Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-08
WORK OF DAUGHTERS
ANNUAL MEETING OF GRAND DIVIS
ION or VIRGINIA.
EXCELLENT PROGRESS BEING MADE.
The Reports Submitted of n Highly
Gratifying Nature-Interest i'm the
Cross of Honor-BriIIinnt Recep-
toni. ID. G. To-Day.

The Grand Division Of Virginia, United
Daughters OF the Confederacy, held its
annual meeting at Lee Camp Hall yes
( terday. There was good attendance,
and the session, of four hours duration,
was full OF interest
! There was brilliant reception at the
Executive Mansion last night i'm honor
OF the Daughters, and in the afternoon
an interesting meeting of the regents and
vice regents Of the Confederate Memorial
! Literary Society was held at the resi-
/ dence Of Mrs. j. Taylor Ellyson. These
meetings and entertainments. like those
Of Monday were all incidental and pre-
/ liminary TO the convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy which
opens this morning.
| Fire broke out I'm a building adjoining
| Lee Camp Hall at 2 o'clock yesterday,
while the hall was filled with delegates
/ TO the meeting of the Grand Division OF
Virginia. United Daughters of the Con-
! federacy. Mrs. Norman Y. Randolph
heard the engines and saw the smoke.
but it escaped the attention Of the others.
/ She mounted the Presidents rostrum, and
! i'm a good-natured and quiet tone asked
the Daughters 10 vacate the room at
once as it was needed. Sne insisted on
/ their leaving which they did. There was
! consequently no excitement
The Grand Division of virginia.
The Grand Division of Virginia was
called To order I'm Lee Camp Hall at 1890
o'clock by the president, Mrs. $. II. Nc
! Cullough. OF StauntOn. large hall was
filled with delegates from every chapter
Of the Grand Division, and with large
number of the Richmond Chapter and its
| friends.
rev. DR.. j. T. Smith. chaplain Of the
Confederate Memorial Literary Society,
opened the meeting with a fervent prayer.
WARM WORDS OF WELCOME.
Mrs. y. Y. Randolph president OF the
Richmond Chapter. made an eloquent adj
dress of welcome. She said in part:
ct is useless 90 say that the Richmond
Chapter. through me. their President
extends to YOU their welcome, but that
| is what / am supposed to do. therefore
| l extend to you the homes, the hearts
and the hands of the Richmond Chapter.
II am going TO say a few words-a
warning and q prayer. Remember what
we are gathered together for to-day
the aggrandizing of oursclVe.. This Us
not a social Organization, but BODY OK
| women who have. many of us. borne the
! sorrows of the war. who come mere To 90
| honor TO the glorious past. not ihe dead
49,, II has sprung TO life hy the deter
roination of these women. They have VIM
! dicated the cause they love. Incy must
| taach il TO their children, without Dltler-
me- mat their fathers were right, ana
! that their cause was just. FIJI up your
| blanks in memory of these men. ana we
win have "a history of our own
RESPONSE OF MRS. GARNEII'
Mr. James Mercer Garnett hohoIdIy
,,eetdent responded gracefully and with
- feeling. she thanked Mrs. Ran
/ dninb and the Richmond Chapter In the
name of the Grand Division or virginia
| g., tbeir cordial welcome. she said IN
mart. 1.-THE very name Richmond Is 80
| suggestive Of all that we Contedelates
| hold dear. Richmond and the southern
| Confederacy seem one and the same-the
/ home of Davis and OF Lee, OF brave men
and patriotic women.
"Tbere is no city that combines as
Pichmond does. so much that is rich in
| historic association and i'm hallowed mem
cries of the past The scene of our hopes,
our triumphs. and. alas. our despair
"No city possesses the same number OF
Confederate societies ana memorials. TO
the many monuments erected here 10 our
soldiers is now TO be added one to the
Daughter of the COniederacy Ihis beau
tiful idea OF hOuOIlHs AtI memory olisi-
mated with the Richmond Chapter and
met with a happy response from the
Daughters throughout the south. The
plan for collecting a fund To- mark the
graves OF Confederate soldiers who dltd
i'm northern prisons was also conceived
bv the Richmond Chapter.
1.-THE women Of Richmond nave al
WAYS been leaders IN every patriotic en-
terurise.
"rhe privilege remains TO us TO hana
down TO future generations the records OF
our brave heroes and 10 see that raise
histories be eliminated from our schools
and I'm their stead be placed those OF
southern writer's In all the histories writ
Ten bv the North the South IS put wholly in
the wrong and no southern child could
read such histories without inferring that
the Confederate leaders and soldiers Were
traitors of the deepest dye
"A true history is not only needed Tor
the youth Of the South. but for the whole
world
"rhis matter will be brought up in the
general convention of the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, and will there
he discussed at length
Mrs. Garnett closed her speech grace
fully with thanns and we'll wishes Tor
the Richmond Chapter.
THE PRESII/tNTS REPORT.
The president then read her report ana