The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-05
PROVIDE HOME FOR
NAVAL VETERANS
raven for Confederate Seamen Would Be
Combined With Vocational School
for Crippled chIdfen.

For the purpose of providing a haven
or rest fer the members of the Con-
Ieqerate navy who are without homes
MISS Theodore Turner, director of the
campaign for a home fund for the Con-
federate naval veterans, is spending q
short time here. arriving in Pensacola
Yesterday. and meeting the president OF
the United Daughters Of the Confederacy,
Mrs. Il. Pope Reese. and others. yester-
DAY afternoon. talking informally of her
plans.
While here, Miss Turner will appoint
committee to have charge of the work
IN this section. Admiral A. o. Wright.
of Jacksonville, Fla, is commander of the
navy department of the United Coa-
federate Veterans, and is directing the
movement.
1t is estimated that the home will cost
about $4,000, and in addition to making
1t a haven for members of the Con-
federate navy, it is planned to combine
with the home vocational school for
crippled children.
Miss Turner is at the San Carlos hotel.
and anyone interested in the movement
may get in touch with her there. She
was Joined last night by Miss Bertha
Weaver of Atlanta, ffeld secretary, who
VIII assist her in her work in Pensacola.
The movement for the home for Con-
federate naval veterans has the endorse
ment of Julian S. Carr, COMMUNICATIVE
chief of the United Confederate Veterans,
who in a letter to Miss Turner says:
we should never forget the fact that
the Confederate navy revolutionized the
navies of the world and that the fame
of the Confederate navy, through the
deeds of valor of Semmes, Moffet. Wood
dell, Maury and their compeers, will live
as long as history lives"
In Pensacola there is a special senti-
ment which attaches to the movement in
the fact that a number of the descend
ants of Admiral Raphael Semmes make
their home in this city, o. J. Semmes.
being grandson of the famous Con-
federate naval officer.
Miss Turner. who is the daughter of
Judge Albert Turner, of Tennessee. and
niece of Governor Turner. also of Ten
nessee, talks very interestingly of her
work
1t is estimated that there are about
$50 survivors of the navy that rendered
valiant service in the war between the
states who are without any aid in their
declining years, and to whom the pro-
posed home would make old age comfort
able and show the appreciation Of the
Southern people, whose cause they es-
poused with much vaIor.
Florida has offered several sites for
the home and Texas is also considered
one of the contestants. a law was
passed in Texas whereby the state
agrees to pay prorata share of the ex-
penses as soon as the building is assured.
1t is understood that Georgia will pass
a bill on the same basis.
The records of the Confederate navy
were burned at Richmond, it is stated.
and to gather the survivors together to
spend their declining years would mean
that an authentic record oe the navy
would be obtained. Henry Watterson,
late publisher of the Courier Journal, in
letter to Admiral Wright, said: IT am
much interested in your plan of providing
a haven of rest for your navy boys, a
home where those who served the Con-
federacy at sea can spend their declin-
ing years, fighting over the battles of
the sixties. During the days of relaXa-
ton when there was no fighting TO do,
they forecastled, steeraged, wardroomed
and cabined together on gunboats and
formed ties that only death can unite"
Miss Turner will be in Pensacola for
several days. and will talk before various
civic organizations. and will probably
make public address before leaving the
city. She is touring the Southern States
in an effort to place the matter before
the Southern people, with the firm faith
that it will receive their endorsement.