The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-05
PLANS COMPLETED
 BY COMMITTEES
 FOR VETS REUNION
Music Committee Calls Meeting of Choirs-De- tails All Arranged for
 Sale of Flags

Frederick Gunster of the music com mittee of the Confederate reunion. issued a. call yesterday for a meeting of the several choirs of the city to be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Clark and Jones hall. Final plans for the re- union at which the ehoirs will sing will be made and 1t is considered very nec- essary that the whole membership be present at the meeting Sunday. The musical features of the reunion, on which MT. Gunster and his committee has been working for sometime, will be on large scale. and an excellent programme will be given
 Mrs. John B. Reid announced yesterday that all plans had been approved for the flag day Saturday and every indication pointed to the complete success of that proposition. Mrs. Reid said the ladies had outlined all the work, had most gratifying response from the young ladies who were asked to serve and are in a position to pin flag on every man, wom- an and child in Birmingham Saturday.
 She said that the moving picture thea tres of Birmingham would each use slide today without cost in an effort to help make the day complete success.
 The flag day is for the purpose of rais- ing funds with which to help in the ac- tual entertainment of the veterans. By purchasing flag one becomes con tributor to the actual entertainment of the veterans and an official host. It IS the request of the reunion executive com mittee that the buyer of 9 flag wear tine hn c indication of local citizenship and hos pitality for the veterans and visitors generally to this city.
 The housing committee of the Confed- crate reunion started yesterday to regis ter the veterans that will be in Birming ham for the reunion. The work is in charge of A. c. Jenkins, chairman of the subcommittee. The rosters that were requested by Robert A. Brown, general chairman, sometime ago have been re- ceived at headquarters and work of list ing and registering the veterans is be- ing done from the lists furnished. It is hoped to have the entire number regis tered and assigned before the reunion be- gins for in this way confusion will be eliminated and the veterans will be as- signed without the loss of any time.
 
 mingham to attend the reunion. Word to this effect was received at reunion headquarters yesterday and caused un- usual qualification. The presence of the Grays and the Blues, the two famous Richmond military organizations at one reunion is rather out of the ordinary and is a very fine example of the interest that is being shown in the Birmingham gathering and also the fact that the re- union, perhaps the last to be held, is to draw the greatest number of visitors in many years 1t was stated yesterday that after considering the matter for sometime the Richmond Blues decided that it would be best to make the trip to Bir- mlngham and arrangements for the trip have been perfected With the Richmond Blues will be a military band from Rich mond, which will furnish some of the music to be used in the grand parade, which is to be one of the principal at fractions and features of the reunion. The Blues and Grays both have many friends in Birmingham and they will be welcomed with exceeding hospitality while in this city.