The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-30
GOVERNOR MANN
ORATOR OF DAY
speakSat Memorial Exercises in
Hollywood Game.
terry.
ANNUAL SERMON LAST NIGHT
Grand Army Will Honor Federal
Dead Buried at Seven
Pines.

Governor William Hodges Mann will
be the orator at the memorial exer-
cises this afternoon In Hollywood
Cemetery The exercises will open in
the cemetery at 6 o'clock, md will be
preceded by the usual military and
| Confederate parade. In which oil of
/, the military organizations in the city
Will take part Governor Mann will
| be introduced by Lieutenant g overnor
j. Taylor Ellyson. following a prayer
by Rev. Landon II. Mason. The must
cal program in the cemetery will be
| in charge of Frank W. Cunningham,
| and the various bands will accompany
the great crowd In singing the hymns
| on the program
Arrangements for decorating the
graves OF the 5000 Confederate dead
! in Hollywood are in charge Of spe.
c!al committee from the Hollywood
be sent TO the Soldiers Monument In
Hollywood any time this morning, a
committee being there Ia receive and
distribute them. In recognition of the
annual memorial event. the express
companies have offered to transport
dressed to OF the flo,lywood Association
Dccornte AinBy Graves.
Special wreaths have been prepared
for draping the granite shaft known
as the soldiers Monument, and there
will, be appropriate decorations on the
graves Of President jefferson Davis;
Mrs. Davis. Miss Winnie Davis and
been added to the circle around the
monument to the President of the Con-
fedracy since the last Memorial Day
rui h'he co mi ettlecrs which viii
be especially marked will be those of
Major General j. Z. 3. Stuart. Com
modore Matthew F. Maury. Major Gen
) eral George y. Pickett. Governor VIII
liam Smith. Governor Henry a. Wise,
James ~ Seldom. Secretary of, War
5 OF the Confcderacy, General John r.
l Cooke. General w. II. Stevens, General
John Pcgram, and many other sons OF
E Past con,mandsr v B. Trseman. Of
! Veterans, viii act as chief marshal OF @,
y the parade He mas named Major L. +
military and other organizations par,
: ticipating are to report to the CHIEF
: marshal at Fifth and Grace Streets a
$50 O'clock The parade WI NOV
! squad of mounted police will come th
battalion of. Richmond Light infant r;
. Blues and band under Major f. "
Bowles: the First Battalion, First Nir
: GINA Regiment, and band. under Maio
Lawrence T. Price, and the Richmont
Uowitzers.
Then will come the Confederate or
. ganizations, r. b. Lee Camp, No. !, =
O L. pickett Camp, OF this city an
y other Confederate camps and Sons 0
;, Veterans Carriages following thos
organ. 1ttions will contain the Cover
: nor of Virginia and staff, the Holly
q wood Memorial Association and dele
:. cations from other Confederate ant
= memorial organizations.
Memorial Sermon.
. The memorial exercises began last
night with the annual memorial SER
mon, delivered by Rev y, Clay Lilly
: n D., at the Grace Street Presbyterian
church for the members of the va
, rious Confeder.a camps, the Holly
wood Association and other Confeder-
ate organizations which assembled in
the Sunday school rooms and moved
into the church In a body. Special mu-
vice.
To-day will be observed as Memorial
Day throughout the South and as
I'Decorat ton Day" in the North, and Is
a legal and general holiday. Ranks and
many business Offices Will be closed
The post-o!tice will observe holiday
/ hours.
the National Cemetery at Seven Pine
Eunder the auspices of Phil Kearnev
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, this
morning at II o'clock. The memorial
address will be delivered by Rev. G. a
schaible, and there Will be special mu'
sic and rectta,ions President Lincoln's
Gettysburg address will be read BY
Comma nder B, K. Ladd, and salut
in honor of the Federal dead viii
, be fired by squad of men from, Com
pany 2. First Regiment, Virginia Vol
unteers, under command of Sergean
PAIL F Newell.