The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09

Reames station, cutting his way
 through the rebel lines in the effort.
 Sergeant Hawley died several years ago and the Ives flag afterwards
 passed into the hands of Lewis Smith of Hartford, past president or the Con- nectieut Cavalry association.
 These annual reunions of the civil war veterans show very perceptibly
 the decimation in the ranks that is Inow going on. The state of Connecti- cut furnished the equivalent of forty eight thousand three-years men through the war. The total enrolment in the Grand Army in the state at the present time is three thousand in round numbers. The regiments rarely get together more than one hundred and fifty men at a reunion. But allow ing an average membership of two hundred and fifty, there are upwards of 7,25O old soldiers now living in Con- 'necticut This number will rapidly dwlndle in the next ten years, and re- unions will be notable ones that get to- gether fifty men, half the number that used to be in a single company.
 The Gaylord sanitoripm in Walling- ford, which was founded by pr. Charles W. Gaylord of Branford, and has a number of eminent New Haven men in the board of trustees and man. agers, is an institution of widespread interest in the state. While the Tu- berculosis hospital at Cedar Mountain in Hartford has had its ups and downs, the Gaylord Sanitorium has kept steadily ahead with its work and has demonstrated that tuberculosis, if taken in the incipient stage, can be held in chck, if not completely eradi- cated, The sanitorium comprises the old home of Dr. Gaylord in Walling- ford and is one of the beneficent insti- tutions in the state Dr. Gaylord is one of Yale's best representatives. He graduated in 1870, being a classmate of President Morris F. Tyler of the Southern New England Telephone company, and of Professor Dana. He has led the life of a country physician in Branford for thirty years, and is one of the trustees of the notable Blackstone Library in that town, one of the costliest institutions of the kind in New England
 Ex-L Lieutenant-Governor George G. Sumner, who has spent the summer at his home in Bolton, has left the state for part of August. The old ances- tral acres in Bolton have special at fractions for him and he passes most of the summer there each year. Books and politics can be kept up with on the farm as we'll as in the heated city, and ex-Aeutenant-Govern Sumner is a good bookman as well as politician. He is thoroughly informed concerning state and national politics, retaining a high regard for the principles of the old democracy. The state of Connect icut has been the better for years on account of his intelligent sympathy with the masses of men and his inter- pretation of political standards and principles
 The contract for the state monument that Is to be erected at Andersonville in memory of the Connecticut soldiers who died in that Confederate prison has been awarded to the sculptor, Bela Pratt of Boston, by Colonel Frank w. Cheney, president of the monument commission. It is not expected that the monument will be dedicated until May, 1907. Mir. Pratt, whose design for the monument was accepted by the commission, Is Connecticut man, his home being originally in Norwich.