The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-04-26
VETERANS
To MEET AT MOBILE

Mobile, Ala, April 25-The city is
rapidly filling with visitors and dele
gates to the annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans and the
reunions of the affiliated organizations
of the United Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams, the Daughters of Confederate
Veterans and the Southern Memorial
Association, which will be in session
here during the first port of the
week The whole city is lavishly dec
GRATED in honor of the veterans and
is receiving them with genuine South
ern hospitality. Judging from pres
ent indications the reunion will have
a record attendance.
The reunion of the Sons of Confed-
crate Veterans will open tonight with
a grand welcoming meeting in German
Relief Hall, the headquarters of the
organization during the reunion week.
The Confederate veterans will hold
their meetings in large tent seating
about six thousand, which has been
erected for that purpose near the
Tent City, where two thousand vet
Grams will find accommodations. The
camp has been established on the
shore of Mobile Bay, which saw the
last naval struggle of the war, the bat
tie between Admiral Buchanan and
Admiral Farragut, and upon the west
ern part of which the last lan6 battle
of the Confederacy was fought. Di-
rectly adjoining the tented city" the
commissary and kitchen are located
which will supply from 1000 to $500
veterans with free meals during the
reunion. Monroe Park, where the re-
union will be held, is within easy
reach by a number of trolley lines.
The most elaborate arrangements
for the reception and entertainment
of the veterans and other visitors have
been made and in addition to the num-
erous public entertainments, balls, ex-
curslons and campfires there will be
many social affairs of more or less
private nature in honor of the vet
erans and their ladies'. Great rivalry
Is expected between the delegations
from Little Rock, Macon, Chattanoo-
go, and several othpr cities anxious to
secure the reuISbn of next year for
their respective cities.
The complete program of the United
Confederate Veterans Reunion is as
follows:
Tuesday
Morning session at o'clock, at
Auditorium, Monroe Park.
Music by band while the convention
is assembling; relinquishment of au-
thority of committee of program and
order of arrangements, by Mr. w. X.
p. Wilson, chairman; calling conven.
tion to order, by Gen. George p. Har-
rison, commander Alabama division,
U. c. "; invocation by Rev. r. Lima
Cave, chaplain general u. G. "; mus.
ic, MY Country, 'Tis of Thee" United
Confederate Choirs of America; reci-
tation, Poem of Welcome, written for
the occasion by Hugh G. Barclay, by
Miss Vera Williams; address of well
come in behalf of the State of Ala
bama, by Governor Braxton Bragg
Conner; address of welcome in behalf
of the City of Mobile, by Hon. p. j.
Lyons, mayor; address of welcome
in behalf of the United Sons of Con-
federate Veterans, by Calrence j.
Owens, commander in chief U. s. G.
v; song, Soldiers Dream" by Thos.
Halliwell, of Mobile; recitation by
Miss Minnie Reese Richardson of Ala
bama; address and turning the audit
orium over to teh veterans, by Jacob
Il. Bloch, chairman of executive COM
mittee; response and acceptance OF
auditorium by Gen. Clement A. Evans,
! commander In chief u. G. "; an.