The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-08
VETS POURING INTO MEMPHIS Ready For the Reunion Today. ]. NERAL EVANS ON SCENE Imposing Floral Parade Win Take
 Place. csmmander Expresses satisfaction At Plans for 'EntertaiAminE the southern Heroes in the Tea
 nessee City.
 
NERAL EVANS ON SCENE

Memphis. Tenn. June 7.-with the Stars and Bars and the Star Spangled banner Tapping in the soft breeze of a typical Southern day; with the pie lures of Southern heroes aligned with those who fought for the North; with the streets filled with thousands of wis. tors: with here and there through the throng the soft gray and gold of the cause that millions revere. the Con. federate Veterans reunion began to- night.
 The formal program does not begin until tomorrow. But all day long spe- cial and regular trains puffed noisily Into the Blum City of Tennessee and debouched their thousands of passen- gers upon platforms. The hotels. taxed to their capacity. have utilized every spare inch of space and the halls and corridors are filled with narrow cots upon which repose good natured and enthusiastic visitors to the reunion. From every store and office and pri- vate residence are strung the National coiors. The Stars and Bars and the united country's flag float side by side pn every hand. Big signs tell of State, department and division headquarters, Uniformed and courteous guides are at the service of the visitors, and to even look in doubt means a polite offer of assistance from both the men and women who wear the badge. T live here. ask me"
 There probably never has been a Confederate reunion at which the arr arrangements have been so complete or the details so ably worked out. It is almost impossible to walk through any depot in Memphis without some cour- teous stranger inQuiring. Are you visitorT'
 Information bureaus abound and no one can complain that accommodations are not furnished At a huge mess hall In Main Street, which commissary has provided, meals are served three times a day for the old boys in greyl There are the familiar beans and bacon, the hard tack and coffee, in addition to all the delicacies that the market can supply Handsomely gowned and dainty Southern matrons and maids su- perintend the preparation of food as well as the serving of it, and see that fhe more finaia and helpisss Of the old veterans are not nElKhteA The towa is myriad of lights, and every resident has constituted himseli an informal reception committee to Bes that every visitor is taken care of.
 The real business of the reunion be- ElnS tomorrow bI lV Q CiO<k stn tAe morning in the convention hall. when Major general J. H McDowell will call the assembly to order. There will be the usual preliminaries, the ad- dresses of welcome and responses. and the convention will get down to bus ipess.
 IThere will be floral parade In the afternoon, a meeting of Veterans and Sons of Veterans to honor the women fxk oeNH a boat ride on the Mississippi. In the afternoon, too. there will be placed on view the bronzes designed for the State monuments In honor of the women of the Confederacy.
 S General Evans arrived Tn the city last night and expressed himself as beinE we'll satisfied with the local arrange. ments. Later in the night. General William E. Mickle, Adtutant General and Chief of Stan, reached the city and today opened headquarters In local hotel.
 Bands playing patriotic airs are pa- radfng the streets today and commit. tees are awaiting every train for the purpose of directing the veterans to the respective headquarters.
 Nashville Vets co.
 Nashville, Tenn. Feb. 7-So far, four special trains have left this city for Memphis carrying Veterans and visitors to the Confederate reunion from Nashville and contiguous terri tory.
 Governor Patterson. with his active stan, will leave for Memphis tonight. He will welcome the Veterans.
 Texaa Vets or.
 Waco. Tex, June 7.--An unusually larger number of Confederate veterans left here today for Memphis. Special trains over the Cotton Belt road left here at noon today with the veterans from Central Texas which Is said to be fhe largest in ten, years. Practically the same condition Is said to exist ir the other parts of the State.
 Birmingham Vets on.
 Birmingham, June T.-(SpeciaL1-- The special train leaving here over the Frisco and Memphis carrying the Confederate veterans en route to the reunion was a long one and was well filled this morning. No less than two hundred veterans from the Bir- ,mingham district went to Memphis tc take part in the reunion.