The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-13
EXERCISES HERE
TO be IMPOSING
Notable Program Arranged for
Davis Centennial Celebration
in Richmond.
GIVE MONUMENT TO CITY
Services to Be Held at St. Paul's
Church and in Hollywood
Cemetery.

| Exercises concentrating the Tooth
ANNIVERSARY OF the birth OF JEFFERSON
Davis will be held on Wednesday. June
| Sd, with much pomp and ceremony by
all the military organizations of the
city. The monument to the President
OF the Confederacy Will be formally
turned over to the city by the building
committee and the Daughters of the
Confederacy. and will be received In
behalf OF tie people of Richmond by
Mayor Carlton Mccarthy. The event
will be one OF the most notable OF the
year.
Commencing at O'Clock In the af-
ternoon, as many of the crowd as 1t
will be possible for the building to
accommodate will assemble In st. PauIs
Church to hear the memorial address
by the Rev. w. NJ Dame, d. D., OF
Baltimore. who fought through the war
as member OF the Richmond How'll
GERS. and who is to-day one OF the best
known speakers In the South.
Parade to Monument.
Immediately after the memorial ad-
dress the procession, composed OF the
Governors staff, the Richmond Light
Infantry Blues. the Richmond Howit-
zers, the Seventeen Regiment Virginia
Volunteers: r. E. Lee Camp, Consed-
crate Veterans; George Il. Pickett
Camp. Confederate Veterans; the camps
of Sons OF Confederate Veterans. to-
gether with the Hollywood. lakewood
and Hebrew Memorial Associations.
under the direction OF Colonel j.
| Thompson Brown, chief marshal. Will
form at the corner of Fifth and Frank
lin Streets. marching out to the Jeisef-
son Davis Monument.
The address at the monument will
be delivered by Judge George l.. Chris
tian. acting chairman of the building
committee, in place Of Mr.. Joseph
Bryan, who will be absent from the
city at that time. Judge Christian
will turn the monument over to Mrs.
George S.. Holmes. president OF the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association.
1t will pass from Mrs. Holmes to Mrs.
Stone, OF Texas, president of the Unit
ed Daughters Of the Confederacy. who
will present 1t to the city. through
Mayor Carlton Mccarthy, the latter
making the speech Of acceptance.
The building committee Is having
erected two bronze standards sur
mounted by globes containing three
electric lights, which wiz be placed on
the east corner OF the granolithic walk
around the monument. and will add
much to its beauty. 1t is also placing
| a new set OF the Confederate court OF
arms on the monument in place of the
original, which have been presented to
the Battle Abbey by the United DauEh-
ters OF the Confederacy. These i'm
provements will be completed before
the day of the celebration.
| Following the exercises at the mon
ument, the entire line will be reformed
and will march to Hollywood Gene
terry, where the Memorial Day exercises
will be held under the auspices OF the
Hollywood Association.
At the Cemetery.
The exercises in the cemetery will be
presided over by Lieutenant-Go
j. Taylor Ellyson and the addresses
| will be made by the Rev. George w.
Finley of Fishersville, Va, a Confed-
crate veteran. The soldiers graves Will
! be decorated and salutes will be fired
! over them by the Howitzers and the
Blues. after which Taps" will be
sounded. The procession will again
form and return to the city.
At $3.50 O'Clock that night birthday
4 party will be given in Lee Camp Hal
/ by the Richmond Chapter Of the United
i Daughters Of the Confederacy. Judge
i Theodore S. Garrett. of Norfolk, anc
others will speak. A musical program
is being prepared for the occasion.
The services in st. Paurs Church viii
be conducted by the rector the Rev
!, Robert w. Forsyth. The arrangement!
are in charge OF the Rev. Landon
federate Veterans. and the Rev. Jane!
Power Smith D. D.. chaplain OF thu
Richmond Howltzers.
Covcruor,s pr0r1n mn ton.
Yesterday Governor Swanson ISSUED
the following proclamation concerning
, the anniversary exercises:
Whereas June 3, 1908. is the 100tl
anniversary OF the birth OF jefferson
Davis, President OF the Confederat
, States of America;
Whereas, that day will be observe
= In Richmond as a Memorial Day
: commemoration OF the Confederat
r dead by the Hollywood Memorial As
: ISOLATION, and the monument erecte
= In this city by the Jefferson Davl
!. Monument Association in memory q
President Jefferson Davis will be pre-
sented to the city of Richmond; and
Whereas, the day is one worthy {
proper and patriotic observance by tn
people OF Virginia,
Therefore. l. Claude A. swanso,
Governor OF Virginia. request that tn
schools. colleges and organizations d
meet at. such time and place as ma
Z be convenient. to pay proper and ju:
j. tribute to the exalted character. III
and services OF President Jefferso
Davis; and in pursuance OF joint re-
oluton OF the General Assembly {
$ Virginia.. approved March Z, 1901,
urge that the public schools of tt
State hold appropriate exercises con
memorative OF the day and occasio
and direct that the State offices
a Richmond be closed, and that the Fla
OF the State be holsted over the Capt.
Building. as prescribed by law
Given under my hand and under Il
. lesser seal of the Commonwealth (
= Richmond. this 18th day Of May
y the year OF our Lord, 1908, and In II
!. one hundred and thirty-second ye;
u Of the Commonwealth
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