The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-05-31
News and Couricr.

COntouorutO Reunions certainly seem
to be growing in popularity as tho
years roll by, and tho old soldiers
exert themselves to meet together,
fearful that each Reunion is to bo
their last. Tho Trans Mississippi
Division has been asking for year
after ycar for tho reunions on the
ground that tho far West wanted a
show, and Memphis made claim to
tho Western Hathoring and ovory
promise has Leon kept, Memphs
promised Il great reunion, and tho
experts claim that this is record
breaker and that it takos tho prize
for Attendance and arrangement. Tho
press representatives claim that thore
are eighty thousand peoplo hcro, and
Mayor Williams told mo thcro must
DO ono hundred thousand strangers
horo. | havo no way Of tolling, but ono
thing is certain, Momphis, largo
city, is utterly congcstod and over
crowded and is staggering in it's Of
forts to take caro- Of the crowds. Tho
hotels havo up announcements that
they can only offer cots and that they
are at premium.
NIemphis is q city Of over hun
drod thousand, and it has cosmopoli,
tan facilities, but tho great crowd
hero was too much, Memphis went
to work to arrange for tho reunion
arranged for tho entertainment in
grand style. The citizens raised ono
hundred thousand dollars and thoy
arc spending it. They havo raised n
dollar for ovcry man, woman and
child in the city, and $4,000 goes
for tho commissary, $4,000 for tho
Reunion Hall, $1,000 for the Court
Of Palaces, $1,000 for horses and vo.
hlcles, $4,000 for music, $1,000 for
decorations, $4,000 for fireworks, ST..
OOO for sanitary arrangements and 80
on down the line Why colored
citizen gave n thousand, and this docs
not include the contributions Of pro-
visions and the lko from out Of town.
Every man, woman and child was
mado to buy brass buttons, and a
Momphis button WAS as good as fifty
cents in trade. Sentlnols put tho
buttons in lapols anI collected fifty
conts. In this way $4,000 was
mado out Of buttons that cost oight
cents each. Tho buttons oven found
their way to tho Philippines and all
tho papers pushed tho sale. There
is q cue for othors
Although it is fully six hundred
miles from hero to South Carolina,
thero wero many moro Veterans
here than might have boon expected
from that distance, and those who
came wero rejoicod that they camo.
1t was touching to SEQ tho many ro
unions Of old-time companions. Aftor
tho war many South Carolinians,
who had lost heart, went out West
to sock their fortunes; and Texas and
Oklahoma and Mississippi, and othor
States sent hero Veterans who had
gallantly served tho Palmetto State,
and had gallantly served the Pal
motto State, and who camo here to
meet their old frionds. Many had
not met in thirty years end in tho
little room assigned for South Caro-.
lima headquarters thero was fearful
congestion all day long. Veterans
going to 500 if thoy could find Yves.
torn or homo friends and vice versa.
There WAS n registration going on
during the morning, and the Voter
ans all asked that their names be re-
corded, and those from distant
States asked that their names bo in
cluded that their friends may know
their whereabouts. Those who reg.
istered this afternoon numbered over
2OO. Tho record shows that South
Carolinians who fought under the
Southern Cross arc in all of the
Southern States.
Gen. G. [. Walker was here and
was in command OF tho South Caro-
lima division, and was delighted with
the showing his division made. Gen.