Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-22
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.
Tributes Paid to Memory Of General
Stonewall Jackson.

The third annual banquet of AnSelem ].
McLaurin Camp. No. 305. United Sons of
Confederate Veterans, was held last night
at the Hotel Barton. The banquet was in
celebration of the birthday anniversary of
''StonewalF' Jackson, and said to be the
first Of it's kind held in the District in mem
ory Of Gen. Jackson.
The function was given in the banquet
hall of the hotel. and about forty covers
were laid for members and their guests.
The hall was beautifully decorated with
flags and flowers, the prevailing tone being
In harmony with the colorS represented In
the battle flag of the lost cause. Behind
the chair of the POSTMASTER. Capt. Thomas
Raleigh Raines of Mississippi, was q large
portrait of Gen. Jackson, surrounded by the
stars and stripes and hanked by the ban
ners of the confederacy. The center and
ends Of the table were supported by reg
ular embankment of red and white roses,
lilies of the valley and carnations, I'M
mersed in buds of Peru.
An elaborate dinner was served. and at
Its conclusion the POSTMASTER introduced
H. st. G. Tucker. formerly representative
in Congress from Virginia, and now dean
of the Columbian School Of Law in this
city, who responded to the toast OF Stone
wall Jackson, the man and his mission.
The speaker made an address replete with
humor and anecdote concerning the Ire OF
StoneWau Jackson. He admoniShed his
hearers that as sons of patriotic sires they
should hold in lasting memory the DEEDS OF
their fathers and should cherish as price
less heritage the fact that the most nerce
criticism has never discovered nav In the
moral characters of the leaders OF the
southern cOnfederacy.
Representative Asbury F. Lever, the
youthful representative in Congress from
South Carolina, was introduced as the next
speaker, and responded to a Toast, Ihe
Palmetto State" Mr. Lever eloquently
discussed the present commercial problems
confronting the south. He told OF the
souths industrial rise from the smolder1ng
embers of long ago, when ruined homes ana
scattered fortunes seemed to hold forth no
hope He said he believed firmly ''that
when President Lincoln wrote the procla-
nation of emancipation he wrote the COM
mercial and industrial independence OF the
south and sealed the fate of the commercial
and Industrial supremacy of the north"
Toasts appropriate TO the occasion were
also delivered by Representative Sidney
]. Bowie Of Alabama Capt. M. T. Little
page, formerly ofsthe confederate navy; DR..
Samuel r. Lewis. a confederate army sur
geon. and Maj John T. Callaghan Of Pc
grams ArtillerySall of whom INDUCED in
personal "reminiscences of the great strug-
gle for political supremacy. Alexander N.
Breckenridge and james Q. Roberts, repre-
senting the younger element in the camp,
also responded tofoasts.
The banquet came to an end at an early
hour this mornias. Among those present
were Thomas Raleigh Raines, s. +. Pear
man, l.. ]. Battle, P. s. Edmunds, DR..
Oscar Wilkinsons s. o. Roberts. s. ]. Bowie,
Wv, Bowie. Wallace Streeter, Thomas p.
Randolph, Asbury F. Lever, A. N. Brecken-
ridge, w. HI. Atkins, ]. G. Hillman, C. w.
Atkinson, o. J. Mpat Dr. s. E. Lewis, c. 8.
Littlepage. ]. T. CaNaghan. L. p. Calfee,
+. T. Stone. P. S.fCiarke and T. P. Fravel.