The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-09
MEMORIAL HALL.
What Capt. B. H. league Says Of
Present Status
OF THE FUND BEING RAISED
To Build the Battle Abbey at
Richmond, Va, in Which to
Preserve Relices OF Con-
federate Soldier.

Preserve Relices OF Con-
federate Soldier.
To the Editor Of The News and
Courier: AS the South Carolina Diyi-
sion Of the Z. G. V. will not meet in
Reunion until after the Dallas Re-
union, and as it is proper that the
Veterans of the State should be in
formed as to the status OF the Con-
federate Memorial Association, (the
so-called "Rouss Battle Abbey Asso-
ciation,''J allow me through this cor
respondence to give them such infor-
matiCn as possess.
At the Louisville Reunion it was
shown that subscriptions had been
obtained in amount to cover the 500,
900 offered bv Mr.. Rouss.
At the Memphis Reunion it was
shown that a sufficient amount from
these subscriptions, and what was
deposited in different banks and held
in the hands of camps, etc, would
warrant the belief that the 100000
to be raised by the Association was at
hand and needed only to be collected
and put in the hands Of the treasurer,
Mr.. Geo Christian, at Richmond, Va.
this city having been chosen as the
location of the Memorial Hall.
The soliciting agent, Gen Under
wood, was therefore instructed to get
these sums together and deposit them
with the treasurer. At the same time,
according to agreement and contract,
Gen Underwood was instructed to
draw the amount due and now payable
to him since the 500, 600 was practic-
ally in view. Gen Underwood had
not up to the time drawn or had been
paid anything from the amounts COL
lected. The amount drawn by Under
wood was S25, 1923, and was paid to
him from deposit Of S59,44S in bank
at Covington, KY, leaving on deposit
S34.425, subject to the order OF the
treasurer whenever the full amount Of
100000 would be collected. The
sundry amounts were as follows:
On deposit with treasurer at
Richmond, Fa..........S 1854 50
Exposition fund on deposit
at Nashville, Tenn. .... 6,026 96
Collections by Underwood on
deposit at Covington, Ky, 9,446 80
Sums IN the hands of camps,
etc o,'4o w
Total $40, ,906 80
These sundry amounts were con-
sidered sufficiently good by Mr.. Rouss
as to prompt him to place an approx
mate amount Of 100000 in the hands
of the treasurer.
Now Of the subsc-iptions-one OF
Mr.. Marcus DAILY was for s45, ,000-ive
thousand Of which was paid by him.
The balance was considered as good as
cash, but unfortunately the donor died
before it was paid over to the collec-
tor, and since then the widow refusing
to pay it, suit was entered into to
obtain the balance, and by legal ad-
vice compromise is about to be effect
ed, by which this balance is reduced
to $4,000.
There are other subscriptions
amounting to-. IS I,ooO w
Add Marcus DAILY Subscrip-
JlOn ....... ..:'....-.' 7o'ooo w
And amounts on deposit. 79,eo6 so
The total is shown Of ..s121, 456 60
The actual cash though, was s79,-
9O6 60.
Now, after the payment of Gen I'm
derwood and the unfortunate hold-up
of the DAILY subscription, the cash OF
the Association shrinks to S54, SS3 60.
If the DAILY compromise is effected
there will then have to be raised still
some thirty thousand dollars to meet
the balance of Mr.. RousS'S fund.
The heirs Of Mr.. RouSs assure the
Association that the last payment OF
his fund will be made whenever the
full amount of the one hundred thous-
and dollars required by the Associa-
tion is on deposit.
1t will be seen that the full amount
in cash realized by the Association,
after more than a year of effort
through individuals, camps, chapters,
etc, in the length and breadth of the
South previous to the employment OF
Gen Underwood, was $40, 457 II. 1t
will also be seen that had the money
been realized from the DAILY subscrip-
tion the board Of trustees would have
been in condition to have gotten the
whole of the RouSS fund and work
would have been going on now on the
Memorial Hail. The board OF trustees
Of the Association has recently in a
full and harmonious meeting, in At.
lanta, Ga, at much expenditure Of
time and money to themselves, gone
thoroughly over the situation and will
at the Dallas Reunion present full
report. The members Of the board
are enthusiastic in their faith in the
ultimate erection Of the Memorial
Hall.
B. H. league.
Member for South Carolina Of the
Board of Trustees G. NJ. \.
Aiken, March 81.