Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-12
Previous Action Allotting the
Shaft to Virginia Is Rescind-
ed--Will Go to Anderson
vile or Macon.
BOTH THESE PLACES
ARE MAKING STRONG
PLEA FOR MONUMENT
Americas Also Has Offered Location.
Final Vote To Decide Location is
To Come Thursday Afternoon.
Spirited Debates.

The Georgia division Of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy has re-
scinded its previous decision to locate the
famous Writ monument at Richmond.
va and will doubtless select either Ma-
con or Andersonville as a site for the
shaft
This action was taken Thursday fore
noon at an extra session OF the u d. c.
assembled In Atlanta, at the Piedmont
motel, to settle once and for all this long
Vexed problem. Something like 100 accred-
tied delegates were in attendance from,
various parts of the state, besides a large
number of Atlanta members When the
meeting adjourned for luncheon at m.
the respective advantages of Macon. An
derson and Americas as locations for the
memorial were being argued. These three
places had been offered. Each was being
vigorously ehampioned. The issue seems
to lie most keenly between Macon and
unreasonable. Whatever may be the re-
suit of the final vote, it VIII be close. Mrs.
waiter Lamar and Miss Ida Holt are
leading the fight for Macon; Miss Murphy.
OF GAINESVILLE has a strong following in
the championship of unreasonable. At
lanta, however, is not in the race.
Before the convention was formally or
ganized' Captain F. w. Park, chairman
or the Wirz monument advisory board
Atlanta would be better site for the
memorial than Andersonville
Inc convention resumed work Thursday
afternoon and will probably have settled
the discussion before evening.
Convention in Session
The U. D. c. convention having been
formally organized the Wirz monument
problem was taken up, definitely for dis
cussion. This began with a motion made
by Mrs. ]. S. Harrison. of Columbus.
that the convention be dissolved forth
with without taking any action other
than that the Wirz monument commit
tee named at the Savannah convention
be rendered vote of confidence.
This motion was vigorously opposed
by Mrs. Patillo. Mrs. Walker, Mrs. f. E.
Park and others. The motion was voted
down by an overwhelming majority.
Action Rescinded
Miss Millie Rutherford, the u. d. q.
historian of Athens, next moved that The
action Of the convention in appropriate
| ing the monument to Richmond be re-
seinded and that then a special speaker
for each of the Georgia sites in view be
appointed to present the particular ad-
Yantages of each site. Such a method.
she said. would save much time for 9TH
erwise everybody would speak and the
convention might never end. This mo-
ton was carried by big majority.
Mrs. Grady's Argument
Mrs. Grady, of Savannah, then read an
! interesting paper re-offering Anderson
vile as a site for the monument
Miss Ida Holt. of Macon. offered Ma
con as site: and Mrs. Estes, OF AIneri-
Gus. offered @-mericus.
Miss Holt then pleaded the ADVANTAGES
or Macon in N fufaraeffpo
paper. The central location of that city.
together with its many institutions of
learning made Macon the logical site Of
the shaft. she said Miss Holt rendered
the site in the name of the mayor and
council of Macon, as we'll as the Sidney
Lanier chapter.
Mrs. Estes urged the offer Of Americas.
She said that Americas is within a short
distance of Andersonvillie and would
have all the advantages OF that place
in addition to its own.
Logical Site
Mrs N B. Harrison followed with an
appeal that the monument be placed az
Andersonville. No where else, she said,
could it stand as such an honor ana
vindication to the martyred hero's mem
DRY.
Miss Holt of Macon, then opposed thu
location of the monument at Anderson
Vile. She declared amid the applause OF
the delegates that IL was the man and
not a place that the U. D. C.'s wished to-
memorabilia. If it were placed there, she
said, it would naturally be surrounded
with an atmosphere of antagonism, and
the responsibility of what might result
should not be placed on the U. d. ca
of Georgia and on the south.
Miss Murphy, of Gainesville, and MisH
Atkins, of Cordele, both spoke for An
dersonvilleA and assured the convention
that no III feeling would be aroused
through the shaft being located al tnAk
place.
Mrs. Ralph, of Augusta, also argued
that Andersonville is the only logical site
for the shaft. She was followed by Mrs
Myers of Fitzgerald. Mrs. Nesbit, or
Marietta declared that if the moument
were placed at Andersonville, its edu-
cational value would be lost for the rea-
son that so few people would see it.
Miss Moore, of Macon, made the last
speech of the forenoon session, urging
that the shaft not be placed at Ander-
sonville.