Evening star., 1922-06-04
BATTLEFIELD PARK
PLAN At MANASSAS
Association in Drive for
s1,650,0o0 to Memorable
Civil War Heroes.

Establishment OF battlefield park
on the grounds of the first and second
battlefields of Manassas is the OBJ
jective Of q drive now under way in
sixteen states and the District of Co
lumbia for $1,650,00O by the Manassas
Battlefield Confederate Park, Inc.
The District has been asked to con-
/ tribute 100000 toward this park,
which will be 'in memory of the
brave dead and wounded Of both
armies who fought in these battles;"
and, 1t Is claimed. will be the equal
OF Gettysburg and Chiclamauga.
Proposed improvements.
The battlefields will be purchased, a
museum will be constructed; walks,
streets and roads will be laid out;
markers. memorials and monuments
will be erected, and a complete
scheme of tablets ana monuments
placed from Washington to Thor
oughfarc Gap to interpret the historic
spots adjacent to Manassas. The
park will be on the Lee highway
about thirty miles from Washington.
ana Is therefore in close enough prox-
unity to be visited annually by thou
sands of tourists and visitors who
come to the National Capital.
Maj. f. w. Il. Ewing of Virginia is
! president of the Battlefield Park Cor
poration. He is on the legal staff
Of the United States Department of
the Interior. Maj. Ewing served with
distinction in the Spanish American
war and as historian general of the
| Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Associated with Maj. Ewing on the
! board OF control is ]. Roy Price, a
| member of the advisory council of
/ the Sons of Confederate Veterans and
secretary of the Manassas Park Cor
poration, and Westwood Hutchinson,
president Of the Bank of Manassas
and treasurer of the corporation.
| The board of control has appointed
DR.. Clarence j. Owens chairman OF
the finance board. Mr.. Owens is a pas,
! commander-in-ch chief of the Sons OF
Confederate Veterans, director gen.
| eral of the Southern Commercial
Congress and past president of the
southern Society of Washington.
Finance Board Membership.
| The finance board includes in its
| membership Representative r. Wal
ton Moore of Virginia, vice chairman
! Col. Robert f. Lee. Gen. Lees grand
son: Gen. Nathan B. Forrest, Sons
of Confederate Veterans. Atlanta
Ga; Col. Mcdonald Lee, Richmond
! Va: Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler
president general United Daughters
/ Mrs. A. Med. Wilson, president gen.
eral of the Confederate Memorial As.
! sociation, Atlanta. Ga: Mrs. Virginia
F. Boyle. Memphis. Tenn; Mrs. S. NJ
! Davis Roy. Front Royal. Va; Mrs
| W. f. Hutton. Washington. D. c..
| Capt. Fred Beall. commander of the
: Washington Camp, United Confeder-
ate Veterans. Washington. d. c.;
! Arthur II. Jennings, historian in
! chief. Sons of Confederate Veterans
! Lynchburg. Va: E. 5. Turner. War
/ renton. Va: Col. f. b. White. Lees
, burg, Va: William IL. Old, jr.. Nor
! folk. Va: Maj. Wallace Streater
! Washington. d. c., and Gen. X. NJ
/ Van Zandt. Dallas, Tex.
| The general headquarters for the
campaign have been established AT
! 1415 l street northwest, Washing
/ ton. under the general direction OF
| DIR. Owens. with Verne Phil Simmons
as executive director. Other offices
will be opened at central points in
| the south as the campaign progresses