The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
GREAT TIME FOR VETS
MOBILE COMMITTEES ARE BUSY
 AT WORK.
Every Effort Being Exercised by Mem- bers of Commercial Club and Veteran Camps to Make
 Reunion Successful.
Advertiser Bureau.

Advertiser Bureau. Mobile, Oct 16. If the members of the Alabama Di- vision, United Confederate Veterans and Sons of Confederate Veterans fail | to have a good time in Mobile on Mo- vember 15-1s. they will have only themselves to blame. Now that the Finance Committee is ready to report through It's Chairman, Hon. John Craft, that ample funds are in hand for all purposes. the gen. eral committee is prepared to assure the invited guests of the city of Mo- bile that the old time and proverbial hospitality of Mobile will be extended them in the fullest measures.
 Since last Wednesday nights meet ing of the general committee the chairman of the sub committees have been getting busy and. through their instrumentality. the members of these committees have been made to realize that much depends upon them for the successful entertainment of the old Confederates and sons.
 Chairman c. W. Butt of the amuse- ments committee, with Mir. Saffold Berney. vice chairman of the general committee, will go to New Orleans for the purpose of securing a first class moving picture machine and other means of amusement for night attrac- tions
 Chairman w. K. P. Wilson of the music, lights and decoratious com mittee, leaves tomorrow for Atlanta to arrange for and secure badges and flags
 The hotels and entertainment com. mittee. through Chairman John F. Powers, is rounding up servants and eatabies for the open house. The la- dies auxiliary Daughters of the Con- federacy) are ready. willing and wait ing to serve the old soldiers. and in face every committee is working most harmoniously.
 General Chairman Max Hamburger. Jr.. will when he calls the general committee together on Wednesday
 night in the Commercial Club, be prepared to givo a most fiattering | statement to the members. The information ana publicity com : mittee is anxious to hear from aIe 1 camps as to numbers in attendance and how many will expect to be en- tirely entertained. Ample means will be provided for the weIl-being and care of as many of the old guard as desire to be taken in charge by this committee as excellent homes have been secured for their accommoda- ton.
 Camp Raphael Semmes will have a first class drum corps at the head of the line of that camp in the veteran. parade.
 Local and Personal. MT. and Mrs. David Bergstein have the sympathy of many friends in the loss of then three year old child whose death occurred early this morn ing at the family home, 256 South Hamilton Street The remains were inferred in the Jewish Cemetery this afternoon.
 At o'clock this morning consider able excitement was caused by the ex- plosion of a lamp in the dining room of Groom and Petrinovich's place on North Royal Street. Before much damage could be done MT. Petrinovich threw blankets and cloths over the flames and smothered them out.
 Messrs. P. P. Williams. Memphis; W. H. Fitzhugh. Vicksburg; and T. w. Seele and Ray l.. DePew of St. Louis, are in the city. These gentle men are largely interested in grain expectations and their mission here is to look over the field and ascertain Mobiles ability to handle export grain. Mir. B. M. Flippin. export agent of the Mobile and Ohio and Southern Railroads, showed the gentlemen over the docks and elevator yesterday. It is understood the visitors were much impressed with Mobiles abilities as an export grain port.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Cresswell and child left this evening for the North and West for an extended absence. MT. Cresswell is a prominent mer- chant of West Baldwin County.