The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-04-30
Jacksonville IS
READY TO greet
GRAY VETERANS
FLORIDA CITY HAS MADE ELAs.
oRATE PREPARATIONS FOR
CONFEDERATE REUNION.
Gen. BENNETT \. YOUNG
TO PRESIDE At MEETINGS
crizzIed Warriors Who Made Lee And
jackson Famous, Now Too Feeble
To March, Will be Supplied With
Mounts-Three Grand Balls vii, be
Il Social Features.

Jacksonville, Fla, April 3O.-All ar.
rangements have been completed for
the twenty-fourth annual national en-.
campment of the United Confederate
Veterans, which will be held in this
city next week.
FOR nearly year a committee of
foremost citizens of Jacksonville has
been at work on the preparations for
the reception and entertainment of
the $4,000 or more visitors who ara
expected to be here from every part
of the South. The detailed programme
prepared by the committee is of the
most perfect and elaborate character.
Already public buildings and pri.
vate residences are taking on holiday
attire in honor of the coming of the
grizzled heroes. The electrical dec.
orations will be the most elaborate
ever seen in the South. Upon arriv-
ing at the union depot the first thing
to attract the attention of the visitors
, will be an enormous electric sign
flashing out the words, Jacksonville
Bids You Welcome" At all the prin-
cipal street intersections in the down.
. town district beautiful canopies Of
, electric lights are being constructed.
q The leading thoroughfares are lined
with Venetian masts from which Old
Glory and the Stars and Bars will
J.. float side by side Countless yards Of
c bunting and thousands of flags and
banners will be used in the decora-
:. tions of tn ebuilding fronts along the
l. line of the reunion parade.
/, Gen. Young Will Preside.
Gen. Bennett H. Young of Louis
:, vile, commander-in-chief of the Uni
a ted Confederate Veterans, will pre-
l, side at the business sessions of that
y body. Governor Park Trammell and
:, other prominent speakers will be on
Y the programme. Among the notable
q guests who will be assigned places of
i, honor on the platform will be Gen. e.
70 M. Law, Of Barlow, Fla, who is the
3, only surviving general on the Confed.
l. crate side who commanded a division
u at Chickamauga. Gen. Law is now
nearing his eightieth year.
le The annual parade will be the clos.
NJ ing feature of the reunion. Many Of
III the old soldiers who composed the
IL armies of Virginia and Tennessee
b who marched to the strains of Dixie
q and followed the old flag under Lee
ie and Jackson and Hood and johnson
are now too feeble to march in thu
al ranks with their comrades. Realizin,
D. this, the local committee has arraget
ID to furnish carriages and automobile
for those who wish to participate Il
the parade, despite their inability t,
stand the strain of marching. Other
r will occupy reserved seats in the re
viewing stands, where they can viii
ness the parade and cheer their CON
IS rades as they pass.
Three Grand Balls.
n. In addition to the business session
or of the United Confederate Veteran
re- and the several affiliated organization
To- there will be distinct social side /
,g- the reunion. Three grand balls wi
lie be the leading features Of the pr,
he gramme Of social entertainment III
he principal ball win be that of the We
Grams, maids and sponsors. which wi
M be given in mammoth tent. Til
err ball will be opened with the celebra
pal ed Southern Cross drill, participate
he in by thirty-two young men and won
tn. en-. The drin was originated in 18e
lth by . number of young Confedel~e
OH soldiers who were combined IN the a.
Al prison on Johnson's IsIan&
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