The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-11

Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro, n. c., May 1O.-Menle-
rial day exercises. held here today u1>
der the auspices of Guilford ChapteN
Daughters of the Confederacy and
Guilford Camp Confederate Veterans,
were the most beautiful elaborate
and impressive ever known in the his
tory of like occasions. The whole city
gave itself over to celebrating the
day, the streets being filled with peo-
pie from all quarters of the county,
men, women, little children and old
veterans engaged in the common
cause of doing homage to the memory
of the dead and preserving the sacred
fires of patriotism for the living.
The opera house was packed with
people when at ten o'clock Command-
er w. w. Wood called the order of
exercises. The lady ushers-"the
Children of the Confederacy' with
Miss Kirkland of the State Normal
and Industrial College as chief, had
a time providing comfortable seats
for the two thousand who thronSed
to be accommodated in a building
with 1900 capacity.
The principal address was made by
Col. j.. c. Waddell, of Greensboro,
who gave a history of the Eleventh
regiment and he Weaved all through
it strands of eloquence, reminiscence,
pathos and poetry which made it one
of the most notable addresses ever
heard hare. The music was appro-
PIRATE and inspiring, the rendering of
Dixie" to the air Of Annie Laurie
by Miss Pearl Long, of Statesville,
and Mrs. Gorham, of Greensboro, and
"Whcn the Roll is Called Up Yonder," :"
by Miss Long, We're especially notable
and sublime. The decorations were
appropriate and profuse, flowers vieing
with the national colors in making
the scene one long to be remembered.
The most beautiful of all the decora-
tions, were the boxes to the left and
right of the stage where sat the MEM
bers of the GuilfoTd Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, fit
framing to the large group of griZzled
veterans who sat in the dress circle
below.
Crosses of Honor Conferred.
Crosses of homer were conferred on
such as had not before received them,
as pretty a picture as was ever seen
being painted on the unfading film
..t Uf-.n eve as a stopped and bowed
old farmer veteran marched up to
the footlights and had the bronze
cross pinned on by the president of
=. II T.,
Nelson or others of the group of noble
DANES. While the roll was called 240
old vets answered here, the largest
number by forty ever present from
Guilford camp. The streets leading to
the cemetery We're filled with vehicles
the older soldiers being driven
in carriages, preceded by the march
ing veterans and the Greensboro mill
tary representatives of the city gov
ernment and the Daughters of the
Confederacy. the decorations on
the graves were made by hundreds
of children, and the mound where
the Confederate monument stands,
under which sleep their last sleep
three hundred unknown Confederate
dead, was literally piled high with
flowers placed reverently thereon by
the two hundred and forty surviving
comrades of Guilford Camp Confed-
crate Veterans there assembled.
After the ceremonies a sumptuous
dinner was served by the Daughters
ON the court house green. and pipes,
cigars and tobacco were distributed
promiscousy to all for solace after
the feast
Judge PEBBLES did not hold court,
adJourning it for Memorial services
from ten until two o'clock.