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Show POST NAMED FOR LIEUTENANT First American Artillery Officer to Die In Action Is Honored by Surviving Comrades. The first American artillery officer to die lu action in France has been honored by his surviving com-rades, com-rades, who have & named their post of the American - x Legion in New ' York in his hon- IJ-Vf or. The post, is N which comprises V- N S members of the ' f old First division, I is known as the feA t" 1 Jeff Felgi post. Jr:'' Jefferson Feigl fcj fc was a first lieu- tenact of Battery F, Seventh field artillery- of the First division. He was twenty-two years old, and had entered the service of his country Immediately upon his graduation from Harvard university. uni-versity. A year after the death of the young officer on the field of battle, his personal per-sonal property was sent to his parents. Colonel and Mrs. Feigl, who reside at the Blltmore hotel, New York. In a hand-bag was a letter addressed to his parents, which Lieutenant Feigl had written a short time before he was killed. In the letter he forecast his death, and said, "Dame Fortune 'couldn't have picked a more gentle-manlv gentle-manlv manner for me to make my ex- |