The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-26

Anniversary Meeting of Confederate
Veterans Association mt NOon-Mny
he Opposition to Election of Board
Nominated "a Week AgO-Parade
This Afternoon VIII Include Many
Organizations Military Escort
Under Col. WHY'S Commnnd-Ex-
ercises in Park Extension and mt
Confederate LOt-SpeciaI Exercises
and Address at Guards Hall.
1t is Memorial Day. Throughout the
South the people mourn and honor the
South's immortal dead. In Savannah, as
in her sister cities, in towns, villages and
settlements, there will be memorial serv-
ices.
In this city the exercises are to be es-
pecially elaborate. They will include the
decoration of the graves Of all the Con-
federate soldiers who lie buried in the
cemeteries around Savannah, special
meetings of the Confederate Veterans
Association and McLaws Camp of Confed-
crate Veterans, the parade of this after
noon in which the military of the city
will unite with the Confederate organiza-
tions, and during the progress of which
there will be special exercises at the Con-
federate monument, in the Park Extern
sion, and the Confederate lot in Laurel
Grove, and the Memorial Day exercises
and address, at Guards Hall, this even
ing.
During the morning the several COM
mittees of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy viii be busy caring for and decorat-
ms the graves of soldiers, in the Cathe-
dral Cemetery, Laurel Grove and Bona
venture. The graves of all of those SOL
diers who have no relatives living in Sa-
vannah will be looked after by the COM
mttees of the Daughters.
During the morning also the monument
in the Park Extension will be elaborate
~ decorated. special design having been
drawn. The members of the committee
from the Daughters of the Confederacy.
which has this work specially in charge,
will be assisted by a detachment from
the Savannah Fire Department, in dec
Grating the monument.
At noon the annual meeting of the Con-
federate Veterans Association will be
| held at Confederate Hall. The officers
of the association for the coming year
are elected at this meeting. The entire
old board was nominated at the ante
anniversary meeting held a week ago.
Usually this nomination is equivalent to
election, but this year it is rumored there
will be some opposition to the election of
one member of the board.
At 3 O'Clock in the afternoon a special
meeting of McLAws Camp of Veterans
will be held at knights of Pythias Hall
The First Regiment of Infantry and the
| Savannah Volunteer Guards Battalion
will assemble at o'clock in the after
| noon. The place of assembly for the reg
iment will be the Park Extension, while
| the Guards will form their battalion op-
| posite their armory on Bull street The
| regiment will march down Drayton to
| CASTOR and on CASTOR to Bull. AS the
march down Bull is continued the Guards
| and the Lawton Cadets will form behind
| the regiment.
Owing to the non-arr1vaI OF the neld
uniforms. for Company L.. the First In
| fantry will parade in campaign hats and
the dress uniform, the company officers
wearing compaign hats and Ieggins, the
| same as the men.
The military escort will be under the
| command of Col. Thomas s. WyIIy. the
senior officer i'm line. The First Regiment
will be commanded by Lieut.. Col. G.. A.
Gordon, and the Guards by Mai. w. W.
| Williamson. A detachment from the Sa-
/
mand of Supt. Mcguire, will be also in
| line.
The Confederate Veterans Association.
! McLaws' Camp of Confederate Veterans
Barlow Camp of Sons of Veterans and
the chapter of Children of the Confedera-
cy, will assemble at Wright Square, at
| 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Under the
| rules of the Confederate Veterans Asso.
| citation and the custom that has been OBJ
served in the past, the marshal of the
| parade will be Maj. G.. NJ. Ryals, senior
ex-president of the association. Gen. =.
! McGlashan, the other ex-president of the
association, will be assistant marshal.
The line of march will be out Bull
| street to CASTOR, on CASTOR to Drayton.
on Drayton to Hall and thence to the
! Confederate monument From the monu-
ment, where the usual exercises will be
| conducted and where the veterans will
deposit the wreaths they will carry in
the parade, the line of march will be con-
tinued to the Confederate lot in Laurel
Grove. Then the concluding exercises
| will be held. There will be a PRAYER.
a song by the Children of the Confederacy
and the sounding of TAPS" The chill
dren will wear, as nearly as possible the
colors of the Confederacy. white and red.
! At the cemetery they will scatter flow
ers over the soldiers graves.
The exercises at Guards Hall will be-
! gu dt o.ou y tlOCh III the evening. The
| programme will be as follows:
Solo and chorus, Dixie" Master Ever
EFT 6tothart and the boys of st. Johns
| choir.
Prayer.
Solo, Conquered Banner" Mr.. William
| f. Blois.
Chorus, Bonnie Blue Flag" ST. Johns
| choir.
| Address.
The choir singing will be under the d.
rection of Mr.. Edwyn Woodlands, choir
master of st. Johns. The observance of
the day has been arranged by a commit
tee from the Confederate Veterans Asso-
citation, of which Gen. W. w. Gordon is
! chairman
The members of the committee having
in charge the decoration of the monu-
ment are especially anxious to make It
| as beautiful and elaborate as possible. To
| this end they request that those having
| flowers, however small I'm quantity they
wish to devote TO this purpose. will bring
| them TO the monument this morning.
HORSE STOLE FEED.