The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-16


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 Augusta Chronicle: The Birmingham Age-Herald certainly handled the Con federate Veteran item In approved journa- iistic style.
 Galveston Tribune: Birmingham prom ised to do the handsome thing by the Confederate Veterans and Birmingham has made good.
 Gadsden Times News: Birmingham is taking stock of the larder and the popu- latlon and ascertaining whether there IS anything left of either.
 Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: The general opinion seems to be that Birmingham did well by the veterans and the reunion was the most successful that has yet been held.
 Montgomery Journal: The greatest meeting ever held in Alabama was the veterans reunion at Birmingham. The stories of the war were told over again, and many old comrades met each other, who had not met before since the war.
 Anniston Star. That was a great re- union In Birmingham, success in every way. Birmingham added largely to Its reputation as a city by this entertain ment of the veterans and the thousands of visitors drawn to the Magic City by the reunion.
 Arkansas Gazette Birmingham tells us that the marching Confederate Veterans were regaled with ice water and that the heroes showed they were in excellent spirits by singing their old camp songs. Thus did the veterans pay delicate compliment to prohibition Alabama.
 Bessemer Weekly: Notwithstanding the fact that many thought Birmingham had attempted more than she could well carry out in trying to entertain the veterans and the great crowds of other people who attended the reunion the general opinion seems to be that this was one of the best managed reunions in the history of such affairs.
 Marion County News: The reunion of the Confederate veterans at Birmingham this week got together perhaps the larg- est crowds that eyer visited that city. It is well that the old soldiers keep up these annual gatherings because, accord- ing to nature, there can be but few more of such meetings, as the partici- pants In the eventfu struggle will soon have passed away.
 Cleburne New Era The Magic City, 1t oIa apto orta inc ba crowd that ever assembled to witness the scenes of a Confederate soldiers re- union. The hearty invitations which Bir- mingham extended the Confederate vet erans last year to come to Birmingham for the next reunion were heartily re- sponded to. From a standpoint of num- bers, as well as in other ways, the re- union in Birmingham has been one of the most successful ever held in the history of the organization.
 Tuscaloosa Times Gazette: The man who remarked that Birmingham's reunion was a greater success on account of pro- hibition must be regarded a wild fa natic by the liquor interests But he made a true statement. few years ago the open saloon would have been re- garded as an absolute necessity for the success of any big gathering. There never was greater mistake in the world than the supposition that people go for business or pleasure to place on &C., count of liquor being available. To some people it is an added attraction, but there are very few to whom it Is the attrac- II ted ha possible to do big things without liquor let us not think of It again.
 Alexander City Outlook: Birmingham has been the Mecca for the greatest southern gathering held this year-the oc- casion of the great annual reunion of the Confederate veterans and their sons and daughters. Although there were 50, GOO visitors in the city Wednesday and Thursday. Birmingham cared for them | handsomely and gave them splendid en- tertainment. Alabama is always proud of the Magic City but on this occasion the state Is specially indebted to her great iron and steel city for the hospi- tality shown the survivors of the Con- federacy and the grand style in which she entertained. Few southern cltlcS could handle and entertain these great throngs as did Birmingham.
 Savannah News: The parade of the Confederate eterans at Birmingham was an picturesque and yet pathetic pageant. The grizzled and bent warriors in gray marched two miles through the hot street and did 1t cheerfully. Time was when they would march 20 miles, or 30. without rest and with only a handful of food. But the parade of Thursday was a reminder that the marching days of the survivors are pretty nearly ended. One or two more reunions, and those that are left will be obliged to ride in carriages. Each year sees more and more of the 'od boys dropping out of the ranks, and it cannot in the nature of things be many years before the ranks themselves will have disappeared forever. l Sumter County Call: If Birmingham kept pace in entertaining her distin- guJshed Veterans, that her two leading daily papers did in giving the news, 1t will be one reunion of all the reunions that will shine like a bright star in the memory of the younger ones who attend ed, when there will be no more reunions of the old Confederate Veterans, for time will have passed them over. The Age