The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-14
COL. HERBERT TALKS ON MEMORIAL WORK Has Heart Wrapped Up In Ar
 Iington Monument $13,OO0 ALREADY IN HAND Colonel Herbert Says a Memorial Must be Erected at Arlington Which Will be Credit to the
 Whole Nation.
S13,OOO ALREADY IN HAND

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 Col. Hilary A. Herbert of Washing ton, former Secretary of the Navy un- der President Cleveland, and now pres- ident of the Arlington Memorial asso- ciation, arrived in Birmingham yester- day. He comes to attend Confederate day at the State Fair today, when the Daugh ters of the Confederacy will give 8 Badge Day" to raise funds to as- sist in building the proposed monu- ment in Arlington cemetery.
 Colonel Herbert is stopping at the home of MT. Ed West, his nephew by marriage. When asked for 8 statement for the press he gave out the follow ing:
 "I came to Birmingham on a telegram from the director for Alabama of the Arlington Confederate Monument asso- ciation who tells me that tomorrow Is Badge Day for the benefit of the monument to be erected at Arlington to the memory of the Confederate sol- diers. The situation Is thus,
 There are at Washington two camps five chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the membership of which is not numerous, but very enthusiastic, and one Southern Relief society. These associations represent the Confederate element in the District of Columbia. oY.fr fa Iro al T4a memory of the Confederates and to help as far as possible to. take care of aged and indigent Confederates and their families. They are doing good work where it is sorely needed. Many of our veterans there, away from kith and kin, are pitiably poor But we don't confine ourselves to help of the living. We remember the dead.
 "The ex-Confederates who had died in and around Washington, some Tn pris- on and oth CTS of whom were killed when General Early made his raid on the city in 1864. were lying some years ago scattered about at different points in the District of Columbia, some of them being already in Arlington ceme- tery. Congress was induced to make an appropriation under which the bodies of these ex-Confederates, among whom were some 50 Alabamians, were gath cred together and removed to what has since been called The Confederate Sec ton in Arlington cemetery. It is in a very prominent and beautiful location. The graves are arranged at proper dis- tances around central mound, which to 1afk Co graves are marked with neat marble headstones. upon which are carved the names, where known. of the soldiers. And this little cemetery Is cared for and kept in perfect order by the gov ernment
 Permission has been obtained, accord ing to the act, from the Secretary of War to erect this monument, and the Confed- crate societies in Washington some five years ago began the work of raising funds. We soon found that to erect such a monument as we ought to have at Arlington was a task beyond our powers, and we applied to the Daughters of the Confederacy for aid. At a general con- vention at Norfolk two years ago, when we had on hand some $3000 or more, the daughters took the matter In charge. An executive committee was appointed at Washington of which was made chair
 
 and now the amount on hand, deposited in the American Security and Trust com pany at Washington, is something over $13 900. Contributions during the past year have been coming in from chapters of the Daughters of the Conrederacy all over the country. These chapters are not only in the south, but some of them in the north, as in Pennsylvania Illinois, Indiana, the states of Washington and Oregon Most of the con,rputions so far are small some of them quite insig- nificant but coming from so many sources they serve to indicate the breadth and depth of the sentiment that is behind the scheme to erect this monument at the home of Lee.
 "The progress we have made is such as to make it certain that this project will succeed, and [. sincerely hope that many of those of our Confederate vet erans whom God has blessed with pros- perity will find 1t in their hearts now to make liberal and prompt contribu- tions. The people now in this great city. which has such bright prospects ahead, and others attending the fair will I hope. send liberal contributions to Mrs Chap pell Cory of this city, who is the direc- tor for the association for the state of Alabama.
 Alabama has up to this time contrib uted 8, fair share of the ~unds In hand. but let me state that the little group of Confederates in the city of Washington, although they do not number as much as one-thirtieth of the ex-Confederates in Alabama. have raised more during the last 12 months for this monument fund than any one of the late Confederate states, the noble state of Virginia per- haps excepted. I would like to impress upon Alabamans the importance of this work. Memorials to our dead have been raised all over the Confederacy, in almost every town of any consequence, and a great monument has been erected in Richmond to the memory of Jefferson Davis. In the future thousands and tens of thousands of visitors to Washington from all over the union and all over the world. who, though they will never see the Davis monument or any other of the monuments in the southern states, will see and mark the memorial we propose to erect at Arlington; and the whole country expects us not only to build 1t. but to build one that will be worthy to stand before all the world as a capstone of all our memorials to our noble dead.
 with the amplest opportunities to see, as have seen, people from all over the A,,tl a,,I 4ots..