Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-10
TO JOIN THE PIECES.
WORK OF PERFecTINo THE BRONZE
HORSE AND RIDER.
WIN ouybt IN Re Chosen 10 Unveil tho
Statue e?--Discussion Of the
Subject.

the horse and rider will probably begin
to-day.
The massive platform by the side OF tne
pedestal has been completed and is ready
to receive the statue.
Three Of the boxes have been removed
from the wagons. The one containing
the bronze platform which will cap tne
pedestal was first taken out and was placed
! on the long timbers which nave Deen
arranged at ohe end OF the platform lor
which they will be sided 10 the place
where the pieces will be joined.
pEEFEcTIsG THE STATUE.
The bronze cap will be the first piece
that will be needed when IT comes to per;
fecting the statue. This box will be placed
by the side of the great platform, there
! opened. and the cap taken out and put IN
position TO receive the legs OF the horse.
The box containing these has been taken
out of the wagon and placed on the ground
by the side of the platform, where 1t Will
be opened and the immense limbs lifted up
to the platform and there riyeted INTO
the bronze cap.
TEE BIO BOX.
The next box that will be needed will be
the one containing the body Of the horse.
/ This has not been removed from the
wagon but the immense truck has been
drawn up 10 the end Of the long timbers
reaching out from the platform, and when
the body OF the animal IS needed the box
will be Sided upon the timbers up to the
platform.
The box containing Lees body, head. and
sword has been taken from the vehicle and
placed on the ground, whore 1T will be
opened and the parts carried up to their
proper places.
TO DE JACKED UP.
When the horse and rider are perfected
the platform will be lacked up by eight
jack-screws until il is even with the top OF
the pedestal, and then it Will be an easy
matter to get the horse and rider in proper
! position.
Tho derrick will not be used at all in
raising the statue. Il is by no means as
safe as the plan adopted and the contrac-
tor was determined TO take no risks.
Pol ULAR PLACE.
The monument was visited yesterday by
! hundreds of people.
That route now is the most fashionable
| drive. At one time yesterday afternoon
/ hundreds of vehicles Of every description
/ were on west Franklin street and Monu-
ment avenue.
| Yesterday the veterans from the Soldiers
| Home who are on duty as guards were
! armed with old muskets with bsyonets
/ attached. OF course they had no use for
| these weapons, but il reminded them OF
| war times and made them feel more like
/ guards.
THE MABsHALsHIP.
| General John r.. Cooke, chairman Of the
| Lee Camp Committee. who has charge OF
| the unveiling ceremonies and chief OF
/ staff of the Chief Marshal. said yesterday
| that he has no official knowledge of Gov
ernor Lees intention to decline the chief
marshalship.
MARYLAND VETERANS.
Tho Society o: the Army and Navy OF the Con-
! federate States in Maryland, who have heal
! quarters at Bensoas Hall. 52i north Howard
street Baltimore. have made al Of their ar
/ raDgements 10 come 20 The unveiling.
! Tho excursion train will leave Union station,
! Baltimore, Wednesday. May 18th, Al li:SO 7. ".
! Returning, the tram will leave Richmond at ll:sO
| +. VI. Thursday, May 18Th, arriyile In Baltimore
General Bradley T. Johnson will be in com
| maud, with staff mounted. Tho Naval Academy
! Band. Annapolis, Md, has been engaged TO a.
| company them. The society by resolution has
adopted DARK clothes aud the regulation hat as
! the proper dress and all 10 carry canes
LET THE GOVERNOR UNyEIL 1T.
! To tho Editor Of the Dispdtch:
Won't you write little article suggesting that
| the Governor OF Virginia Is the proper person
| 70 unvel the Lee statue?
| Does This not commend itself to your He
| will be the accredited representative OF the
| whole people Of Virginia twill DO the shte's
authorative and dignined fnpTfmdtur TO the un-
| yelling.
| IL will be virginia's tribute to the noble hero
| on the great day. expressed through her loyal
| son Governor Mckinney. s.
