Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-01
CONFEDERATES TO
MEET AT HOUSTON
On October 5 to s for Their
Seth Annual Grand
Reunion.

Houston, Tex.-Houston throws wide
Annual Confederate Reunion, October
to s.
Three organizations will meet in
Houston that week. The United Con-
federate Veterans meet for the thir-
teenth time, October to 8. The Sons
of Confederate Veterans hold their
h 25th annual reunion and the Confed-
Grated Southern Memorial Association
holds its 21st annual convention
/ October to 8.
Houston is preparing for 10000 vet
Grams and $4,000 other visitors.
/; One thousand aged and feeble vet
Grams will be cared for as guests in
| Houston homes. The others will not
live in camp, as in most previous re-
! unions. Instead, they will be billeted
in schools and downtown quarters, as
/, they were in Tulsa and In Memphis.
! The war departments refusal of cots
and blankets for camp, because of
/ resolution passed by Congress grant
/ ing tents but failing to mention other
equipment, caused the change of plaza
Veterans will be housed more COM
! fortably, if less picturesquely, than
! they would be In a camp, and will be
safe from bad weather. However, only
1 smiling skies and golden Texas sun
! shine are to be expected for reunion
/ week
| For the members of tn Sons of Vet
Grams and the Memorial Association
/ and thier families, Houston is reserv-
: ing places in private residences The
I hotels will take care OF 10000
| Housing solicitors are getting pledges
of house room for $4,000 paying
| guests. The usual rate asked is 81
| a night per person, where two or more
: occupy room. Breakfast, where fur
/, nished, costs so cents, and the evening
meal rs cents. These prices are de-
! signed to cover the cost of accomo-
I dalton, not to make profit.
On arriving in the city, visitors will
[ register at booths at the railroad
! stations and will be assigned lodgings
/ Each will be handed a card listing the
| address, the car line which leads to
| it, distance from the car line, rates
| and room arrangements. A sufficient
force will be kept on duty at each of
! the three terminals, day and night, to
handle the incoming crowds, even
| though during the "a hours just before
| the reunion opens "a train every eight
| minutes is expected to unload.
Lodging and meals are free to vet
Grams.
Steward E. A. Pickens, who for
| seven years has fed the boys is on
| the job again. A mess kitchen, a
dining hall, and sandwich and hot
| coffee stand, are being built On va
cant square just four blocks from the
| City Auditorium, which is official
headquarters. A medical aid station,
and two comfort stations will be
| handy, on the same tract.
The veterans billets will be chosen
for their nearness to the headquarters
and the mess establishment The
boys" will sleep, on mattresses.
spread down on the floors. Since
South Texas enjoys straw hat weather
up to the last of October, there viii
be no danger of catching cold.
ready.
So much for the necessities OF living
during the reunion. Regarded as
spectacle this promises to be one OF
the most striking ever held. Decora-
tions outdoing even the famous dis
play at Tulsa are being put up by the
same decorators. Sixty city blocks
will be decorated.
The annual reunion of the Confed-
crate organizations is the Souta's most
brilliant social event. Houston, .p-
preciating this, has mapped out
social program for it's guests that in
cludes: A general reception Tuesday,
October 6, to "get acQuaint ed in
hearty Texas fashion.
Nine brilliant receptions and teas
private functions.
The usual grand ball of the U. C. "
and another for the S. C. "
Automobile drives over the city and
q trip to the famous Houston Ship
Channel and Turning Basin, where
IT railroads meet the sea-
Memories of Dixie" a sc1g and
dance revue of the Old South and the
New, will be presented as compli-
ment to visitors. A cast of so singers
and dancers will portray life in the
South, from "befo de wah" to the
present day, singing in each scene the i
songs that we're popular at that time.
With the fare one cent r,ile from
any point in the Confederacy, Houston
expects thousands to take advantage
of the reunion to see Texas before the |
return trip limit, October 81. Thous-
ands will go on to the Dallas State |
Fair, the greatest exposition in the |
Southwest, which this year will show |
better than ever the resources and !
possibilities of the most talked-of state |
In the union, Texas. This fair begins
October 8 and ends October "a. The |
round trip fare from Houston is $12.S2 |
The one-cent rate Is granted only to ,
members of the u. G. ", S. C. ", the
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