The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-03
.bTREET PARADE AND
MEMORIAL ADDRESSES
Services at St. Paul's to Preccde
Formal Delivery OF Davis Monu-
ment to the City-Veterans,
Military and Citizens
Unite to Honor
Dead.
-HRoUGHoUT tho Southland to

memorial to the Confederate
u President the onc-hundredtf1
anniversary of the birth OF JEFF
,erson Davis. In many cities and
States veterans Will gather to do honor
TO the head OF brilliant but short
lived, nation. Born in 1908, Mr. Davis
remembered In his childhood days the
,choes Of the last struggle OF new
eountry for final Independence from
English sovereignty. Coming to man
hood graduate OF the military school
ut West Point. he won his spurs fight
Ing for mis- State and country before
the walls OF Mexico.
Standing at the helm of the Con-
federate ship through four years Of
strife and blood and hope, seeing her
resources and her credit fade, even as
her armies wore themselves out with
victories, he was perhaps the most
naligned and generally execrated man
since the day OF Benedict Arnold. And
now that nearly half century has
elapsed, when a reunited nation is
looking forward to the commercial
supremacy OF the world. her citizens
Loyal TO one flag and one country. tho
name of Mr.. Davis shines forth an
the hearts of the Southern people even
more brilliantly than in former days.
and In all centres OF Southern thought
ana wherever desot!o. 10 the cause
OF the confederacy remains, to-day
WIZ be set apart to do him honor.
All Over the South.
The movement to recognize the CEN
tennial Of Mr.. Davis had its origin in
.he minds of patriotic women. who
nave reared to his memory the impos-
Ing shaft which will be turned over TO
The care OF the people of Richmond to-
day. More than year ago they re-
auested r. E. Lee Camp, No. /. Con-
iederate Veterans. to take steps looking
to the general celebration OF the event,
and a committee was appointed by
Commander w. 3. Freeman to recon-.
mend the plan. In view of the great
Confederate reunion held In Richmond
last year, when the Stuart and Davis
monuments were unveiled. the commit
tee deemed 1t ineXpedient to assemble
any great concourse of people for
general Davis demonstration. and de-
cided that 1t would be more fitting to
have the survivors of the Lost Cause"
wherever they may be, gather with
those who admire the chivalry and de-
votion of the Confederate soldier in
their meeting halls or in the cities of
their dead. and there pay tribute to
the Confederate chief.
And SO wherever there are Confeder-
ate camps. wherever there are great
cemeteries where sleep those who fell
In battle. there will be gatherings to-
day to eulogize the name of Davis and
to refute the ISLANDERS with which his
name has been coupled by his enemies
for half a century.
Exerciscs In Richmond.
Nowhere will these exercises be more
tittingly held or more lovingly attend
ed thaa In Richmond. the battles scar
red city of the Confederacy. where for
four years Mr.. Davis agonized oyer the
struggles of the nation which had call
ed him to be Its chief. Here stands the
AonuInent erected to him by the peo-
pic Of the South; here lie his remains
surrounded by an army ofithose who
died unconquored, and here are treasur
cd the memorials of a nation whose
glory will not die.
Beginning at i o'clock with SER
vices in st. Paul's Church, where Mr..
Davis worshiped, the exercises will
include military and Confederate
parade through the streets to the Davis
Monument. Passing on to Hollywood
Cemetery, memorial exercises will be
held in the city of the dead wherc
sleep so many, Of Virginia's foremost
sons. AZ night exercises VIII be held
in Lee Camp Hall, when an historical
address will be delivered and mus
steal program rendered,
BY proclamation the day will be gem
orally, observed as holiday, all State
and city offices being closed.
Special exercises We're held in all of
the public schools yesterday, pictures
of Mr. Davis being presented with ap-
propriate addresses. To-day the schools
and many of the business houses will
close.
Services in st, Paul's.
The exercises proper open with the
memorial service at ST. Paul's, Seats
will be reserved for the camps Of Co.,-
'ederate veterans, for the ladies of'the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association
and Of the Hollywood Memorial AS
ISOLATION and other organizations of
Confederate affilation. Members OF
the Sons Of Veterans will assist the
regular ushers In seating the visitors
Only a portion of the church Is re-
lerved, the galleries and sides being
,pen to the public, Tho memorial nd-
lress Will be delivered. by the Rev. w
IN. Dame. d. D., now an Episcopal
minister of Baltimore, Nd, a war smenl-
Z ser of the Richmond Itowttzers, and !,
member of the Howtzer Association
rhe brief preliminary service will nc
conducted by the rector, Rev r, NJ
Forsyth, DR., Dame arrived In Ecll-
Nond last night, and is the guest oi
IN, n IS