The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-04-24
VETERANS or TnE
GUAFE:DERDGY
At 24th Rnuua. Reunion will
Have Record Breaking
CraWd.

the near approach OF May 6, interest
in the oath annual reunion of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans Association
and Sons of Confederate Veterans,
centers around the three parades, one
each day of the reunion. 1t has
been definitely decided that the first
parade will be that of the maids and
sponsors, and it will be given on the
a1ternon of May 9Th.
This parade will be confined to au-
tomobiles and carriages, and all spon-
sors and maids of honor will be ad-
mitted to it. The Jacksonville Re-
UNION Association has decided that,
if possible, the parade of maids and
Sponsors will be the finest spectacle
of the kind ever seen in the southern
states. The route will be several
miles long and passes through the
principal residence and business Sec
tions of the city.
The parade o. The second day, May
7, will be of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans and local military organi-
cations. 1t is the present plan for
the Sons to march on foot, and the
parade will take in the business sec
tions of the city.
On the morning of May 8, the last
day of the reunion, the annual parade
of the Confederate Veterans will be
held. Jacksonville labors under a
disadvantage in staging this parade
that no other reunion city has ever
encountered, that of securing horses.
There are very few available horses
in Jacksonville, and as result it has
been decided to make the parade a
combination between horses, automo-
biles and foot-marching. The local
association believes that it will De pos
sible for the commanders and their
staff officers to be provided with
mounts, but it is going to be diff
cult matter to secure a sufficient num-
Der even for that. However, united
effort is being made to secure all the
mounts possible in Jacksonville and
nearbJ towns in Florida and South
Gorgia.
Arrangements for these parades
are being worked out rapidly by spe-
cial committees. Maj S. c. Harrison
is chairman of the committee that
will have charge of the Sons Of Vet
Grams parade. He is being assisted
by the local camp Of Sons of Vete-
rams, of which Judge John w. Dodge
is commander. Adjt. Gen. N. B. For
rest, of the national Sons of Vet.-
rams is here giving much of his at
tention to these arrangements.
DR.. w. M. Stinson is chairman of
the committee on entertainment of
maids and sponsors and has been
working on plans for some time with
a corps of assistants. He will organ
ize the entire program of the maids
and sponsors entertainment features
and promises to give the visiting la
dies the best possible reception IN
Jacksonville.
Gen. John L. Inglis, commander of
the Florida division, U. c. ", is, un-
der the rules of the United Confed-
crate Veterans Association, chief mar
shall of the veterans parade, with
Gen. W. H. Sebring, chief aide. Gen.
Inglis wants a parade in which the
older veterans paraGe is being work
ed out along these lines.
The social function of the reunion
will be ABOUT the same as have pre-
vailed at other reunion cities. Three
balls will be given during the week,
one for maids and sponsors, one for
the Sons of Veterans and the other for
the Veterans themselves. Gen. Ben
nett H. Young appointed as his chief
sponsor Miss Corrine Hampton of
Columbia, S. C. His maids 0 honor
are Misses Minnie Brock of Chatta-
, nooga, EIoise Washourn o. Mo. o.
/ merry, Ala, and Miss Gladys Herman
of New Orleans. These ladies rep
) resent the south in the social func-
tionS of the reunion
} A dancing pavilion will be erected
r close to the business sections CT L.ls
city, and it will he large enough tC
= accommodate the reunion balls. Ir
= addition to the balls there Wa. uc
4 number of events on the program fol-
i the entertainment of official ladies
0 Chief among these is trip to the
d seashore and an excursion u Two q.
S the st. Johns river. Some two hun,
n dred young men volun TERED Lhel
t services as escorts for ,ae us
S maids and sponsors, one for the Sons
t ladies, and everything points t. .
: most enjoyable week for all who mo .
and tn annual parades.
S Jacksonville, Fla, April 18th
+ large dancing pavilion in which tn
t reunion balls will be held has 0c-l
10 named "Corinne Hampton Pavlos
10 as a compliment to the sponsor fo'
a the south of the United Con.iIerGtt
10 Veterans Association. This paVllic1
le will be of sufficient capacity to ac
Y commodate the large crowds that an
u rually attend these reunion socla
Vi functions, and Will be located with
easy reach of the business and res:
n dence portions of Jacksonville.
IA A delegation of prominent Chatta
I'd noogans, representing the CHAMBER o
ry Commerce of that city, has been Il
a Jacksonville making arrangement
a for Chattanooga headquarters durln'
ut the Confederate reunion May 6-S, IN
r. elusive. Their headquarters will b
lie at the Mason Hotel, and open nous
20 will be maintained for oil s"i"r'
ch throughout the southern states VIII
IS attenCed the reunion last spl!Hg a..
ry for tho peonl" son We. y
a the night of May 9Th the Chattanoog
We delegat ton will give a ball at Morocc
ty Temple complimentary to the Jack
~ sonville Reunion Association and tn
ka Of. cIaI malGs a
re will be the first hG social function
If, reunion week. The party from Cha
hit tanooga will come to the reunion
special chartered trains over tf
Southern Railway, the Chamber
Commerce of Chattanooga and Bacl
man Camp, Sons of Veterans, uni
= IL