The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-15
DELEGATES AWAKEN OLD SOUTH WHEN. CONVENTION OPENS.
President Assumes Official Seat With Ceremony at
 First Session at 'TutwiIer
(Contanued From Paxe onel

Hardee; Capt J. W. May. commander Camp Wilcox; Hon. W. Mcdonald Lee commander-in-ch chief S. c. "; Hon. W E. Quinn, commander Alabama divi- sion, C.. c. V. and Thomas Dozier commander Camp Clayton L. c. v. I, was expected that Gen. Julian T Carr, commander-in-chief of the u c v.'s would be present, but at the last moment wired his inability to be here.
 This opening had been preceded by a galaxy of .luncheons and dinners during the day and night before. and when several of the elderly women caught sight upon the stage of Mrs George R. Evans of Louisville. ky. their enthusiasm broke out spontane- {, ously. For she is the granddaughter of Nicalo Marschall. who designed tho first Confederate flag and uniform She is a yiolinist and came to play a solo for the throng.
 The march that ushered in the dis tinguished groups of visitors was composed by Mellona Park Wood, rast president of the Alabama divi- sion. It was participated In by Mir. and Mrs. c. R. Klenck. vio1inist and pianist. and William Nappi. trum- peter.
 ~ Invocation Pronounced
 Then a prayer went up from the lips of Dr. George R. Stuart to bless the assembled guests and their work of progress.
 Mrs. Mary D. Echols, woman con- missioner of Birmingham. made the address of welcome, telling the dele gates that every gate was open every Dixie heart warm-that they were come to play awhile and work oxx,l.t No urf@ Cifuta AnUiFnn1 and immediately following, Mrs. E. l.. Huey of Bessemer, president of the Alabama division, made the greeting still stronger in the name of the Alabama division of Daughters.
 Next in line Mrs. Chappell Cory brought welcome and pretty words from the local chapters of the Con- federacy and from other women's orr ganizations.
 Response Made
 Then, "this silver tongued orator." Miss Decca Lamar West. state presi- dent of Texas In language that thrilled the length of the hall told the local women how glad the strangers were to be within the gates.
 Mrs. Roy Mckinney. past president general, introduced the president general, Mrs Livingston Rowe schuyer. who has the distinction of being the first such leader ever named from the other side of the Mason and Dixon line. her home be- ing New York city. Popular and we'll beloved. and facing her second year as president general. Mrs. Schuyler could not speak for a moment on account of the enthusiasm.
 Reception Held
 Rapidly followed an address by John lilly of Montgomery; Mrs Evans violin solo, the presentation of five ex-presidents general by Mrs. C. N. Merchant, Chatam, Va, tho introduction of honorary presidents. by Mrs Frank Harold. first vice president general: introduction of Miss Annie Wheeler, daughter of Gen Joseph Wheeler, by Mrs. Walter D. Lamar of Macon, Ga; presenta- ton of a portrait of Jefferson Davis to the Daughters by Mrs. J. A. Per- due Mrs Charles Sharp made an- nouncements. and the Rev. W. R. Hendrix offered the benediction after . the band had played the stirring E strains of Dixie" and all together the audience had sung The Star Spangled Banner"
 - Following this program at 10:3o o'clock brilliant informal reception was held.
 meetings were the order of business and a luncheon for the president general and general officers took the stage at 1 o'clock. At 4:30 o'clock s~tate the convention. 1t was declared. are the creation of fund for com pleting the Washington and Lee uni- versity chapel and the completing of fthe Jefferson Davis monument, erected at his birthplace at Fairvtew, Ky. An amount around sS0,000 is yet needed to finish the monument, (which is 216 feet high and wtll be $50 feet, making 1t the second tallest the guests. dressed in afternoon frocks of thousand charming colors. assembled at the Southern club for tea, their hostess being the General Sumter chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion.
 Problems Discussed
 The main problems that will agi- monument in the world.
 Work also will be entered for fur thering the work on the Jefferson Davis highway. which is to be 8 transcontinental road from Washing ten, D. C.. to the Golden Gate at San Francisco.
 The memorial to Davis will be q particularly fitting one, comment orating the time when he saw Sec retary of War for the United States under Franklin Pierce, and proposed and made possible the first trans continental railroad with the idea of using it for military purposes.
 Educational Work
 The educational work is another live business of the assembly, the daughters continuously carrying on loan scholarships and thus maintain ing in school 800 or 400 young men and women. They yearly keep a boy at Washington and Lee and girl at vassar, and to show what results kthsy get. the last student who was lat Washington and Lee won he vir- e.nia Rhodes scholarship and now lis at oxford. He was Fitzgerald sFlournoy.
 At the convsnt. ton ~ will also be related how an elevator has been in- stalled in the American hospital at Neuilly, Franc. as a memorial to men of Confederate descent in the A E. F. who fell in France.
 The cx-presidents general had a brilliant dinner among themselves inviting as their honor guest Mrs Schuyler. These five distinguished women are: Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone of Texas, Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson of Mississippi Mrs. Cor nelia Powell Odenheimer of Nary land. and these two who had lunch con together-Mrs. Roy w. Mckinney and Miss Mary B. Poppenheim.
 Mrs. Schuyler Back
 There is no douot. it is declared that Mrs. Schuyler will go back into office during the coming year--as ths