The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-06
THE GRAY AND THE BLU E
GRAND CONUINGLING or THE
PlRTECOLORED SPIRITS
The Philadelphia Grays 20 Return an Ante
H.iIum visit of the Richmond Blues.
The Programme a. Arranged N"rS
Suggestive Reunion.

Next Wednesday, May 9th, the Wash
inr,on Grays Of Philadelphia will visit
Richmond as The guests Of the Richmond
Ligh; Infantry Blues.
In the wear 1850. thir,y-;hree years ago.
the Old Blues went 10 Philadelphia, and
were there the guests Of the Grays. The
latter company now comes. thirty.,hree
years later, 10 return this visit of their
Richmond comrades. and the arrange
mcnts for their reception were perfected
on the 2Sih OF March, when Lieutenant
81. X Morehead OF the Grays, and Cap
tain Cutchins Of the Blues, together with
Others Of our Richmond boys, sat down
10 a scpper at MurphYs.
4 VIRGINIA WELCOME
The Washington Grays will leave
Philadelphia on the morning Of next
Wednesday ON a special train, section
Of the fast mail They will reach hich
mond about pm. They will be met al
the Union station by the Blues, and will
be escorted 10 the Capitol Square, where
Governor Lee will bid them a Virginia
welcome. They vii, then he escorted to
their hotel Cords, where they will take
dinner, after which they will be taken in
charge of by their hosts and shown the
sights of the city.
~HE BANQUET.
At o'clock that night the visitors will
be banQueued at S1nger Halle. where a
sumptuOus supper will be prepared for
them by mine hos, Siege A jolly time
may be confidently expected.
THE PARADE AND PROGRAMME.
Next day, Nav 10Th, The Blues annver-
sary, the two companies will parade the
streets and ride up to Marshall PARK on
the electric cars. After viewing ,he
scenes from that point they will march
down 10 the gOndola Chlmb0ra,o and
take a trip 10 Warwick Park, where they
will spend the day The lunch will be
served al - m and dinner at ; pm.
Later q trip will be made down the river
through Dutch Gap, the entire party
getting back to Richmond abOut9 o'clock
at night.
The Pbiladelphians will leave for home
early on the morning Of the llth.
A GENUINE GRAY AND BLUE REUNION.
This will be a genuine Gray and Blue
Reunion, only IN It this time the two sec
tions will change sides, the Gray coming
from the North, and the Blue from the
South. 1t is most appropriate that these
particular companies should lraterniZe,
since they both are aHte-bcliHm organiza-
tions; both have stood side by side as
brothers in the older days, but fought
against each other as enemies in the war,
and now both are reunited as fellow
citizens OF "A common country. Further
ihan this, one is the REPRESENTATIVE OF
Philadelphia. The metropolis OF The State
that gave Blaine 80 600 ma iOrity, and prob
ably the most Sou,h-haiing city in the
Union, and the other Is from Rioumond,
he capital of the Southern COnicdefary
iftheIc Is anything al all ia the proicss-H
desire To- neal over our old anim0slles,
and really shake hands over the bloody
scenes of tie past, il would seem rs ii no
more striking opportunity for SO doing
could be presented than on the occasion
of he meeting Of these two companies,
each an ultra type of its respective sec
liOn.
1t is 10 be hoped, then, that this will
be a genuine reunion of hearts as well as
OF hands, and that next fall Pcnnsyl-
yania, ii she goes Republican at all, will
give no greater majority for Blaine than
Virginia will give for Cleveland If she
does not, it will be very practical proof
that the mingling Of the Gray spirits and
,he Blue 90 say nothing OF the red) IN
Richmond on the 10,h OF May, 1883, was
moi in vain.