Evening star., 1914-06-03

lCOnt1nue0 FROM First PaSe.)
sent as his tribute to tthe ex-confederate
dead bountiful supply of beautiful flow
ers from the White House.
After the Confederate section had been
completed. with a mound in the center
for a monument the monument. like
| "Topsy.'' lust growed." Before it had
been officially authorized, the r. E. Lee
Chapter of the U. d. c. in Washington
raised 81 600 for it. In March. 1906. Mrs.
Magnus Thompson, who was district
president of the Z. D. c. for the District
of Columbia. obtained from Secretary of
War Taft, through Senator John Sharp
Williams of Mississippi. permission to
erect the monument, and soon the Stone
wall Chapter of the L. D. G. had raised
81, 900.
November s. 1906. Mrs. Thompson made
call on all Confederate organizations in
Washington, and delegates from Camp
III, U. C. ", camp of Sons of Veterans
and five chapters of L. D. c.. convened
and formed the Arlington Confederate
Monument Association with an executive
committee, the personnel of which now is
as follows:
Col Hilary A. Herbert. chairman: Mrs.
Marion Butler. vice chairman: president,
Mrs Daisy McLaurin Stevens; recording
secretary, Mrs. Drury Conway Ludlow;
corresponding secretary. Mrs. William
Oscar Roome; treasurer, Wallace
Streater.
Executive committee = Justice Seth
John NJ Hickey. Wallace streater. Alb
ner H. Ferguson, Mrs. Magnus S.
Thompson, Mrs. Rust Smith. Mrs. Drury
Conway Ludlow, Mrs. James E. Mulcare,
Young, Mrs William Oscar Roome. Mrs.
Blanche Claughton West, Miss Mary R.
Wilcox, Mrs. Jennie L. Munroe, Mrs. Mar
Gus J. Wright. Mrs. Lindsey L. Lomax,
Mrs. Sarah A. Wayne. Mrs. Leonard G.
Hoffman. Miss Fanny Washington Weeks.
Advisory board-Capt. John T. Callag-
han. Senator Francis NJ. Cockrell, Joseph
]. Darlington, Senator Charles ]. Faulk-
ner. DR.. Randolph H. McKim. Thomas NJ.
Owen. DR.. Thomas Nelson Page, Judge
Seth Shepard and Gen. Marcus J. Wright.
Observation-Disclosures, Mrs. Clifford A.
Lanier; Arizona, Miss Salome Townsend:
Arkansas, Mrs. Clementine Boles: Cali
fornia, Miss Bessie Topp; Colorado. Mrs.
| Tench; Georgia, Mrs. James A: Rounsa-
vile; Illinois, Mrs. John Willis Heatfield;
Indiana. Mrs. James 7. Cabiness; Ken
lucky. Miss Caby NJ. Froman; Louisiana,
Miss Doriska Gautreaux; Maryland, Mrs.
| Frank G. Odenheimer; Mexico. Mrs. J.
R. Stamford; Minnesota, Mrs Helen 9.
NJ Paul; Mississippi. Mrs. Lille F.
Worthington; Missouri. Mrs. James Brit
| ton CAN'T; Montana, Mrs. Georgia Young;
Nebraska. Mrs. Elijah conklin: New
Charles B. Goldsborough: North Carolina,
Mrs. l. W. Faison; Ohio. Mrs. Mary E.
Wiltberger; Oklahoma, Mrs. Ruth Glenn
ent. oregon. Mrs. Mamie Duff Silva;
| Pennsylvania, Mrs T. Ashby Blythe;
South Carolina, Mrs. Thomas w. Keitt;
| Tennessee. Mrs. ]. w. Clapp; Utah. Mrs
| Ada Atkins Schooling; Virginia, Mrs.
| Thomas S. Bocock; washington, Mrs.
Marie B. Sayre; West virginia Mrs. Ben
| Davis.
Permission to Erect Monument.
William H. Taft, March s. 1906 as SEQ
retary Of War, in charge officially Of the
| National cemetery, gave to the u. d. c. 8.
| in a letter to John Sharp Williams, who
had written at the instance Of Mrs.
Thomson, permission to erect the nonu-
ment. inscriptions subject to approval by
the Secretary OF War; and the inscrip-
| tons actually on the monument as erect
| ed have been approved by Lndley M.
Garrison, present Secretary Of War.
| In 1907 the committee had raised quite
a sum, but tho magnitude Of the work
It had undertaken, and Its significance,
grew upon 1t. The bodies represented
nearly, II not quite. every state Of the
| late Confederacy; the monument was to
| be in the National cemetery at Arling-
ton, a memorial to the rank and file OF
the whole Confederate army. Request
was therefore made that the task be
taken over by the United Daughters Of
! the Confederacy. an organization with
| chapters all over the south and IN many
| northern states.
! At their annual convention in 1907 the
United Daughters of the Confederacy took
| over the work, organized an Arlington
Confederate Monument Association of
their own, and continued the existing
executive committee at Washington. Later
| A committee on design was formed.
| In November, 1910, the following mem
bers of the committee on design convened
at Washington: Mrs. Cornelia Branch
Stone, chairman; Rev. Dr.. r. II. McKim.
Mrs Marion Butler. Hilary A. Herbert
and Wallace Streater.
Sir Moses Ezekiel. the great Virginia
sculptor, whose studio Is in Rome, Italy,
| and who was then in Richmond, was
called before the committee. The artist
had never sought the committee. but
| when called before it he had a design
already in mind. This he outlined as