The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-03
CADETS WILL BE ESCORT.
TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS AS
ISOLATION AT WAYCRoSS.

Military VIII Carry Fifty Men, Under
Command of Capt. j. II. West-Gen.
McGInshan Addressed Meeting of
| the Company on the Subject of the
Reunion of the South Georgia Bril-
Eade of United Confederate Vet
| erans-Mny BE Special Train for
Veterans, Military and other Visi-
fors-Cheap Rate for Everybody.
waycross Citizens Busy With
Preparations.
At last nights meeting of the Savannah
Cadets the command decided to attend
the reunion of the South Georgia Brigade
CT the Georgia Division Of the United
Confederate Veterans, that will be held
tomorrow at Waycross.
The Cadets will attend the reunion as
the escort of the Confederate Veterans
Association of this city. Some days ago
the Cadets extended the Association
provisional offer of their escort, the offer
being dependent upon the success of the
command in securing a sufficient number
of its members who were able to make
the trip At the meeting Of The command
Ht4u ii Neth d5O II was NNNAN~NA 1850 -
forty members sisniAed their willingness
to go to Waycross the trip would be
made the non-commissioned officers of the
company being appointed a committee to
canvass the active list and urge the at
tendance of all who could possibly go.
At last nights meeting the committee
reported its success and several mem
bers, who had previously expressed doubts
as to their ability to make the trip re-
considered their determination and stated
that they would go. 1t is expected that
the Cadets viii carry nearly nifty men
under the command of Captain j. I.
West.
The company has been ordered TO as
semble at the armory at 545 o'clock to-
morrow morning. whence it will march TO
the Plant System depot. The train for
Waycross will leave the depot at $40
o o'clock, city time. The orders for the
command prescribe the blue uniform, cam
paign hats, blue shirts and leggins, as
the garb to be worn by its members dur
ing the day Besides Capt. West, Lieut..
j. c. Tyson and Lieut.. George II. Rich-l
ter will also accompany the Cadets on
the trip.
Gen P McGlashan, commanding the
brigade of veterans, was present at the
meeting of the Cadets. and addressed tham
on the subject of the reunion and their
proposed attendance. Gen. McGlashan
states that the cheap rates that have been
offered by the Plant System for the day,
apply to citizens generally and are not
confined to members of the military COM
man.N, and the veterans themselves.
1t is possible that with the attendance
of the military a certainty, the number of
the veterans who will go constantly in
creasing, those citizens of Savannah who
will go to crafty their curiosity and
watch the gathering of the veteran clans
and the number of veterans who viii come
in from the country and go down with
their comrades from the city, that the
railroad people will see sufficient attend
ance in prospect to provide special tram,
instead of special cars, for the trip. The
matter of transportation has been left in
the hands of Col. NJ. P Usina, adjutant
| general and chief of Gen. McGlashan's
| staff.
The Waycross people are making extern
| sive arrangements for the entertainment
of the veterans and the other guests of
| their town during the day. The business
sessions of the convention will be held in
| the morning and late afternoon, while the
middle of the day will be given up 10 a
| genuine, old-fashioned South Georgia bar
| becue and to parade of the veterans and
| tne military Jndl Will ne IN dlteiudHCe.
| At the business sessions, which will be
| held in the Opera House. there viii be ad-
| dresses by number of prominent citi-
| zens of Waycross and the surrounding
country and by equally prominent visiting
ex-Confederates. Among the latter will be
| Gen. Clement A. Evans, commanding the
Georgia division of the confederation.
Gen. McGlashan hopes that every one
of the thirty-two or thirty-three camps
| In the brigade VIII be represented by at
| least a small delegation, and that some
of them will come with comparatively full
| ranks. The Waycross people are looking
| forward to the attendance of visitors to
| the number of 1000 or 5000.
| Veterans and visitors reaching Savan-
| nah from the country on the early morn
| ing trains of the Central and Seaboard
| Air Line will be able to take the sos
train on the Plant System for Waycross,
| and reach the reunion city in time for
the barbecue and the parade. Gen Nc
| Glashan and his staff are enthusiastic
over the prospects, and believe that the
reunion will accomplish much towards
the patriotic and benevolent objects and
purposes for which the United Confed-
crate Veterans stand
|