Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-21
THREE GREAT EVENTS
To MARK REUNION WEEK
Confederate Memorial Institute,
With Great Paintings, to BE
Opened to Public.
LAY JACKSON CORNERSTONE
Tablet to BE Unveiled in Hollywood
to Women Of Confederaey-Vir-
ginia Military Institute Cadets
Coming With Fort Monroe Band.

At the request OF Senator Thomas S.
Martin, yesterday. orders were issued
by Mnjor-Genorai Leonard Wood for
The Fort Monroe Band to come to Rich
nond as the official escort to tho Vir-
Kinia Military Institute cadets during
he Confederate Reunion. Juno to
:" The band will come up James River
On government tug. and will be
chartered at the encampment OF the
institute cadets dudrIng Its stay in
Richmond.
rho cadet corps Will mako the re-
union the occasion OF It's annual prac-
ttce march. 1t is probable that the
cadets will be In camp at some point
near Richmond for week or more,
during which time practice marches
and field maneuvers will be taken from
patio In tho various parades incident
10 the reunion ceremonies.
THREE GREAT EVENTS
TO MARK REUNION
Plans for tho reunion are rapidly
taking shape. and while no formal
program has as yet been issued. 1t is
probable that the events Will center
around three distinct occasons-the
unwilling Of tablet In Hollywood
eracy. tho opening to the public of the
Confederate Memorial Institute and
the laying of the cornerstone Of the
Stonewnll Jackson Monument
IT Will be recalled that the General
Assembly OF Virginia at tho session OF
1914 made special appropriation to
place the entire soldiers section Of
hollywood under the perpetual care
Of the Hollywood Cemetery Company.
This was done as memorial to that
band OF self -sncrincing women who
opened the annex to Hollywood known
tar nd
only gathered there the dead OF sur
rounding battle fields, but after the
war brought there for interment tho
Confederate dead from Gettysburg and
other fields.
HOFFBAUER'S PICTURES
WILL DE ON EXHIBITION
No announcement has been made as
re. as 10 the long ,aw!ted opening of
the Confederate Memorial Institute.
ne building. erected partly by the
generosity OF Charles Broadway Rouss
and partly by private contributions.
las been completed, but Its interior
decorations has been interrupted in a
singular manner by the present war
N Europe. Thomas j.. Ryan gave
;und with which to ornament tho
hui!ding with mural decorations typi-
cal OF war scenes. Charles HoHbauer
French artist OF distinction, was en-
gagged 10 do the work. and II was but
partly completed when the artist was
summoned to the colors. Chairman J.
Taylor Ellyson has received several
letters from the artist, now In tho
trenches with the armies of the allies.
tn" pictures reproduced herewith
show the partly completed work OF
Mr. Hofrbauer. which has not yet been
placed on public exhibition.
VIII. LAY CORNERSTONE
OF JACKSON MONUMENT
The Stoncwalr Jackson Monument
Association has deAnitely selected as
me site for that memorial the intar-
section OF Monument Avenue and the
boulevard, I'VE blocks from the Jerer-
son Davis Monument and two blocks
from the Battle Abbey aud Ice Camp
soldiers Home. just such a salient
po!nt az the military genius of Jack
son would himself have selected
Committees OF the monument asso-
citation are nov in correspondence with
several widely known artists. with n
View to the erection OF the bronze
equestrian memorial. The pledges OF
$4,000 from the state and $4,000 from
the city. with some $4,000 already
raised by private contributions, assure
the orection OF this memorial At an
rariy date, even though tho whole fund
needed Is not Yet In hand.