The Semi-weekly leader., 1919-07-09
DROOKHAvEN'S DOORS THROWN WIDE OPEN
IN CORDIAL GREETING TO C0NFEDERATES
Opening Session Held This Afternooa---Parades
Will be Splendid Features Tomorrow and
the Day Following.

Brookhayen is on tiptoe today in
it's cordial greeting to the United
Confederate veterans of our mutually
beloved State with their maids and
matrons and visitors generally who
have come to share with us the Joy
of hospitality and welcome to one
and all. With hearts filled to over
flowing we offer you the hospitality
of the City of Brookhaven. "The
blood-rusted key" of the sixties has
opened our hearts and our homes to
you.
AS the glorified memories of hall
lowed years pass before you-the
whine of the shrapnel, the weird
song of the mimic ball, the fierce-
fought battles-we congratulate you
upon the reunion of old comrades
and anticipate your happy thoughts
while we join you in the grateful
pleasure of the occasion.
An enthusiastic meeting of the
committee of arrangement was held
Tuesday afternoon, the following
committees were appointed:
Finance and Decoration:-W. D.
Davis, Chairman; C. S. Butterfeld,
]. w. McGrath, j. M. Wood, Louis
Cohn, w. H. Seavey, H. c. Green
wood, and l. w. Cooper. The above
named gentlemen have spun web
of bunting of National Colors and
Confederate Flags across and on each
side of the main thoroughfares OF
the city and the interior decorations
of the stores, public buildings and
places of entertainment add to the
rich charm and splendor of the Con-
federate Carnival.
Reception and Entertainment
Committee: Sons of Veterans, ]. H.
Johnson Camp; e. Mccormick, Cim-
mander. Mr.. Mccormick will ap-i
point his committee and their duty
win be to see that all Confederate
Veterans and guests of the city will
be housed and arrangement will be
made for meals. At the time of go
ling to press there have been arrange
ments for the accommodation in 200
homes, 100 cots are being erected
at the Court house and the folks
may obtain food in the base of the
Methodist Church. On the /. c. Ry,
lawn facing Chitworth Avenue there
will be located the Bureau of In
formation and there will be an at
tendant there at all times day and
night. The committee will also meet
all trains and convey the guests to
any part of the city or furnish any
Information they may desire.
THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT.
Pageant commmittee.--Mrs. L. J.
Wilson. chairman; Mrs. ]. H..
Johnson and Miss Mary McNair. The
pageant will be conducted in, the
Mary Jane hampton Auditorium and
on the Campus grounds of the Whit
worth College. The stage will rep
resent the front of an old mansion
of the Ante Bellum days. There are
entwined about its corridors, holly
hook wistaria and Marched Neil
roses. At the rear of the stage there
will be ensconced in a floral bower
with the campus trees as a back
ground, the 29th Infantry Band that
will render music for the great oc-
casion.
The performance will open with
the Star Spangled Banner" by the
band and there will be tableaux of
the olden days. "Then and Now is
the subject so deftly handled by Mrs.
Lee j. Wilson in preparation of the
great drama. The scenes will take
you from the days of "61" down to
the present era. The costumes will
be grand. One of the dresses to be
worn is a relic of the war-period we
celebrate and was worn by one Of
the ladies of the city years ago.
The spirit, too, of 1914 will be
shown and the theme Of the play will
bring you down to the Dawn Of
Peace and the Spirit of Democracy,
wrought out of the great World War
tragedy.
THE PARADE.
Col. G. c. Hoskins is the Com
lmanding Officer. His staff will be
VIII. Seavey, Major j. H. Johnson
and Major /. L. Parsons. They will
review the parade from the grand
Istanl built on the I. c. park grounds
facing Whitworth Avenue. The
Grand Parade will start from Head
quarters on First Street at 800
o'clock. Never before in the history
of Brookhaven or in fact of the ma
tion will there be more rep
resentative element of fighting men
than in this parade. There will be
veterans of the Civil War, The Span
ish-American War, and the World
War. Furthermore there will be in
lime Americas coming ighters-t the
Boy Scouts. Several generations will
march to the music Of the Military
Band. There also will be In line the
~. G. v's, and the Sons of Veterans.
instructions to the marchers are as
follows; The United Confederate
Veterans. the SDauish-American war