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7ORY OF UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS

or without Applicant organize them into
state usp--.ent. and upon such organ-
zatloh -eiegates are chosen to a state en-
. .ampment. and state department officers
are chosen. Delegates from camps TO state
encampments are based on the numerical
strength of the camp. There are now more
than thirty well-crganized departments, be-
sides many camps In states or territories
where a department has not yet been
formed.
Each department holds an annual en-
campment. where delegates are elected To
the next ensuing national encampment.
where the most important work of the order
is done
Ladies' .auxlliaries are allied with many
camps ana are also formed into state and
national organizations. The auxiliaries are
rapidly increasing in number and serve as
an incentive to patriotic work on the part
of the members. Their department and
national assemblies are held coincdent
with those Of the L. S w. Y.
The uniform Of the order is blue and gray.
symbolic of the complete and harmonious
union OF the north and south as typifed in
the membership The badge is q st. An
drews cross of bronze. suitably Inscribed
and suspended from flag attached to
bronze eagle. perched upon cannon and
anchor. Uniforms OF officers and pr.Vatcs
are alike. the rank of the former indicated
by bars attached TO the badge. \ lapel but
ton. similar in design 10 the ST. Andrew 5
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wheels of the whole convention machine
run almost without friction of any kind,
each committee knowing exactly what it
must do and in no way Interfering with the
work of any other.
Arrangements have been made for ma
tonal headquarters for the president gen.
eral and her staff at the Ebbitt House.
Commander-in-Chef Miller and his staff
will also be at the Ebbitt House, and this
hosiery will for the week be given over
to the Spanish war veterans and their aux
iliaries. The society events of the week
will be a formal reception rendered Com
mander-in-Chief Miller. at the Ebbitt
House Wednesday evening, when the pres
ident general, Mrs Mary f. Gedney and
her national staff will also be guests of
honor. Tuesday evening an informal re-
ception, promenade concert and dance will
be given in the big ball room of Masonic
Temple While invitations have been is
sued to both functions, the ladies realize
that it will be impossible to reach all their
friends, so it is announced that the badges
Of the two organizations will admit the
wearers and all friends.
Among those who have accepted the in
vitation of Mrs. Galloway to assist in re-
ceiving Wednesday night are Mrs. John A.
Logan, first national president; Miss Clara
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command, and it is thought that many OF
those who resigned from the auxlliaries
will form themselves into an auxiliary TO
another command. The two that have
weathered the storm, the Mary A. Bah
cock Mrs. Pealer, president, and the Edith
K. Roosevelt Miss E. Francis Duffy. presi-
dent, have had a larger percentage OF
growth this year than ever before. While
each has good financial standing. These
two auxiIiaries with a membership of about
seventy-ive have made all the preparations
to entertain the guests of next week.
The committees which have had the
work in hand are follows: chairman of
committee auxiliaries to the United
Spanish War Veterans, Mrs. Ida M. Gallo
way; vice chairman Mrs. Isabel Worrell
Ball; treasurer Miss Minnie Roth; recod-
ing secretary, Mrs. Jennie Rudolf; finance,
Mrs. Lizzie Calver and Mrs Grace u.
WOODBURY.; secretary. Mrs. Maud Thomas
Smith, ways and means committee, MISS
Lucille Fehl and Miss Minnie Roth; recep-
ton committee. Mrs. Ruth M. G. Pealer
chairman, Miss Mamie Farquhar vice
chairman and Mrs. John A. Logan, the first
national president of the organization, Miss
Clara Barton, the national sponsor; Dr.
Spanish War Nurses Society; Mrs. ]. Ell
len Foster, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
Miss Mary Desha. Mrs. Bell Merrill Drap-
err Miss Ellen Lorraine Dorsey, Miss Susan
Revere Hetzel, Miss Harriet Eunice Haw-
ley Mrs La Sale Corbell Pickett, Mrs
Rose Ferree. Mrs. Marie " H. Smith. Mrs
Nellie Hooper Barrett. Miss Eta H. Austin
Mrs. c. A. Sidman. Miss Rachel Levy, Miss
Marion Howard Brazier. Mrs Electa Smith,
Miss Lucille Fehl. Mrs. Anna NJ. Baden,
Mrs Isabel Worrell Ball, Dr. Ida J. Hell
berger, Mrs. Louise Foster Miss e. Francis
Duffy, Mrs. Rausch; invitations, Mrs. Chas.
A. Sidman. Mrs. Lizzie Farquher Ashton;
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held in commemoraton of the successful
outcome OF the war with the Spanish mon
archy.
81: is an interesting bit of history" said
Mr.. Hickey, the story OF how the first
body of Spanish War Veterans was organ
lied. l have the original piece of brown
newspaper copy paper which was signed by
forty-odd men. pursuant to call issued by
Capt. ]. Walter Mitchell, May II, 1899. and
which read as follows
"'All soldiers. sailors and marines who
served in the volunteer and regular army
and navy who are Interested in the forma-
ton of a veteran society are welcomed to
attend q meeting at us 10th street north
west. y roster will be on hand for all
former soldiers, sailors and marines to
sign
''In response to this call an irlprovised
battalion was formed. consisting OF several
hundred men representing ell branches of
the service, some of whom were regularly
enlisted men stationed at the Washington
barracks, Fort Myer and the Washington
navy yard These included some colored
soldiers. TIE service uniform worn by the
veterans We're emblematic of all branches
of the service. troopers of the cavalry arm,
gunners of the artillery, sailors. marines,
infantrymcn. ard men of the signal corps
and engineers. 1t was this battalion which
marched behind the artillery band in the
peace jubilee parade. All along the line of
march, from the time they left Capt. Mitch
ellis home on 10th street until they dis
banded, they received a continuous Ova-
ton, and when they passed the reviewing
stand in front of the White House they
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were greeted with tremendous cheering and
and Secretary of War Alger Joined in this
ovation. This event may be said to have
marked the beginning of the national body.
Again, Decoration day, May 30, 1899, a
company of thirty-seven men, representing
the first camp OF Spanish War Veterans,
named for Gen. Nelson A. Miles, assem-
bled at Capt. Mitchels home, which by
that time had become known as Spanish
War Veterans headquarters Arrange
ments having been made with the G. A. r..
this band of soldiers, wearing their service
uniform and carrying floral tributes, pro-
ceeded to Arlington and there decorated
the graves of those who lost their lives
while battling under the American colors
in Cuba or in the fever hospitals Of the
tropics.
"After returning from Arlington about
twenty of us reassembled at Spanish War
Veterans headquarters. Capt. Mitchell call
ed the meeting to order and said: We
made a good showing today; we should
make an effort to permanently organize
Every one present concurred in this view,
and that night we launched the first Span
ish War Veteran craft in the United States.
1t may therefore be said this body had it's
birth on the day sacred to all soldiers-Me-
mortal day.
subsequently several meetings were held
and Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, No. l, of
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national gathering of Spanish War Veter--
ans in this city in the National Guard
Armory, which, by the way, can be said to
be one of the most historic of assembly
halls for soldiers In the United States"
The third national encampment of the
United Spanish War Veterans, which con-
venes here tomorrow, finds that crganiza-
ton lusty youngster, with membership
not far from $1,000, comorised of camps in
forty states and territories, including the
Philippine Islands.
The order under it's presen. name was
formed in 1904 by he amalgamaton CT
four smaller organizations-the Spanish
War Veterans. the Spanish American War
Veterans. the Service Men of the Spanish
War and the Society Of characterization
War. In that year t1e fist encaInpment
Of the united societies was held at ST.
Louis, and IL cam3s throughout the coun-
try surrendered their old charters and were
admitted to the amalgamation. Since then
its growth has been rapid, more than 400
camps new appearing on The national ros-
ter.
The first national commander of the orig
inal order of Spanish War Veterans. bear
ing the rank of commander -in-chief, was
Gen. J. Warren Eiefrr Of Ohio, elected in
1899; the second was Gen. Nelson y. Miles,
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AUXILIARIES READY FOR
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT

ganized with a new charter, making them
auxiliary to the new Mites Command. but
not until after the organization of Mary A.
Babcock Auxiliary, No. l, which is really
the mother of the national as well. Miss
Harriet e. Hawley who was sponsor of the
Henry H. LawtOn Command, "in recOgni-
ton of her services in behalf of the soldiers
of the District of Columbia regiment while
at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, l.. l.,
was requested by the Henry Lawton Com
mand to organize an auxiliary of ladies
who should be assistants of the command
and aid in the relief work and in the social
functions. Tuesday, January 15 1901, a
meeting was held at the residence of Miss
HawIeys father, Gen. Alfred c.. Hawley,
which was attended by the fateful thirteen.
This time it was an augury of good luck,
however. and out of it grew the Mary A.
Babcock Auxiliary.
iliaries were: Mrs. Ruth NJ G. Pealer, now
the president; Mrs. A. c. Hawley, Mrs.
Mary F. Case, Dr. Ida j. Heiberger, later
surgeon general of the national; Mrs. Vir-
ginia Simmons. Mrs. Nellie Hooper Barrett,
Mrs. Emily Lee Sherwood, Miss nachel c.
Levy, Mrs. Adelaide c. Hersey, Miss Har-
riet E. Hawley, Mrs. Isabel Saer. Miss
Sarah McMenamn and Mrs. o. l.. Bell.
The auxiliary was named for Mrs. Mary A.
Babcock, the deceased wife of Representa-
tive ]. W. Babcock of Wisconsin, who was
president of the soldiers rest rooms in
Washington during the summer of 1885,
and whose patriotic work in the civil war
was also well known. Miss Harriet Eunice
Hawley served the auxiliary for three
terms as its president.
Three months later the National Auxil-
larry was chartered by request of the men,
bers of the Mary A. Babcock Auxiliary,
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which at that time was at its height.
Troops were being called for. We did not
wait for the government to accept US as
body, but the Mckinley Sharpshooters call
ed a meeting, had a conference with Capt.
Mitchell and Capt Moss and decided to en-
list as individuals. This we did I'm July,
1899, in the Washington Light Infantry
Armory, Capt Graham, now of the Porto
Rican army, was the recruiting officer.
About thirty members 6f Miles Camp and
the Mckinley Sharpshooters, respectively,
enlisted in the 2Sth United States Volun-
teers, and were assigned to Capt. Charles
Beatty, a Washingtonian, commanding
company in the 2Sth United States Volun-
teers. We were sent to Camp Meade, Pa,
and after remaining there a few weeks
peied to undergo a most severe physical
Denomination, resulting in the rejection
of seventeen of our members.
X
''The rejected members were, however,
given another chance, and as individuals
we were finally accepted for service in the
various regiments booked for the Philip
pines.
Capt Mitchell was commanding officer
Of Gen. Miles Camp. the night of Septem-
Der 25, 1889, and gave sixteen of us
paid-up due cards as members of Gen.
Nelson A. Miles Camp, No 1. Next day we
left for the Philippines. Many of our COM
radeS since the first days of our organlza-
ton have made their mark in the country's
history; some as privates others as Of
ficerS.
September I, 8, 9, 1899, was held the first
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rank for six months and then gave way to
Capt William E. English of indianapolis
formerly commander-in-chief of he S. a.
w. ". who held Office until the national
encampment al Milwaukee last year. when
Maj. Charles r. Miller of Cleveland OHIO,
was elected.
The organization is non-partiSan and nom
sectarian. No member is allowed 10 use
the organization for political purposes, and
no discussion of partisan Iiestions is al
lowed at any of its meetings, nor are its
members permitted to inlC.se or nominate
any one for any political office.
camp may be organized and charter
granted on the application of ten or more
persons who have served in the army,
navy marine corps, in the Spanish-Amer
lean war, Chinese expedition, or Philip
pine instruction, prior to July 4, 1907.
Upon the organization of the camp, officers
are elected. consisting of a commander.
vice commander. junior vice commander.
officer of the day, officer of the guard,
chaplain and three trustees, the adJutant
and quartermaster being appointed by the
commander. a beautiful ritual or cere-
mony. has been provided, known as the
secret work, with which all members are
mustered and the work of the camp con-
Quoted. A grip and pass words are com
municated by which one member may
recognize another.
Where a sufficient number of camps have
been organized in any state territory to
warrant the formation Of state depart
ment, the comurander-in-chief may. with
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Indiana's Oldest Justice.

From the indianapolis News.
Probably the oldest justice of the peace
in Indiana is Justice Thomas B. Young
blood of Boonville. Ind. who will on
August 13 celebrate his eightieth birth
day. He is still hale and hearty and lie
has a record that no other justice of the
peace in the state of Indiana can excel.
The justice has. during his terms of
holding the Office, tried 5000 state cases
and 5000 civil ones. He has married 400
couples and is still doing business in his
little cabin in Boonville. The justice has
made himself famous for marrying cou-
pies in queer places. and ne has even
married a couple having the smallpox.
which required that the justice stand
across the road and pronounce them man
and wife.
United States Senator James A Hem
enway has had many cases before Justice
Youngblood. and when he was prosecut-
Ing attorney of the second judicial dis
trict he prosecuted many cases in the
Justices court.
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Thanksgiving Day
Dinner and Poetry

~ Thanksgiving day. 1898. a company
J of the 10Th Infantry, United States
army, on provost duty, was encamp-
ed In a lumber yard at the plaza, or port,
near Ponce Porto Rico. Capt Francis -
in command, with Lieut.. Tom and
Lieut.. Sandy" -. To vary the monot.
ony OF camp life the above officers con-
ciuded to give Thanksgiving dinner and
the writer had the pleasure of being invited.
The table was supplied with all the delioa-
cfes of the commissary department and q
few extras not supplied by Uncle Sam
Home formed a great part of the converse.
ton. and the singing of few PATRIOTIC
songs was the prelude to invoking the
muse. Each one did his part, with the fol-
lowing result:
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Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
United are the Blue and Gray:
In serried ranks they stand
The boys from north and east and west,
The boys from Dixie Land.
Our uniform Is Union blue
Above Confederate gray:
The glory won by each Of these
Shall never pass away.
When Uncle Sam called on his youth
To drive out tyrant Spain,
They answered with mighty shout:
Wen not forget the Maine!"
They thought of comrades murdered and
Concealed beneath the waves,
Consigned by Spanish treachery
To unmarked ocean graves.
They seized the arms their fathers bore
Full forty years ago.
And in resistless column marched
Against the common foe.
Ye know the rest-how CALAMITY
These sons of fighting sires
Repulsed the troops OF despot Spain
And lighted Freedoms fires.
And how they gave to Cuba fair
The boon of liberty,
Nor stayed their hand until they drove
The tyrant DER the sea.
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The United Spanish War Veterans

In distant Luzon's tropic isle
They raised the flag SO dear.
While Europe watched. amazed. alarmed,
Nor dared to interfere.
g Twas but little war; say those
Who fain would cast sheer
Upon the youthful veterans
Assembled round here.
Twas but little war, you say;
But, oh! you carping ones,
Columbia never will forget
The service Of her sons
Upon the page of history
Their record plainly stands;
And once again, In very truth,
The North and South clasp hands.
And when both 'Yanks'' and ''Rebs' gone
To wait the reveille
And face the Great Commander
The final muster day
When G. A. R. and G. v. A.
Have passed away from earth,
We younger men will tell
About their grandsires worth.
We younger men will teach our sons
The lessons We were taught
By those who faced each others steel
In many battle fought.
ORyILLE GUY VICTOR.
Rochester. N. Y.
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ment. NJ SIS Eta Austin. Mrs. j. w. Camp
bell; decorations. Miss Harriet Haw!ey'
Mrs: l.. Russell: accommodations, MRS.
Margaret Phillips. Mrs. Elmira Foley'
music. Mrs Harriet L. Scrihner. Mrs. Anna
NJ Baden; Transportation. Mrs. Louise Eos
ter, Miss Nellie Becky; halls. Mrs. Armor
Mrs. Serle.
These committees have been vigorously
working for the last four months, and for
the last two months have held weekly
meetings at the home of the chairman
of the committee, Mrs. Galloway, where all
the lines of work have been carefully
scanned, and shaped up till the well oiled
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Barton, vino is the life sponsor of tire ma
tional auxiliary, Mrs Ellen Spencer Mus
sey, past judge advocate general; Mrs.
Belle Merrell Draper, past treasurer gem
eral of the D. A. R.: Mrs. La Sale Corbefl
Picket widow of the famous confederate
general; Mrs. Ruth NJ. G. Pealer, president
of the Mary A. Babcock auxiliary; Miss
E. Francis Duffey, president of the Edith
K. Roosevelt auxiliary; Mrs. Vina II. Cal
houn, president of the department of the
Potomac, w. r. c.; Mrs. Ida ]. Hart, Mrs.
Annie W. Johnson, and Mrs. Ida A. Old
royd, past department presidents, w. r. c.:
Mrs. Margaret Knapp. president of the
Legion of Loyal Women; Mrs. Ella ".
Knight, president of the U. V. Legion;
Miss Anna Roberts, president of the
Daughters of Veterans; Mrs. Ida Bogia
Rowe, president of the u. V. l.; Mrs Jen-
ME Cusick. president of the first Miles aux
iliary; Mrs. Lillian Capron, past president
Of the Lillian Capron auxiliary; Mrs. Liz
zie Calver, past president Edith X Roose-
welt auxiliary; Miss Harriet E. Hawley,
national organizer: Mrs. Kathyrine Wood.
past district president; Mrs. Harriet l..
Scribner, past president of Mary Sherman
Miles auxiliary: Mrs. Anna M. Baden. past
national council; Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball,
past district president; together with the
president general, Mrs. Mary E. Gedney,
and members of her personal staff.
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A W arnin',
BY LIEUTENANT SANDY,

