Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-19
PUSHING FORWARD.
PROGRESS IN THE JEFFERSON DAVIS
MONUMENT MOVE.
Meeting 10 lie Held at the Academy OF
Music on Saturday NiGht-The Gov
crnor to Preside.

Our people are TO be put TO the decision
whether they are willing to work to have
the body OF President Davis brought here.
The question is practically between Rich
nond and Atlanta, though other places are
struggling hard for the honor.
Now let us sec what enterprise and saga
city, what energy and wcll-dirccted labor,
VIC can display in direction whore reve-
renee for the dead. sentiment. and business
sense alike combine TO urge us on.
Tho idea il to rciterate and emphasize
the claims of the capital of the Coniede-
racy rs the place above all places tor the
final interment of Nr. Davis and to show
our sincerity bv raising money for monu-
ment and for the Davis land fund.
Yesterday collecting committees were on
the streets. More will be out to-day.
Money is asked in sums from nickel up
wards. IL is to be popular subscription.
Something Is expected of every man,
woman, and child In the city and IN the
State
Collections will he reported TO public
meeting (Which tho City Council authO-
rizcd the Mayor so calD when apermanent
organization will be effected if the initial
efforts are appreciated and encouraged by
the people ~ it is hoped and believed they
Will be.
TIE MEETING.
The meeting Will take place ut tho
Academy Of Music on Saturday night.
SO IT was determined BY the Committee
Of Arrangements General John IL. Cooke.
chairman appointed by the Mayor, and
VINO met ut the Mayors Office yesterday.
They also resolved that the Mayor
should be asked to call the meeting TO or
der: that Governor Lee should be asked to
preside and make, say, fittcen-minute
speech; that then a committee on resQiu-
tions should I've moved; that while they
were deiibcrating over their report one or
more addresses should be delivered that
then the report oi the committee should
be acted upon. and if deemed desirable
permanent organization effected and OIL
GERS elected, and then that the reports Of
the collecting committees should be pre-
scnted.
This is the programme General Cookies
committee have outlined. However, II viii
be competent for the meeting when organ
lied 10 vary il in any respect.
Seats will be reserved in the hall 'or the
veteran organizations, with whom al old
Confederatcs are asked 10 JOIN.
4 band of music will be provided.
sCB-cosnuTTKEs.
General Cookies committee yesterday
appointed the following subcommittee,
and adjourned to meet at the Mayors
Office at y u. to-day.
ON Hall and Music Messrs. William
RYAN and John Murphy.
On Invitation to the Governor to Pre-
side: Messrs. John Il. Cooke and W. ID.
Chestcrman.
On Speakers: Meesrs. Thomas Elicit,
William G.. Waller, Frank j. Hi, and W.
ID. ChestcrmaD.
ARBASGEsrTSTs.
The committee waited on Governor Leo
at ? T. VI. and got from him a ready &c
ceptaucC.
ii was mentioned during the interview
that the Governor, IN apriyate letter he mas
written Mrs. Davis urging her TO allow ner
husband to be buried IN Richmond, had
suggested that day before or a day after
tine unyeilng Of the Lee monument l3th
of Nav) would be - fit occasion for the IN
tcrmcut OF Mr.. Davis at Richmond.
The city Will then be full Of visitors.
civic and military. and IT would be most
suitable that the two names, indissolublY
linked in the history of the war, should be
ioincd in the soiemnities OF this occasion
all Of which views the Governor has elo-
uuently presentCdtO Mrs. Davis.
Major Charles ). StringicllOw was visited
bv the Committee Oh Speakers and ac-
cepted their invitation. BE said he would
limit his address to about twenty minutes
and desired that they invite other speak
ors. Whether this will be done or not
has not vet been determined. There j.
good deal Of business to bc transacted and
it is the desire Of the committee To leave
time and give ample opportunity Tor yOlun-
teer speeches and discussion.
THE NIGHT.
The first idea was 10 have the meeting
on Monday night: but neither the Acade-
my nor the Theatre could be gotten for
that time. Then it was resolved TO meet
Saturday NIGHT. which Is perhaps better
anyway, because next week all the people
viii be in the midst Of the Christmas whlrl
and excitement.
So the meeting will take place at the
Academy on Saturday nlght.
The presence Of tho ladies Is asked and
expected.
Nle-srs Peyton Wise, Archer Anderson,
Thomas Nelson Page, Il. i. BeTne, and
PAGE McCartv have been asked by General
Cookies committee 10 prepare resolutions,
which may be submitted to the Commit
tee on Resolutions, of which no doubt they
all viii be members.
ANOTHER MEETING TO-DAY.
The Committee Of Arrangements. which
is composed OF the gentlemen following,
viii have another meeting at the Mayors
Office to-day at y NJ: General John Il.
Cooke. Captain Thomas Elicit, Frank D.
Hill. n. Y. Randolph John Murphy, {. /.
L0ehr, William Ryan, f. W. Cunningham,
W. u. Chesterman, and William q. Waller.
PROMPT ACTION.
The first man to call upon Mayor Ellyson
Yesterday morning for subscription blanks
was Commander Thomas A. Brander, Of
Lee Camp.
The first committeeman to report were
Mesars. John ). Elicit and John B. Cary,
,t-bn sitcccpded in securing subscriptions
Of several hundred dollars in a very short
space of time.
Mayor Ellys0n has mailed to the chair
man of each committee who failed 10 call
I'm person subscription blanks, and he
urges that each gentlemen receiving them
set to work az once.
Mayor EIIyson's New Orleans speech.
The following is from an editorial in the