The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-04-05
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VA.
A Week Of Great Pleasure and Much
Gaiety.
BRILLIANT EASTER FESTIVITIES
Tho Temple OF Janus-Lent Followed by q
Gay Reaction-The Confederate Monu-
ment-Base-Ball Notes.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, April 4.-lSpe-
cial. This week has been one of great
pleasure and gsiety. In the early part OF the
week came the Easter germans-Mondaye even
ing the Eli Bananas and Tuesday the Univer-
sity Club. There were more visitors than
usual TO attend these. and their beauty added
no little to the pleasure of the OF aston. But
the event Of the week was the Temple OF Fame.
There has been for some time feeling OF
much regret in the hearts OF all
true Confederates here and in Charlottes-
vile that the Confederate burying ground,
Just beyond the University grounds, pre-
sents a very unpleaslng appearance and has IN
il no monument to mark the place where the
LOO Confederate soldiers sleep the sleepthat
knows no waking" save that contributed by
nature, and the wall enclosing the space raised
by loving hearts and hands. SO the ladies put
their heads together and brought forth the
Temple Of Fame, as means of raising money
to erect suitable monument, and much
credit is due TO the ladies and gentleman who
labored so faithfully IN getting up the en-
tertainment. which lasted three nights.
EVENING OF THE IMMoRrALs.
The first entertainment, evening Of April
1st was tho Evening OF the lmmorta!s.
The court Of High Joye," in Roman dress,
march in and go through certain evolutions,
the music for which was furnished by the
University orchestra. The drilling was very
beautiful There was the formation Of many
beautiful figures. the classic white Roman
dress adding greatly 10 the beauty, showing
very nicely the gymnasium and field
work Of tho men in their fine pro-
portions. The gods and goddesses then
grouped on the stage Jupiter and Juno IN
the great seat of honour and the Others ar
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Then Mercury with his winged sandals
advances and announces that Most High
Jove and his ConsOrt Juno sit on the throne
D. hear the claims of mortals % a seat IN the
Court of Heaven" and then the
mortals marched in and presented
their claims. They We're motley
crowd representing many of the famous per-
sons Of history. fiction and allegory, in ap-
proprate costumes. These presented thor
claims and were accepted or rejected by the
gods. and after some singing and drilling by
the gods the Confederate States represented
by beautiful ladies appropriately dressed in
classic costumes and bearing the coat OF arms
Of the State on q shield and a spear
EVENING OF THE MoRrALs.
The second evening was the Evening Of
the Mortals" Again the Court of Heaven as
sembled. and Mercury made his announce
ment. and again the mOrials made their APP
pearance aud went through very elaborate
figures There were nearly a hundred per-
sons in these, and the beauty and
completely Of the figures frequently
brought forth applause Again the mortals
made application TO enter Heaven. beginning
with Shakespeare and having in their ranks
many familiar to us-Romeo and Juliet. Ham
let. Uncle Sam" and tho Man with the Hat,
George Washington, Uncle Remus Zone of
the best), and many others ending with Bro
ther Jones and his Sister Sue. and their
Tale of Woe" in somewhat fancliul
costumes. Then everything became very
quiet, only the tap of tho drum was heard.
and then marched ont in slow, stately tread.
first one Confederate State and then another
from opposite sides in the order of theIr seces-
sion, only Virginia last and arranged IN
crescent before the gods each state as II APP
pesred being voclferOusly cheered by It's rep
resentatiyes in college.
After the States had all marched out. from
one side came two of the Monticello Guards.
and behind and between them a student
dressed in an old Confederate uniform and
carrying an old Confederate flag, with many
rent and bullet mark 20 show where 1t had
been. These marched out and took their places.
completing the crescent Virginia standing 10
one side in the hollow.
THE SOUTHERN coSFEDERAcY.
Then with even slower tread came in a
figure-the Confederacy-in pure white. dark
ldlT uOWn neE uhch anu over utI rupulh'is
made even blacker by piece of crepe and
bearing in her hands a wreath of immortelles.
advancing with dOwncast demeanor III front
Of the crescent she sat down on the seat and
buried her face in her hands. Great was the
shout that went up. and many one shouted
the louder to keep back the tears that would
come whether he would or no.
cHILDREs's EVENING.
The next evening was "children's evening"
and was probably as good as any that pre-
ceded There were more than fifty children
on the floor. and they showed wonderful
training They were dressed in pretty col
ored costumes after one pattern. giving very
good effect. and their drilling was wonderfully
accurate. One feature was negro drill headed
by Uncle Remus and directed by two old aunt
les Also. the singing by the Jarman children
was very pretty; and probably the best scene
was one from Cinderella. where her sisters
leave her to do the house work, and she be-
comes very much exhausted and falls asleep,
and lot Of little fairies, in beautiful fairy
costumes come out and do the work for her
churn the milk, make the bread, wash and
iron the clothes. &c, and then they have
fairy dance around Cinderella.
After each entertainment refreshments were
served
The affair was great success from q pecu-
mary standpoint also. over athousand dollars
being cleared The terrible weather Of the
past week put something Of a Quletness 10
baseball. the much-talked-of games with
Yale having been.postponed on that account
However. the team took advantage Of the two
good days with which We were favored b
practice. The next games scheduled are
those with Dartmouth on Wednesday and