The National tribune., 1909-05-20

| ford. Washington. d. c.: Capt. Frank
| III. Kelley. Cen Edward II. Ripley and
Gen. Horace Porter. George Washing
ton Post. 103: Lieut. E. P. Wooley, John
t A. Dix Pest. 1875; John McElroy, Past
| Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief Maj
/ Gen. Cyrus Bussey. Lafayette Post. New
York. and Maj. Charles NJ. Loefiier.
The ladies accompanying the party
were Mrs. G.. ID. r. Barton. Mrs. +. II.
Denman. Mrs. NJ. c. Hufnagel. Mrs. NJ.
T. Matter. Mrs. Geo. De Forest Barton,
Mrs. ]. G. Wintjen. Mrs. c. NJ. Miller,
i Mrs. r. r. Ross, Miss Ross and Mrs.
| +. r. Taylor.
1 The time set for the ceremony was
1:3O p. m. Saturday, the 18th At that
hour the members of the G.. A. r. and
| of the Associate Societies, to the num-
ber of 60. assembled in the spacious
East Room and formed in a circle
around the room, with the flag Of
Farnsworth Post in the center. The
great room was cleared of the ushers
and everybody except these members.
The President entered and was received
by Gen. Horace Porter, who had been
designated as Installing officer. The
Rev. VIM. S. Hubbell, d. D., acted as
Chaplain, and read the prayer of the
G. A. r. ritual. Gen. Porter then ex-
pressed the qualification of the COM
rades at the admission of the President
of the United States into their ranks,
and asked if he was ready to take the
oath. President Taft responded clearly
and decisively in the affirmative, when
he was requested to raise his right
! hand, and Gen. Porter administered to
him the oath of the G.. A. r., to which
the President gave a hearty assent. ~
the conclusion Gen. Porter welcomed
him as comrade. and the President
said: Every man at times has some
more or less vague wishes that he might
have been born in an earlier or later
] generation. 1 have sometimes wished
that could have been born in the gen.
Grafton to which you comrades belong.
/ was born in Cincinnati, in September,
1857, and | have only some Shadowy
memories of the lines of blue pressing
4 thru the streets of Cincinnati to meet
| Morgan's raid or that of Bragg. / have
some memories of the wild. stirring mu-
sic and the strong excitcments of those
times There have been wishes that I
could have been one of you, and tho
! understand that this initiation Is some
thing like what in the courts is known
4 as an entry nunc pro tune, yet L am
| deeply gratified at it as giving me some
sort of a standing among you and the
right to think myself in some degree
4 comrade. The generation to which you
belong was generous in its sacrifice and
service for the country, and 1t is to be
hoped that the one to which / belong
will be inspired by your example to
similar generosity of sacrifice as. the
occasion demands. I feel strongly the
| honor Of association with the men of
your generation, who have done so
much to make our country what 1t is,
and 1 can assure you that I shall do
everything to show myself worthy Of
the honor that you have conferred upon
me. I thank you very much for it."
| After the Presidents speech the line
passed by the President, where each
comrade was introduced by Commander
/ Doremus and shook hands with him.
Commander Doremus, Of Farnsworth
Post, belonged to the famous 5th N. Y.
Duryee Zouaves. This regiment, formed
! of the very best material, was fashioned
into a magnificent fighting machine by
Coils. Abram Duryee and G.. K. Warren.
Gen. Sykes pronounced it the best vol
| unteer organization he ever saw. Out
of an enrolment of 1,508 1t lost 1T
killed. At Gaines's Mills. when under
| the command of Lieut.-Col. Hiram Dur
| which instantly cut down one-third of
its numbers. After it had suffered the
loss of nearly one-half its men it count
ed off again under fire, reformed its
line and advanced into the fight. At
| Manassas it took 490 into action. of
whom 1T were killed or mortally
| wounded. 1t lost two Colonels killed.
| Comrade VIM. 8. Hubbell, who acted
| as Chaplain of the ceremonies, was
| Major in the 21st Conn, and wears
Medal of Honor awarded for gallantry
| at Fort Harrison. He is now the pastor
4 of a Presbyterian church at Mount YER
/ non. Comrade Edward +. Brush, Of
Farnsworth Post, has a wide fame in
| New York as the Reformed and Fear
| less Mayor of Mount Vernon, N. Y"
He is wealthy manufacturer of
kumyss, has served three times as
Mayor of Mount Vernon and fought
both parties for a purer administra-
| ton of municipal affairs. The New York
Herald estimates that he has spent
| close to 100000 of his own money in
| trying to purify WestcheSter County
politics, and says that he has done more
than any man in the County for the
peoples interests. Cen Horace Por-
ter, who acted as Installing Officer,
graduated from West Point in 1860,
and was one of Gen. Grants most val
ued and trusted staff officers, with a
rank fIIieutenant-Colonel. He was
! brevetted Captain for Fort Pulaski, Ma
jor for the Wilderness, Lieutenant-Col-
onel for Newmarket Hights and Colonel
| and Brigadier-General for faithful and
| gallant service during the war. He
| was for several years ambassador to
France, and is particularly noted for
his recovery of the remains of John
| Paul Jones. He is a charming public
speaker and the author OF several wide
ly read books. Past Department Com
mander Arthur A. Hendricks served
with Commander Doremus in the 5th
N. Y, and was present by special re-
| quest. Maj. Frank A. Butts Is the
youngest looking if not actually the
youngest field officer in Washington,
was especially active In promoting the
success of the meeting. He entered the
| 47th n. Y. as a boy, and by good SER
vice rose to the rank of Major of the
regiment by the time its service closed.
The badge of the Farnsworth Post
| associate members is a circle of gold,
with an enameled blue circle inside of
that, upon which is the name of the
Post in gold letters. The ceater is of
white enamel, bearing the badge of the
G. A. r. with the exception of where
| the medallion should be, and that is a
plain circle of gold with the figures 10
in it. On the lower side of the circle is
slip of gold, upon which the letters
F.. G. and l.. are raised. Each badge
is numbered as it is given out. It is a
very pretty little pin.