The National tribune., 1909-05-20
HENRY WILSON posi- ANNIVER-
sAR>MIy
Seventeen Years Or$h.zfd, 1t Cele-
brates With Song Ana Speech and

Seventeen Years Or$tn.1fd, 1t Cele-
brates With Song hhd Speech and
, Story.
Henry Wilson Post, C. A. R.. which is
probabIy the only Rugnlap,Army Post
of the Grand Army of the Republic in
the whole organizeti5hi was II years
old last week, and had an anniversary
celebration. Capt. Charles Preston.
who is Commander Of Henry Wilson
Post, and the comrades spared no pains
to make the evening 4 success.
The hall of Henry Wilson Post is q
, handsome room of splendid proper
tions. and was beautifully decorated for
the occasion with Flags and flowers.
; Lafayette Woman's Relief Corps, OF
the Department of the Potomac, w. r.
c., which has always taken keen in
terest in Henry Wilson Poss, which has
no Relief Corps, added to the colors
already on the platform handsome
Post Flag, which was presented with
the compliments and loyal good wishes
of the Corps. of which Mrs. Emma Har-
low is President, but could not be pres
ent because of illness. In her stead
Mrs. Emma Riier gave the Flag to the
Post Commander. Capt. Preston re-
Iceived the Flag with Iisible emotion,
and said that while q member of the
Post remained above ground the colors
just presented should be guarded and
loved and should navrr be desccrated.
The ladies who secured the funds for
the purchase of the Flag We're Mrs.
Georgia d. Van Fleet and Mrs. Mary
Mangun, of Lafayette Corps.
Past Commander S. p. Stratton was
Master of Ceremonies Department
Commander Edwin Holbrcoh, Senior
Vice Commander Henry A. Johnson,
assistant Adj,t-Gen. Q; H. Old
Mary A. Dow, President of the Depart
ment of Potomac. w. r. c.; Mrs. Lewis,
Senior Vice President: Capt. Chas. Rob-
| inson, Commander of Phil Sheridan
Post. and Mrs. Isabel WorreH Ball,
member of the National Executive
Board of the w. r. C., wera all upon
the platform, and all made brief ad-
dresses. DR.. Thomas Calver read an
original poem.
A picturesque feature of the evening
was the presentation of the colors and
Flag salute by the Isabel Worrell Rall
Flag Association. of which Mrs. Annie
E. Hoagland is President, and the John
A. Logan Girls Flag Brigade, of 12
young ladies'. Miss Annie Butler, Cap
| tain, some so in ALL They wete dressed
in white and carried large American
Flags. Their entrance was greeted with
| enthusiastic applause. The young la
dies gave fancy drill upon the stage,
and when the :wo organizations joined
in giving the L ag salute tie gracefully
intertwined Flags presented {. beautiful
| picture.
| A very attractive feature of the Flag
presentation was the hoy drummer
| Master Henry Moulton Goundie. He Is
a little lad of six, with a round baby
| face and big blue eyes, and looks like
a doll in his dainty sailor suit of white,
but he performs like a drum major,
and is the drummer boy OF the Flag
Association. = 191
A pretty vaudeville performance by
some small boys and girls and a few
older ones was one of the entertain
| ing features of the evening.
At the close of the program a gen.
eral invitation was extended the large
audience to adjourn to the dining
rooms, where ice cream and cake were
served to all. the ladies or Lafayette
Corps and of the Flag Association as
sisting.
! The body of Mai L'Enfant. the
French officer who planned the Wash
| ington of Magnificent Distances" has
at last been Inferred In Arlington He
was buried on a farm up in Maryland,
and the farm was sold, and his grave,
almost unmarked, would soon have
been obliterated. sCotgress lapproprist-
ed money to have the dust moved to
Arlington. The body was brought over,
| or the dust, and the casket placed in
the Rotunda of the Capitol, it taking a
special act of Congress TO secure his
privilege. The Commissioners o. the
District of Columbia, who had the thing
in hand, invited the Sons Of the Aneri-
can Revolution, the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Sons OF the
Cincinnati, and incidentally the Su-
preme Court of the United States and
the members of the House and Senate
to attend the ceremonies and the Army
| to act as escort. The Grand Army of
the Republic and it's allied organizations
didn't figure in the affair at all. Pre-
sumably the men who go to make up
the patriotic societies of the war Of the
rebellion period have no other interest
saved it from demolition during. the
war, and but for whom LEnfant's plans
would have been waste paper.
j A magnificent bronze statue of former
Governor Shepherd, of the District o.
Columbia. was unvailed last week with
much pomp and ceremony. II stands
in front of the new white marble NUM-
cipal Building, and is said to be re-
markably like the sturdy old common
er-young at the time, Ilowever--who
4 tHt DdthDOHe u tear uOWH Ol0
Washington and reconstruct 1t along
modern lines Gov. Shepherd incurred
much hatred for his patriotic action,
and for long time his life was actually
in danger He felt the Sights cast upon
him very seriously, and finally LEFT the
lcountry. going into the gold fields of
old Mexico. In an almost inaccessible
spot in the Mexican mountains he found
inexhaustable mines of gold and other
precious ores, and became a very rich
man. He did not care to return to
Washington. however, and died in Mex
leo. but his body was brought back here
to be buried. To him is due the splen-
. did paving and the other metropolitan
features of Washingtnn But for his
rugged manhood. his determined dis
t position. his long-sighted Judgment
, Washington might yet he in a condi.
: ton where the tides o. the ocean backed
the Potomac up at certain seasons SC
5 that rowboats could be used on Penn
!, sylvania avenue. The statute was
{ erected by popular subscription.
: Marching Regiment.
Il Capt. j. P. Brooke s1st pa il n1ea