Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-04-04
JACKSONVILLE REUNION Will
BE A Big SOCIAL OCCASION

ed States, unless it be the Inaugural.
ton ball at the national capital, now
fallen into social desuetude. If the
inauguration ball is put out of the con-
test, the annual ball of the Confeder-
ate reunion, at which the maids ana
sponsors hold sway, is the greatest
social function of the United States.
The ladies and gentlemen who par
ticipate in these balls, are descendants
of men and women of the splendid civ
ilization of the South, which before the
war, was nown and applauded around
the world. No section of any country
knew better how to entertain than the
South in those days. 1t was a proud
people, jealous of it's reputation and o.
knightly courtesy. But, being sun
ported by slavery it went down in the
flames of war and suffered as no other
social system has ever suffered in the
history of the world. Out of the wreck
Of that system, the South has emerged
with new order, but the same ideals.
The South glories in the past and is
proud of the present. 1t is proud of its
women, and has no fear to enter them
in any beauty show on earth. The Con-
federate reunion, in one sense, is the
annual ebauty show of the Southern
states, and this year, as ALREADY stated,
it is to be held in Jacksonville, tho
southernmost of the large cities of the
Atlantic coast.
The social side of the Jacksonville
reunion will be participated In by rep
.resentatiyes of all Southern states, the
border states and a few western com
monwealths. There are sixteen state
divisions of the United Confederateet
Veterans Association, as follows
South Carolina, North Carolina, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Lou
isiana, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama.
Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas.
oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas.
Each state sends large delegations OF
young women to, the reunion, selected
with regard to their social standing at
home In addition to the state delega :
tons, the commander-in-ch has his
own official ladies, chosen from the
South at large. There are three de-
partments, known as the Army Of
Northern Virginia department, Army
Of Tennessee department and Trans
Mississippi department Each depart
ment appoints maids and sponsors ana
sends them to all reunions. The scope
of country covered by these many or
CARNATIONS has about half the popula-
ton of the United States; hence, the
interest in a Confederate reunion is al
ways widespread. Society circles in
all of this territory are interested in
the Jacksonville reunion, and the even.
will bring here one of the largest
crowds of young people ever assembled
il the South Florida appeals to tic
young, ebcause of its flowers and lis
onders-its poetry, its songs and its
attractive history. Rivers and ocean,
gulf and bays have interest all their
own. The palm and the pine, liveoak
and holly, and hundred other fores;
trees that abound throughout the state
as nowhere else on the continent, in
vest Florida with an interest as fide as
the nation Greater interest attaches
to the Jacksonville reunion than to airy
recent meeting of the Conf derates,
and preparations are being made to
entertain large crowd Of people in
May.
Jacksonville will 90 as much for the
social side of the reunion as sny other
reunion city has done, and will try to
improve on the best programs that
have been enjoyed by the veterans and
their friends. The visiting ladies viii
he entertained by a large committee,
G. which DR.. w. N. Simmons, one o.
the most accomplished gentlemen Of
Jacksonville, is chairman. This com
rittee is already at work on the pre-