The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-24
CONFEDERATE HONOR
MEMORY OF DEAD
NEWS OF TIE VIRGINIA CITY

Alexandria. Va, May ar. E. Lee
Camp. Confederate Veterans. will held
It's annual Memorial Day exercises at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon At the Con-
federate Monument. Washington and
Prince Streets. Rev. DR.. John Lee ALI
son. pastor of the Second PRESBYTERIAN
Church, will deliver the memorial adj
dress. Invocation will be pronounced by
Rev. William j. Morton. rector Of Christ
Episcopal Church. and chaplain OF M
d. Corse Camp. Sons of Veterans.
A feaalre of the exercises will be the
singing at the monument by trained
choir under the direction of Miss Blanche
Rotchford. which will be augmented by
a choir composed Of members OF the
Boy Scouts
The monument will be appropriately
decorated for the occasion. Members OF
the camp will assemble at their hall at
$50 o'clock and march in body to the
monument. At the conclusion OF the ex-
ercises at the monument the veterans,
headed by the members Of the Alex
andria Light Infantry, will march to
Christ Church Cemetery, where vorey
will be fred by the infantrymen. which.
with the sounding of taps. will bring
the ceremonies to close. A band VIII
furnish music.
The mound, beneath which rests the
remains of a number Of unidentified dead.
also will be decorated.
Earlier in the day the graves of the
veterans in the cemeteries In and around
the city will be decorated by their COM
rades The women identified with the
various Confederate organizations re-
quest that flowers intended for the dec
Grating of the monument be sent to the
~ han carly n0S<iblR tOn1Or-
row morning.
Davis Funeral Services.
Funeral services for C. Randolph Davis
were held this afternoon from his home,
517 Prince Street. They were conducted
by Rev. William ]. Morton. rector of
Christ Episcopal Church. Burial was
made in the Presbyterian Cemetery. The
funeral was largely attended. among
attending being large delegations Of Elks
and Eagles. of which he was a member.
The following were the honorary pail
bearers-Col. T. II. Ficklin, A. z. Stay
maker, DR.. Arthur Snowden. W. B.
Davis. Nathan Davis, Milton Elgin. and
Ernest Elgin.
The active bearers were James Keogh,
Charles B. Marshall, J. p. Steiner,
Thomas Carter, Frank NJ. Hill. and L
A. Davis.
''She Stops to Conquer was presented
tonight at Liggett Hall by the dramatic
club of the Episcopal Hight School be-
fore 2 good SIZED audience The partici-
pants acquitted themselves creditabiy.
The costumes worn were exceptionally
attractive.
Mount Vernon Avenue Association has
named these officers and committeeman:
W. B. Smoot, first vice president; z. E.
Downham. second vice president: NJ b.
Harlow, secretary and treasurer; A. ].
Wedderburn, corresponding secretary; W.
B. Smoot, finance: James Z. Clements,
legislative; James r. Cation. right of way;
A. J. NWedderburn. press.
Other News Notes.
The funeral of Helen Alma Smith will
he held at o'clock tomorrow afternoon
from the home of her parents. Del Ray,
Alexandria County. Services will be
conducted by Rev. Mr.. Lambert, the
Methodist minister of that place.
The State corporation commission has
issued an amendment to the charter of
the District Automobile Service Com
pany. Incorporated, OF Rosslyn, Alex
andria County. changing its name to the
G. r. Cowie Company. Incorporated.
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Thomas Mann. colored. was struck by
an east-bound electric train at King and
Payne Streets shortly after s o'clock
this morning. He was taken to the
Alexandria Hospital and treated by DIR.
NJ. d. Delaney for a fractured collar
bone and two scalp wounds. Mann. who
is very deaf, It is claimed. walked de-
liberately in front of the train.
A May festival was given tonight at the
parish hall Of Christ Episcopal Church.
under the auspices of the Sunday school
of that church. In. addition to the crown
ing of the queen by ten little girls. a
number of appropriate songs were given.
The Boy Scouts gave scene depicting
Cowboy life on the plains.
An Intellectual effort was made last night
by thieves to rob the city almshouse
The would-be robbers. after breaking a
retreated without molesting anything else
about the place.
Rev. DR.. John Lee Allison, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church. this city. re-
turned today from Atlanta, Ga, where he
has been attending the fifty-third general
assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States.
Miss Frances Robertson, Of Columbia
Road. Washington. d. c., is the guest
North Columbus Street.
The private car Of the Car Of Russia il dynamite
proof. and owing to its weight II could not
on the greater Tart Of the European lines.