The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-04-29
Trip to Washington Reunion AS
sured With all IncidentaIs
Included.
CAPITAL PREPARE FOR VETS
Arrangements Go Forward Oh
the Scene Which Considers
a Tented Encampment Near
Capitol.

Nearly $lG0 of the necessary 5000
still needed by Camp. Jackson Con-
federate Veterans to cover the budget
OF expenses of attending the twenty
seventh annual reunion OF the United
Confederate Veterans, to be held il
the nations capital the week begin
ming June 4, was raised by public
subscription during the past week
The remainder is expected to be
raised or Monday, as a number Of cit
izens prominent in public and philan-
thropic enterprises have been out OF
town. on business when tie camp
committee called
Col Robert N Harper, chairman OF
the general committee OF citizens in
charge of the reunion, announces that
plans for the great gathering are
progressing notwithstanding the pat
riotic activities incident to the decl2-
ration OF war against Germany. 1t
has been definitely decided that the
us PAL duC Sndll ltlhC HlG-S, i iui 5NaaS
June Z, at II a. m. BY direction OF
General George p, Harrison. coal-
manding the United Confederate Yer
Grams, the business sessions of that
organization, including the annual
election of officers, will be held June
s, and T.
Other events i'll the same week will
Veterans, the Daughters OF the Con-
federacy and the Confederated South1
ern Memorial association, besides reg
mental reunions, and tine social func-
tions, which are always elaborate
features OF the reunions. The citi-
zens OF Washington are responding
literally to the call Of Fl. F. Cary,
chairman of the finance committee,
for funds to entertain and care for
their guests from the sunny south
land.
The great plaza fronting the Union
railroad station. sometimes termed
Columbia Park will be converted
into a tented field where many OF the
visiting veterans will be quartered
without expense to them. This camp,
with it's one thousand tents, will be
almost Immediately in the shadow OF
the big white dome of the United
States capital, which overlooks the
site from the southeast. The commit
tee will make this camp de luxe,
with dining tents rest tents, hospital
tents and information booths. Ar
rangements will be made with cater
ers to furnish Dixie's fighting men
with splendid meals, and the grounds
will be brilliantly illuminated with
electric lights. Overlooking the camp
from the northwest will be the heroic
statue Of Christopher Columbus. die.
coverer Of America. with the massive
white stone Union station as a back
ground.
IL ID w thC nav w
partment order several submarines
and torpedo boat destroyers or other
craft to be stationed In The Potomac
river at Washington for the inspection
of visitors Trolley lines. automo
biles and steam railroads will carry
veterans and friends to the many
civil war battlefelds in the vicinity
OF the capitol, and tho trip to Mt
Vernon, where are located the home
and tomb OF George Washington, may
be made by electric line or steamboat
AS the coming reunion OF former
Confederates will be the first held
outside the geographical limits of
the late Confederacy, and az the rail
roads will give visitors q patriotic
rate-one cent per mile--it is expect
ed the attendance from all sections
of the country will be large. The
fact that Uncle Sari Is at war with q
foreign foe will prove 10 be an added