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The word and work of the members of the city government, from the mayor onwards, and from all who could not go away to the war, indeed, were part of the mainstay of the soldier. The big-hearted mayor, Hon. E. P. Buffinton, was the spirit of Fall River personified, directing affairs as he did, and typical war mayor as he was throughout the conflict.
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A staunch supporter of the Union, and friend to people in all walks of life, his influence wrought for the advancement and success of every home movement for the men in all branches of the service. And he had such true and tried men to stand by him as George H. Eddy, Nathaniel B. Borden, Asa Pettey, Jr., John Mason, Jr., James Ford, Job B. Ashley, Joseph Borden, Samuel Hathaway, Benjamin Covel, Charles O. Shove, Walter Paine (3rd), Weaver Osborn, Joshua Remington, Daniel Stillwell, Philip D. Borden. There were men in Congress, too, and in all the pro- fessions, who were dependable for whatever requests were made to them for aid in emergencies or in the ordinary calls for help. Such a man was Hon. James Buffinton, who enlisted as a private in Company A, and would never accept office, marching in its ranks and sharing the soldiers' fare. He was unbounded in his sympathies for the ordinary enlisted man. He had sprung from Quaker stock, but there was no more gigantic fighter in the Union cause than he.
Colonel Richard Borden, too, was to be relied upon at any demand of the hour. Great of influence, he shared liberally from beginning to end of the war, not alone with his valued counsel and direction, but his financial aid was whole-hearted. As agent of the steamboat company, he was no slacker when the government demanded the use of the boats in the service. Orators of the day here were such men as Rev. Eli Thurston and Rev. P. B. Haughwout. Rev. Father Edward Murphy, and other clergymen were champion defenders of the union cause.
The women of Fall River are to be accounted as among the earliest in New England to gather together and plan for the comfort and relief of the soldier in camp and field, for on April 27, 1861, they had organized a sewing society, the result of whose work cannot be totalled in any set of figures. Day and evening they worked, receiving thousands of dollars in cash which they disbursed in garments of all kinds, in uniforms, in bandages and lint, to the end that many a soldier in hospital and maimed and sick from battle received the benefits. They held fairs and donation parties, and a children's lint-making society was organized by them. Their president was Mrs. Richard Borden; their vice-president, Mrs. Avis Ames; their secretary, Miss A. C. G. Canedy. Others prominent in their work were Miss Caroline Borden, the treasurer; Mrs. William Munday, Mrs. S. Angier Chase, Mrs. Mary A. Brayton, Mrs. Mary Young, Mrs. Foster Hooper, Mrs. Mary Durfee.
The Spanish-American War .- With the succession of preponderant events, the present generation and a new régime hears only as a faint and far-off call that once popular warning, "Remember the Maine". Upon the sinking of that battleship in the harbor of Havana, the three words almost at once became a battle-cry that persisted to and long after the declara- tion of war. The cry lost nothing in its adoption in Fall River. It was one with the response to the summons of the President, William McKinley, when Battery M answered by land and the men of Company F by sea, their purpose being in agreement with that of the war leaders of the time ---- the democratization of the islands of the sea. It was on April 25, 1898, when the United States declared war against Spain. Fall River marched into line with characteristic steadiness and devotion, prepared to do service for the republic by means of her patriotic sons. Captain Sierra Leone
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Braley was the man of the hour in the business of strengthening the courage of Battery M by his own ready example; and when' orders were received here for the assembly of his command the reply was unanimous, as in the case of the first companies in 1861. In fact, the word was broad- casted, and hardly an hour had elapsed before every man was at his post, and answering the roll-call. The promptness with which Fall River men relinquished their civic duties to assume those of the State military, was fully equal to that reported in history of the local Revolutionary soldiers. In that regard, at least, the Spanish War occurrence and person- nel in Fall River, as well as everywhere else has not been accorded suf- ficiency of praise.
