The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
WINNIE DAVIS MEMORIAL.
daughters of COnfederacy Trying
Hard to Raise Needed Funds.


At the meeting of the Charter Chapter
~ Daughters of the Confederacy, to be
ma in Confederate Hail tomorrow, the
subject Of The Winnie Davis memorial VIII
h. considered and a plea for donations
rom the members of the chapter will be
made
Mrs. Margaret Branch Sexton, president
of the chapter, holds this project of the
daughters of the Confederacy very close
and is anxious that in this, as IN so many
other movements that have had for their
direct or ultimate object the good of the
veterans of the Confederacy or of some
of the heroes or The loved ones of that
Lost Cause, the Savannah chapter should
be the banner chapter, as well as the char
,sf chapter of the state. 1t is feared
though, that some of the Daughters do
not view the project in the same light,
nor with the same enthusiasm, as does
their president and that many of them
do not either understand or approve the
actual purpose of the memorial
The object of the memorial, the special
purpose il is designed to serve and the
good it is hoped it lis destined TO accom-
pish are set out in a recent statement
OF the president of the State Normal
School, a branch of the university at
athens, in which he says:
With pardonable pride the president of
the state normal school announces the
fact that the noble women of Georg a,who
constitute that patriotic organization
known as THE Daughters of the Con-
federacy," have DECIDED by unanimous
vote to erect on the premises of the
State Normal School, a handsome build
fng to perpetuate the memory of Winnie
Davis, the beloved Daughter of the Con-
federacy. This building, nober far than
shaft of marble, or pillar of bronze, is 10
be called the Winnie Davis Memorial
Dormitory" II is to be occupied by the
daughters of Confederate soldiers as a
home while attending the State Normal
School. The money, in addition to what
has been subscribed by the people of
Athens and the authorities, faculty and
students of the State Normal School, is
being collected by every chapter in Geor-
gia In this movement the state will
heartily cooperate"
Before the frosts of another winter come
the Winnie Davis Memorial Dormtory
VIII be occupied by several hundred de-
serving young women, daughters of those
who fought for the sacred cause. This
work, the outgrowth of the love for the
memory of the noble woman who was the
Daughter of the Confederacy, has called
forth from Mrs jefferson Davis in a let
ter to Miss Mildred Rutherford-herself
one of the prominent leaders in this move
ment-the following feeling Endorsement:
My dear child often said IF l only
was well enough off to give to Confederate
orphans, to endow a college, or even
chair in one / should be supremacy hap
Ply. Do you think, dear, 1 could ever
afford it?' 1t is a matter of pride and re-
Joicing to me to know my and her dear
friends will do this, and l am sure she
knows it and rejoices in heaven over the
tender offering. May God speed you in
your effort"
The quotation contained in the above
from the letter of Mrs. Davis to Miss
Rutherford should, it would SEEM answer
the objections of those of the Daughters
who are averse TO the whole scheme and
project of raising a memorial TO Winnie
Davis, as opposed 10 her own wishes in
the matter That the loved Daughter of
the Confederacy should herself have for
mulated in her mind a plan for the en-
dowment of a chair in some school or col
lege, in which her sisters of the Southland
would receive instruction, plan that sle
was only prevented by lack of means from
carrying into execution, ought to inspire
the energy of every one of the Daughters
with the added consciousness that they
are to carry out a hope that had long an
imated her breast
The erection of the dormitory at the
Normal School is to be the work of the
various Georgia chapters, ana It's bene-
fits are to be reaped by the daughters or
other female descendants of Confederate
soldiers, resident in the state. At the last
convention it was decided that every
member of every chapter in the state
should be asked to contribute the sum of
81 towards the erection of the memorial.
1t is somewhat essential that this money
should be in hand at as early date as is
practicable, and it is hoped by Mrs. Sex
officers
nah chapter that the members will come
to the meeting tomorrow prepared to
make this contribution