The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-18
WILL CELEBRATE
LEE CENTENNIAL
Interesting Exercises Will Be
Held To-day in Public
Schools Of City.
MISS MARY LEE NOT COMING
Has Engagement to Be in Licking
To-Morrow-Childrcn Not
to Sing.

Tho preparations for the Lee centen-
NAL celebration tomorrow are now prac-
ticaliy complete. General regret Is being
expressed that Miss Mary Gusts Ice will
not be present. az she has an engage
ment to be in Lexington. Mrs. Andrews.
daughter OF DIR. Minnigerode, has also
sent her regrets that she will not be able
to be here.
The organizations which expect to at
tend the church services will meet In the
basement of St Paul's at 1880 A. NJ
and go in n body to the seats reserved
The ushers will not be allowed to take
any one to the reserved seats who docs
not come in with the bodies for which
seats are reserved. There will be an
abundance of seats in the church. how
ever. and the doors will be opened to the
public at 1l:30 a. NJ. Mr.. Frank Powers
will be In charge of the ushering.
The first carriage OF the parade will
contain Mrs. j. Taylor Ellyson. president
of Hollywood Memorial Association; Mrs.
Jno. A. Hughes, president of lakewood
Memorial Association; Miss Isabelle
Moses, president OF the Hebrew Memorial
Association. and Mrs. C. w. p. Brock,
representing Mrs. Joseph Bryan. ms prcsi-
dent of tho Confederate Memorial Liter
airy Society.
Mr. Walter Mercer, instructor has de-
cided that, owing to the uncertainty OF
the weather, and the danger TO voices OF
open-air singing at this time OF the yehr.
the plan OF having the school children
sing at the monument will be abandoned.
Tho day will be n legal and State hol-
iday. Banks. city and State offices and
many business houses will observe the
birthday OF General Lee.
Tho pupils OF tho HIchmond High
School Will celebrate tho centennial with
appropriate exercises In the assembly
room OF the school mt 1 p NJ. Mayor
Carlton Mccarthy, the school trustees and
other officials have been invited.
Lee centennial exercises vii. be held
In all the other school OF the city Mt
about the same hour. and appropriate
programs will be carried ont. Lees birth
day Is n holiday. but as 1t falls on Sat
urday this year the school exercises are
held on Friday.
Tho assaribly-oom OF the High School
has been moro beautifully decorated than
ever Before on any occasion. The centre
piece in the Earniture Ia a portrait of
General Robert Il. Lee. which Is draped
with Confederate colors The background
of the stage is Of ferns and palms and
other perennials very attractively banked.
The program for the occasion includes the
following;
Governors Proclamation. read by John
Simpson.
Song. Bonnie Blue Flag" by school
Extract from Lee Memorial Ode, rem
dered by five young ladies.
Song. Virginia by the school.
Recitation. THE Sword OF Lee" by
Miss Maggie Bryant.
Song. Tramp. Tramp, Tramp. the
Boys Are Marching" by the school.
Lees Farewell Address, recited BY Stan
ley Blanton.
Recitation, verses suggested by address,
Robert Brock.
Song. "Tenung on the Old Camp
Ground by school.
Recitation, Lee at the Battle of the
Wilderness" by Miss Lee Rindsberg.
Songs. one starza each. "Annie OF the
Vale Hard Times" and '.Lorena."
Essay. Life of Robert L. Lee by
Miss Emma Morris.
Song, Dixie"
Captain r. e. Lee. Colonel r. E. Lee.
Jr., the commanders OF the veteran
camps. Rev. James p. Smith, Rev j.
William Jones, veterans from the Sol
diers' Home, and Others, will attend.