The Spanish-American War volunteers stood ready at command, and the first thing on the morning of April 26, the men were off for Fort Warren, and with a generous send-off on the part of the city. They were on the frontier for military duty, wherever the latter might call them. On May 9, Battery M was mustered into the service of the United States for two years, forming as it did a part of the mustering-in of the first volunteer regiment in the country. Major James A. Frye, who has written a book descriptive of the part Massachusetts companies shared in the war, was the commandant at Fort Warren. There the company re- mained until September 19, when at the close of the war, it was mustered out of the service, their Federal duty ending November 14. Company I, one of the four companies organized at this period of the beginning of the Spanish-American War, was formed May 25, 1898, as a reserve com- pany, just one month after the declaration of war. But as a whole, this company was not summoned into active service. The men of Company F Naval Brigade, which had been organized September 30, 1892, formed members of the crew of the "Prairie" and the "Lehigh," and a number of other vessels. The "Lehigh" was attached to the Northern Patrol fleet, and the "Prairie" was one of the blockade ships in Cuban and Porto Rican waters. The "Prairie" men from Fall River, thirty in number, reported the day before the declaration of war at the Brooklyn navy yard, the order to do so having been given by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roose- velt. Lynwood French, a member of this detachment, died of disease while in the service.
The muster-roll of Battery M, Fall River, was as follows: Captain, Sierra L. Braley; First Lieutenant, David Fuller; Second Lieutenant, Frederick W. Harrison; First Sergeant, George E. Potter; Sergeants: Arnold B. Sanford, James F. McAdams, Richard H. Booth, Arthur F. Sim- mons; Corporals: Edward H. Pilkington, James M. Whitehead, James H. Bentley, Frederick E. Durfee, William B. Wilcox, Elmer W. Mitchell; Mess Corporal, George Marsden; Musician, John Lee; Privates, James H. Almond, James E. Bailey, George Bradbury, Charles Bridges, Thomas Broughton, John Buckley, Zedekiah Buckley, Thomas J. Chippendale, Hugh Dale, William H. Darke, Elmer F. Davis, Henry A. Destremps, Nelson B. Durfee, Myron O. Eldredge, Ernest E. Ely, Edwin B. Fish, Frank R. Fiske, Henry Graham, Paul Harrison, John E. Henshaw, Joseph A. Heywood, James H. Horan, Frederick Horsman, John F. Hughes, John J. Lindsey, Frederick R. H. Linsley, Frank W. C. Littlefield, Thomas J. McGlynn, Jerome G. McGraw, Thomas Murphy, John Rigby, John T.
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Robinson, Alvin C. Sanford, Joseph H. M. Sharples, Ernest L. Simmons, Harry A. Skinner, Hyman Smolensky, Lester H. Smolensky, William - B. Squire, Theodore F. Stevens, Edward A. Thurston, William Waterworth, William A. Wiseman, Richard Wood.
CHAPTER V.
FALL RIVER IN WORLD WAR.
Fall River, throughout its length and breadth, rose as one great patri- otic family to a splendid occasion when, on April 6, 1917, this country entered with the allies upon the war against Germany. Taught not only of the unswerving regularity of her many thousands of looms and machines, but better still, of the unison that has always distinguished every patriotic and philanthropic enterprise of her citizens, Fall River at once marshalled and aligned an unconquerable force of system and method in every military plan considered, in all war work undertaken, so that both at home and abroad "Fall River First" became a catch-phrase that never had cause to be spoken in jest. At the instance of as thoroughgoing a host of defenders as any community of the time could produce, every current of civic life, whether of industry, of finance, of educational or religious activity, became directed into one resistless tide, flowing through and out of the city to give added power to the gulf stream of all the forces of the war. Fall River's cloud of witnesses went forth; but all who should stay at home stood by the cause they had undertaken, in scores of ways, from those who raised great sums of money to those who made their lawns into thrift gar- dens, and those who knit socks and sweaters for the soldiers. Only a work of many volumes might recount in full the incessant labors and the endless processions of workers-those who, in the sayings of the day, "did their bit" and helped "carry on" the war's unceasing rounds of labor. In the church, in the home, in the shop, there was a oneness of continuous work, and the record of it all is enduring in the victorious results achieved.
