Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-05
GOVERNOR ACCEPTS TABB
!. MEMORIAL LIBRARY HERE
Tributes Paid TO Memory of
Nirginia's Distinguished
Poet.
EXERCISES IN SUPREME COURT
Great Niece OF Priest md scholar,
md Son of President Of Associn-
ton. Pull Cords Tint UnvcIl
Portrait.

Tributes OF lows and affection were
paid TO Father John i. Tabb. Virginia
poet Confederate soldier. priest and
scholar, at exercises held in the SUI
preme Court room OF tho Library
Building last night. incident TO the
opening OF the John y. Tabb Me-
mortal Library for Children. which
will be formally opened to the chill
dren OF Richmond and Virginia ut 3
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. AT the
conclusion OF brief program OF
speeches, little Mary Minge Moncurc.
great niece of the poet, and George
Watson James, Ill. pulled tho rib
Father Tabb painted by Louis Gruner,
of Richmond.
Rev. Cary r. Montague offered the
Invocation and G. Watson James. Jr..
president of the association, reviewed
the work leading up 90 the establish
mcnt OF the Tabo Memorial Library
for Children, In which he told of the
conception OF the idea and related
how the idea was carried out. Hc
paid n tribute TO the genius, to the
poetic ability Of Father Tabh and
his services as a soldier of the Con-
federacy. Mr.. James gave the me-
mortal library TO the children OF Vir-
sinia, presenting il to Governor Il.
Lee Trinkle. who, with Mayor George
Ainslie, occupied a seat on the plat
form.
James Presents Library.
Mr.. James. turning to Governor
Trinklc, said:
And so. EXcellency-iirst citizen of
this Commonwealth give through
you to the children of this Common
wealth. the John b. Tabb Memorial
Library"
In accepting the portrait Of Father
Tabb and the library, Governor
Trinkle said, in part:
1T affords me peculiar pleasure to
accept on behalf of the Common
wealth this oil portrait of Father
John BaniSter Tabb. And II affords
me equal satisfaction to accept in
the name of the children of Virginia
the memorial library which we now
dedicate in love to the memory of
our gifted countryman.
"Virginia Is happy in having its
own native poet to sing to its little
ones.
Permit me to express my personal
commentator for work accomplishe ed
by Mr. Il. Watson James. Jr., and
members OF the John Il. Tabb Me-
mortal Association. 1t is altogether
due to their efficient effort that we
are today in n position to dedicate
this library, which l accept in be-
half of the State of Virginia with
pleasure and with pride"
Others Land Poet.
DR.. Henry R. McIlwaine, State IL
b-arian, said the idea of libraries for
children was practically new, having
been started during the past thirty
fve years. He said that when the
John b. Taho Memorial Library gets
TO functioning IL VIII no accessible
TO every child III the State, for books
Will be sent by mail.
Bishop Denis J. O'Connell, who
knew Father Tabb intimately, spoke
feelingly and tenderly OF his nrmness
OF character, of his great indcpend-
ence and OF his delicate sensibiiity.
DIT. j. w. Eggieston, II boyhood
irlneo of Tabb in Amelia County, re-
lated incidents OF their early life.
ana especially stressed the remark
able ability Of Tabb as "a musician
FOLLOWING the addresses the library
was visited and Inspected
MISS Elizabeth Horner Knox, the
Librarian, trained in childrens library
work by Miss Helen McCracken, OF
tho Carnegie library. South side
nranch, Pittsburgh. Pa, has installed
modern system for handling the
books and has had the room in which
the library is located artisticaIly
decorated and made appealing to chill
dren.