The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-14
SPECIAL COACH PROVIDED
Large Numbers Going to Reunion from Northern Alabama Convention
 Programme Varied and ln-
 teresting-Sons of Veterans

A special coach will be added to the mingham veterans, and another will be added at Calera with the delegates from Anniston, Tallaega and other towns in that section of the state. At Montgomery still mora coaches will be aded.
 A special coach will be attached to the u ain at Decatur this morning and 1t will have all the delegates from north Ala bama including those from Huntsville, Decatur, Florence and Sheffield. It Is expected that this train will carry some 400 delegates, sponsors. maids of honor and members of the sons and daughters of the confederacy
 The Birmingham Party.
 The party from Birmingham will in- elude Brig Gen. John w. Bush and his staff as well as the delegates from the various camps. Among those from Camp Hardee are Colonel Bush A c. Oxford, adjutant general; =. Lawler Darby, assls- tant adjutant general; B. r. Roden quar- termaster general; the Rev. L. s. Hand ley, D. D., chaplain general; ". s. Vance, ihSpVSlOi StItidit A ttdiillllOUt CULT missary general; E. T. Taliaferro, assis- tant commissary general; L. s. Robert son, chief of ordnance; Dr. J. c. Aber- nathy, surgeon general; Dr. R. F. Jack son. assistant surgeon; and the following aides-de-camps: George Gorf, A. c. Ham, lett, H. S. Stephenson, J. R. Adams. w. E. Yancey, William Bell, T. S. Plowman, II R. D. Dunlap, J. T. S. Wade J. S. Aeuff, N. H. Sewell and Miss Nettie Merritt; and Sergeant Major R.,H Hagood Others go- ing are w B. Leedy, J. F Mclaughlin, wife and daughter.
 The delegates from Camp Hardee are: J. B. Francis Major James Fowlkes Frank P. O'Brien. D. R. Dunlap, H. N. sewell, E. T. Taliaferro, II. T. Bridewell, c. M. Sturgis, J. c. Miller, l. R. Bize, J. w. Barclay, J. R. Adams, Col. J. w. Bush, s. W. Vance Major La Coste. D. A. Wright, A. c. Oxford and J. Lawler Darby.
 Official Programme.
 The official programme is as follows: Tuesday, November 15, 1904, Morning
 Session. 930 a. m.
 Music-First Infantry band A. s. N G. l. Convention called to order In Mo- bile theatr,, by Col. Harvey D. Jones' division adjutant general and chief of staff.
 ?. Music-Hymn-"My Country Iris of Thee"
 3. Invocation by the Rev. James M Mason, division chaplain-general.
 4. Tribute to the confederate dead and to the women of the confederacy, by Major General George P. Harrison, com manding Alabama division, U. c. Vi; veterans responding.
 5. Addresses of welcome by Lieutenant Governor R. M. Cunningham, for the state of Alabama; Hon. P. J. Lyons, mayor, for city of Mobile, and Hon. o. ,. Semmes of Mobile, in behalf of Mo- bile veterans to visiting veterans.
 6. Reply to addresses of welcome by Major General George P Harrison.
 '. Music-Dixie
 8. Appointment of committee on ere dentials
 g. Report of adjutant general, Harvey E Jones.
 10. Report of committee on credentials and organization of convention.
 Il. Election of general officers-Recess.
 AFTERNOON SESSION.
 2:30 p. m Convention Reassembles. 12. Reports of standing committees. 13. Report of special committees IA. New business, including introduction of resolutions; reading of communications and the selection of city for holding next annual reunion.
 15. Music-Hymn-"Oh, Think of the Home Over Wonder.
 Doxology-"Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flew"
 IS. Benediction by the Rev. R. A. Mickle, chaplain Rapheal Semmes Camp No. H. U. c. ", Mobile.
 IT. Adjournment
 Sons of Veterans.
 Tuesday. November 15.-Morning ses- sion, 9:30 a. m.
 1. Convention called to order by Division Commander Thomas M Owen in Temper ance hall.
 2. Invocation by the Rev William B. Hope of Huntsville, division chaplain B. Reading of orders relating to re- union by Division Adjutant Will T. Shee- han.
 A. Appointment of committee on ere dentials.
 D. Report of committee on credentials and organization of convention.
 6. Address of welcome by Hon. E. M. Robinson of Camp George E. Dixon, U. s. c. w., Mobile.
 '. Response to address of welcome by Hon. Michael Screws of Camp Holtzclaw, U. S. c. ", Montgomery.
 s. Annual oration by Hon. William B. Bankhead of Camp N. B. Forrest Hunts vile. on "The Life and Character of John Pelham"
 Recess.
 AFTERNOON SESSION.
 2:30 D. m.-Convention reassembles. g. Reports of committees.
 10. New and miscellaneous business. Il. Election of division and brigade com manders.
 12. Motions and resolutions.
 13 Adjournment
 Entertainments.
 First day, Tuesday, November 15, 1904: 12:30 p. m.-Steamer excursion on Mo- bile bay, exclusively for veterans and Sons of Veterans and their sponsors and maids of honor, wearing their official re- union badges.
 p. m. to 4:3O D. m.-Concert in Bienville square by First Infantry band.
 ' p. m. to D. m.--Band concert ana moving pictures and stereoptican views in Bienville square
 8 p. m. to 10 D. m.-Reception in Tenn perance hall to veterans and Sons of Veterans and their sponsors and maids 0f txrM n