The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-19
WIDOW OF ADMIRAL
WIRES CONGRATULATIONS
TO VETERANS.
Mrs. Boggs's Message Comes When They
Meet at Notable Reunion in
This City.

lWelIIn annual reunion n entertain
ment of the Admiral Boggs Naval Vet
eran Association Post of Newark at
the headquarters in Broad street, oppo-
site Trinity Church, last night. An
other feature was the presence of vet
Grams of the army, chief among them
being Department Commander Arthur
w. Tench, of the New Jersey g. A. r.
The Monitor Naval Veteran Association
was represented by Fleet Captain Will
lam p. Holman, of the national ~associa-
ton; Past Commodore e. D. Bliss and
Past Captain Robert A. Mclean, of the
national association. Among the guests
were the Rev. Henry Merle Mellen.
pastor of Christ Reformed Church. and
Captain John4Lawrence, of the Boggs-
Janeway Post, G. A. r., of New Bruins
wick.
Charles Turbett, chairman of the ar
r~angements committee, presided, and
Captain Robert P. Nevius, commander
of. the association, made the address of
welcome. After Chaplain James b.
Murphy offered prayer Miss Jacobus
sang, and then Ships Writer William
H. Egbert read this telegram from Fl.
Eugenia Boggs, of New Brunswick, the
venerable widow of Admiral Boggs:
Congratulations on twelfth anniver-
sary. Regret to be absent. Greetings
to ladies and shipmates." y
Letters were also read from Mayor
Jacob Haussling and Henry F. McCol-
lum, of New Haven, Conn.,, fleet pay
master of the national association.
The association received an invitation
extended by Captain w. A. Holman. of
the national association, a member OF
the Monitor Naval Veterans Associa-
ton of Brooklyn, in behalf of the mon
ument commission and Prison snip
Martyrs Monument Association. to at
tend the dedication of a monument IN
Greene Park, Brooklyn, TO the
prison ship martyrs, al 2:30 p m. De-
tober 26.
After Past Captain Joseph Rood made
a short talk, Commander Tench, of the
G. A. r., spoke of the grand work OF
the army and navy from 1861 to 1860,
and gave statistics about the army
the Civil War. He a S5o,ooo
brave Union soldiers lie in Southern
graves. He said the patriotism and
heroism of the soldiers and sailors was
excelled in the history of the world,
and that it was an honor to a veteran
to be a guest at a reunion OF
veteran sailors.
Chairman Turbett remarked that the
of the Boggs Association were
honored by the presence at their re-
union pf the department commander Oh
the Grand Army of the Republic of
New Jersey.
Captain John Lawrence, of HNew
Brunswick, said he was not a sailor,
but he had been a soldier. He told how
friendly the Union and the Confeder-
soldiers were on picket duty, when
they were at speaking distance. one
prior to the battle at Fredericks-
burg the armies were separated only by
the narrow Rappahannock River. A
band in the Union army played 1.-The
Star-Spangled Banner" and a Confed-
crate band answered with MY Mary
land" Finally the Union band played
"Home, Sweet Home" and in a couple
minutes the Confederate band Joined
in and the men of both armies cheered.
The Rev. Mr.. Mellen said when he
called veterans of the war comrades,
sailors and soldiers he meant 1t, for ne
had officiated at he burial of a good
many, and 1t always made his heart
ache when a veteran vas laid in the
grave. for it reminded him that those
men preserved the Union and kept the
old flag aloft. He then said a coiored
man named Rufus appeared before MS
master on a plantation with both eyes
He said he met "Nigger Jim,"
who said his sister was no good, n
fought and he was licked. But
YOU have no sister, said the master.
"Sistah or no sistah," said Rufus,
I less fought fer principle"
Mr.. Mellen made principle the text OF ms
He said there were three PERIODS
In the history of our nation when principle
was tested. First was the Revolution
men fought for self-government' a
period that produced the great Benjamin
Franklin, the brilliant Thomas Jefferson
and immortal George Washington, men
who fought for a principle and won. The
second period was the Civil War, which
was not so much a fight on account OF
slavery as a test of whether the nation
could survive political differences. The
third period W the present, when the
great test is whether political corruption
shall be supreme In the nation. There was
laughter when Mr.. Mellen said that
of course there was no political corruption
in Newark and New Jersey.
Sone men say they stand for political
purity" he said, and some are called re-
formers But the greatest of all is The
odore Roosevelt, a man who Is a man VIII
is a reformer from the soles of his feet
to the crown of his head. BY the ballot
the people can keep things clean in our
nation. | do not care for the man that
will keep from the ballot-box, for the
right to vote is a divine, a holy right, and
every citizen should exercise ii. You men,
and all citizens, should vote for political
and social purity and so finish the work
begun by the veterans of the Civil War"
Talks were made by Shipman Charles
Morehouse, Past National Commodore e.
D. Bliss, National Captain William P.
Holman, Past National Captain Robert A.
and others.
There were songs by young men and
women, with music by an orchestra from
Orange. Little Miss Madalene Atno spoke
a piece about "Gran'ma," and her brother
recited The Drummer Boy" while Miss
Gertie Reynolds recited Burial of Sir
John Moore. John Caffrey, a son of
Policeman James Caffrey, sang "Davy
Jones's Locker" The women of the
auxiliary served refreshments.