The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-30
SMYTH AT HEAD
OF UTAH G.. A. r.
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liam Crome, of George r.. Maxwell post
No ). Junior vice department com
mander Rev. w. G. Veazle, of James
b. Mexican post No. I, chaplain; Jo-
seph Milleron. of George r. Maxwell
post No. 5. medical director. Delegates
to the national encampment were j,
j. Cortez of Dix.Logan post No. of
No. of Park City, with alternates,
j. II. Walcott of James B. Mexican post
; No. of Salt Lake City and William
, Lundv of DX-Logan post No 3 of
| Ogden. Members of the council of ad
ministration were w. d. Gaby of
James b. Mexican post No. /. w, w,
Crossman of Dix-Logan post No. 5, A.
II. Foling of Hancock post No. 4, Elias
Price of George r Maxwell post No,
8 and j, X, Bishop of Sherman post
No. of Provo.
Thomas Harris will be assistant ad
lutant general and assistant quarter
master general. The newly elected Off
GERS were installed by Senior Past De
partment Commander II. c. Wadleigh.
Commander Nevius Talks.
Just preceding the business meeting
Commandments Chief Nevius made an
eloquent speech, calling attention to the
duty of the members of the G.. A r.
of the state at the coming encampment
and the necessity of earnest co.opera-
tlon of all Interested IN the order in
entertaining the veterans who come here
next August.
About 800 prominent members of the
G, a. r. and many ladies were pres
ent AT The banquet. Commander Nevius
occupied the seat OF honor at the head
of the table. w. j. Halloran, Fisher
harris. the newly elected officers of the
department, past department command
eers, Colonel f, NJ. Sterrett, executive
director of the forty.third national en-
campment, and other officials of the
q. \, r also occupied seats at the
head of the table.
Delegations from out OF town made 2
fine showing. Henrietta Griffith. presi-
dent of the Women s Relief corps of
Ogden. and Mary E. Wells, president of
Lincoln circle of the Ladies of the
u: a: h. of that city, were present
" M, Bostaph, nominee for the po-
sltlon of senior vice commanderin-
chief, and Past Depa rtment Commander
Sperry of Park City were also promi-
nent at the banquet The newly or
ganized tent, Daughters of Veterans. |
occupied table by themselves.
Camp Fire in Evening.
The campfire, which occurred later in
t9e evening, was an unusually pretty !
anar and was distinguished by great |
en- @gmIhuslasm and many ringing speeches |
Inc exercises were opened by the sing |
ing Of America by the entire audi |
ence, after which Colonel Sterrett made |
to Los Angeles and the manner in |
which he and Commander Nevius had |
been entertained there. He told of a |
visit to the Soldiers home and the re-
ception accorded them by the $500 vet
erans ans who made their home there
The earnestness of Commander Nevius |
IN urging all old soldiers to become |
members of the G. A. r. was com. |
mented upon also, Colonel Sterrett told |
briefly of the tremendous growth of the |
u. A: X. and the effect upon the ma
tional eneampments were having upon |
Ihe younger generations by the exhi- |
bltlon of patriotism at these affairs. |
ne tod Of f the immense living flag por-
trayed at Toledo last year by the school |
children of that city and the beautiful |
effect produced by their singing of the |
national songs
Old Wounds Healing.
Commander Nevius told of his ex-
perlences in his recent tour of the coun-
try and OF his reception among the Vet
Grams of the Confederacy at the en-
campment held in Georgia He dwelt
at some length on the excellent feeling
exhibited between the veterans of the |
l.
lngs exchanged between those who had
worn the blue and those who had worn
the gray. There was no feeling of |
hatred between the two sections of the
country, he said, but on the other hand
real comradeship and strong desire
TO let the feelings which had occasioned
the conflict of the civil war rest as the
affair had been settled at that time.
Much of the hostility which still ex-
listed In the South, he said, was kent
alive by the women of the southern
states who were more ardent than their
fathers and brothers in the spirit of
secession. This feeling was dying out,
the events of the Spanish war and the |
war IN the Philippines had practically |
broken down the old feelings of antae-
onism.
Commander Nevius called attention to
the large numbers of veterans who were
joining the order every year. He spoke
TWe2ellngly feeling of the work being done by the
OF the 6, A. R. and the Daughters of
Veterans. The latter organization, he
sald, would become some day to be as |
important as the Daughters of the Reyo-
LUTON had become at the present time.
The Sons of Veterans and the Daughters
OF veterans should be encouraged, he
SAID because they were the organiza-
tlons which would keep alive the spirit |
Of patriotism after the last of the vet
Grams has passed away
The Association of Army Nurses of
the civil war was made the subject of !
special mention by the commander and |
he said that arrangements had been |
made for the entertainment of these |
nurses at the coming encampment at |
the Colonial hotel, which would be used !
entirely for the organization.
Other Addresses.
Addresses were made by Colonel M |
NJ. Kaighn, Captain p. Edward Con-
nor of the Sons of Veterans and by
others. Captain Connor said that Edgar
Allen, Jr, commander-in-chief of the
Sons of Veterans, would be present at
the coming encampment. Mrs. Charles
G. Plummer sang "The Flag Without
stain, and was invited by Com
mander Nevius to sing the same song
at the great meeting Of veterans here
IN August when the ceremony of greet