Early in the year 1917, both army and navy boys had been leaving the city in droves, one hundred and fifty having joined the regular army soon after April 1, while the city was aglow with the patriotic colors of the service flags, whether of individual homes, of corporations, churches, or schools. The drum was beginning to beat and the bugle to call for the summoning forth of such an army of military men, of workers and helpers, as no one in the city had dreamed might be gathered for such a purpose. The regiments of soldiers and sailors were there-the money and equipment to back them up would soon be forthcoming. The Fall River committee on preparedness was one of the first in New England to swing into line. The rooms of the Manufacturers' Association were the headquarters of most of their undertakings, and it is conceded by all sub-organizations that their generalship not only led the way for all other local movements, but assured and enthused every financial tribute of aid for the cause. These were the men who formed the committee on preparedness: Chairman, Robert C. Davis; vice-chairman, Nathan Durfee; secretary-treasurer, Charles E. Smith; executive committee: Chairman, Mayor James H. Kay; vice-chair-
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man, Nathan Durfee; secretary, Charles E. Smith; Thomas B. Bassett, Wil- liam H. Beattie, Hector . L. Belisle, Robert C. Davis, Albert A. Harrison, Fred W. Lawson, Russell H. Leonard. They slacked in nothing from begin- ning to end, and their committee on recruiting began to stimulate enlist- ments in the regular army during the last week in June, the general com- mittee on recruiting consisting of Hector L. Belisle, Robert R. Borden, Dr. William H. Blanchette, Dr. John W. Coughlin, Russell H. Leonard, Dr. Antonio H. Lima, Daniel A. Reagan, Clinton V. S. Remington, Godfroi De Tonnancour, and W. D. Wilmot. Shortly thereafter, the city was divided into four districts for the conscripting and examining of drafted men, and they registered under the selective draft act 10,547 persons, of whom 3650 made exemption claims. Of the number registered, 6427 were citizens and 4137 were aliens; there were only ten alien enemies.
Up to the last of July, 1917, one thousand men had gone from the city to share in one branch or another of the service; the draft was on; the Twelfth Company had been mobilized, the State Guard armed, and the city was about to send 1066 more men in the draft. . There were now Fall River men in the forts of the southern department, in the radio and aero schools, at Plattsburg, Newport and New London, in the regular service, in the naval reserves, the coast guard, the marines, the heavy and field artilleries, cavalry, infantry, engineers.
In June, 1917, the State Guard succeeded the militia, the Fall River companies in the Seventeenth Regiment being represented as follows: Colonel William H. Beattie; Lieut .- Col. Spencer Borden, Jr .; Majors: First Battalion, William B. Squire; Second Battalion, Clifford L. Harris; Third Battalion, Joseph D. Gibbs; Regimental Adjutant, Jonathan T. Lincoln; Supply Officer, Thomas F. Grandfield. First Battalion: Twenty-first Com- pany-Capt. William B. Squire; First Lieut. Robert R. Borden; Second Lieut. Leeds Burchard. Twenty-third Company-Capt. Albert Walton; First Lieut. John T. Smith; Second Lieut. John Ellis. Forty-ninth Com- pany -- Capt. Richard K. Hawes; First Lieut. Harold R. Barker; Second Lieut. C. T. Reynolds. Fiftieth Company-Capt. E. G. Thatcher; First Lieut. Frank T. Albro; Second Lieut. Fred E. Waterman.
