The Washington times., 1922-06-04
PARK Campaign
FOR MANASSAS
LAUNCHED HERE
First Steps Taken to Raise
$1,soo,ooo to Beautify vir-
ginia Battlefield.

Plans for the establishment of q
Battlefield Park on the fields OF First
and Second Manassas have taken
definite form and a campaign has
been launched to raise by subscrip-
ton a million and a halt dollars
with which to build a memorial. the
equal of Gettysburg and Cmcka-
mdugud.
The BATTLEFIELD will be purchased,
museum will be constructed;
walks, streets and roads will be laid
out; markers, memorials and lnonu
ments will be erected, and q comulet
scheme of tablets and 7lonuments
placed from Washington % Tkor-
oughfare Gap to interpret the his
toric spots adjacent to Manassaa.
The Manassas Park Is on th- Rob-
ert T.. Lee highway, only abou: thir-
~ miles from Washington, and Is
therefore in close enough proximity
TO be visited annually by the thQu.,
sands OF tourists and vlsitop
come to the Federal Capital
The Manassas Battlefield
crate Park is Incorporated und
laws of Virginia, and is und
direction and control of Sol
men. 1t will be the south
to valor and in the lang Iage
charter will be: In memory
brave dead and wounded a
armies who fought in these bat
Major Ewing At Head.
f. w. r. Ewing, a Virginian,
| president of the corporation. lie
a high officer on the legal staff 3
the United States Department
the Interior. Major Ewing served
with distinction in the Spanish !
American war and as historian gen-'
! cIal of the Sons CT Confederate Vet
Grams.
Associated with Major Ewing On
the board Of control is J. Roy Price,
member of the advisory counsel Of
the Sons of Confederate Veterans,
and secretary OF the Manassas Park
Corporation, and Westwcod Hutcnin-
! son, president of the Bank of Ma
nassas and treasurer OF the cor
poration.
The board of control has appointed
DIR. Clarence ]. Owens. chairman of
| the finance board. Dr. Owens is q
past n-chief of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans. director
general Of the Southern Commercial
Congress and past president Of the
| Southern Society of Washington.
! The finance board includes in its
membership Congressman r. Wal
ton Moore, vice-chairman; Col Rob
ert Z. Lee. General Lees grandson:
Gen. Nathan B. Forrest. Sons OF
! Confederate Veterans, Atlanta, Ga; /;
! Col Macdonald Lee, Richmond. Va; /;
Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyles.
president-general L. D. c., New
| VnrL Mra NOD Wilson
! president-gener OF the Confederate
/ Memorial Association, Atlanta, Ga;
| Mrs. Virginia +. Boyle, Memphis,
Tenn; Mrs. S. NJ Davis-Roy. Front
Royal, Va; Mrs. w. E. Sutton,
! Washington: Capt. Fred Beall, com.
mander OF the Washington Camp,
! L. c. ", Washington: Arthur Fl.
Jennings, historian-in- chief. S. G. ".
Lynchburg, Va: E. S. Turner, War
renton, Va; Col. d. B. White, Lees
burg, Va: William L. Old. jr., Nor
folk. Va; Major Wallace Streator.
Washington. and Gen. X. NJ. Van
Zandt. Dallas, Tex.
The board of control after con.
sultation with engineers and experts
has decided upon a budget of ex-
totals 81 ,65O.000 This amount has
|
as follows: District of Columbia,
500. 900; Virginia. 100000; Mary
land, 100000; North Carolina, $780,
900; South Carolina. s75 900; Georgia,
$3.50 900; Florida. $50, 900; Alabamu,
500 900: Mississippi. $4,000: Louis
lana, 500 900; Texas, 500, 900; Okla
homa. $4,000: Arkansas. $50, 900;
Missouri, 500. 900; Kentucky, $780,
000 Tennessee. 100000, and West
Virginia, $4,000.
| Open Headquarters.
| The general headquarters for the
campaign have been established at
l415 / street northwest, Washing
ton. under the general direction OF
| DR.. Owens, with Verne Phil Sim
mons as executive director. Other
offices will be opened at central
points in the South as the cam
paign progresses.
| One subscription Of $4,000 has
been made. Among the first to make
a substantial subscription are Will
liam Gibbs McAdoo, formerly Secre-
tary of the Treasury; John Barton
Payne, president of the American
Red Cross, and Col. e. B. White.
OF Loudoun county, Va.
The proposed plans have been re-
ceived with enthusiasm throughout
the South. The United Confederate
Veterans, the Sons OF Confederate
Veterans, the Confederated South
ern Memorial Association, and the
United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy have given the pledge Of active
cooperation The camps and chap
ters in nearly every town and city
throughout the South will be the To-
cal centers Of organization, in max
ing the appeal for funds.
The intensive effort will be lneu-
gurated coincident with the Confed-
crate reunion to be held in Rich
mond, June 1922. Gen. Julian S.
Carr, the commander in chief Of the
Confederate Veterans, Is the honor.
ary chairman Of the finance board
of the Manassas Battlefield Park.