ROOMS FOR SOLDIERS.
| DR.. ]. W. Egcleston, dentist, has offered I'VE
rooms over his Office. Ne 1O7 east Main street, 20
! the Powhaian Troop for headquarters and sleep
| ing rooms during tho upyeltng.
LETTER FROM GENERAL MUyroED.
Mr.. l. B. Vaughan, OF this city, a veteran OF
| Company @, Hanover Troop Is In receipt OF the
! following letter from General Thomas ]. Mun-
( ford, dated May 5th. IL is written from Oakland
Plantation, near Uniortown, Ala.
| Your kind letter, with the accompanying cir
! cuar from the veterans Of the Hanover Troop
/ has been received. would cheerfully ride on
! horseback from here 10 Richmond 10 see my old
/ brigade once more Alas they are scattered
/ and gone. iTls true, there are many OF them
| who viii be there. hope 81 Will who can.
When we meet VIC Will realize the beautiful
/ lines OF the poet
"Eile after file was swept away,
| Rank upon rank disordered lay,
| And all tho bold and hardy van
! Seemed as II perished to IA man.
| Sull Onward, Onward rent the sky
| Aud onward was the heartless tread
erheaps OF bleeding, quiyering dead.
Who came like them 10 die;
! so ostilly was the battle plain
! Another and another host
Supplied each fallen comrades post
As gallant ana ~ vain"
Your old company. the Hanover Troop, are Of
| the happy few who have been able 70 keep up
/ their organization. Tho brigade represented
/ tho state IN every district The Hanover Troop,
1 fhe Black Horse Troop, the Chesterfield Troop,
/ the Fairfax Troop, the Powhatan Troop, and the
/ second Virginia cavalry assembled AT Fairfax
Courthouse the drst blast of the bugle in June,
/ 1881, and remqined with the Army OF Northern
/ Virginia until at Appomattox Courthouse, when
| the old division dashed through hheridans
vaunted cavalry lines, carrying their coors Nand
/ some of bis men with us 70 LyDchDurgl TO the
mothers and maidens who still love 10 sprinkle
/ flowers around the secluded mounds Of our fall
! en- comrades who died upon every Held where
/ contendinC armies bsttled-
/ How wished when in New Orleans last No
VEN ber that every survivor OF the brigade could
have seen my old quarters nag, which, as l.
! rested gently over the bier OF our grand and
/ noblest chief, Jefferson Davis, saw 60 down
with him who represented us 20 well. have
/ letter from him when he received the nag Whlch
/ | win some day publish. as a heritsgo for our
/ children. II belongs % Us. and # they do not
value his teachings they are unworthy sons OF
| glorious sires. Your oideomrade.
THOMAS T. MUSPoRD
Ice Camp Veterans
One of the largest meetings held By Lee
| Camp since its organization took place last
night.
/ he session ld%lttl pNtI tNo nuns niAN "
/ great deal of business was done.
A letter was read from CAPTAIN Sol.
/ Cutchns, of the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues, rendering his command as an escort
/ for the Camp on the day OF the unveillng
/ and the same was accepted.
/ 1t was decided TO make Murphy's Hote!
/ the headquarters for the Grand Camp OF
/ Confederate Veterans on the 2Sth and 29th
| of MAY. All subordinate camps are re-
quested to report to Major Charles Pickett,
adjutant. Norfolk, by the 25th instant as
/ it Is important for him TO know what or
ganizations will attend the unyeiling eere-
monies.
HOLLYWOOD MRMoBIAL-pAY.
A letter was read from the Ladies' Holly
wood Memorial Association asking, tho
Camp to take charge of the Memoriai-oay
exercises. The invitation was accepted,
and Judge Z. G. Minor, Colonel J. N.'Bld-
good, Colonel John Murphy, and Messrs-
A. w. WIay, and James Pegrain were ap-
pointed acommittee to make arrangements
for the occasion.
The Camp accepted the invitation OF a.
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