia; chief muster
Ing officer, James L. Whitley Rochester
n. T.; historian, J. A. WEIGH, Taunton
Capt. r. H. Wood of the District of CO.
lumbia was made a member of the national
council of administration
For Museum of War.
The action of the Detroit encampment.
Spanish War Veterans, two years ago In
adopting resolutions urging Congress to en-
act a law for the establishment at Wash
fngton, D. c., of a museum of war, was re-
peated and emphasized yesterday by the en-
campment of the United Spanish War Vet
Grams in session here
resolution offered by Major Herbert
w. Meyers, delegate from the District of
Golumbla, asking Congress to pass the
Aughes bill, was unanimously adopted.
This bill appropriates $3.50, GOO for the cree
ton of the proposed military and war
museum 1t was introduced in the House
at the last session of Congress by Represent
tatlve William Hughes of New Jersey, who
Is an active member of the department OF
that state. Spanish War Veterans.
BY action of the encampment and the
commander-in-chief the District of Column
bla has been given two national offices.
Major Herbert w. Meyers was elected chief
of artillery, while Capt. r. II. Wood was
made member of the council of admin
istration.
Capt. r. H. Wood of the District of CO.
lumbla introduced resolution opposing the
passage by Congress of the Gillette age re-
tirement bill for government clerks and
the encampment by vote put itself on rec
ord as against that measure, especially as
1t was stated that the bill, If passed, would
result In injury to many deserving veterans
OF the civil war The younger soldiers of
the war with Spain were in favor of stand
ing by the disappearing veterans Of the
sixties.
Lieut.. Joseph l.. May of the 4th Immune
Camp of Washington, and one of the dele
gates from the District of Columbia. cham
pioned the cause of those past captains who
were pioneers in organizing the first camps
of Spanish War Veterans, before the asso-
citation was regularly chartered among the
number being Capt. Percy W. Moss of
Arkansas and Capt. ]. Walter Mitchell OF
Washington, D. c., the organizer of Miles
Camp NO. ]. The national encampment by
vote decided that these past captains were
entitled to all the rights and privileges as
perpetual members of the state or district
departments in which they reside, the same
as past captains who served as such after
the charters were issued.
The Women's Auxiliary.
The National Women's Auxiliary to the
United Spanish War Veterans, which has
been in session here since Monday, also
adjourned sine die yesterday afternoon
Mrs. Isabelle Alexander of Cleveland, Ohio,
was reelected president; Miss Cornelia
Clay of Washington, d. c., was elected
vice president.
Mrs. Kathryn Wood, president of the
District of Columbia auxiliary, offered a
resolution favoring the passage of a bill
by Congress for the establishment at WASH
ington. D. c., of a suitable temporary SOL
diers home. The resolution was unani-
mously adopted.
The matter of restoring the Department of
the District or Columbia was taken up and,
amidst great enthusiasm. the department
was declared restored, and its members
were authorized to hold a convention and
elect officers. At the last national conyen-
ton, held at New Haven, Conn, the Dis
trict department, in common with all the
state departments, was abolished
Mrs Isabel Worrell Ball was sustained
by the national body in her contentious re-
gardlng District matters, and her recent
suspension was declared to have been un-
just.
Meyers Popular at Home.
Maj. Herbert w. Meyers, who was YES
terday elected chief of artillery by the ma
uonal encampment, United Spanish War
veterans, In annual session at ST. Louis,
Is one of the popular and successful young
men of this city. For several years he has
held clerical position at the White House,
where he is known as 1.-The society clerk
from the fact that the duty of sending out
invitations to the executive social func-
tons devoives largely on him, as well as
attending to some of the correspondence
thereto. He Is one of the young
est veterans of the war with Spain. and
was aid on the staff Of COMMANDMENT
Chief Nd. Emmett Urell during the adminis-
tratfon of the latter. He was appointed
major In command Of the ID Battalion of
Minute Men of Washington.
Maj Meyers started on his military
career more than eight years ago as a
cadet In one Of the Washington high school
companies. and afterward served In differ