Evening star., 1909-06-03
Park Dedicated at Confeder-
ate Leaders Birthplace.
BIRTHDAY Is CELEBRATED
One Hundred and First Anniversary
Observed Throughout South.
NAME COUPLED WITH LINCOLN
Orator at Fairview Declares thu
Southern Message to Be One of
Everlasting Peace.

FAIRVIEW, KY, June 3.-Among the
trees which have grown up about the
birthplace of Jefferson Davis since the
year. early in the nineteenth century,
when the Davis family removed to Mis-
sissippi. the Jefferson Davis memorial
park was simply dedicated today. North
east across the state is Hodgenville, near
which Abraham Lincoln was born eight
months after his great opponent. Fair
view is still tiny town trimmed with
forests and slopng gently toward the
grass-grown battle fields of Tennessee.
In September. 1907, when the gray
grown and enfiladed ranks of Kentucky S
famous Orphan Brigade met in Glas-
gov, KY, at the grave of Gen. Joseph H.
Lewis, their commander, former Gov.
Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky broached
the plan of the Jefferson Davis Memorial
Association. Subscriptions were started,
the women of the south aiding nobly, and
when all but 81 900 had been raised to pur-
chase seventeen acres at FairvieW Gen.
Bennett H. Young, commanding the Ken
lucky division, United Confederate Vet
Grams, advanced that sum and made the
memorial possible.
Basket Dinner and Barbecue.
Oratory. music and flowers made today
notable. A basket dinner and barbecue
were provided by the people of Todd and
Christian counties. which share equally
the town of Fairview, and when Col w.
A. Milton Of Louisville, as chairman in
the absence Of Gen. Young, who was de-
tanned in Chicago on business, opened the
meeting, the homestead of the Davises
was crowded Gen. Young, prominent
Louisville lawyer. wrote the chief address
|of the day, and 1t was read by Col. Mil
ton Gen. Young asserted that every
southern state should rear. shaft to JEFF
ferson Davis, whose character and suffer
ings he dwelt upon sympathetically. He
paid high tribute to Lincoln, saying that
the time had come when men might speak
kindly and truly of the past. He said the
message which the United States gave to
the world today was one of everlasting
peace.
which to build a memorial temple to con-
tain all the records of the Confederacy
and to remodel two-story residence upon
the Davis farm to house the widows OF
Confederate soldiers.
Celebrations in Virginia.
NORFOLK, Va, June 3.-Today, the
101st anniversary Of the birth Of Jefferson
Davis, was fittingly observed In Norfolk
Portsmouth and other Virginia cities by
the presentation Of crosses of honor" 70
surviving Confederates. with an innova-
ton including the presentation of similar
honors to widows and descendants OF
Confederate soldiers. The crosses OF
honor were presented by the Daughters
of the Confederacy in the various cities
and counties.
The Davis anniversary celebration also
included appropriate exercises in the pub
lie schools, where essays on the life. char
acter and influence of Davis were read
At Old Montgomery Capitol.
MONTGOMERY. ALA. JUNE 3.-The
state house. the first capital of the Con-
federacy, was closed today in honor of
the Jefferson Davis anniversary. The
brass star on the oortico marking the
spot where Davis stood to receive the
oath of Office President of the Con-
federacy is draped with colors of the lost
cause.
ATLANTA. Ga, June Sin Atlanta and
throughout Georgia today the birthday
anniversary of Jefferson Davis will be