The Brunswick news., 1913-04-06

HOLD REUNION
SOMETHING AF ARRANGEMENTS
TO CARE FOR coNFEDER-
ATE VETERANS.

Chattanooga, Tenn, April 5.--This
city is preparing TO entertain the
largest crowd that has attended a re-
union of the Confederate veterans and
Sons of Veterans since the organiza-
ton Of the association. It is q matter
Of history that the first steps toward
organizing the southern survivors of
the Civil war were taken in Chatta-
nooga. The New Orleans meeting, at
which the organizatioIt@Tva effected
by the election of Gen. John b. Cor
don eommander~in-chisf, resulted, in
large measure, from agitation started
here by Cant. J T. Shipp, and others,
for IN association of Confederates
The New Orleans meeting elected Gen.
John g. Gcrdcn to head the organiza-
tion and he called the first reunion Of
the association for Chattanooga July
8, and 5, 1890 Under all of the cir
cumstanee5 tho people cf Chattanooga
feel that it is their duty to exert every
effort to make the coming reunion
brilliant success. It is certainly their
pleasure 10 60 SO.
The date Of the reunion is May 27-
20 inclusive Only two months re-
main in which the work Of the organi-
zation nay be done, but it is well un-
der way The various committees
have been appointed, and are at work
in their respective spholes mforma-
ton gathered from all sections of the
south indicates chat fully 10000 peo-
pie will be here.
The passenger departments of all
the railroads gazing lines entering
| Chattanooga, report that already
there is much interest in the coming
reunion Inquiries are received every
day about rates, hotel accommodations
and the progress Of the work incident
to the entertainment of the veterans
and the thousands of visitors that viii
be here. The head of the passenger
( department Of one of the largest rail
way sy Asasaus& the south, has served
notice on the people of Chattanooga
that record breaking crowd may be
expected.
The Confederate veterans met here
/ in their FIRST reunion in 1890, twenty
three years ago Chattanooga at that
time was but neefly prepared to care
4 for the visits Hotel accommoda-
tions snferior, local transporta-
zion Sties poor and the people were
90 fhg financially from a collapsed
asDoom However, chat reunion was
voted success.
The Chattanooga of today was built
since 1890. Il is now a city Of 100000
with the best of hotel accommodations
and first-eass local transportation fa-
cilitios. It has twenty-siX hotels, one
Of them q modern, twclye-storv build
ing costing a million dollars. The
boarding house accommodations are
ell that are to be found in modern
city Of 100000 population. The ho-
tells, boarding houses and private
+ famiies viii furnish entertainment
for 10000 visitors The restaurant
service is first class and adequate to
any demard.
The Confederate veterans will be
camped at Jackson park, a delightful
resort almost within the business dis
tricts Of the city. This camp has been
named Camp Stewart" in honor Of
the late Gen. A. p Stewart, the much
| beloved and noted southern chieftain,
who won fame on the greatest battle
! fields of the Civil war and spent his
declining years in Chattanooga as a
member Of tae Chickamauga National
Park commission. The motion to
| r~y.,c {Lc o,s,or Fo,. t,;yo ,,,oc ,,,,4 ~,
Mayor I. G. Thompson, and was
unanimously adopted
Chattanooga is putting great energy
into the preparation for the reunion,
and every indication is that it will be
one Of the most delightful meetings
the veterans have ever enjoyed.
The environments Of Chattanooga
are ideal fer a reunion of the Confed-
crate veterans. The battlefelds are
the chief points Of interest, of course,
but they are not all by any means.
| Chattanooga is modern city Of 1907
900 population, with a greater number
, Of manufacturing plants than any city
in the southern states, turning out
/ more than seven hundred different
products that go practically all over
the world 1t has a number Of sky
scrapers, and other modern buildings.
The climate is ideal. The mountain
scenery is rot excelled in any other sec
ton Of the south. Some years ago
Prince Henry, OF Prussia, spent a day
in Chattanooga and made trip to the
top Of historic Lookout mountain.
After viewing The panorama from that
enlinence, he exclaimed: "There is
nothing fncr in ali Europe" Every
tourist who has travelled in European
! countries passes the same auIogy on
these mountains. The Confederate
veterans, however, know what they
are. Thousands Of them fought over
this field, and it will be a pleasure to
them to revisit the scenes of the car
mage through which they passed in
1868.
For the purpose Of entertaining the
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