The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-12

given in honor of Miss Mary Custis Lee.
 The entertainment was a fitting climax to a delightful evening. The spacious parlors were decorated in chrysanthe- nuns and palms, and trailing cedar. The table fin the dining room was cover ed with Battenburg lace, cut-glass, and silver. in the centre of which a miniature Merrimac bearing the national colors and floating upon a sea of glass. White wax candles, resting in silver candelabra, and red chrysanthemums, were placed at the four corners of the table.
 Numerous national flags were arranged artistically against the walls. while red and white crysanthemums were banked upon the mantel and smilax and cedar twined about the chandeliers and mirros.
 Mrs. Hodges, in pink silk with an over- dress of cream lace, covered with hand painted medallions. was assisted in re- ceiving by Governor and Mrs. J. Hoge Tyler, Mir. and Mrs. A. J. Montague, Colonel John Goode, Miss Mary Lee. Miss Hattie Ross. Miss Elizabeth Whitlock, Mir. and Mrs. S. w. Travers MT. and A. w. Patterson, Mir. and Mrs. c. F. Borden and Mir, and Mrs. Thomas F. Jeffress. Miss Lulie Whitlock and Miss Elizabeth Patterson presided over the punch bowl.
 WHITE HOUSE ASSOCIATION.
 After an absence of several months the White House Association gladly welcom- ed back the Regent Mrs. ]. D. Beale. who called the meeting to order. and off, fered the following recommendation. which was heartily accepted. ordered printed and placed on the minutes:
 Dear friends and members of the White House Associations: It Is my pleas ure to meet with you again for the first firv,a in arnl ha n reason now to feel that our organization is thoroughly established. Our work was first endorsed by the U. D. C. in Rich- mond, next by the United Confederate Veterans in Atlanta, again in Memphis, where veterans were gathered from all parts of the world. We were endorsed by thousands, appreciating how great would be the preservation of the first White House of the Confederacy. for library and museum. Our own State in conven- ton assembled a few months ago ap- proved. Mir Jones of Montgomery said that the earnest efforts of these wo- men to preserve some of the heroic mem- ories of the man who almost made na- ton of the people who first took their place. for the time being. among the powers of the earth. by reason of a com mand that vent out from these halls These women have been cheered and sus- tained and soothed by the chivalry. cour- tesy and kindness and the great interest which the members of this convention have taken in their work" Another said: 'I have been requested to express on the part of the convention our appreciation of the noble work in which the Daugh- ters of the Confederacy are engaged, and to express to them our desire to see the work that they are engaged in, com pleted and completed soon."
 A resolution was then offered giving every encouragement to the noble band of women having the work in charge. By rising vote the convention unani- mously adopted the resolution. Then. later on, when Alabama veterans met in our own Montgomery, 1000 endorsed our work, saying they were ready to give us their practical assistance.
 We regret that some of the Chapters of the Alabama Division are opposed to this work, but feel that they will not be, when they understand what the work is. The object of my little talk this morning is to say that the time is now suspicious for us to solicit contributions. Through the energetic and laberious work of our noble band we have funds beyond our expectations. We have never asked a penny of any one; now is the time for us to begin to beg" It does not seem possible that any man. woman. or child who lives, or ever has lived in Montgomery could decline to give some thing for the preservation of this, the most historic spot in the entire South. The first White House of the Confederacy to be used as a Confederate library and museum for Montgomery and the extreme South. Ladies let us try to open this library and museum on the 3rd day or June, 1903. the birthday of our chieftain; the same day that our glorious monument will be unveiled in Richmond, Va. Just such work as our Association is trying to accomplish for Montgemery9i Is being enthusiastically carried out in hundreds of other places in America. Travellers in America, Europe. England and the old world, would lose much that Is of in- terest but for the historic spots pointed out. Only the ignorant and uninformed lose sight of the home of Washington, the birth place of Robert E. Lee, Strat- ford on Avon; Burns cottage and thou sands of such places in the world. Let us go on with new energy and zeal and finish this glorious work by June Srd l903
 A message was received from Mrs. c. A. Lanier of love and appreciation, to the White House Association for their deep and loving sympathy in their sorrow, in the death of their darling boy, Clifford Lanier Durr. A letter was read by the secretary from MT John C. McCabe concerning the history of the first Whit" House of the Confectionery, as he saw it in 1S6l He deems the object a wise one, and more enduring than Monuments of marble or bronze" Mrs. Beale form ally presented a beautiful flax wheel, | which has an interesting history to the | Association. It was suggested that a picture of the White House be sent to the Continued on Page Seven.)