The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-12
GREAT SPRING
 FESTIVAL ID OPEN Columbus Will Get Many Fine
 Attractions
RARE TREAT FOR PUBLIC
Frederick Ward Will Lecture, While Madame Sembrich and Walter Damrosch Are to Take Part
 In open-Air Festival.

Columbus, Miss, April 11.-tspecial)- The annual spring musical and dramatic festival at the Industrial institute and college, which is eagerly looked forward to from one year to the next will open Saturday evening, April 1S, and continue four days.
 The attractions President kincannon has secured for the festival this year are exceptionally fine and he feels that the school is doing a great work in bring ing artists of such ability and renown to this city. It affords, the thousand girls at his school an opportunity of seeing the greatest attractions and artists and it gives the people of Mississippi the same privilege that they would not have except for this annual festival. On Satur- day evening Frederick Ward will deliver his famous Shakesperian lecture, On Sunday evening the musical department of the school will render a sacred concert One of the features of this entertainment will be a chorus of one hundred voices Several members of the musical faculty will render selections, both vocal and in strumental. On Monday afternoon an open air festival and May pole dance will take place on the college campus.
 On Monday evening Madame Mareella Sembrich and her famous concert conn pany will be the attraction. Already nearly $500 worth of tickets has been sold for this one entertainment. On Tuesday evening Walter Damrosch and his New York symphony orchestra of sixty pieces will be the attraction The festival closes with this attraction Never in the history of this state has there been offered in four successive evenings a musical and dramatic pro- gramme such as the one President Kin cannon has gotten together commencing next Saturday, and the outlook is that the city will be thronged with visitors Over three hundred out-of-town tickets for Monday and Tuesday evening have been engaged.
 Secretary Sykes has received word from a majority of the representatives of the Mississippi Oratorical association, com prisng the University of Mississippi. the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Starkville, Millsaps college at Jackson and Clinton college. that they are in favor of holding their annual spring con- test in Columbus at the Industrial insti- tue and college next month. The matter will be definitely decided within the next few days. An audience of over 5000 people
 is assured if Columbus is selected. Be- sides being the most forward place from a hospital point of view, the city would amount to a great deal from a financial standpoint on account of the college stu dents being present.
 Gen Stephen D. Lee, commanding gen. eral United Confederate Veterans, who lives in this city, thinks that the coming reunion at Richmond, which will be held early in June, will be the largest attended one O. any the veterans have ever held notwithstanding the fact that Richmond is badly situated from a geographical standpoint. It is true that the veterans who live in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana will have long way to travel to get to the convention city, but turn about is fair play and when it is considered that the veterans of the northern states in the southern circuit have had to travel father than those in the states named have for many years, it is thought that the attendance will be increased by the change.
 The Jamestown exposition, situated so close to Richmond, being only little over hours ride from that city, will be another strong drawing card in favor of this years gathering. During the re- union monuments will be unveiled to the memory of Lee, Jackson and Davis, and this will attract many who would not at tend for any other reason. From this section 1t is estimated that fully twice as many people will go to this reunion as have ever attended a similar gathering With all the strong attractions this year s meeting offers the Jamestown exposition will attract more than for any other reason.
 The city council. in response to pet tion signed by about six hundred regis tered voters, have rescinded their action to name the new public school building "The Southside School" and have given 1t the new name of ''rhe J. M. Barrow Memorial School" commemorating the the name and life-work of the late Prof. J. M. Barrow, who for so many years was principal of the Franklin academy here and just before he died was con nected with the Mississippi Industrial in-