The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-01
THE BOYS IN GRAY
MUSICAL TRIUMPH OF MRS
Observation-Disclosures.
Three Centuries of American Ballads
in Costume-Enterainment of Con-
federate Veterans in New York. !

IN COStume-Enteralnm OF Con-
federate Veterans in New York !
The Caucasian is gratlfed to note that
Mrs. Hollingsworth-W Watkins (Adah
Hollingsworth), who has resided in
New York city since she left her home
in Shreveport soon after her marriage,
is. achieving fattering success and tri-
u1nphs in her art At the thirteenth an
nual banquet of the Confederate Vet
Grams Camp of New York, given at the
Waldorf f-Astoria, Mrs. Hollingsworth-
Watkins arranged program of songs,
divided into three parts, giving an illus
tration of three epochs of American
taste. The first part consisted of the
songs of Colonial Days-of ballads
which were brought from England by
the wives and daughters Of the gentle
men who settled the Virginia and
Maryland plantations in the Seven
teenth and enighteenth ceutries. They
were sung to the lutte, and later to the
harpsichord, and were a factor in the
creation of the farmers social life Of
that period OF. American history.
The second part was made up of
Songs of Ante-Bellum Days" The pc
riod between 1890 and 1860 has come
to be considered the romantic period of
American social life Music was the
chief part of every woman's education,
for it was the time when twas de-
manded that she should be an enter
tainer. These are the ballads which
were sung to the guitar and the piano
f1om New Orleans to Boston.
The third. part of the program was
made up of selections from the songs by
favorite American composers tof today.
Referring to this entertainment, the
American Art Journal, leading au-
thority on musical art, says:
THE musical attraction at the dinner
of the Confederate Veteran Camp in
New York, at the Waldorf-Astoria on
January 2o, proved to be the hondsome
and accomplished Louisiana, singer and
artistic, Mrs. Hollingsworth- Watkins,
with her sympathetic rendering of ante
bellum songs that were familiar and
dear to the hearts of the Boys in Gray.
Her series was given in costume, each
and every one was applauded to the
echo, and the audience sealed her tri-
unoh when She responded to vocif-
erous recall with the. 'Suwanee River
Commander Edward Owen, of the
New York Camp, acted as POSTMASTER.
On his right sat Mayor Low, next to
Cacrles Francis Adams. Others at the
g,1ests' table were Col Watterson, Viii
liam Hepburn Russell, Ex-Chief Justice
of Tennessee D. L. Snodgrass, General
Thomas H. Hubbard, Walter S. Logan,
ex-Justiee Roger A. Pryor, ex-Justice
Augustus Van Wyck and General A.
S. Barnes. Among others seated at the
tables there were: DR.. Simon Baruch,
General Francis V. Greene, Justice
Charles M. Truax, ex-Judge Vim. NJ
K. Olcott, DR.. Frank NJ Deems, Colonel
Prentiss Ingraham, Colonel and Mrs.
Andrew 6. Dickinson, Colonel Arthur
y. S. A; Hugh. S. Thompson,
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Calhoun, Viii
liam NJ Laffan. Isaac N. Selign1an, DIR.
William NJ. Polk, DR.. G. T. Harrison,
General n. T. Douglas, Mr.. and Mrs.
John S. Wise, DR. Theodore Steele,
Patrick Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs A. B.
Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner,
Justice and Mrs. Henry Bischoff, R.
w. Gwathney, w. E. g. Gail1ard, w.
G. McAdoo, the Rev. S H. Cranberry,
Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Hutchinson, Mr..
and Mrs. G. Howland Leavitt, Mr. and
Mrs. Marion J.. Verdery, Mr.. and Mrs.
Valentine P. Snyder.
Notwithstanding the Old Cornfeds
we're in the company of these dignita-
-ies. their guests, of whom a number
wore the Blue, they were Rebels still
ind could not restrain their manifesto
ion of enthusiasm the demonstration
# their loyalty to the South, their url-=
lying love for the Lost Cause
As it may be of interest to the Rebels
n this section of the United States we
,ive the names of the officers of the
Confederate Veteran Camp of New
FORK as follows:
Comnander-Edward Owen.
Lieutenant Commander-Samue1 D.
PAUL.
Paymaster-Stephen w. Jones.
Adiutant-T thomas Z. Moore
Chaplain Rev. George S, Baker.
Surgeon-Dr. ]. Harvey Deed
Executive Committee-William Lind
ay. Thee C.. Caslcin. F. Thornb,irr1 |