Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-09
MONUMENTS UNVEILED.
Woodmen Of the Worlds Tribute
to Dead Soyereigns.
Norfolk, Portsmouth md Bcrhloy.
wish SUFFOLK, Pay rEonor.s 90 l.. M.
Tobo and r. p. spivoy-Tho Exer-
ciscs and Grafton.
Especial to Virginian-Pllot.)

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Suffolk, Va. Jan. s.-Sunday was CIV
en- over to the Woodmen of the World.
with imposing ceremonies and in the
presence Of 1000 persons two shafts
were unveiled in Cedar Hill cemetery.
They were erected to the memories Of
HpvereignsP. p. Spivey. Suffolk, and
louis M. Tebo, Norfolk
The double unwilling was preceded by
a. tong parade headed by the Phoenix
Military Band. The exercises were I'M
der the auspices Of Suffolk and Nor
Folk Woodmen. to whose camps the de-
ceased belonged. Portsmouth sover-
eigns were guests-very welcome
goests. Portsmouth had 9S men. Nor
folk 81 and Suffolk about 40.
CAME ON A SPECIAL.
A special train was run here from
Portsmouth over the Seaboard Air
Line. 1t brought $50 Woodmcn and
about 100 ladies' and men friends. They
were prospectus looking people. and
Suffolk was glad to have them. The or
der OF parade was: Band. Suffolk,
Norfolk, Portsmouth.
Following are the Woodmen who
took part;
From Magnolia Camp, No. Ports
mouth-C H. Herbert, consul com
mander: II. P. Filler. advisory lieuten-
ant; e. L. Dashiels. clerk; w. H. Fair
less, deputy supreme organizer; j. Il.
Ennis. w. II. Austin, w. C. Lee S. H.
Simcoe.
From Elizabeth Camp No. 3. Norfolk
"A. G. Fine. chairman National Board
of Managers, the third ranking office
d., Ir,t4 IIor DIV -
sui commander of Virginia; T. B. jack
son, captain of procession; w. II. Muir
ply. acting banker c. G. Copper. adj
Visory lieutenant; c. II. Tumbleson,
escort: ]. ]. Lawler. sentry.
From Rosewood Camp No. S, Suffolk
&c. a. Shoop. consul commander; ]. c..
Nelms Jr.. clerk; J. Walter Hosier,
master of ceremonies; w. b. Law
rance. advisory lieutenant; G. T. Bat
ten, captain of procession.
THE ORATOR.
The platform was built on large,
round pine logs, symbolical of the or
der. and put up after the manner of
log cabin. A United States flag was
urfurled by the zephyrs.
The orator OF the occasion was Mr.
Hugh G. Miller. of Norfolk. Mr.. Miller
spoke forty minutes without notes or
manuscript. Tho Grafton was rich in
rhetoric and was delivered with pleas
Ing eloquence and grace.
The sovereigns in whose memories
the shafts were uncovered both came
to their ends suddenly. Tcbo was
drowned In a bay near Norfolk; Spivey
fell dead OF heart disease.
After repeating two verses OF "Oh,
Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be
Proud!" which the speaker character
70 h. aot nf
all American poems," he said in part:
primarily we have assembled here
this Sabbath evening, not to pay tri
butte to riches or mower, to the vain
polnp and glory Of the world, as typl
dled and embodied in the worlds friv-
b1dns and fleeting acceptation OF ordi
harry human greatness and human
achievements We are here. however.
20 Day tribute in our humble way to
-S !esaii4aeeeee-at-least-is-t he-heSt- type of
American manhood and the noblest ex-
huples Of exalted Christian character.
1.-THE younger fraternal brother. over
whose remains this beautiful shaft has
been raised, had filled hardly more
Shan one-third OF his allotted years
upon earth. when, suddenly. tragicaily
Ind without warning, on the threshold
of life. In fulness Of his powers and
In the bloom of his youth, in the twink
llntS OIL iii eye, Ills SOUL WAS ClllcQ nOlIlC
TO meet the God who gave it. Your
other brother was somewhat older.
"I say we arc not here to pay tribute
to riches or place or power, but IL to
have been true to all the heavy obliga-
lions which developed upon them; If
TO have responded with sublime and
heroic courage to all the requirements
OF life: If to have lived q stainless
Christian life. void of offense toward
md fr~tt4 n t.
with 1t any claim to human recognition
and human recollection-then these
brothers Of your fraternity are entitled
TO shafts that should pierce the very
ETHEREAL mists of these wintry skies
memorials that should rival indeed the
monuments of princes and potentates"
The speaker painted a pretty floral
word-picture Of the morn near the
shores of the bay where young Tebo
was drowned, and which he termed
the greatest moving sandhill in all
tho known world" He closed like this:
"And with our knees bent rcvercntly
with theirs let the monuments of their
virtues inspire us also 10 look together
into the future and endeavor. as far
as possible. to guide each faltcrlng
foot-step over the rough places by the
great golden rule of fraternal love until
we meet to travel together again along
the bright and shiny pathway OF the
stars"
PETERSBURG