The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-09
BLUES RECEPTION
TO Be BRILLIANT
Nine Hundred Invitations Issued
and Many Distinguished
Guests Coming.
RECEIVE STANDS OF coLoRs
Philadclphia's Crack Command to
Attend-Dr. Page Will
Speak.
RECEIVE STANDS OF C0L0Rs

The reception commemorating the
one hundred and fourteenth anniver-
snry OF the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues, at the Masonic Temple to-mor-
row evening at o'clock, will be one
OF the largest and most brilliant gath,
erings of the year in Richmond. The
attendance of the battalion OF three
companies and staff and band In the
new full dress uniforms OF the COM
mand. together with representatives, Of
several of the oldest volunteer mill
tary organizations in America, the
Governor and his staff. commissioned
officers of the other militia commands.
and finally of hundreds Of beautiful
women, will combine to provide q mag
niicent spectacle and one we'll worth
seeing.
Those Invited.
About nine hundred invitations have
been issued to the reception. those
sent out including the officers of the
grade of captain and above in this
State, the Governor, comnander-in-
chief of the Virginia volunteers, and
his staff many citizens, besides the
members of the association, who have
come to the rescue of the battalion in
It's recent misfortune, and scores OF
ladies'.
The President Of the United States
was also invited, but sent his regrets
in a handsomely sengrossed formal card.
Among the old commands In America
whose officers are invited are the Essex
Fusilicrs Of the Royal Canadian Resi-
ment, Windsor, Ontario; this Putnam
Phalanx of Hartford. Conn. the Cover
nor's Foot-Guard of Hartford and the
Governors Foot-Guard of New Haven:
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of
Boston; the Washington Grays Battalion
of Philadelphia, and the Fayetteville
Light Infantry of Fayetteville, N. c.
a delegation from the Artillery
Corps. Washington Grays, Of Fhiladel-
phia. which organization will present a
stand of colors to the Blues, are ex-
pected to arrive in the city to-morrcw,
and Will be received at the station by a
committee from the battalion.
The committee from the Grays con-
s!sts of Nor A. L. Williams, Lieutenant
and Battalion Adjutant J. Howard Reeve
Sergeant Horace j. Inman and Major
George B. Zane, Jr., president Of the
corps. The following committee from the
Blues Association and the several COM
panies Of the battalion will greet the
visitors upon arrival here and escort
them to the Jefferson. where they will
be quartered as guests of the Blues
Colonel Sol Cutchins, president of the
association; Major p. w. Bowles. com.
manding the battalion; Captain Russell
II. Palmore, of Company a; Captain r
Page Burwell. of Company B, and Cap
tain ]. Cloyd Kent, of Company G.
DR.. Page to Speak.
The anniversary will be marked by the
presentation to the battalion BY the
blues Association Of stand Of State
colors. DR.. Thomas Nelson Page making
the presentation address; and Of stand
of national colors by the Washington
Grays. of Philadelphia. which will be
presented by one of the officers named
above. Major II. w Rowles. commander
of the battalion, will mako the address
receiving the gifts.
Music for the occasion will be con-
tributed by the Blues Band. an or
ganization of twenty-five musicians
who are uniformed In the same way
as the battalion The battalion and
the band, will appear for the first
time in the brilliant new full-dress
uniforms, which almost without eN-
ception fit splendidly.
At the reception light refreshments
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