The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-20
RICHMOND PEOPLE GIVE WELCOME ID
 SOUTH'S SOLDIERS
Many Touching Scenes En- acted as Comrades of Sixties Greet Each Other at
 Reunion
By Associated Press

Richmond, Va, June 19.-All the affection and sentiment that an un- forgetting community could express, today was bestowed by Richmond people upon the gray-clad soldiers, who from every section of the south once more have gathered within the historic city's borders for the thirty second annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans.
 As if sensing. in some measure, the possibility that this may be the last time when the fast thinning band of men who fought for the confederacy will meet together in the city that cEee was the heart of their beloved cause, Richmond people. in countless whys, are showing these aged vet erans that they are not forgotten, and that the south still cherishes with abiding pride the deeds that gave the gray armies undying fame 6t years ago.
 srecial trains last night and all day today arrived with veterans, their families and friends. As the
  met by waiting Boy Scouts who ten- derly and manfuIly led them to their quarters wherever they might be. Within the eloquent picture of youth and age, when Boy Scout led his honored charge to a waiting nome today, was painted a little sidelight OF the spirit that had caught the day. Ispon reaching the front of a build irg from whose superstructure waved the Stars and Bars, an old white haired veteran, his arm linked with that of a Boy Scout, reverentiy un- covered in salute, and with head erect proudly passed his beloved banner. At the same moment he met a comrade going in the opposite di- reetion
 Keep Hat. off
 Brother" said the latter, you'll have to keep 1t off; they're all over town"
 Many of these aged men have come here feeble and penniless. But 1t matters not their rank, if only in the dark days of s1 and '65 they sol- lowed Lee and Jackson. they arc honorcd guests in the mansions of the rich or the cottage of the poor. according to their chance.
 A re-checking late today of the number of veterans attending the re- union, indicated that less than 1000 are in the city--remnants of wh 1t once was glorious legion. prob lem has been found in the matter of housing the visitors, who with the veterans 1t Is estimated, number 5U,000.
 Although the reunion proper does not open until tomorrow morning. today's activities were marked by two important meetings, that of the Con- federate Southern Memorial associa- tion late today. and the opening ses- sion of the United Sons of confed- crate Veterans tonight. In addition to these the Battle Abbey. wherein the John Barton Payne s1,00o,000 art gallery may be viewed, was the scene late today of the presentations of lo oil portraits of prominent Virginians who served as commissioned officers in the Confederate army.
 Mrs. Wilson Speaks
 The exercises of tho memorial as- sociation were featured by addresses of Mrs. A. McD. Wilson, president general of the organization, and Mrs Livingstone Rowe Schuyler, pres'- dent-generai of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Fitzgerald Flow noy, a Rhodes scholar from the Vir- ginia United Daughters of the Com federacy. delivered an address on The First Duty of the Southern Man of Today" General Julian $. Carr, commanders -in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. and Judge Edwin Scurry. commander-in- chief of the Sons of Veterans. brought greetings from their respective or ganizations. Addresses of welcome on behalf of the state and city were de- liyered by Governor Trinkle and Mayor Ainslie. Following America by a band. the meeting adjourned until tomorrow.
 At the twenty-sixth annual reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans which opened tonight, several score sponsors. maids of honor and chape- rones were presented by Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi. The response was delivered by James S. Daven- port of yinita. Okla. commander of the Trans Mississippi department. Sons of Confederate Veterans.