The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
po and Other Officers Of the
Association Unanimously
Reelected.
CLOSE OF The REUNION
Il. IN Hand Sufficient for Beginning Work
~, f5e Battle Abbsy---Announcement That
Marcy for Davis Monument is Sc
cured Eyokes TumuItuous
Applause.
lRv the Associated Press.)

v4U Orleans, May ZL.-ile dcCudi puoi
If the Confederate Reunion was
tu,gbt TO an end today and the dele
adjourned sine die at noon.
General Gordon was reelected COM
-o4ar-n-chief and all the department
.,,nar5ers. Generals Lee, Walker and
rtal were at the same time chosen to
er far another year the offices they have
.at 50 long. All the elections were
...r.r,.u- and were made by one shout
of aye
r5o rlace Of holding the next reunion
,s left to The executive committee. II
will he held in Louisville, Nashville or ST.
Lama. II is the desire Of the officials on
fine organization to arrange matters so
that a single railroad rate VIII allow the
5Iagltes to attend the reunion and visit
.be worlds fair at st. Louis, either golng
or coming. In the absence OF any definite
syapment with the railroads and their
inability to say what could be done, the
5aoertmpnt commanders asked that the
entire matter be left to the executive
cornell for a final decision after consulta-
-on with the railroad officials. Then
wish was granted by a unanimous vote.
General s. D. Lee presided at the open
ing session of the reunion.
In the absence of General Gordon, who
remained in his room at the hotel, to gam
Is much strength as possible for the
ordeal OF the parade tomorrow, the at
tendance was smaller than at any previ-
GUS session. though the hall was well
filed before the time for adjournment.
The Committee on Credentials reported
that there was a total of 1858 camps rep
resented at the reunion, with 2,243 prop
erlv accredited delegates. The report was
unanimously adopted.
General A. P. Stewart presented a report
covering his connection with the project
To erect a monument to the women OF the
South. General Stewart reported that the
Memphis reunion in 1901, he had been
made treasurer of the fund, but had later
resigned his position in favor of a firm
which had been previously appointed tof
the same purpose. He announced he had
a fund amounting to 1902, which he was
prepared to turn over to the committee
unless it had been otherwise ordered by
the convention. The matter, upon the
suggestion of General Lee went over until
a later time for action.
HUZZAS FOR WHEELER.
The report of the Battle Abbey Com
mittee was then offered by General Clem-
eut A. Evans. He had said but a lew
words when General Joseph Wheeler came
INTO the hall, and for a few minutes 1t was
all over with the Battle Abbey, while the
delegates cheered a welcome to the little
commander.
General Wheeler, after reaching the ros-
trum, made a short address. He urged
upon his hearers the necessity OF proVld-
ing for the needy and aged soldiers OF the
Confederacy, suggesting that the best way
To bring this about was through the va
rous state Legislatures. At the conclus-
ION Of General Wheeler's speech, General
Evans resumed the reading of the Battle
Abbey report. lie announced that the
cash in hand and in immediate prospect
amounts to $204,471. OF this amount $1O4,-
All is in cash in bank. $40. 600 is the re
naming portion of the Rouss donation:
$4,000 has been donated by the City OF
Richmond and $40, 900 by individual resi-
dents of that place.
The committee therefore recommended
lnat us $200, 000, the minimum amount de
sired for the erection of the abbey, had
N~N NtCUItu, the Jl1ne IdO dIIlN GU Tx
commencement of the work. The report
was adopted.
THE DAVIS MONUMENT.
Dr. G. H. Tichener for the Southern
Memorial Association, reported that the
,und Tor the erection of a monument to
jefferson Davis had been finally secured.
me announcement was received with tu-
A4llgH@ enn1arra HI ,rraJ IN addition
1-at the petition to erect a monument to
NE women Of the South be taken up with
energy.
a delegate from Texas asserted that he
'sueo TO see a monument erected to the
|I''7le soldiers, claiming that none exist
lie was promptly showed under by
q wv declaration that they existed all over
c' south, three Of them being in his owl
1e+,e. Ii. T. Davenport, Of Americas, Ga.
1s1"Ied that the private soldier built {
-''"oment to himself when he built the
|' lof jefferson Davis. He declared tina
laws was a patriot and Abraham Lin
n ~, ' TRAITOR to the country, and that Tho
"'" monument should be erected a
I'se Christian, of the Davis monu
r colaIttce, announced that all tn
ma required to build the memorial was
's- IN hand. The comittee desired a
S.9'0oO and it had but s57. 900.
ha davenport insisted that it would
uSSidce to erect a monument costins
lnrol IMAM $1,000 OO. He was prompt,
''el out of order.
HANKS To SECRETARY ROOT.
fav1r committee OH Resolutions reporte,
ersI JL,01y on d resolution offered bv Gen
apnrl - Lee. expressing the thanks an,
to C"''oA OF the Confederate veteran
for tb n"sFess and Secretary of War Roo
to ME 'ler Of the National Government
both sp''e a roster of all the soldiers O
Gena lltS during the Civil War.
N"' Joseph Wheeler spoke strongl