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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1913.
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Confederate Army ToMake Another Stand Under Lookout’s Brow
Chattanooga Busy Pre
paring for Entertain
ing 12,000 Veterans
Beauty one] Chivalry of the South
From lei't. to right at the top: Miss Ilcieu Watkins, maid of honor for Chattanooga; Miss Katie Daffan. of Aus
tin, