Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-01

Union. under the command of Edwin j.
Browne, met at 30 Pennsylvania avenue,
their new headquarters and marched to
the White House TO pay their respects TO
the President
The Grand Army of the Republic with
the Old Guard as a special escort, turned
out about 400 men. The Old Guard was
commanded by Capt. James NJ. Eggar. 1t
was a fine enough day 10 have tempted out
even more infirm soldiers than the old fell
lows who composed the guard, and they
were there to the number of about sixty,
proud of the chance to stand in line once
more and do honor to the President. The
other officers of the guard beside Capt
Eggar were First Lieut.. Fuss, Second Lieut..
Gunton, Third Lieut.. Patton, Chief OF Staff
Lawrence, Judge Advocate Calhoun, Quar-
termaster James Collins. Sergeant Edgar
A. Johnson, Chaplain DR.. Stevens. Commits
sary Graham, Paymaster Hoover. Inspec
tor McCabe, Quartermaster Sergeant Sey-
more Color Guard Lewis, First Sergeant
Geo. w. Scherrer, Second Sergeant Brown,
Third Sergeant Pipes. Fourth Sergeant
Wallingford, Fifth Sergeant -Calver Sixth
Sergeant Haskell. First Corporal Boyd
Second Corporal Patterson, Third Corporal
Shaw. and Fourth Corporal WILDER There
were hfty-four privates in line.
The Grand Army contingent was under
command of Department COMMANDMENT
Chief A. P, Tasker, accompanied by Senior
Vice Commander Thomas H Martin Asst
AdJt. Gen. l.. Vanderhoef. Asst. @. NJ G..
T. l.. McRenna. There were eighteen posts
of the Department of the Potomac repre-
sented with nearly 400 men in line The.
command assembled at Grand Army Hall,
near pennsylvania avenue and 14th street.
and marched In body TO the White House,
following the Loyal Legion in the line.
The Sons OF Veterans were commanded
by Past Vommander-in-Chief E. r. Camp
bell. Commander-in-Chief Capt. Cross had
wanted TO accompany them, but had been
detained by official business and was forced
to delegate the command The organization
turned out between thirty and forty men.
The United Spanish War Veterans assem-
bled in their hall, 10 9th street northwest,
at 1920 o'clock this morning. There was
no program and the members, about one
hundred strong, marched TO the White
House In a body, under the command OF
Commander Smith, to pay their respects to
the President
Following the Union Veterans Union and
preceding the Spanish War Veterans. was
the place in line allotted to the Society OF
the Army OF Santiago de Cuba. The Dis
trict OF Columbia branch OF the society was
represented by several members The Old
est Inhabitants Associations. about 100
strong. Mr. Allison Nailor jr., president.
followed.
Loyal Legion.
Mai. w p Huxford. T. S. A, headed the
District of Columbia Commandery OF the
Loyal Legion. The other members in line
were Henry w. Blake. Col. G. B. Braok-
son, VIM II. Michael. d. II. Christie ]. B.
Leavitt. Wilson Budd Strong. c. H. Rob
inson, Capt. NJ. " Hotel. ]. w. Bradford.
f. A Reeve, John r. King. w. c. Coul-
SON. VIM. III. Mellach. Claude C. Stephen
son, Chas. l. Kent. H G. Jacobs. @. A.
Leavitt, c. II. Robinson. B. j. Northcott.
David E. WEIGH, Gen. John Watts Kearny
w. w. Case, William r. Hillyer Rev. Da-
vid s. Buel, 5. J.. president GEORGETOWN
University; Everett w. Foster. w. A.
MacNulty. Frazier ID. Head. John Walter
Glennan. Capt William Emerson, Capt.
Luther R. Smith, Lieut.. Col. Z. s. Pierce.
Lieut.. r. F. Hill, S. s. Yoder, Al. Hinton,
Electus A. Pratt Gen. Ira c. Abbott. Rear
Admiral John Lowe. Lieut.. Joseph n. Whit
ney, Brig. Gen. Van Hardness Bakey. How
ard Edmonds, George L. Tower, Capt. John
H. Barnard. Maj. e. p. Halstead. Maj. S.
willard Saxton. r. e Whitman. Col. w.
Y. Swigett. Stephen A. Robinson. Chaplain
George Robinson. Eugene b. Payne.
Capt. John w. Lewis. ]. q. Greenawalt.