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.CONFEDERATE TO
MEET AT HOUSTON
On October S to 8 for Their
3Oth Annual Grand
Reunion.

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Annual Confederate Reunion, October
to 8.
Three organizations will meet In
Houston that week. The United Con-
federate Veterans meet for the thir-
teenth time, October to s. The Sons
OF Confederate Veterans hold their
25th annual reunion and the Confed-
Grated Southern Memorial Association
holds its 21st annual convention
October s to s.
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. AZ
they were in Tulsa and In Memphis.
The war departments refusal Of cots
and blankets for a camp, because Of .
resolution passed by Congress grant
Ing tents but failing to mention other
equipment, caused the change of plan.
Veterans will be housed more COM
fortably, II less picturesQuely, than
they would be in a camp, and will DO
safe from bad weather. However, only
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
hotels will take care of 10000.
Housing solicitors are getting pledges
OF house room for $4,000 paying
guests. The usual rate asked 10 81
O night per person, where two or more
occupy a 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.
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 q 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 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, Q
dining hall, and sandwich and hot
coffee stand, are being built on a 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 will
be no danger of catching cold.
ready.
So much for the necessities of living
during the reunion. Regarded as a
spectacle this promises to be one Of
the most striking ever held. Decora-
tons 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 South's most
brilliant social event Houston APP
preciating this. has mapped out
social program for it's guests that in.
cludes: A general reception Tuesday,
October s, to get acquainted in
hearty Texas fashion.
Nine brilliant receptions and teas
of official rank, besides dozens of
private functions
The usual grand ball of the U. C. v.
and another for the S. c. v.
Automobile drives over the city and
q trip TO the famous Houston Ship
Channel and Turning Basin, where
IL railroads meet the sea-"
Memories of Dixie" a song and
dance revue of the Old South and the
New, will be presented as a compli-
ment to visitors. A cast of so singers
and dancers will portray life In the
South. from "bsfo de wah" to the
present day, singing in each scene the
songs that we're popular at that time.
With the fare one cent a mile from |
any point in the Confederacy. Houston
expects thousands to take advantage |
Of the reunion to Sc, 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
of the most talked-of state
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