The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-24
WILL CELEBRATE
 DAVIS CENTENARY Extensive Preparations Are
 Being Made CELEBRATION JUNE 3 The Programme Will Comprise Several
CELEBRATION JUNE
The Programme Will Comprise Several Notable Features In Keeping With the Historical occasion-Dr.
 Owen Will Preside.

Montgomery May 3.-(Special )-Exten-
 sive preparations are being made for the
 observance in Montgomery of the centen-
 ary of the birth of Jefferson Davis on
 June g. As is we'll known, Jefferson Davis
 and Alexander H. Stephens were elected
 President and Vice President respectively
 of the provisional government of the Coh-
 federate States of America on February 2, 1861 Nine days later, on February Is,
 1861, MT. Davis was formally inaugurated
 taking the oath of office on the front, or
 western portico, of the state capitol buill-
 ing. The spot Is marked by a handsome
 brass star, placed there some years ago
 by the Sophia Bibb chapter, United
 Daughters of the Confectionery. The Bible
 on which he took the oath of office IS
 preserved in the Alabama state depart ment of archives and history.
 The exercises on June 2 will comprise
 several very interesting features. At 10 a. m. a life-size picture, handsomely framed in gilt, of President Davis will bo presented to the Carnegie library in the
 presence of large number of the mem- bers of the Confederate organizations Jf
 the city. At 12:3O D. m there will be q formal presentation to each of the 10 pulp lie schools of the city of a similar DOT trait of President Davis. During the aft ernoon the several Confederate organiza- tions will appropriately decorate several
 of the places in the city associated with
 the presence of MT. Davis in Montgomery, such places to be subsequently, marked with a permanent bronze marble me-
 morial. These places include the hall of
 the house of representatives, the hall of the senate the supreme court room, tho
 cabinet offices located in what is now the Clancey hotel, the first White House of | the Confectionery; the Exchange hotel, the building in which was located the tee- graph office from which was sent the
 message to fire upon Fort Sumter, and
 St. Johns Protestant Episcopal church.
 in which MT Davis worshipped while re- siding in Montgomery in 1861.
 The presentation of the several portraits will be made by 10 speakers. one for each school, these are Col. John ". A. San ford Dr. Thomas M. Owen, Col. Clifford A. Lanier, Maj w. w. Screws, Mrs. M. D. Bibb, Miss Toccoa Cozart Miss E. F..
 Andrews. MT. D. S. Hausman and Capt. A. c. Sexton.
 The exercises on the evening of June 1 , will take place in the hall of the house
 of representatives in the state capitol, in which hall the state of Alabama for
 mally seeded by an ordinance adopted
 January Il, 1861, by it's secession conven-
 ton. Dr. T. M Owen, historian general
 of the U S. c. ", and director of the
 Alabama state department of archives
 and history, will preside Gen. George F. Harrison, commander of the Alabama di- vision, U. C. w., will deliver the principal | address. Miss Mamie Harrison will sing 1 Father Ryan's Conquered Banner Miss Lena Hausman will recite. There will be Instrumental music and a quartet. Thir- l teen young women, dressed in Confederate | coors, will act as ushers.