The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-06-23
Inn nse Army Attends the
State G. A. R. Encamp-
ment at Trenton.
LIST OF OLD COMMANDERS
Parades. Speeches and Sight-
seeing Yesterday Elec.
ton Today.
LIST OF OLD COMMANDERS

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TRENTON, June %, 19o5.-The thir-
ty-eighth annual encampment Of the New
jersey Department, Grand Army of the
Republic, began yesterday morning when
at 10 o'clock Commander James NJ. At
wood. Of Trenton. mounted the rostrum
in Masonic Hall and opened the order Of
business.
department Commander James At
wood. in his annual report to the encamp-
ment set forth some interesting facts
touching upon the history of the New
Jersey organization during the past year.
Among other things the report says:
While some Of our posts have dis
banded, the membership of the depart
ment is in satisfactory condition. The
losses on account of death have become
quite numerous, as. in the fight of time,
must be expected. The returns for the
year ending December 81. 1904 show
that we have sustained net loss from
all causes of 235 comrades.
1T has been my pleasure to visit the
Kearny and the yineland homes, and l
can truly say they are really homes in
every sense Of the word. found the
management complete and the inmates
happy and eontented.'
1t was estimated at noon that over
$500 veterans Of the 5000 Of the State
were here to do honor to the great day
and the yarns that the old fellows spun
We're only rivalled by those told by the
younger veterans.
AT II o'clock the Woman's Relief
Corps held its annual meeting in Aaron
Wilkes Post rooms, but did not elect
officers. This viii be done tomorrow
morning. At the same hour the Indies
of the G. a. r., Department of New
Jersey, held their meeting in Bayard
Post rooms. They also win elect oficrs
tomorrow.
At o'clock the annual parade Of vet
Grams was held. with Quartermaster-
General C. Edward Murray grand mar
shal for the first time IN his military
career. Besides the G. A. r. posts in
line, the Trenton battalion, Second Regi-
ment, National Guard, paraded under
the command Of General Forman. The
two camps Of the Spanish American
War veterans. the Patriotic Order. Sons
of America, turned out. and The whole
procession was over a mile long.
In the evening in Taylor Opera House
Governor Stokes made the address of
welcome for the State of New Jersey
and Mayor Frank S. Katzenbach of
Trenton gave the veterans the keys of
the city. The other speakers at this
camp FIRE were Comrades Adam King.
of Maryland, Sons of Veterans comman-
der-in-chief, and General Thomas j.
Stewart. provisional commander of the
Grand Army, Department of Pennsyl-
vania.
During the afternoon there. was band
concert for the veterans in Cadwalader
Park.
Great crowds gathered at the State
House, where the adjutant generals de-
partment did itself proud by a fine dis
play Of war relics and curios. A detail
Of sixteen men under sergeant from
the Second Regiment guarded this ex-
hibit, which was in the rotunda Of the
State House.
The department commanders of New
Jersey from the foundation of the depart
rnent to the present time have been: E..
Jardine. Post ,, Newark. 1868: William
Ward Post II, Newark. 1s69-T0; Rich
ard H Lee. Post ). Camden. 1ST1-72. all
deceased: ]. r. Goble, Post 10, Hoboken.
1873. removed from department; Charles
Burrows. Post %. Paterson. 1S74-T5, liv-
ing; e. W Davis, Post Il, Newark,
1876. living j. Mueller. Post 81 New
ark. 1S7Ts7s. deceased: Samuel Hufty,
Post 5. Camden, 1879, alive: George w.