The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-28
General Order for Pageant Issued
Yesterday by Chief
Marshal.
DAYS PROGRAM COMPLETED
Services in Church, Exercises at
Monument and in Cemetery.
Celebration at Night.

Marking the one-hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth Of Jefferson Davis,
soldier, statesman and President of
the Confederate States of America, fit
ting memorial exercises will be held
on Wednesday OF next week in st.
Paul's Church, where he worshiped
during, the stirring days of war; fol-
lowing which exercises an elaborate
Confederate and military parade will
move to the Davis Monument. which
is now fully completed and which
VIII be turned over to the city of Rich
mond and accepted by the Mayor.
Recognizing that the centennial Of
the birth of Mr.. Davis is an occasion
to be commemorated throughout vir.
Finia. and in fact through the South.
Governor Swanson has issued a proc.
lamaticn making that date a legel holt
day and the occasion of the annual
Memorial Day, instead of Nav goth.
usually set apart for the marking of
the graves OF those who fell In the
great struggle between the states
AFTER tribute has been paid to the
Sssonfederaey's President and q salute
ers eo N ms honor over the monument
erected ny the people of the South
60 MS memory. the column will again
form and take its way to HOLLYWOOD
cemetery. where exercises will be held
IN the City of the Dead
run 1Or tue Day.
fully realizing the difficulties in the
way OF bringing together so great d
concourse OF those who revere the Lost
Cause. the committee which has been
f1;G Cons De ne the most fitting celebra
.ion OF the centennial throughout the
successfully carried out on the one
Hundredth anniversary of the birthday
OF General Robert E. Lee last year.
No great gathering of people will be
attempted, but wherever the bravery
and devotion of the Confederate cause
Is heid in admiration. hundreds will
assemble in their churches and in those
sacred spots where lie the hallowed
dead. to do honor to the name of the
ConfederacG:s chief
Nowhere will these services be more
fttingly held than In Richmond. where
for four long years with a bravery
scarcely equaled on the field of battle
Mr.. Davis struggled desperately to
husband the waning resources of the
blockaded Confederacy. fishting for
her credit and for her recognition by
ternal resources creating her depart
rents of government and giving birth
to nation, while the thunders Of
war ragged about his head.
st. Paul's, where Mr.. Davis and his
family worshiped, and where the news
OF the fall OF Petersburg and the
crashing doom of the Confederacy was
III ouSHlt White lile iIeSlQSnI ROelI III
PRAYER Around the monument erect
ed in momory of Mr.. Davis, as sym
boil in stone of the vindication of the
southern cause before the world, viii
assemble Virginia's troops with mar
tial music. and with the gray-headed
remnants of the armies of the Old
Dominion in Hollywood, where the
President sleeps beside his family.
surrounded by an army of those who
died unconquored, will be fired the
military salute, while over Virginia's
river to her granite hills will echo
the sound of the bugle in the final
call Of taps"
The exercises open at O'clock in
the afternoon with services In ST. Pouls.
The memorial address will be deliver
ed by the Rev. William NJ. Dame, d.
y, or Baltimore, war member of the
Richmond ToWitzers and an orator OF
note.
At the Monument
Forming in parade the line will move
to the monument standing at the. head
of Monument Avenue under the COM
Inand Of Colonel j. Thompson Brown
the chief marshal. AT the monument
the address will be delivered by Judge
George L. Christian. chairman of the
history committee of the Grand Camp
Confederate Veterans, whose writing
have done more. perhaps. than those
Of any man to bring before the people
the PRINCIPLES underlying the cause o!
the Confederacy.
Judge Christian will turn the mon
ument over to Mrs. George S. Holmes
president OF the Davis Monument AS
ISOLATION. from whom it will pass Il
Mrs. Stone, of Texas, president OF the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
who will present 1t In turn to the city
OF Richmond, Mayor Carlton McCarth,
making the address of acceptance.
Following the salutes over the mon,
ument, the line VIII be reformed am
will march to Hollywood. Lieutenant
Governor ]. Taylor Ellyson will pre-
side over the exercises here and tn,
address in the cemetery viii be mad,
by the Rev. George ". Finley, d. d.
sPresbyterian minister, now living "a
F'ishersyille, Va, and a former office
in the Confederate Army.
At $40 o'clock in the evening,
birthday party viii be given in Lee
Camp Hall by the Richmond Chapte
OF sthe United Daughters Of the Con
federacy, Judge Theodore 8, Garnett, o
Norfolk, and others win speak, and
musical program will be rendered.
The services in st. Paul's Churcl
will be conducted by the rector, TIL
Rev. Robert w. Forsyth. The arrange
ments are In change of the Rev, Ian
don r. Mason, chaplain of Lee Cam
M Gnntadagata ,Xatarana. and the Rel