Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-05-23
LouisviIIe's Greatest Reunion.

Thomas d Osbourne. Secretary of the
Confederate Reunion Committee. writes
in the Confederate Veteran for May as
follows:
Louisvilles citizens and the Confeder-
ates are in a contest, striving to surpass
each other in arranging courtesies to- be
extended to the men who wore the grey
when they meet IN the lovely city on the
falls of the Ohio June I4-I6.
As type of the gracious efforts, DR..
A. D. James, United States Marshal and
one of the leading Republicans. gave a
large room in the customhouse to be filed
with cots for the Veterans, and added
q Send me eight old soldiers for me to
entertain at my home" Hon. Charles
F. Granger Mayor of Louisville, will,
haye the city in its finest sanitary condi-
ton, and, IN cooperation with Mr.. John
c. Lewis. the great dry goods merchant,
Chairman of Nominations and Decora-
tons, will in due time have all the streets
in the main section or the city bridged
with banners flags, and portraits. The
business part of the city will be lighted by
arches, lit up by red and white electric
lamps. and from each of which will be
suspended in colors the name of some
distinguished hero of our sacred cause.
Ample headquarters have been secured
in close proximity to each other for every
State. With twenty bands distributed in
these headquarters. certainly there will
be music enough and amusement enough
for all who may come. Gen. Dozer
/ Thornton. Chairman of State Headquar-
tiers. has subdivided his committee of two
hundred into details who will provide for
every possible convenience. The buffet
lunch at each State headquarters will be
a most attractive feature.
The mammoth horse show building,
erected by the Louisville Confederates
for the 1900 reunion has been enlarged to
double its former capacity and is now
the largest house in the State
Mr. Breckenridge Castlemen, with his
fine committee of one hundred on enter
tainment, has planned barbecue in
Shawnee Park for ten thousand Veter-
ans, followed by the English novelty--a
garden party for sponsors, maids of honor,
and friends. Then will come the gor
geous sponsors ball in the horse show
building, where fifteen thousand specta-
tors can witness the most brilliant spec
tacle.
There will be something doing every
hour during the reunion in the way of en-
tertainment for the Veterans. except
while they are asleep OF course there is
no desire to have anything to distract at
tention from the regular proceedings of
the association, but these pleasures and
recreations will be provided and will be
at the disposal of the visitors 1t will be
a season of the year when Louisville is at
It's best The parks will be open with
myriad forms of entertainment, and the
theaters will be in full blast. In addi-
ton, excursions up and down the river
will be arranged.
AS it is known to many, Louisville
boasts of five beautiful parks, where ma
ture has shown the handiwork of her
happiest mood ard man has added to in
crease the pleasures. These are Fountain
Ferry, Shawnee, Cherokee, Jacobs and
Central Parks. They will be alive with
the varied forms Of entertainment found
at such resorts.
The FIVE theaters of the city will have
attractions during the reunion.
Several four-deck steamers from Gin
cinnati have been chartered tor the re-
union, and in addition to the crafts here
already, will be put 1rto commission as
pleasure boats, with frequent daily trips
on the Ohio. Land excursions to various
points of interest in and near Louisville
will also be arranged, important among
which will be trips to the Confederate
Soldiers Home in Pewee Valley.
And all of this will be free to the visit
ing Confederate Veterans. Just as the
gray they wear is their patent of nobility.
so will the official reunion badge be pass
port and open sesame to everything with
in the gates of Louisville,
Each Veteran will register when he
arrives at his State headquarters, and
will then receive his badge. From then
until the reunion ends his needs tor
money will be few and far between.
The official button for the reunion has
been adopted. 1t will show a background
of the Confederate flags with a portrait
of Gen. John Cabel Breckenridge.