The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-06
VETERANS PREPARE
FOR GREAT PARADE
Each One Is Eager for Order
to March.
CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY
Solemn Exercises AT Arlington
Cemetery Arranged.
CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY
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he whole country Of the true worth
OF our dead leader"
General Young proudly announced
to the veterans that the S1oo,OOO
monument elected in the memory or
jefferson Davis IN the town OF his
birth. Fairview, KY, will be dedicated
on October %
There was little business TO be dis
posed Of by the convention this rnornf
ing, and the meeting was turned
over more to an expression OF South
ern patriotism.
aBattIe Abbey" Completed.
Repeated. mention was made by
those who addressed the convention
OF President Wilson's epochsl speech
made at the Arcade at the opening
OF the convention yesterday.
A report presented to the eonven-
ton by II. A. London, chairman OF
the committee on credentials, shows
that there are go Confederate vet
eran camps in seventeen states ana
the District of Columbia Texas LEADS
with los camps. with Georgia. Ala s
bama, and Mississippi next win 60
so. and 81 camps respectively. MARY
land. the committee reported, has 81
cams. Virginia. IS; West Virginia,
II. and the District of Columbia, =
According to the report OF the com
mIttee there will be 1,6o2 votes cast
on each ballot in the selection OF
the next commandments OF the
Confederate veterans tomorrow.
The chairmen of the committees on
history and on monuments announced
that they had no reports to make Al
this convention
Lieut.. Governor ]. Taylor Ellyson,
of virginia, chairman Of the Confeo-
crate Memorial Association. in his re-
mort notified the delegates that the
Confederate Memorial Institute. popu-
larry known as the Battle Abbey
has been completed. The building Is
located in Richmond
As the little business before the
convention was cleared away sarly
the veterans urged that Mrs. Hampden
Osborne. OF Columbus, n. C.. leader OF
the Confederate choirs lead some war
songs.
Mrs. Osborne accepted the invitation
and was presented with a Confederate
flag to be used by her while she led
the assemblags In the singing OF
Dixie"
Memorial Day Exercises,
Elaborate exercises will be held at
the Confederate Monument in Arlington
Cemetery this afternoon The exer-
cises will be under the auspices Of the
United Confederate Veterans and -
Confederated Southern Memorial Asso-
citation.
Bishop Collins Denny. OF Richmond.
will be the principal speaker at the ex-
ercises. The next feature Of import
ance will be the reading OF the roll Of
honor of the United Confederate Vet
Grams by Gen William z. Mickle. ad-
jutant general and chief Of stan Of the
United Confederate Veterans. and the
reading Of the roll Of honor Of the Con-
federated Southern Memorial Associa-
ton by Miss d. N. L. Hodgson. record
ing secretary.
The Rev. DR.. Giles 3. Cooke. of
Portsmouth, Va, will offer the invo-
cation. Patriotic songs and hymns
will be played by Confederate bands.
Mira W. J. Behan, president gen.
eraI Of the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association, will say the
last word.
The Rev. J. W. Bachman. chaplain
general, will pronounce the benedic-
ton.
All the Confederate graves will
then be scattered with flowers and
taps" will be sounded.