Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
The Day Observed in the Cities and
Principal Towns.
CAPTAIN M'CABE In ATLANTA.
Reception rendered Him BY the VIr.
ginians Of That City.
BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH.
Georgia, Maryland, and New York Do
Homage to the ChieftaIn-Features
of the Occasion.

The heartiness with which the people OF
Richmond and of all Virginia cities enter
ed into yesterdays celebration we'll demon
strated the fact that the Legislature Of
Virginia read Alright public sentiment when
little more than year ago it set apart
January 10Th as legal holiday.
| When this action was taken there were
many who thought another holiday could
not be successfully added TO the six already
existing.
But it has been and through all future
ages the southern people will. as they did
yesterday, unite in paying their tribute of
devotion and alteration to the memory Of
the peerless Lee.
Virginia IS southern State, and her peo-
pie still possess the fiery blood found in
warn countries, and along with 1t little
more than their share of sentiment which
eleyates them above the level of merely
living to make money.
Her people gladly, yea ioyfully, and with
great reverence laid aside their business
cares and devoted themselves heart and
soul to doing homage to him whom they
hold so dear-Robert Edward Lee.
II was the first celebration of his birth
day as legal holiday, and people psrtici-
pated in it much more generally than was
expected.
In Richmond the weather was perfect.
Not cloud obscured the sky from 1.-THE
rising of the sun until the going down
thereof"
Early in the day beyond the floating of the
national colors from public and numerous
private buildings there was nothing to in
dicate that it was holiday. About noon
the city offices, nearly all the workshops,
manufacturing establishments, and scores
of stores closed, and the people begun to
congregate on the street.
The Capitol was not open for business at
ali during the day, and the public schools
had holiday.
The observance was all that could be de-
ST. ed. and remembering that it was the ini-
tial one there can be no doubt that in time
January 18th will be holiday second to
none.
Here in the capital city the sentiment
Of the people was appropriately illustrated
by the splendid parade through crowded
thorougbfares In line were veterans
who followed the brave commander
TO Appomattox, and with them their
SONS. All three branches OF the mill
tary service were represented, and 10
the enlivening strains of good music they
marched through the principal streets OF
the city-the self-same streets on which
more than a quarter Of century ago
marched the serrIed veterans OF the army.
led by the man whose natal day was the
occasion Of the demonstration.
As will besee from our reports below,
there were appropriate exercises through
out Virginia and in Atlanta, New York,
Baltimore. and other cities where there are
southern colonies"
OUR PICTURE OF LEE.
The portrait of General Lee which ap-
pears on this page is one Of the best OF
him ever printed in newspaper.
The emblematic border surrounding 1t
consists Of two branches of oak and laurel,
respectively. to the left and right Of the
reader. These start from o scutcheon at
the foot OF the composition, nearly enclose
the head. and are smblems of civic and
military virtues.
From the same points also Confederate
battle-fag and the ensign of the State pro-
ject. part displayed. the ends drsped to the
scutcheon- The scutcheon or cartouch Is
"charQedn with the crest Of Lee, the squir-
rel with the nut. and the motto, Non In
r1,sf4xs Itxftyi ~ which though Latin In very