The distinguishing farewell event of the early summer of 1917 was that attending the departure of the Twelfth Company, Coast Artillery Corps, Massachusetts National Guard. The mobilization of the company took place at the State Armory, July 25, where Major Harry A. Skinner, of the Cape Battalion, had his headquarters. On July 23 the company had been given a fraternal send-off at the Y. M. C. A., when Major F. W. Harrison presided, and the speakers were Hon. Andrew J. Jennings, Mayor James H. Kay, Former Lieutenant John T. Swift, Lieutenant E. W. Hearne, Major Harry A. Skinner, Captain Thomas J. Clifford. On the evening of July 27, a remarkable military service took place at St. Mary's Cathedral, when the Twelfth Company, together with drafted men throughout the city, led by Captain Thomas J. Clifford, filled the body of the church, and a stirring address was given by Right Rev. Monsignor James E. Cassidy, V. G., of St. Patrick's. Their parade through the city July 28 was one that stirred all who shared in it-the military companies and the beholders-the High School Battalion, Camp Doran, U. S. W. V., Battery M, Veteran Associa- tion, and city and military officials, being in line. Thousands of people
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bade the company godspeed, as they boarded the train for Fort Heath. The roster of the company :
Captain, Thomas J. Clifford. First Lieutenant, Harold N. Gunn. Second Lieu- tenant, Raymond A. Brocklehurst. First Sergeant, George Cullen. Sergeants, Arthur F. Dean, Arthur A. Whalley, Edward Whittle, Ernest Fantom, Walter Sunderland, John M. White, Edwin S. Southworth, Jr., Peter A. Lee. Supply Sergeant, John T. Sullivan. Mess Sergeant, John E. Sullivan. Corporals, Arthur H. Sawyer, Arthur Collier, Philip A. Joncas, John A. Davitt, Mark F. Lamond, Andrew Boyd, John Dris- coll, Curtis R. Borden, Walter Holt, Charles A. Marston, Joseph Blake, Oscar A. Joncas. Cooks, Roland L. Hochu, Charles A. Bean. Mechanics, George H. Gingras, John E. Hussey. Buglers, John W. Bird, Samuel Taylor, Jr.
First Class Privates, Henry M. Bell, William J. Blythe, Warren G. Chace, James P. Cullen, Thomas C. Delahunt, Henry G. Doyle, Norman O. Durfee, Manuel P. Emery, Thomas Flynn, Adelard Lapointe, Alfred J. Lawes, Thomas J. Maleady, Robert V. Murphy, Lynward F. Pierce, James L. Ravenscroft, James F. Stafford, John H. Walsh, Martin A. Walsh.
Privates, John T. Ainsworth, George Aspden, Henry C. Baker, William H. Bar- low, Ernest C. Barse, Irving J. Bergeron, Amable L. H. Berube, Alphonse Bois, Charles W. Borden, Charles J. Bonworth, Alfred Bouchard, John B. Bouchard, Harvey C. Brier, John A. Cleary, Manuel S. Corriera, Joseph A. Cox, Joseph E. Darcy, William E. Dickenson, James P. Doyle, Edward A. Drury, Walton A. Eaton, Martin J. Fahey, Bertrand Fournier, Edward F. Grady, Earle P. Howarth, John J. Jackson, Harold W. Kilroy, William A. Laneville, Louis E. Laplante, John J. Leary, John L. Leather, Alexander G. Marshall, William J. Martin, Frank McCarty, George McCoomb, Raymond L. McCrossan, Thomas J. Moriarty, Isidore J. Morrissette, John M. Murphy, John R. Murphy, George H. Mycock, Henry L. Noonan, George W. Partington, Bertram J. Phillips, George I. Purvis, James F. Quinn, Thomas C. Roberts, John Rockett, Charles F. Shay, James H. Shea, Louis L. Silva, Clarence B. Sowle, Alfred J. St. Amand, William E. Stevens, William J. Sutcliffe, Alfred Thibault, James Trippier, Joseph T. Turgeon, Charles Vickery, Arthur G. Ward, Frederick T. Westell, Alfred E. Wood.
They were not alone, for detachment after detachment followed, week by week, bound for various camps of their assignment, and again were re- sumed the city-wide occupations of recruiting, and of bringing all organiza- tions and individuals into the concentrated labors of war-giving and of war- time relief-the teachers, the doctors, the lawyers offering their time in drafting-committee service; the fraternal organizations all working for the one fraternity of democracy. Fall River witnessed and took part in in- numerable parades at various times during the World War, farewell pa- rades, welcome-home parades, but none that made a more general or a deeper impression than that which escorted the drafted men in September. That parade, September 8, 1917, in which were aligned 690 drafted men, was in command of Colonel William H. Beattie, and it received a great ovation, the event being crowned at the north end park with addresses by Mayor James H. Kay, Monsignor James E. Cassidy and Colonel Spencer Borden, Sr.
