The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-04
GREAT PARADES
AT The REUNION
Maids and Sponsors To Open
Series On Morning Of
the First Day
Sons Of Veterans and Military organl-
zations Second Day, While the
Veterans Parade Last Day.

Jacksonville, Fla-With the near
approach of May 6, interest in the
Oath annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans Association and
Sons of Confederate Veterans, centers
around the three parades, one each
day of the reunion. 1t has been den-
nitely decided that the first parade
will be that Of the maids and sponsors,
and it will be given on the afternoon
of May 6.
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,
II 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 sections of the
city.
The parade of the second day, May
7. will be of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans and local military organiza-
tions. 1t is the present plan for the
| Sons to march on foot, and the parade
will take in the business sections OF
the city.
On the morning of May s, the last
day of the reunion, the annual parade
Of the Confederate Veterans will be
held. Jacksonville labors under dis
advantage in staging this parade that
no other reunion city has ever en-
countered, that d securing horses.
There are very few available horses
in Jacksonville, and as result it has
been decided to make the parade
combination between horses, automo-
biles and foot-marching. The local
association believes that it will be
possible for the commanders and their
staff officers to be provided with
mounts, but it is going to be a difii-
cult matter to secure a sufficient num-
Der even for that. However, a united
effort is being made to secure all the
| mounts possible in Jacksonville and
nearby towns in Florida and South
| Georgia.
Arrangements for these parades are
being worked out rapidly by special
committees. Maj S. c. Harrison Is
chairman of the committee that will
have charge of the Sons of Veterans
parade. He is being assisted by the
local camp of Sons of Veterans, OF
which Judge John L. Dodge is COM
mander. Adit-Gen. N. B, Forrest of
the National Sons of Veterans, is here
giving much of his attention to these
arrangements.
DR.. w. NJ. 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. Ingls, commander OF
the Florida division, T. C. ", is, un-
der the rules of the United Confeder.
ate Veterans Associations, chief mar
shal of the veterans parade, with Gen,
w. H. Sebring, chief aide. Gen Inglis
wants parade in which the older vet.
erans will occupy automobiles and car.
riages, with commanders and as many
of their staffs as possible on horse
back. The veterans parade is being
worked out along these lines.
The social functions 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 fol
the Sons of Veterans and the other
for the veterans themselves. Gen
Bennett H. Young appointed as his
chief sponsor Miss Corrinne Hampton
of Columbia, S. C. His maids of hon
or are Misses Minnie Brock. OF Chat
tanooga; Eloise Washburn, of Mont
gomery, Ala, and Miss Gladys Ker
nan. of New Orleans. These ladie!
represent the south in the social func
tions of the reunion.
A dancing pavilion will be erected
close to the business sections of the
city. and it will be large enough t
accommodate the reunion balls. II
addition to the balls there will be
number of events on the program fol
the entertainment Of official ladies
Chief among these is trip to the sea