Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-05-02
JACKSON DAY 4
GREAT SUCCESS
Funds For Equestrian
Monument Came From
All Over State.
S3,S36 IN RICHMOND.
Large Sums in Checks are Being
Forwarded to Treasurer of Asso-
citation in Capital City.

Richmond, May 2.-Fifty-one
years ago today General Stonewall
Jackson was mortally wounded at
Charlottesville, and the Confede-
rate cause suffered blow from
which it never recovered. Yesterday
tardy people remembered the
great chieftain, whom certain Eng
lish gentlemen were the first to
honor. Into the little Golfers carried
through the streets by a hundred
women, to whom the task Of rearing
memorial to Jackson in stone and
bronze has been left, Richmond 'peo-
pie pour coins and bills amounting
among these boxes counted, to $3,-
S56.76. The total amount will reach
a larger sum when twenty-five boxes,
maintained in the outskirts of the
city, are reported and counted in.
The people who contributed yes
terday were those who, though low
ing the memory of Jackson as much,
were not able to contribute as large
sums as others to whom fortune has
been more kind. 1t was the gener-
Gus toll Of a people who remembered
that they had forgotten, who wish
ed to be numbered among the vast
army that all through. Virginia yes
.crday vas giring :tT title to tire
Confederate general whose name
heads history's title page.
The larger subscriptions are COM
ing in by check, more than one
contribution for 500 having been
mailed Yesterday to E. D. Hotchkiss,
treasurer of the Stonewa!l Jackson
Monument Corporation. Some of
those more well-to-do who dropped
contributions in the boxes to JOIN all
Richmond in the wearing of a
flag for Jackson Day assured the
association officers that q check for
4 larger sum would follow.
The little flags were bought with
out necessity of solicitation. They
were simply proffered for sale, and
there was never need to ask that a
man or woman or child buy. Thous-
ands of them were sold-some for a
dime, some for a dollar and more.
When the last box is counted it is
expected that the sum will be more
than $4,000.
Notable among the contributors
were the school children. hundreds
of whom purchased little flag for
a penny and proudly wore it home
after school, South Richmond con-
tributed S131.73, and of this amount
So was given by the children of Pow
katan school and Sc by the children
Of Bainbridge school. The Chester
field Juniors, who we're stationed at
Seventh and Broad streets, labored
so faithfully that they brought IN
to the counters $10361.
The money gathered in yesterday
all over Virginia will be applied to
the erection of an equestrian mo,i-
,r,ent 70 Jackson. Where this mon
ument shall be reared is not yet
decided. Richmond has been asked
70 donate a site, and pedestal, and
it is believed that sentiment will be
sufficiently favorable to gain this
much from the city. The State OF
Virginia has contributed $4,000
It is believed that the monument to
Jackson should be not far distant
from those others to whom the South
has accorded their due of praise
and memory--Davis, Lee and and stuart
The only memorial to Jackson IS
that which stands in the Capito.
souare, reared to him by English
gentlemen and presented to the
! State of Virginia as mark Of thell
appreciation of the Confederate
| chieftain, whom they had known
admired and then loved. Nov the
people of whom jackson was one
and for whom he fought and gave
his life. desire to raise a memorial tc
his name, and to every one was
given the privilege Of contributing
what he could afford to give.
Jackson Day. was observed eV'