El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-10-03
FIFTH SAYS GOOD
BYE T0G0LONEL
Dinner In Honor of Col.
Anderson by Officers
of Regiment.

who left Thursday afternoon Tor
Camp Wheeler, Ca. to take command, |
! officers Of the Fifth cavalry at Fort
Bliss, gave a dinner party at the II
Paso Country club Wednesday eve
ming.
At Camp Wheeler. Col Anderson Isl
70 have command Of q cantonment
containing $4,000 men, according toI
{ information announced at the dinner.
Every officer Of the regiment was
Z present. including Col wilson o.
Heaton. the successor to Col Ander-
son. Present also were the various
regimental commanders at FL Paso,
! Gen. j. J. Hornbrook. the district
commander. and his staff.
one Of the features Of the dinner
was the distribution OF extras OF
! The Full Pack" a paper which the
/ officers had issued for the occasion;
| II was filled with army jokes ana
some comments that init on the
/ colonel and his penchant for 1ully
equipped troops for inspection
The dinner was a happy AFFAIR Inc
Fifth cavalry orchestra under Lieut.
D +. J. H. Bush, furnished music ana
during the evening. played the Firth
/ Cavalry March, out of compliment to
! Col. Anderson: Garry owen" the
/ regimentaI march Of the Seventh
! cavalry. out Of compliment to Col
Selah r h Tompkins; and John
J Brown" the regimental march OF the
/ SD field artillery, out Of compliment
I to Col H. p. Howard. The Firth cav
airy quartet rendered several selec-
/ tions and the band played numerous
/ other numb hers during the evening.
Enlisted Men Present Stars
] The room was decorated with the
l troop guidons and regimental stand
! ards. and a table in front OF Col An
/ derson held the regimental trophies
/ The table was arranged in the dance
I hall Of the Country club and was dec
I Grated in flowers and greenery- All
Z the guests wore fancy paper caps at
{ the table and it was sort OF a car
uival Of good natured fun.
After the dinner. talks were made
I BY a number OF those present, all
/ felicitatfng Col Anderson on what
tthey considered his certain promotion
] and expressing regret at his depar-
! ture- Regimental color sergeant l.
I ". Wood. representing the enlisted
II men Of the regiment. presented the
/ colonel with two silver stars, 10 be
] worn when he receives his promotion
: TO q brigadier generalship.
All the speakers paid tribute TO Col.
! Anderson as a splendid officer, a hard
worker and a Just man. Capt arthur
! Narek. with Capt Frederick r Lat-
ferty and first Lieut. Chas. H Unger,
the reEimental adjutant. were IN
! charge Of arrangements. Capt Marek
acted as POSTMASTER in most happy
manner in introducing the speakers.
who were Gen j. J. HOrnDrooks co.'s
5 r Il Tompkins. H p. Howard,
! Wilson G. Heaton. and Geo. H Nor
[ gan. Lieut. Col. j. i. Wagner, Lieut.
Col r W. Glover. Lieut. Col p g.
Elliott, Maj. Timothy P Oheete,
! Capt F. R. Lafferty. the ranking
I troop commander in the regiment, and
G. A. Martin. the only civilian present
Col. Anderson Sorry To Leave
After the dinner Col. Anderson
/ shook hands with all his officers and
babe them goodbye. He made a very
/ touching speech when called upon ora az
i the dinner to bid farewell 10 his OIL
/ GERS. He paid a tribute to them as
u hard workers and said he was leaving
3 a bunch Of most efficient officers be-
hind him. He also praised the spirit
OF the regiment, both among the en-
listed men and otileers ana 80, s@ld ne
had grown very fond OF FL Paso ana
its people and he knew Of no place
he would rather serve than FL Paso IN
times Of peace
\ Capt. Lafferty. in speaking for the
4 line officers. said they had hoped to
have Col. Anderson lead them to
u France as their commander. but now
that he was going away. they hoped
TO be in his brigade when he went
: over.
Gen. HornbroolS paid high tribute
10 Col Anderson as an officer Of
! ability and efficiency and said he
was sorry 10 lose him from his com
mand.
The Officers Present.
The officers OF the regiment who
were present were:
Col Wilson G. HeatOn. Lieut.. Col
E C. Elliott. Maj. Timothy P o'keefe'
Contains Ross c. Bazel, George E.
p Harrison, Arthur Mex Harper, Fred
I erick r. Lafferty, Arthur L Marek'
Leland c. McAuley. John F. Mcdonald,
walter c. AIerkel. Donald S Perry
William D. Savage. Hugh NJ shannon
= First Lieutenants James ~ Adam
! son. jr-. Wingate Battle, Howard 3.
Book. Howard Boone. Jess c. Boykin,
, Claude O. Burch, VIM H Davidson,
Charles Z. Donovan. Asbury = Ed
monds, Gerald Fitzgerald. Anne Ere
, zeau, John A. Garvin, Neal Hall.
Jacob L Hartman, Andrew E. Jensen,
Glenn ". Keith. Arthur s. Kelley,
Ross 7. Kirwan. Edward c Knowles,
. Arthur T. la Prade. Thomas B. Locke,
. Malcolm G. Lowry. Charles s Ma
1 loney. Corwin Matthews, Charles c.
, Mccall. William J. NIcChesney. IT.,
! OIin c Newell. Callie H Palmer. Veno
2. Sacre, Charles H Unger, Charles
2 Wharton. William D. White, Aubrey
] J. Wynne-
Second Lieutenants Jackson Allen.
/ Russell Banks, Warren J. Beal, Clyde
81 ". Brady, Riley Brown. George C.
q Condrack, William A. Fields. Edward
o Gordon, Frederick Halligan, Seq
ward H Hansen, Thomas A. Hart.
Harry r. Hartnett, Z. J. H. Bush,
Walter c. Heinlein. Emmett s. kuy-
kendall. Paul AIichelmann. Frank
p Milana. Glenn Il. Morris. Herbert p.
3 Nettleton. Harry r. Pease, Norris =.
I Race, Sidney Sawyer. Albert Smith,
[ Roy a. Speck, William L Pittinger.
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