Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-20

En1 ~ Minor p leslie Spence, James IL.
CoScrs n p Carubell, J. @. DIckerson,
Thomas Bvrne, and j. B. Mckinney,
Colonel A. q. Evansis chairman and Cap
tain Thomas Elicit Is secretary or the
General Committee.
MANY INQUIRIES MADE.
Cont.in Thomas Elicit. who is secretary
of The Invitation and Reception, Commit
toes has received letters from all parts OF
the South making inquiries about the IN
yelling. Everybody wants TO ind out
about the railroad rates and the accommo-
dations for veterans and the military.
1t is understood that all the roads run
ming into Richmond Will make reuu;tloh
ranrements for taking care OF the visitors
are as vet not fully maturcd, but 1t Is Ger
foin that all who come will find quarters.
IouIsIANIANs COMING.
TIL. Ad;utont Of the Benevolent Associa-
won I,oIisiana Division, Army OF Northern
VirGinla. writes Captain Elicit that twenty
members of that organization have agreed
70 come To the unyeiling. He says his peo-
nIo ere dissatisfied with the one cent per
n,le rates and suggests that the commit
toes here prevail upon Colonel Mercer
SLAUGHTER. Of Atlanta. IS arrange Tor an ex-
cursion from New Orleans. IL tckets are
sold ct &15 each good tor ten "a Gays ne
thinks alarge crowd VIII come. Inc Ad-
iutant Ays excursion tickets are sofa every
SIMMER for trips from New Orleans to Cnl-
caro For $40 good for twenty days and he
can't see why it wonld not be a paying IN.
yestment for the railroads to sell them tor
as to Richmond on this occasion.
Captain Elicit has written TO Colonei
SLAUGHTER. and has also advised the New
Orleans people to work the excursion up az
that end of the line. "a they are In posi-
ton TO inform the RAILROADS.&C. to now many
people they can bring.
FROM ARKANSAS.
Captain Elicit has received ono or two
letters from Dir. Charles Gordon Newman,
editor of the Pine Bluff ark Commercial
and adiutant OF Edward Murray Camp;
Mir. Newman is q native OF virginia ana
tokes deep interest in the unyeiling, and
ia aritatip~ the matter through The
columns of hls paper. He sayshe viii GER
tainIv be here. but his camp nave not yet
decided whether or not they Will come.
A day or two ago Captain Elicit received
a letter from Waverly. Ill. making IN,
ou;rics as to whether excursion tickets VIII
be sold from that state.
P1cKErr-BUcHASAS.
Pickett -Ruchanan Camp of Norfolk has
thronoh its adiutant informed Secretary
Elicit that they will bring $50 veterans,
Prom the communications Captain Elicit
hes received he thinks there Is great inter-
esf all over the South in the unveling'
and that a great crowd Will be here on May
18th.
Our Maryland Citizens.
A meeting of resident Maryland ladies
was held Yesterday afternoon at the west
moreland Club.
They met to confer with the Maryland
ASSOCIATION Of Virginia relative TO the en-
tertainment OF the Maryland visitors VINO
will be here during the unveiling OF the
Lee monument. -
Among tie ladies present were Mrs.
Joseph 4. Anderson. Mrs. L. L. ID. Myers.
Jr.. Miss Mamie SymingtOn, Mrs. James ID.
McIntire. Mrs. Joseph A. white, Mrs.
Samuel REGISTER, Mrs. f. A. Hoen, Miss :.
w. Crane. Mrs. Ann n. Patterson, Mrs.
Alfred II. Raynal, Mrs. J. II. Wnitty, Miss
Bculah Patterson. Birs. Drewry, and hlrs.
Mrs. Anderson was elected president and
Mrs. James d. McIntire secretary.
THErR PLANS.
DIR. Joseph A. White. chairman of the
committee from the Maryland Association.
made an address in which he gave the pro-
posed plans OF his ASSOCIATION tor the en-
tertainment Of the visiting Marylanders'
and suggested various ways In whicn the
co6peration of the ladies was needed par
ticularlv in the management OF the pro-
posed military ball.
Mr. 6 W. Travers. who is also president
of the MARYLAND Association, made short
address. lie said that while Marvlsnder
by birth, vet he considered himself no less
n Viro,nian; that when he knew so many
visitors were coming here from his native
State he was as much prompted ny the
feelings Of O citizen as any others TO show
them all the hospitality in his power. lie
hoped the resident Maryland ladies OF the
CITY would assist with this sprit, as DO oe,
lieved they would. He thought they could
make the bail q Grand success. and pro.
missed them the full support OF bis organi2a-
ton for the carrying out of all details con-
nected with the affair.
AnMozY AND THEATRE.
Mr.. j. II. Witty, secretary OF, the Mary;
land Association, stated that the use OF
tho Armory had been rendered his asso-
citation for any entertainment they nlght
owe the Maryland military during then
visit.
lie also read letter from Mrs. Powell
offering the use Of the Theatre Tor the
proposed ball.
Excuses were made for ladies who were
prevented from being present OF the meet
inc and after an informal talk and the
transaction of some routine business the
meeting adjourned to next wednesday
evening at 5 o'clock at the residence Of
Mrs. Joseph Il. Anderson.
After the meeting the ladies' were invited
into the private dining-room, where tines
endowed a sumptuous lunch prepared by
the committee.
PROBABLE PLANS FOR THE BALL.
II Is very probable that tho ladies vii
decide to hold the ball at the Theatre, ano
that it will be on the night of the 3Oth o.
May.
They are of the opinion that most people
! will be tired out on the night of the unyell
ing, and besides the last night seems
most appropriate one To wind up the cele-
bration with grand ball.
The ladies in charge will invite few
other prominent ladies' of the city to assis'
| them.
The invitations 10 the ball outside O
| visitors will be very limited and likely
| confined to four hundred.
Every arrangement ia being made to hay,
| the affair one of the most select and bril-
liant of the kind ever held in Richmond o.
| the South.
Ninth Virginia Cavalry.
/ 1ut cufNiNOfo Ul thC AfilttI 80
airy, General w. ii. +. Lees division, viii
meet at No. 40s north Fifth street. Tues
| day evening at 6 O'Clock to organize to par
| ticipate in the unyeiling ceremonies. The,
| invite all their old comrades to join witt
them.
Proposed Memorial Arch.
The arch designed by Mr.. w. J.. Shep
| pard as 9 memorial TO our beloved dead
which the Committee of Arrangement
hope to be able to raise sufficient money 4
| Justify them ia ordering, may be described
as follows: The whole width of the struc
| ture, which is intended to be erected a
T! the intersection of two streets, is forty-si,
| feet, the height thirty-nine.
| Tie central mass has the whole heigh
| and twenty feet width by eight feet depth
On each side of this the height falls t
| twepty-four feet, leaving q predominant
| in the central mass Of fifteen feet.
THE OPENING.
The mass is pierced by an arch sixteel
by twenty-one feet and twenty feet frou
front to front. On each face (for it face
both up and down street, there are ralse'
entrances TO the archway which are com
posed of pediment and entablature sup
ported by heroic size bust Caryatides
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