Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-03-14
SONS CONFEDERATE
VETERANS MEET
WITH FATHERS
COMMITTEE OF JACKSONVILLE
CITIZENS BUISLY ENGAGED Sc
CURING HOMES FOR VETERANS
WHILE IN FLORIDA METROPOLIS

Jacksonville, Fla, March 13.-The
various subcommittee of the Jack
sonville Reunion Association are at
work perfecting arrangements for
handling the large crowd expected
here May 6, I, and 8, to attend the Gath
annual reunion of the United Confed-
crates and the 18th reunion of Sons
OF Veterans.
Adjutant-General Bedford Forrest,
of Memphis, Tenn, of the Sons of Con-
federate Veterans, has transferred
headquarters of that association from
Memphis to this city, and is organic
ing large camp of Sons here. He is
also organizing camps throughout the
entire state, for the purpose of arous-
ing interest in the reunion and pre-
serving and enlarging the association.
Sens of Veterans in all the towns and
cities of Florida are actively at work
for the reunion and much enthusiasm
is manifested in the approaching meet
ing in this city.
The reunion committee charged with
the work of securing homes for the
veterans and visitors has force OF
men in the field canvassing the city
for rooms and board This work is
under the direction of Walter Hawk
ms, a prominent business man, and it
is being done with systematic care.
The reunion association realides that
this is one of the most important de-
partments of the reunion work, and Il
good business man was put at the head
of the committee The purpose and
desire are to have the accommodations
and assignment divisions, so perfect
that no trouble will be encountered in
getting the veterans and visitors from
the depot to their homes when they
arrive.
| The entertainment committee is per-
fecting an attractive program for the
reunion week. Max Morganthau,
chairman of the regular entertainment
! committee of the Jacksonville Board
of Trade, is chairman of the reunion
entertainment committee. A promin-
ent entertainment feature of the week
will be May Day festivities of public
school children in one of the large
parks of the city. 1t is the purpos :
| of the committee to make this feature
one of the greatest school-children
spectacles ever seen in the Southern
states. In addition to this splendid
feature, there will be many events on
the program that will entertain and
please the reunion visitors
The work of raising the necessary
money to defray the expenses of the
reunion, while not yet completed, has
advanced for enough to warrant the
announcement that Jacksonville will
have all of 100000, the amount de-
termined upon last fall The city viii
be brilliantly lighted with thousands
Of electric lights, and many electric
novelties seen nowhere else, have been
decided upon by the committee. The
decorations will be modest, but pleas
ing to the old soldiers. An effort is
being made to hold the decorations TO
q strict conformity with the official
colors of the ConGederacy, Confederate
flags and red and white bunting pre-
dominating.
In all departments, the work shows
good progress and the organization
will be ready for the crowds when
they arrive here in May Everything
possible is being done for the comfort
and entertainment of the veterans and
their friends.