New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-10
BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
ALL SOUTHERN STATES REPRESENTED
AT THE MEETING OF THE DAUGH-
TIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
TO PRESERVE THE HISTORICAL TRADITIONS or

~ PRESERVE THE HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF
THE SOUTH AND AID DISTRESSED FAMILIES
OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS IS THE
oBJDcT OF THE ORDER
The fourth annual convention OF the United
Daughters OF the Confederacy will open to-day In
Baltimore There will be present one hundred
delegates, representing all the Southern States
Mrs. d. Giraud Wright will deliver the address of
welcome, and Mrs Augustine 7. Smythe Of
Charleston. S. C.. Will respond The president
Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee, will preside, and among the
distinguished Southern women who will partcl-
pate are the names OF Mrs Capers wife OF Bishop
General Capers, OF South Carolina formerly OF the
Confederate Army.
There will be reception given 10 the delegates
this evening. and tomorrow afternoon a reception
at the Confederate Soldiers Home. Tomorrow
night the delegates will be given a theatre party
at Fords Opera House. the manager having Of
fered the Baltimore chapter tickets at half price
for visitors
The object OF this order Is 10 preserve the his
torcal traditions OF the South TO aid the distressed
families OF the soldiers OF the Confederacy and to
advance all movements for the commemorat.on OF
the valor Of the sons OF the Southland. Mrs Good
lett. or Nashville. Tenn, the chief organizer
ana was elected president In 1894. Since then the
organization has grown rapidly. New-York City
has several fourlshng chapters
Mrs John p Hickman OF Nashville Is the re-
"NNit'hI)' anu WAS one OF tne organizers
OF the United Daughters OF the Confederacy. She
Is the daughter OF Confederate solder and her
mother lost two brothers al Shiloh. All the male
relatives on both sides OF her family were I'm the
war. and when Nashville was captured her mother
with seven small children. fed South and remained
III the Confederate lines until the close OF hoslll-
Ties. Mrs Hickman was small girl at the time.
but she remembers many thrilling Incidents and
the roar OF cannon and the rattle OF musketry were
familiar sounds to her young ears. Her husband
fifteen and served I'll the close OF the war.
Mrs Kate Mason Rowland e corresponding sec:
retary OF the organization. She Is the author OF
work now In press. Life OF Charles Carroll q
G , the last OF the signers Of the Decara
Life Of George Mason" her collateral ancestor.
the Trainer OF the famous Virginia Bill Of Rights
United Daughters OF the Confederacy Her two
brothers served in the war one resigning his West
Point ca ietshlp I'm 1851 to offer his sword TO Vlr-
ginia He served on the stan OF General Robert
Ransom. The other brother entered the nth Vir.
GINA Regiment. when but seventeen years of age.
joining a company from Alexandria. near which
ferred to the Confederate Navy. and served as
midshipman on the Shenandoah in her adventurous
cruise.
EIGHTY YEARS OLD.
Miss Emily V. Mason an aunt Of Miss Mason
Rowland. will. II she attends the Baltimore con-
vention, be the oil lest member In attendance She
IL over eighty. and Is member OF the Mary
Custls Ies Chapter United Daughters OF the Con
federacy Of Virginia. She Is mentioned in Mrs.
Jefferson Davis's biography OF her husband along
with Mrs Catharine Armlsted Rowland another
relative OF Mise Emily Mason Rowland. for her
devoted services to the Confederate wounded.
Miss Emily V. Mason's popular Life OF General
Robert T.. Lee WAS one OF the first that appeared
after the death o. the eminent Confederate com
mander. In 1870.
Mrs Augustine r. smythe Is one Of the Vice
presidents OF the organization. Her husband.
once a Confederate soldier now n leading lawyer
Of Charleston. for IA number of years a State
Senator. Her grandfather, I,angdon Cheves. was
AT different times I'm his life president OF the
Bank of the United States member OF Congress
from South Carolina. Speaker of the House OF
Representatives Of the United States and Judge OF
the Supreme Court Of South Carolina. one OF his
sons. Captain Langdon Cheves. lost his life at
Fort Wagner. OF which fertilization he was ono
OF the military engineers. Captain Langdon
Chev"s McCord. Mrs Smythe's only brother. died
OF wounds received I'm battle.