The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-11
VETERANS To MARK
MAINE anniversary
Services Planned Thursday in
Riding Hall at Fort
Myer, Va.
sERPENTs AT MEETING
Philippine Society Gathers in
Full RegaIia to Sur
prise Major.

Spanish War Veterans announce
the following musters for the COM
| ing week:
Tomorrow Night - Department
Band, Albert Jones, leader, at 921
Pennsylvania avenue southeast;
Maine Memorial Committee, Cham
Der Of Commerce rooms, Homer
building, Thirteenth and r streets
| northwest.
Tuesday Night-colonel James s.
Petit Camp. Adolph Graef, COM
mander, at 921 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast.
Thursday Night-Richard j. Har-
den Camp, Clarence p. Brewer, COM
! mander, at Pythian Temple; Gen
eral Henry w. Lawton Camp, No. 4,
William H. Barstow, commander,
at 921 Pennsylvania avenue south
east.
The twenty-fifth anniversary Of
the destruction of the Maine will be
held at 1870 o'clock Thursday after
| noon in the riding hall at Fort
Myer.
SERPENTS HAVE MEETING.
The Philippine degree team Of the
Military Order of the Serpents. a
social degree Of the Spanish War
Veteran organization in charge of
Chief Datto, Companion Gallagher,
In full Philippine costume and regalia
were the special guests of the Ala
bama State Society at it's reception
and ball held in the New Willard,
Thursday night. Major Walker.
president Of the Alabama State So
ciety, who is the grand Gu Gu of
the Washington Grand Lair, was the
recipient of the surprise. His wife
| planned the affair on the major.
Companions Gallagher, Coulter,
Sammond, Parker, Parrish, Harring-
ton, Francis, Cook and Close made
up the tribe. Companions McCaf-
frey, special dog robber, was absent
on account of sudden illness, and
Companion Howard Peter was out
of the city. A Crawl of the Ser
penis will take place during the
month.
With profound sorrow department
| headquarters announce the death of
Comrade Patrick J. Bulger, of
Colonel John Jacob Astor Camp No.
6, in. the Soldiers Home Hospital.
| He was buried with full military
honors in the Soldiers Home Gene
terry by the comrades Of his camp.
The sympathy of headquarters is
extended to the members OF the fam
lily Of our departed comrade and to
the camp to which he was lately
attached.
SANTIAGO DAY.
Past commadner, Francis G.
HUM, chairman of the department
Good and Welfare Committee, will
soon begin preparations for Santigo
Day, which will be held this year
at Chesapeake Beach. The commit
| tee, this year. expects to be able to
handle several thousand people and
have already signed up many fea-
lures for the occasion.
The Widows and Orphans Home,
United States War Veterans Assoc
citation, have secured the ball room
at the City Club for benefit dance
in the near future. Past Depart
ment Commander Mccartney, Past
Commander Coulter, Mrs. Lucy
Goldsborough, Mrs. Sadie w. Coulter,
Mrs Frances Van Allen and Past
Commander Close make up the rep
resentatives on this committee from
the Spanish War Veterans, Ladies
Auxiliaries and Lineal Society,"
Mrs. Van Allen, department prest-
dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary, and
her staff journeyed out to Astor
Camp at the Soldiers Home and
were received by commander Cooney
and the members of Aston Camp.