The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-06-04
WILSON PARTICIPATES
the dwelling - Funds for Monu-
ment Was Raised by the Daughters
Of the Confederaey.

and Daughters of the COnfederacy, as
well as former Union soldiers, ant
with unique and interesting ceremon
les, participated in by the president
of the United States, the Confederate
monument in Arlington National Gem.
etery is to be unveiled today.
Among the special guests on the
program are members of the cabinet,
senators and representatives, other
prominent government officials and
| former distinguished officers of both
the Union and Confederate armies.
Organizations of men who wore the
gray from 1861 to 1865 are to be well
represented, every southern state hav-
ing arranged to send delegation
Members of the Old Guard of Balti-
! more, which includes men who saw
service on either the federal or Con.
federate side, or in the National
Guard, are to attend the exercises
in a body.
The program provided for an invo-
cation and music by the United States
Marine Band, and address by General
Bennett Young of Louisville, Ky,
commander of the United Confeder.
ate Veterans, TO be followed by Gen
eral George w. Gardner of Albion,
Mich, commander.in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and a
| former member of congress.
Colonel Hilary A. Herbert, chair
man of the executive committee of
the Arlington Confederate Monument
association, is to formally turn over
the monument to Mrs. Daisy McLaur-,
in Stevens of Mississippi, president
general of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy, who received il on
behalf of that organization. Mrs,
Stevens, in turn, is to present the
shaft to the government, President
Wilson accepting it.
The actual ceremony of unveiling
the monument is to be a pretty one
the cord being pulled by little Paul
Mcou, the eleyen-year-old grandson Of
Colonel Herbert, who was secretary
of the navy under President Cleve.
land.
The dedication ceremonies today
marked the elimination of years Of
work on the part of prominent Con.
tederate Veterans and members of
the daughters of the Confederacy
The movement to raise money for the
erection Of the shaft began soon al.
ter the bodies OF 267 Confederate
soldiers were gathered in beautiful |
section Of Arlington, with the name |
OF each soldier wherever it was pos.
sible, placed on a marble headstone |
The II. L. Lee chapter of the Daugh- |
ters of the Confederacy, which had
been formed in this city to raise
money for the monument soon had !
obtained $1,000 and the Stonewall |
chapter similar sum. On Noyem-
ber 6, 1906, Mrs. Magnus s Thomp- .
son, president of the Daughters of .
Confederacy of the District of Colum- .
bia, asked all Confederate organiza-
tions in Washington to take an active
part in the work and the Arlington
Confederate Monument association
was formed, with an executive com
mittee, the present membership OF
which is as follows:
Colonel Hilary \. Herbert, chair
man: Mrs. Marion Butler, yice.chair.
man; Wallace Streater treasurer.
Mrs. Drury Conway Ludlow, recording
secretary; Mrs. William Oscar Roome,
corresponding secretary and judge
Seth shepard, Captain John VI Hick-
ey. Abner II. Ferguson, Mrs. Magnus
5. Thompson Mrs Rust Smith, Mrs.
James f. Mulcare, Mrs. Archibald
Young, Mrs. B. Claughton West, Miss
Mary r. Wilcox Mrs. Jennie L. Nun.
roe Mrs Leonard C. Hoffman. Mrs.
Marcus J. Wright. Mrs Lindley L.
LomaN Mrs. William Anthony Wayne
and Miss Fannie w. Weeks. An ad.
yisory board also was organized.
In 1907 a considerable sum had been
raised, and at their annual conven.
tion in that year the Daughters OF
the Confederacy. which has chapters
all over the south and in many Of he
northern states. took over the work
and formed a monument association
O, their own, the executive commit
tee at Washington, however, being
continued
In November. 1910, a committee Of