The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-23
REUNION OF THE NINTH C.V.
AT BAY VIEW PARK AND SATIN
 ROCK YESTERDAY.

Dinner Served by Landlord Lucey Com peIs Retreat of yeterans-The
 speakers-Simon StreIt TOastmas-
 ter-Father SIocum, G. Heaiy, Col.
 FitzgibbOns, M. p. COen, Captain
 O,Brien, H. F. Reyes, George Ruther-
 ford - Business Meeting - Officers
 EIected-AnnuaI Report.
 Genial good fellowship reigned yes terday at the meeting of the Ninth C. V. at the Grove hotel Savin Rock. It was an informal, pleasant and social affair, and was one of the most sue, cessful reunions held at Savin Rock this year. Dinner was served at D. m. ill the spacious dining room of the ho- tel, which was beautifully decorated with golden-rods. For the first time in history the hardy veterans of terrible war retreated. The cause was the loaded table of edibles that greeted them on entrance and which, through the good offices of Landlord Lucey, was never, throughout the entire afternoon, allowed to run short. In despair one of the veterans demanded of MT. Lucey when he was going to stop sending in that food"
 Dinner being over, the speeches be- gan. Such speeches as were then de- claimed, such eloquence as was infused in them, could only be fathered by the trecollections of the terrors, the joys and the sorrows of 1S61-5.
 Simon Streit, the new president of the organization, acted as toastmaster and he first introduced Rev. Father Slocum, of Waterbury, the chaplain, who spoke in very feeling manner of the two war chaplains of the Ninth Father Mullen and Father Leo. "Fath- CT Lep," he said, twas the man who first gave me the idea of entering the priesthood. Father Mullen taught me the first principles of religion and pre- pared me for my first communion. He was one of the very few who were from the first outspoken in their loy- atty towards the Union." Going on, he spoke of the hardships the soldiers of those days were compelled to undergo, "AAhSil AlONV bESIl CliIllIlleLbCu lTQHl lllG life of the modern soldier, and to illus trate he drew comparisons between the Japanese war and the War of the Rebellion. Following up his theme, he eulcgized the soldiers who died of fever. in the swamps, mot on the battlefield to the sound of martial music not amid the encouraging shouts of their comrades, not with the sound of artillery or the rattle of muskets, but alone and miserable, with snakes allfgators and scorpions for compan- ions afterward to occupy a nameless grave in the gloomy swamps in which they died"
 Father Slocun's speech was warmly applauded. The New Haveners present recall with pleasant memories of the days when he was, in his younger days assistant priest at St. Patrick's, this city.
 The next speaker was Colonel John G. Healy, who gave ogpapbis~p tures%of the battieseT Fisher's Hill thS the eyes of the veterans were dfmned in recollection of the comrades who fell at their. very side. He then spoke of the monument erected by the regi- ment in Bay View park, New Haven in memory of those dead, saying that the widows and orphans of those brave men feel gratified when they come her, | and view the names of the loved ones they gave up to their country and real. ize that their deeds will not be forgot.
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