Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-23
AT FAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Confederate Memorial Day Celebration and
the Program.
Old Folks Concert and Other Social,
Personal and General News
Notes of Local Interest.

Tomorrow is Confederate Memorial day
in this city, and, has been the case for
number of years past, the occasion will
be a gala one, and will be celebrated with
appropriate ceremonies.
Tomorrow morning a committee from r.
Z. Lee Camp Confederate Veterans will
visit the various cemeteries around the
city, where flowers will be strewn on the
graves of the gallant boys who wore the
gray lying there. In the afternoon there
will be big parade, in which r. E. Lee
Camp Confederate Veterans, Sons of Vet
Grams, the Alexandria Light Infantry, the
Columbia Fire Company, the Relief Hook
andLadderCompany and other organizations
will take part. The procession will traverse
the principal streets, and stop at the con-
federate monument, where the following
program will be carried out: Prayer. by
Capt K. kemper, chaplain of the camp
and this will be followed by Rev. Mr.. Dun
naway's address During the exercises the
choir, under the leadership of Mr.. Henry K.
Field, will sing the following selections:
How Firm a Foundation America"
adapted for the OCCASION, Home Of the
Soul and ''Eventide." After the exercises
at the monument the procession will move
to Christ Church yard, where the veterans
Will place flowers upon the graves of their
departed comrades and after the sounding
of taps" by the bugle the exercises will be
ended.
The Third Regiment and Friendship Drum
Band of Washington arsenal will furnish
the music for the occasion.
The armory of the Alexandria Light In
fantry will be open all day tomorrow, when
Movers to be used in the decorations, will
be received.
Oldc Folkes Singers.
The old folks concert at the Opera House
last night, under the auspices of Del Ray
M. E. Chapel South, was largely attended
and was a very enjoyable entertainment.
All the numbers on the program were well
rendered ard received with applause.
Police Court.
In the police court this morning Mayor
Strauss disposed Of only one case, William
Saunders, Lewis Darlington and Charles
Hodges, three negro men charged with
fighting on the corner Of Franklin and
Washington streets, by filming Darlington
and Saunders 81 each and discharging
Hodges, 1t being shown that ne was not
in it.
The Columbia Fire Company will have
called meeting tonight to complete their
arrangements for taking part in the con-
federate ceremonies of tomorrow.
The Towards of the Episcopal High
School added another to their list of victo-
ries by defe ating the Georgetown Athletic
Base Ball Club yesterday afternoon by a
score of II to IL. The game was a holly
contested one, and it took ten innings to
decide 1t.
There was a meeting of the Daughters
of the Confederacy at Mrs. Yeatman's, on
Washington street, today at noon.
Old Dominion CommandeTy, knights
Templar, will attend a special service at
ST. Paul's Church, when Rev. P. p. Phil
lips will preach an appropriate sermon.
Rev. c. E. Ball will preach special SER
mon to Davis Post, G. A. r., at Grace
Church Sunday night.
Tho meeting of the Ann Lee Monument
Association has been postponed until next
week.
The work of building the new Baltimore
and Ohio depot will be begun in a few
days.
A runaway horse on upper Prince street
yesterday afternoon late attracted quite a
good deal of attention. No damage was
done.