I'm wac for ye, ma Spaneish freens,
Sair braggin' late an airlie
For. by ma faith. We CAB like Weens,
An want spankin' sairiie.
We deem yon Callants frae the North
Ar puir bit bodies, shurlle,
Whan ane o yours-ye wad-''is woith
Ten Yankie bodies purelie."
1 ween. We braggarts o. the South,
wi n yer fume an furie
Nul fin yer faes ar men in truth,
Bath stalwart, strang an dourie.
An whan ye meet them han tae han
In some bit bonnie fghtie
Yen see yer men that Gamma stan
Gang doom in evil plightie.
Some Texan Goo Boys" frae the plains,
Or Draw lads O. Kentucky,
Weel max 'em loup DER stocks an stanes,
An there be ere pluckit.
Now hand yer blether bde wee
TIL ye hae tried tn Yankee"
III wad ma lugs-ye'n hae tae dree-
blythe an bonnie sparkle.
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wv WASHINGTON city is the BIRTH
Nv place of the widespread soldier
NM organization. the United Span
Wv ish War Veterans, which will
begin its sessions here tomor-

DeS!n IFS SeSSIOlS mere iOllOI-
row. A group of about forty American
soldiers. wearing on their faces the sun-tan
of the tropics, formed the nucleus around
which the present association was builded.
These men assembled upon the call of Capt.
]. Walter Mitchell the present commander
of the Department of the District of Co
lumbia, at his home. then the Deaver
House us 10th street northwest.
The story OF the birth of this military
fraternity was told by Mr. William A.
Hickey, one of the pion5ers in the move
ment He said that on the occasion of the
presentation of medals Of honor to the re-
turning soldiers of the lst District of CO.
lumha Volunteer Infantry by President
Mckinley. i'm October 1855, the question of
the formation of a fratcrnal patriotic or
ganizattpn was discussed II was the opin-
ion that il should lie composed OF men who
had seen active service in the with
Spain. but no action was taken because
many Of The troops who enlisted for that
WAY had not Mt that time been mustered
out of Tie service Of the United States.
Again. the evening of Sunday. November
-. ISIS AT the Nltiona, Guard Armory,
the mater Of forming a resimental asso-
citation w@s discussed, but stin no acton
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the Potomac. w. r. c.. Mrs. Ellen Spencer
Mussey, Miss Corneia Clay, who after
ward became treasurer of the national or
ganization; DIR. Libbie Porter, the famous
army nurse Of the civil war: Mrs. Electa
Smith Mrs. Marret Harvey. Mrs. Anna M.
Baden and Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball. both
veterans of the Woman's Relief Corps. the
former to become a national officer and
the latter the second president of the Dis
trict auxiliary; Mrs. Elmira Foley, who
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New Version of Yankee Doodle.

New Version of Yankee Doodle.
BY THE VISITOR.
Yankee Doodle came to town.
He was a little dandy;
He held rife in his hand
And called it Sugar Candy.
Yankee Doodle came to town
With Francis, Tom and SANDY"
''Shake hands. Don, and tell me GG.cG
On what shore / may land ye.'
Yankee Doodle came to town
Nor many words did handy.
I've come to stay, do what you may.
1 have my powder handy
Yankee Doodle swore to them
Tell me at once how stand ye:
II you don't like my Yankee tea,
Then try my Sugar Candy
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~ OR many months the District auxil-
iaries to the United Spanish War
Veterans have been preparing to
receive those who will be the
guests of the city during the COM
Ing week. The president of the District
Auxiliaries is Mrs. Ida NJ. Galloway. wife
of Capt. John Galloway. both of whom
have been for quarter of century iden-
tilted with the growth and upbuilding of
Washington. Mrs Galloway was the
choice of the District auXiliares for chair
man of the auxiliary committees of the ma
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tiontA oucampmert. and under her guild
ance and management a. the arrangements
have been made for the business and social
features of the ladies of the national aux
ilari,s cor the eueampm"nt week
The ladies of the District of Columbia
department auX!iigr.os have taken a great
deal of pride in preparing for the Spanish
Wan veterans their auxilaries an. other
friends. for it Wa in the District of CO.
lumbia that the two organizations had their
birth. The first command of Spanish War
Veterans was organized in May 1899. and
w"s named for Gen. Nelson y. Miles. The
first auxiliary that was formed held
Charter fg5m this Nelson \. Miles Com
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Nail It to the Mast.
BY LIEUTENANT TOM -

BY LIEUTENANT TOM -
Nail it TO the mast, boys; nail it to the mastl
Where shot or where shell cannot feaze it,
Our bright battle flag, shall stand 10 the last
VIII need free halyard raise it;
Whose motto in gold shows this message so plain
Remember the Maine, boys, remember the Manners