The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-04-29
LOVES TRIBUTE PAID
TO THE HEROIC DEAD
Splendid Parade, Eloquent
Speeches and Many Flow
ers on Memorial Day.


tinglv observed in Marietta
The procession was superb i'll every
respect and was most admirably han
died. At the head rode the police force
followed by the band, Governor Brown
and staff, Marietta Rife, Confedera e
Veterans and children of the Public
Schools, apparently more than a thous-
and, each child bearing a beautiful
wreath or boquet for the Confederate
dead
splendid feature of the parade was
the automobiles, that part of the pro-
gram being under the charge of Mr.. {.
w. DuPre. The automobiles were
placed in the front of the procession.
First was the car of Hon. f. P. Dobbs
in which were Governor Brown and Mrs.
Brown and Mrs. R. T. Nesbitt
This car was followed by that OF Mr..
c. w. DuPre occupied by Colonel Starr,
Miss Baxter and Colonel L. l.. McCles-
key.
MANY CARS IN LINE.
Other cars in line were those of Mr.
Ralph Northcutt, Mr.. c. f. Henderson,
Mrs. S. K. Dick, Mr.. f. B. Freyer, Mr.
w. A. DuPre, Colonel d. w. Blair, Mr. i.
Marvin McClatchey, Colonel NJ. NJ. SEES
sions, Mr.. Morgan McNeel, Mr.. J. j..
Black, Mr.. A. V. Cortelyou and Colonel
John P. Cheney.
The cars were occupied by the ladies
of the Memorial Association, Daughters
of the Confederacy, members of the va
rious committees, distinguished guests,
etc. Mr.. Knight was in Mrs. Dick S
car with Mayor Clay and Colonel Mes.
bitt. Judge Rodgers party occupied
Mr.. Freyers car. Professor Derry was
with Mr.. w. A. DuPre.
At the signal the automobiles, which
had formed in front of the Court House,
with myriad flags fluttering i'll the breeze
fitted around the beautiful green Park
like SC. many red birds and started out
Powder Springs street,
Colonel George II. Sessions rode tc
the head of the column, with Mr. James
I. Anderson, gave the command and the
procession moved i'll perfect order to-
ward the cemetery.
AT THE CEMETERY
After prayeriby DR.. j. J Patton, of
Decatur, Col. j. H. Foster introduced
Prof, Joseph 7. Derry, of Atlanta, in a
brief but eloquent speech
Prof. Derry Erecited poem eulo-
giving the Confederate soldiers, es-
pecially at the battle of Gettysburg,
and bestowed the prize offered by the
Sans Drug Co, Tor the best1 essay on
that famous battle, to Miss Annie Pope
Bryan.
Mayor Clay made spirited, patriot.
&c little address He commented on
the proposal of prominent northern
capitalist to build road from Chatta-
nOoga to Atlanta, as a monument to
General Sherman and said: 81 told
him then that we did not want anv
monument to General ShermanJ who
had burned our homes and driven our
mothers ard sisters into the woods for
shelter. If road could be built as a
recompense in part for the devastation
and woe wrought by northern soldiers
IN this section, then let them build it.
But monument to General Sherman
IN Cobb County-never, nor in any
iorm-will we have it,"
MR.. l.. l.. KNIGHTS ADDRESS.
He then presented Mr.. L. L. knight,
the orator of the day, who held his
audience entranced by the splendor
OF his eloquence aid fervent tributes
to the south, it's part in our country
history, the nobility of its soldiers and
the devotion of its mothers and
daughters,
' N"'i 'OuSelS sang renting
on the Old Camp-ground" and Dixie
with VIOLIN. accompaniment by he,
sister.
Judge. Robert L. Rodgers. of Allan.
ia, was introduced by Captain w. J.
Hudson, and delivered an address on
the Georgia Military Institute.
Miss Annie Coryen, who is a pretty
blonde schoolgirl unveiled the little
cannon, escorted by her grand father
Col. James W. Robertson. who wa,
commandment at the G. MI, and fired
the first salute on the occasion of Gov
Joseph Z Browns Inauguration.
Among the guests on the speaker.
stand with the ladies of the Marriott,
Memorial Association we're Govern,
and Mrs. Joseph N Brown. Miss Sail,
Eagenie Brown, Mr. Fl. II. Cabaniss
DR.. J. Scott Todd, Mr.. Patillo. Mis-;
Marion Smith, daughter of Bill Arp. ,