Day after day uttered its war speech, indeed, and though the different detachments of men were constantly on the way, it never became so com- mon an affair that they were allowed to go unattended, for there was al- ways some local band and social organization ready, whatever the weather, to act as an escort. Here and there the new companies, enlisted from school and from shop, hastened on to supply the demand for the Fall River quotas, the second allotment in the second draft leaving for Camp Devens April 27, led by the Boy Scouts' military band. A total of 427 men from
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Fall River's four divisions left for Camp Devens, September 20; 23 drafted men left for Fort Adams in December, 1917; 71, the first quota of the sec- ond draft, for Devens, March 29, 1918; 44 for Fort Slocum, May 10; 74 for Camp Upton, May 27; 77 registered men started for Fort Slocum, May 31; four local men of the Y. M. C. A. left for overseas June 2; 33 for Camp Dix June 27; 145 more entered the national army at Camp Devens, July 23; 43 limited service men for Syracuse recruiting camp, July 30; the city sent 43 men for special work on guard duty at embarkation ports; 95 men were sent from the four draft divisions December 20, for service in the Coast Artillery Corps. And these are but day-by-day items of a long succession of similar movements that were taking place during the two active years, almost up to the time of the signing of the peace treaty.
In May, 1918, Major William B. Squire, of the Fall River Battalion attached to the Seventeenth Regiment of the Massachusetts State Guard, had mapped out a course of seasonable instruction in military tactics and company administration for all young men in this city in the draft, the instruction being gratis, and many before leaving were taking the oppor- tunity to become instructed in matters that they were soon actively to participate in. Robert R. Borden, enrollment agent for the United States Public Service Reserves, at this time received a letter from Director Wil- liam A. Gaston in which Fall River received praise as having done better than any other place in the State in the preparedness enrollment. In September, 1918, it was announced that the entire number of men in this city enrolled as liable for military duty under the new amendment to the selective draft regulation was 14,485, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years.
Local Naval Militia .- The men of the navy were a redoubtable crew, and they mobilized promptly and at call, at the armory. On April 7, 1918, the members of the Eighth Deck Division and the Third Engineers' Divi- sion of the Massachusetts Naval Battalion, left for Boston, to be mustered into the United States Navy, under Captain William B. Edgar, and execu- tive officer Commander John T. Nelson, both of this city. The companies boarded the 8:40 train, the march to the depot being attended by delegations from a number of military and social organizations. The roster of the Third Engineers' Division :
Lieutenant Herbert A. Sullivan, chief of division; Lieutenant (J. G.) Waldo A. Sherman; ensign, H. Vernon Mantius; ensign, John Hallas; chief machinist mate, Cor- nelius Sullivan; chief machinist mate, Matthew B. Wrigley; chief electrician (radio operator), Harold C. Bowen; chief water tender, Roy F. Holmes; boiler maker, John T. O'Hearn; machinist mate, Jeremiah S. Bogan; machinist mate (1C), Walter I. Roberts; machinist mate, Walter Bowker; chief electrician, Thomas Tracy; radio electrician (1C), John Dyson; blacksmith, Louis A. Allard; water tenders, Charles P. Kerr, Felix Peloquin, Cornelius O'Neil; machinist mates (2C), Daniel L. Hennessy, Thomas J. Holleran; oilers, Thomas Johnson, Aime B. Berube, John L. McCrossen; firemen, (1C), Ernest Wichman, Antone Malone, Max O. Christensen, Thomas Shea, John F. Fagan, Wilson Pickup, Patrick Leonard, William F. Malley, Albert Ratcliffe, Cornelius McCullough, Antonio S. Raposa; firemen (2C), William Dacey, Albert H. Grogan, John J. Connell, William H. Giddings, John F. Fitzgerald, Arthur E. Bat- tersbee; firemen (3C), Peter Adam, Charles F. Quinlan, Nicholas McDermott, Al- phonse Carroll, Jeremiah W. Kennedy, Frank A. Smith, John E. Pettine, Joseph F. E. Belanger, Edward L. Silva, Eastwood Howart, Stephen B. Donnelly, Edward Rid- ing, John L. Latessa, Albert Soucy, William Barnes, Lester P. Morton, Eldon L. Wishart.
