Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-17
WHEN THE VETERANS COME.

thdt the senate Will regard IL so.
WHEN THE VETERANS COME.
There are yet some questions 10 be
settled between the rival street-car com
panies here before II can be officially
announced that all their cars will land
and take up passengers ut the Exposition
Grounds during the Confederate reunion,
but hardly any one doubts that these
will be satisfactorily disposed OF. Indeed,
both companies declare that II is their
earnest wish TO forward the success OF
the reunion with all their might, and
with this disposition shown, such i'm
pedments as stand in the way Of a final
and complete adjustment of pending
difficulties will be speedily brushed aside
This done, there will be for the reunion
period, perfect street-car facilities be-
tween the city and the Exposition
Grounds.
The Exposition Grounds formerly New
Fair-Grounds or Camp Lee are on Broad
street, about half mile west of our cor
porate limits and about a mile and three
quarters from the Capitol. A part of the
Hail. has been enlarged at very con
siderable expense and will have seating
capacity for 1000 or 5000 people. This is
now our auditorium. Other halls or rooms
in the building will be fitted up, we sup
pose, as committee-rooms for convenient
and comfortable committee-rooms are in
dispensable to the expeditions and salts
Of no luc {
any great deliberative body.
In the auditorium thus arranged the
sixth annual session of the Grand En-
campment Of United Confederate Vete-
rams will be held Representatives will
be present from every state in the South
and from several of the border States"
and the Grand Encampment VIII legislate
for a membership of more than 500 camps
The meetings in the auditorium will be
held during two days. Almost all OF
the third day July 2d) Will be occupied
in the grand parade of volunteers and
veterans and in the ceremonies attendant
upon the laying Of the cornerstone Of
the monument to be erected in Monroe
Park to the memory of President Jeffer-
son Davis. whose body lies buried in
Hollywood Cemetery, in this city. On tho
evening Of the same day, July I'd. It is ex-
pected that the open-air, free to all, Con-
federate concert. will take place.
Richmond will be crowded during ali
three days Of the reunion, but the crowd
win reach its maximum on July "a. Our
city entertained tens of thousands OF visi-
tors on the occasion OF the unwilling OF
the Lee monument in 1870. but that was
for one day only; now we are to have
with us very many more OF our old friends
and comrades than we had then, and
these will be with us not one day only.
but three days
We hear Of the purpose Of hundreds OF
farmers 10 come in their big canvas
covered wagons. which will be both their
larder and bedroom for the occasion
II, as we consider likely. there are to
be many OF these wagons here. we sug-
gest that 1t would be proper TO locate
camp grounds for them; grounds con
venient to water supply and not very
distant from the Exposition-G Grounds.
There might be Henrico camp, a Han
over camp, a Chesterfield camp, Louisa
camp, etc. And whose has a good appe-
lite, and likes fun, and has no dread Of
little "roughing IT," would find himself
well bestowed in one OF these county |
camps! Our friends in the counties within |
fifty miles Of Richmond would better |
make their arrangements 10 hitch up" |
their big wagons and send committee |
in advance to select their camp grounds
II is believed that there will be scores |
Of Pullman-cars kept here for occupancy |
during the reunion. Many organization.
win come in these cars. viii live in them
while here, and will return home in them
our railroad companies have already had
their attention drawn to this matter
and are prepared to station these cars
even should they come by the hundred
Our Veterans Committee of Arrange
ments, presided over by General Peyton
Wise. have their hands full Notwith-
standing the fact that their work has
been divided and sub-divided. and has
been put into the hands of systematic
and industrious men. its magnitude more
and more clearly appears day by day.
The committees correspondence warns
us TO prepare for a crowd wholly unpre-
In the experience of Richmond
will the attendance from our
sister southern States and from Mary
land and Washington city be large, and
as hosts these must receive our first at
tention. This duty all Virginians should
help us Richmonders TO discharge
IL Is gpipo A be "A poauQra hia ranriop
We shall never see its like repeated. So
let's DO orr very best: let's enjoy the re-
union to the utmost. and make all who
visit Richmond on that occasion rejoice
that they came and proud OF the old Con-
capital.
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