The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-30
REUNION is only
THIRTY DAYS OFF
Southern Memorial Associations
to Hold Meetings During Re
union Week.
THEY HAVE SACRED DUTIES
Considerations Sessions to Be
Held in the Second Baptist
Church.

One of the gatherings that will be held
simultaneously with the coming Confcd-
crate Reunion is the meeting OF the Con-
federated Southern Memorial Assoca-
tons, whose eighth annual convention Is
scheduled to assemble in this city on May
30th aud to last through five days. the
association holding its sessions in the
Second Baptist Church. corner of Adams
and Franklin Streets.
The opening session will convene Thurs
day, May 3Oth at 10 A. NJ, and the OH.
cial program will be announced ut that
time.
There are at present over sixty local
memorial associations enrolled in the
confederation, and it is known that there
are numbers of local memorial associa-
tons that have not affiliated themselves
with the General Association
Memorial Service.
AT tho invitation of the commander in
chief, General Stephen d. Ice, it has
been decided to hold joint memorial
service with the United Confederate Vet.
Grams. and the service will .e held in the
City Auditorium on Sunday, Juno I'd, at
$3.50 +. M. Rev. Walter W. Moore, ID.
d., president of Union Theological Semi
rary, will make the principn; address,
and seats will be reserved for tho dele
gates and alternatcs from the memorial
associations.
Tho work of the local memorial assccia-
tons, of which this body is conred'l
ton, Is well known through the South, to
their care having been committed the
graves of the Confedcrates who fell in
battle or died in the hospitals during
the war.
Mrs. William j. Bchan, of New Orleans,
La, is president of the confederation.
Attention is called to the fact that the
great reunion opens one month from to-
day While there Is a vast amount of
work to be done the organizati on Is ex-
cellent. and the work Is moving forward
with entire smoothncss. Tho indications
Point to the largest gathering of people
ever assembled in Richmond at any one
time since the evacuation.
Camp John w. Gordon.
Col. John w. Gordon, general chair
man of tho Confederate Reunion, was
taken by surprise when he learned that
the big camp for the visiting veterans
which is to be located on West Broad
Street opposite the Home for lncura-
bles, is to bear his name.
He was at first under the impression
that the appellative was meant as a
tribute to General John Il. Gordon, but
Captain David A. Brown. chairman of
the entertainment committee. informed
him otherwise.
Captain Brown is not lacking in ad-
miration for General Gordon, but he
feels that Richmond cannot pay too
many honors to the sterling old ex-
Confederate cavalryman. on whom has
rested the great burden of the re-
union. Colonel Gordon, although
man whose business interests demand
the closest attention. has worked day
and night to insure the success of the
great undertaking of which he Is the
official head. He has also consented to
act as chief marshal of the splendid
paratie whicz VIII take place on Thurs
day, May 10th, when tho Stuart Monu-
ment is unveiled. On this occasion
the ceremonies Will be under the aus
pieces of the Veteran Cavalry Associa-
ton of the Army of Northern Viz
ginia.
Camp John w. Gordon, by the way.
is going to be one of the most inter-
esting places Richmond has ever seen
when the old soldiers settle down" In
it. Several thousand Johnny Rebs,
from many different parts OF the SOUTH
are to be quartered there. and they
| will be most comfortably fixed. An
engineer is now making q plat for
| the tented city" which Will be divid-
| ed off into streets and otherwise ar
ranged with q view to genera con-
yenience The camp will be lighted