Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-28
COMPLETE PROGRAM FOR
CORNERSTONE LAYING
Impressive Exercises to Mark Start
of Construction of Equestrian
Statue of Jackson.
MAsoNs TO HAVE LARGE PART
Whole Grand Lodge Will Participate.
Maj. William y. Anderson. Of Lex
ington. 10 BE Chief Speaker-Re-
union Committees Working Hard.

Inc program for the ceremony of lay
ing the cornerstone of the equestrian
statue OF General Stonewan jackson
has been printed. and it indicates that
the occasion will be an impressive one
The exercises will commence at
o'clock on tho closing day of the Re-
union. Thursday. June 5. at the inter
section OF Monument Avenue and the
Boulevard. following the grand parade.
Solemn Masonic ceremonies and other
impressive exercises will mark the oc-
casion. All OF the officers of the Vir-
sinia Grand Lodge of Masons will par
ticipate.
The program in condensed form fol-
lows:
Prayer = Lieutenant James Power
Smith, Of the staff of General r. j.
Jackson. chairman and master OF cere-
monies.
Laying the corner stone-The Grand
Lodge of Virginia. Ancient. Free and
Accepted Masons: Most Worshipcul
James r. Wood. grand master.
Address-Sergcant George l. Chris
iian, Second Company. Richmond How
itzcrs. Army OF Northern Virginia In
Producing the orator OF the day-Frst
Sergeant William y. Anderson. Com
pany l.. Fourth Regiment Infantry,
Stonewall Brigade
Wreath in memory OF General s. H
Ree-"Look! there is Jackson standing
like a stone wall"
Benediction-Captain ]. ". Bachman,
Nineteenth Regiment. Tennessee In
rantry. Army of the Tennessee, Confed-
crate States Army.
The following compose the Grand
Lodge of Masons of the State OF Vir-
ginia: Most Worshipful James r. Wood.
grand master: Right Worshipful James
Aston Cabcll. deputy grand master:
Right Worshipful Henry *. Field. grand
senior warden; Right Worshipful Fr-
nest L. Cunningham, grand junior war
den; Right Worshipful Fred Peasants,
grand treasurer: Worshipful Joseph V.
Hidgood, deputy grand treasurer; Right
worshirfui Charles y. Nesbtt. grand
secretary; Right Worshipful John +.
Mayer. deputy grand secretary; Right
Worshipful Sol Cutchins. grand senior
deacon; Right Worshipful William w.
| Gait. grand junior deacon; Right Wor
shpful Harry r. Lee. grand chaplain;
Worshipful James II. Price grand mar
shall Worshipful James y. Panplin.
grand pursuivant; Worshipful Oscar
j. Adams. grand tilcr: Brother 4. w.
Baker, grand steward.
In the printed programs the Masonic
exercises which will! he observed are
printed in full. occupying eight pages.
MORE ENTRANTS FOR FLORAL
PARADE BADLY NEEDED
Just at this time the reunion COM
nittee is considerably perturbed over
the failure of automobile owners to list
their automobiles for the floral parade.
II has been planned TO make this fca
ture one of the big hits OF the spectacu-
lar side OF the reunion. But so few
aut omobilcs have been entered that it
is realized that a great deal of work
| time, in order for the parade to he any
thing like the spectacle it had been
planned to make il.
President Claude l.. Batkins, of tho
Richmond Automobile Club is AT work
trying to arouse interest among the
aut omohile owners. The parade. he
states while being arranged by the
Automobile Club. is as much under the
auspices of the reunion committee az
any other feature of the reunion, the
automobile club acting merely as a
committee for the general committed
MIR. Satk!ns urges owners of cars to
act without delay and see to it that
their cars are in tho parade, doing this
much in recognition OF the gallant scr
vices Of the Confederate soldiers. In
the annual reunions arc held. lie
urges that every automobile owner
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