The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-19
UNITED
CONFEDERATE
VETERANS.
ANNUAL REUNION IN NEW OR
LEANS IN MAY.
Information of General Interest to the
Boys in Gray-Elaborate Prep
arations to Be Made.

| New Orleans, March I4-New Or
leans has determined that the Annua
Reunion of the United Confederate Vet
Grams, which will take place in the Cres
cent City May 10, TO- 2I and 22 shall b
the most momentous gathering of tn
old soldier boys" held during the pas
decade
| Representing, as it does, possibly tn,
most attractive point in the great South
1t is consequently dear to the hearts O.
the men who fought and bled during
those trying times forty odd years ago
The Southern metropolis stands for
possibly, the greatest aggregate import
ance, financially and socially in a won
derfully prosperous South. It witnessed
its homes depleted of thousands of brave
souls who left their families and their
belongings to take up arms in a cause
for which they were ready to sacrifice
everything most dear. Thousands went
thousands remained away; and, the ones
who returned to take up the burdens
they had dropped at the first cali, and
who have survived the vicissitudes of
fortune and of fate during the long in
terim, stand with open arms ready to
welcome to their homes and to their
lasting affections their brothers who had
stood "on the line" amid the storm and
fury which marked the awful battles of
the civil war.
+ Because of these memories, and be-
cause OF the associations which began
near a half century since and which
have been kept alive by the fires of pa
tr1otic sentiment, the old soldiers of the
Crescent City are determined to make
the welcome they will accord their one
time companions the warmest on re-
cord. And in this they will be supported
and assisted by every man, woman and
child in the city of New Orleans. all of
whom will anxiously count the DAYS un-
TIL they can number the entire host Of
old Confederate Veterans as their loved
and honored guests.
The material side of the reception to
the United Confederate Veterans is rap
idly assuming definite and tangible
form. Realizing the importance of max
ing the reunion red letter occasion in
the annals of these survivors of the
Confederacy, New Orleans has deter
mined to raise fund of $Iooooo which
will be expended in providing adequate
entertainment, both of body and of
mind, during the several days of the
convention.
A large number of committees have
been appointed under the supervision
and direction of the Confederate camps
in New Orleans and of Louisiana. and
these committees are hard at work en-
deavoring to perfect the details of the
reunion
In an interview with Colonel J. A..
Harral, aide-de-camp on the staff of
General John B. Gordon and chairman
of the press committee, committee
composed Of the newspaper men of the
,ity, it was demonstrated that the en-
ire situation has been carefully consid-
ered and that the local forces are NOV
ng quietly yet rapidly in an aggregate
effort to the end that nothing may be
Found wanting when the dawn of the
heralds the arrival of the old
gray-clad heroes.
From Colonel Harral it is learned
hat the railroads eentering in New Or
cans are making every arrangement
necessary for the handling of the mem
oers OF the 1900 camps which comprise
he entire organization of the Veterans.
The rates will be made low enough to
prove an incentive to even the most
humble OF the old Vets, who will find
his feature no ifnpedin1ent in his de
ire to reach the convention.
) 4
AVE arranged for system of room
isting which, in addition to the accom- |
notation provided BY the hotels, will
.nable the visitors to be taken care of
without the annoying waits so frequent
N occasions of the kind under consid-
ration.
At least ten thousand rooms will be |
egistered with the several Information
bureaus provided for the purpose, and
he committee has definite assurance
hat the rates for board and lodging
viii be very reasonable.
Arrangements have been made, |
trough the kindness of the United
,tates government officials, for a large
lumber of army tents which will be
itehed within the enclosure of the fair
rounds. one of the loveliest locations