The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-14
HOSTS OF VETERANS
FOR NEW ORLEANS
Local COnfederates to At
tend Encampment.
THE GREATEST EVER KNOWN
Each State Sends Thousands of Old
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for Their
Reception Complete.

Twelve delegates and alternates were
last night appointed from among the
local veterans who wore the gray, to at
tent the big Confederate reunion which
begins next week in New Orleans.
The men chosen are H A Herbert
Frank Hume, Warrington c. King. L. b.
Brown, H B. Littlepage, R. w. Hunter.
delegates. and George Y Ingrahan,
Thomas G.. Garrett, Alexander P. Morse.
Silas Hare, Henry NJ. Marmaduke, and ].
F. Hartigan, alternates.
Many of the delegates will leave for
the Crescent City tomorrow, the re-
mainder going Saturday. The Pennsyi-
vania Railroad is to run a special train
through from New York Saturday. which
will pick up crowds of former Confeder-
ates at New York, Philadelphia, and
Baltimore. Many who were not Con
federates are going on this train, in
Guiding number of ladies' from Wash
ington.
The train will leave here at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning, going over the South
ern to Lynchburg. the Norfolk and West
ern to Bristol, over the Southern again
TO Chattanooga, and thence over the
Queen and Crescent to New Orleans.
They will be there in plenty of time for
the opening
The encampment will be one of the
greatest of the kind ever organized, and
some say it viii be the last thousands of
aged veterans will attend. The ranks are
being thinned rapidly
Of
lost cause will be camped at the Fair
Grounds on the outskirts Of the city.
The race track betting ring Will be their
dining room. and hundreds of tents have
been erected in the infield
The attendance will be the greatest
in history. Tennessee is to send 5000
veterans; Arkansas, 5000; Mississippi
from $4,000 to 10000; Texas. i, GOO TO
10000; Alabama. 5000; Georgia, 1000;
the Carolinas. 5000; Virginia, 5000;
Kentucky, 1900, and the other States
about $4,000.
The governors of nearly all of the
Southern States Will attend Mrs. JEFF
ferson Davis. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson
and several other widows of distin-
guished soldiers are TO attend Judge
j. H. Reagan, the sole survivor of tb-
Confederate cabinet, who is a resident
now of Texas, will also be present.
The lady heralds of all the States.
who will ride in decorated coaches at
the head of the divisions bearing the
State banners, have all accepted. They
are:
Virginia, Miss Eunice Niche, Char
lottesyille; Maryland. Miss Willie
Henry, New Orleans; North Carolina,
Miss Julia Alexander. Charlotte; South
Carolina, Miss NJ. Earl Watrous, Co
lumbia; Tennessee, Miss Elsie Vance,
Memphis; Georgia, Miss Frances Mel
drim. Savannah; Alabama, Miss Willie
Browning HARRISON, Montgomery; Mis-
sissippi, Miss Ethel Sara Silyey, Jack
son; Missouri. Miss Elliott Todhunter,
Lexington; Florida, Miss Elizabeth Le-
gre Fleming. jacksonville; Texas, Miss
Estelle Cartwright, Terrell: Arkansas,
Miss Bessie Rogers. Fort Smith; Ken
lucky, Miss Madeline Bridgeford, Louis
Vile; Louisiana, Miss Bessie Utz,
Shreveport
The chaperon for the New Orleans
division Will be Mrs Newton C. Blanch-
ard, wife of Justice Blanchard, of the
Supreme Court