The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-06-20
THE REUNION
At LOUISVILLE
Floridian Writes Of Hospitality Er.
tended Confederate Veterans
in Falls City.

have just returned from a short
trip Of IL miles to the Soldiers Home
on Pewee Valley route. This beau:i-
full place Is where Kentucky puts her
needy Confederate soldiers. The citi-
zens Of Louisville invited the veterans
and their families to see what care is
taken of these old fellows. Several
bands of music and abundance Of other
entertainment were provided.
Situated in. a large grove of oaks the
beautiful buildings are surrounded
with acres of blue grass and lastly
laid on beds of varied colored flowers
with an abundance OF running water,
a vegetable garden and the joyous
song of many birds.
If the inmates are not happy the
surroundings are not the fault.
The hospital has about so inmates
and there are some thirty others for
whom the legislature has provided at
cost OF about S175 each year. Some
two or three thousand visitors were
conveyed by both steam and electric
cars.
Thursday night the city was ablaze
from First to Tenth streets and taSt-
fully hung for miles with varied color
ed lights. The effect was very pleas
ing, shining as it did on the suspend
ed draperies. Miles of bunting hung
from the tall buildings and bands OF
music dispersed themselves in various
sections.
Louisville has since Monday surely
issued a very generous welcome to
those they delight to honor. l visited
two large tobacco warehouses on Main
and Tenth streets. On the clean
hoorS of these enormous buildings
spring cots by the hundreds were
ranged and on each was a blanket,
white sheet and snowy-white pillow
and each at liberty to be occupied Gay
and night by any veteran who wore
his cross of honor. Across the street
a large building had been engaged to5
4 eating purposes. The food was well
cooked in variety and in plenty
Tickets for each meal were distrib
uted and no one need be hungry foI
liberal preparations had been made.
At still another resort in the bust
ness section General Young has had
rooms prepared in similar manner
and no one from the Florida Brigade
need feel hungry
4 At Florida headquarters something
over 100 registered and through the
day they were entertained with music
Angling, piano Accomplishments AMI
recitations by young ladies. Hence
Florida headquarters have been made
particularly attractive again through
the hberality of Hon. Bennett Young
Again, Louisville has shown US thou
sands of her truly beautiful women
The streets were thronged with then
; and the big auditorium lad many hun
dreds at the ball Wednesday night
Over 5000 persons were on the foo
Simplicity of dressing and particular
: ly short dresses, showed the ladies
sense in preparing for the crowd the;
= thought would be on hand.
: The splendid Gait house was use,
RI as general headquarters and tn
S crowds in the rOtunda of this and tn,
s Louisville Hotel were very interest
ing sight. Here again beautiful an
elegantly dressed women attract tn
gaily dressed uniformed men. Tn
Louisville hotel had over 600 Occd
pants of beds and cots. To secure
cot at either of these fine houses 81 5
was necessary. Thousands sleep d
8 their states headquarters.
[ The liberality of the citizens wa
s very noticeable. Every individua
: seems to vie with his neighbOr
kindness and courtesy TO their guests
There was beautiful weather through
out the reunion and fully 10000 stra.
gers were in the city.
The parade Friday was big shoN
> and immense success.
: Wheat harvest is in progress. MUG
: has been cut and harvested, and niue
l remains. All the farmers are sar
guine on the yield of tobacco. Thol
/ sands of hogsheads are being haule
{ TO the warehouses. l visited the bi
. distillery owned by the Bernheil
Company and saw many thousand c
barrels in the bonded warehouse
Some ten large watts containing th
, mash under process. each containin
! ten thousand gallons were shown.
L VIM. H. TRIMMER.