The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-11-06
SOMETHING ABOUT THE
WORK OF The IL D. C

| Entertainments for the visitors to ar
rive in connection with the annual con-
Ivention of the United Daughters Of the
| Confederacy will swell the list of
events for this month to extreme pro-
! portions. The convention will take
!place between Nov. 10 and Is, and
there is such a whirl of receptions and
luncheons to be given IN honor of the
strangers that it is hard to see how
they can all be crowded into so short
"a space. Some of the most prominent
! and noted women of the South will
arrive for the convention, many whose
presence will add special distinction to
the several gatherings, and for whom
some additional enter tanning will be
done, says the Tirnes-Democrat.
The New Orleanse women having
charge of the committees which viii,
carry out this program follow: Mrs.
D. A. S. Vaught, program commit
tee; Mrs. Edward Carl Schanabel.
ways and means committee; Mrs.
George Denegre. entertainment COM
mittee: Mrs. w. W. Wallis, pages and
ushers; Mrs. p. j. Friedrichs, infor-
nation committee; Mrs. ]. Herbert
Page. hospitality committee: Mrs.
Charles Granger, decoration commit
tee; Mrs. Aug. Prudhomme, badge
committee; Mrs. Herman J. Seiferth,
music committee; Miss Helena Freret,
! boat ride committee; Mrs. William
Johnson, automobile ride; Mrs. Ed
ward Cottschalk, secretary to conven-
ton committee
The following statement regarding
the organization and work Of the order
has been issued: =
Immediately after the war between
the states ended, groups of women of
he
the betterment and assistance of the
Confederate soldiers and their families,
to erect monuments and mark histori-
cal spots, and to perform general ed
ucational and benevolent work.
Some of these groups called them
selves Daughters of the Confederacy,
and others selected other titles; but
it was not until 1894 at Nashville,
Tenn, on the call of Mrs. NJ. c. Good
let and Mrs. L. H. aines, that the
women of the three Southern States
sent representatives to that city, and
the national association known as the
Daughters of the Confederacy came
into being, and started out fully
formed and equipped for active work.
The organization announced itself TO
have for objects and purpose to be a
social literary, historical and benevo-
lent association of Southern women,
where the ties Of friendship among
those whose fathers brothers, sons and
husbands, and in many cases mothers,
had suffered through the common suf-
fering and privation of the war, would
tend to perpetuate the honor, integrity,
valor and other attributes of Southern
character. Year ~ year the member
ship increases, until from an organiza-
ton with less than 1000 members, it
now has 10000 on its roll, and among
these are still a few mothers Of Con-
federate veterans, and descendants to
the fourth generation.
The unit of the organization is the
chapter and the chapters in most
states are united in divisions. The
extends to Montana on |
the north, Mexico on the south, New |
York on the east and California on |
the west. All of the states of the /
Southern Confederacy. thirteen in |
number-West Virginia, Maryland and |
the District of Columbia, and several |
of the western and northern states, |
have organized divisions. In all there |
are twenty-five divisions and fourteen |
chapters which have not been organ |
lied into divisions in the states of /
New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Col
orado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Wash /
ington, Utah, Oregon. Arizona, Mime /
sofa and Mexico.
The work of the organization dur
ing its existence has embraced home ]