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The roster of the Eighth Deck Division :
Lieut. (Chief) Clinton M. Smith; Lieut. (J. G.) Charles A. MacDonald; Ensign, Richard F. Whitehead; gunner's mate, John F Quinn; yeoman, John A. McLaren; quartermaster, William E. Acton; quartermaster, George E. McCarthy; gunner's mate, George E. Sullivan; yeoman, Walter C. French; bugler, Walter J. Whittle; coxswain, George Wilkinson; coxswain, Robert A. Martin; carpenter's mate, John A. Dempsey; seamen, Timothy Downey, James P. Flynn, William A. Whittle, J. Dwight Brady, Jr., Thomas D. Conlon, Thomas J. Pargen, A. Davis Gilchrest, George H. Thornley, Edward L. McLaren, Charles J. Burke, John Hickey, Newton Baker, Michael J. Shea, Edward J. Tierney, John H. Fitzpatrick, William Luby, Michael P. Ryan, Nicholas Higginson, . Thomas Mellor, John F. Connor, Alfred O. Trottier, James F. Butler, Frederick L. Dela- hunt, Frank P. Cavanaugh, Charles L. Blankenship, Christopher J. Gaffney, John M. Malloy, Edward F. Leahey, Patrick J. Gorman, Augustus Currey, Martin Lyden, Charles B. Austin, Jr., David S. Eccles, Chester E. Ryder, Patrick J. Sullivan, John F. Ferry, Robert D. Smith, John P. Hart, Thomas B. Lahey, Albert Reinelt, Leon Jones, Edward Leary, Frederick T. Whittle, Frank J. Bennett, Jr., Alfred Walton.
Financing the War .- Fall River institutions and individuals realized the need of getting behind the government with money in plenty, if victory should be won, and in the great drives, through the Liberty loans and others, the people gave to the utmost, the scores of persuasive calls being answered on the instant. The city is forever proud of that record. As one writer stated: "Ours is not a pretentious city. We do not boast about our great buildings, nor our intellectual lights, nor our moneyed powers. * * * * without any great display of fireworks, we have quietly gone about our duty freely and cheerfully." The manufacturers set golden examples; the merchants performed a noble work; the clerks were never behindhand, whether as enlisted men or as donors to any fund; many hundreds of house- wives purchased bonds; mill operatives prided themselves upon their con- tributions to the loans. And when the first Liberty Loan was launched, in 1917, for the maximum quota of $3,760,000, no one at that hour could have foreseen that the total subscription would amount to 119 per cent., or the sum of $4,470,800. It was Eric Borden who is acknowledged to have man- aged the first drive. Then, in their turn, and as committees in the drives that followed, came Spencer Borden, Jr., Nathan Durfee, Henry F. Searles, Albert A. Harrison, W. D. Wilmot, assisted by Robert R. Borden, W. L. S. Brayton, Leonard S. Chace, Edmund Coté, Robert C. Davis, George Delano, M. T. Hudner, James H. Mahoney, Joseph E. Nute, Dr. Antonio Rosa, David Silverstein, Esq.
In the second Liberty Loan campaign of November, 1917, Fall River was the only city in Bristol county to exceed the maximum quota-New Bedford, Taunton and Attleboro following in the order named. The maxi- mum allotment apportioned this city was $7,635,000, and the sum raised was $7,703,000. The campaign, like most of them, was launched with a parade, followed by a stirring mass meeting at the South Armory, with addresses by Rev. E. C. Herrick, Right Rev. Mgr. James E. Cassidy and Judge James M. Morton, Jr. The quota for the third drive in the series was $3,648,000, the total amount subscribed being $5,453,500; and Fall River received a National Liberty Loan committee honor flag for exceeding the minimum allotment. In the three loans, thus far, the city had raised money enough to send an army corps to France. Besides the leaders as announced for the former committees, their aides were :
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