The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-05-13
VETS WILL Be
GIVEN FINE TIME
At CHATTANOOGA
GREAT PREPARATIONS GOING
FORWARD FOR THE APPROACH.
ING REUNION.
Splendid Entertainment Will Be Of
fered and City Will Be in
Gala Attire.

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preaching reunion of the United Con-
federate Veterans at Chattanooga,
May 27-29, is creating wide interest
as 1913 is the semi-centennial of the
famous battles of Chickamauga, Mis-
sionary Ridge and the Battle Above
the Clouds" on the heights of Look
out mountain. 70 people of the
Southland the topic of greatest in
tcrcst at this season of every year Ia
the reunion Of these old veterans Ia
gray. But this year the event is Of
wider interest because the reunion is
held for the first time since 1890,
on the ground hallowed by the va
orous deeds OF both North and
South. Hence there will be an at
tendance Of survivors and descend
ants from all over the country.
Chattanooga is making elaborate
plans ior the entertainment of the
veterans and other visitors. There
will be approximately $4,000 veter-
ans who will be lodged and fed, free
OF all charge, during their stay Of
four or more days. For this purpose
the war department has loaned us
l,4OO large tents and the necessary
cots, on which the freight alone.
which we pay, will amount to over
$4,000. Our c0mmissary will be q
large tent, occupying over an acre
and a half OF ground. In this We
will serve during four days total
of l44.000 free meals.
We have raised $4,000 for enter
tanning the veterans properly, not
including $4,000 extra raised by
merchants on our main business
streets Tor one and a half miles of
Great White Way" that will remain
permanently. Miles of decorating
material will ornament our factories,
stores and residences by day and
eleven thousand lineal feet Of elec-
trical festoons will add to private il-
luminations at night.
Aviation meets, carnivals, ETC.,
will provide amusements for our
visitors who are expected to number
10000. A railroad rate of one cent
per mile will enable people to visit
our celebrated hydro-electric pro-
jects which aggregate $4,000 horse
rower, our wonderful mountain re-
sorts overlooking the beautiful Ten
nessee river. and the battlefieLis
where the casualties of $4,000 broke
the records of any war, ancient or
modern.
This semi-centennial reunion will
provide many spectacular features Of
interest to tourists, the most touch
ing Of all being the parade of the
survivors of Lee and other illus
trious Southern leaders.
The Chattanooga reunion will "a
the crowning event in the lives Of
the survivors, who are now passing
away SO rapidly. For many, if not
most Of them. it will be their last
pilgrimage to the ground they made
sacred by their heroic deeds fifty
years ago. They will find the fam
Gus battle grounds beautified by Law
ish government expenditures in the
way OF monuments in marble and In
bronze, made accessible by electric
cars and girdironed by over one hun
dred and ten miles of model automo-
bile roads, built by Uncle Sans en-
gineers. These roads include the
celebrated Crest road along the top
Oh Minnionary Ridge and are sup
plemented by million dollars
worth Of asphalt. macadam and
ebert boulevards lately built BY
Hamilton county.
They will find, instead Of strag-
Cling village, beautiful, modern
city, comprising with suburbs,
over a hundred thousand
people, all anxious to do them honor.
The remarkable low railroad rate
leads Chattanooga manufacturers
ard jobbers to expect many of their
distributors, suppliers and customers
to visit them during the thirty-day
period these rates are in force. Such
people will find a welcome that will
set a new mark for Southern hospi-
tality.
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