The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-20
ccgooL CHILDREN HONOR LEE
,rrs TO HIS CHARACTER
1H'p '',,v COMING GRADUATES.

,.ftinl step lo""T"
,,-i,,- Fruit in Annual CeIebra-
90 the birthday of Great
Lees Three visits to Sn-
.,-rio,v Honor Was Paid to
vi" Memory On the Day of His
obscauies
r1iri grade of the High School,
',., observed Gen. Lees birthday,
,ren,red an excellent programme
rs,.r was enjoyed by the members OF ne
W. and those of the sister graduating
cas- ~ IN which an invitation had been
5.5 A committee consisting of Miss
s.t. Wlensky, Marie Cheatham and
p,l,.r was IN charge of the enter
tainment
g.,,e,intendent Ashmore was present,
80 when called on, gave an APP
ar,n-iate talk regarding Lee as a moral
5,,uit3rv hero He considered the eoun-
w., f,runate in having a hero of such no
~, Qualities lie spoke of the fact that
Iass father. Light Horse Harry Lee,
-.,. hurled ON Cumberland Island. He
closed his talk by appealing to the young
ladies' TO cherish the memory of Lee, Of
~. GREAT man of The South, and "of the
mixers Of our own historic city" Prof
parks also spoke of Lee and Savannah,
t,iic, how often Lee had visited this city
and how well savannah had honored the
ors,f soldier. Lee, he said, paid three
visits 10 Savannah, one as a young lieu
tenant o, engineers, just after his sradua-
ton at West Point then as a general in
tho e,r,y DAYS of the Confederacy, and fin
aly in the last year Of his life when ne
eoigbt rest0ra ion of health. Mr.. Parks
rayr an account Of the proceedings of The
neople of savannah at the time of the
a daatb of Gen Lee. He read several pages
Il from, a record obtained from the Georgia
his orical Society. Col John Screven vas
n Navor al The time, in October, 1870.
Among those IN charge of the exercises
n in memory Of Lee were Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston. Gen a. r, Lawton, Commodore
Josiah Iattual, Gen. ii. c. Wayne, Gen.
g NJ Sore, Gen. Henry r. jackson and
others,
Saturday Oct 49, the day set apart for
the obseQuias of Gen. Lee at Lexington,
Va, was observed here in strict accord
ance with the proclamation of the Mayor.
n The bells were toled from O'Clock in the
q morning until O'Clock in the evening.
n The edidces of The corporation, the houses
and halls of The IRE engine companies, the
hotels the Offices of the public journals,
places Of business and private residences,
all were drdped with mourning. The people
abandoned their secular pursuits and ded-
q ica.ed the day wholly and solemnly to the
memory Of the good and great man they
incurred
Mr. Parks also gave an account of the
first celebration in Savannah of the birth
n day of Gen Lee. 1t was on Jan 10, 1871
Gen. A. R. LaWton was the orator of the
day, and delivered a grand eulogy to the
dead soldier All Savannah Joined in the
n celebration The crowd was so great that
III the theater was abandoned and the Grafton
III was delivered by Gen. Lawton at Forsyth
NJ Park. Eight thousand people were pres
Nj enL
Three papers, by members of the class.
M were then read. Miss Mary Cabaniss spoke
# Of The Character of Lee" "Our Recent
# War With SPAIN" said she, "has furnish
ed Us with many heroes, but with none
SO dear to our hearts as our hero of the
civil war Robert e. Lee. The whole
Ri World cannot but admire his great ability
as a general and his stainless character,
while We, the people of the South. both
Nj love and honor his memory. We honor
MN for his justice, his love of duty. his
hrmnesS In carrying out his purposes and
his pure life. We love him for his tender
"a ness his simplicity, his gentleness and his
ue'ouoA 10 the South. History affords us
10 better example of a man who was as
toOu as ne was great, and as great as he
Il was good"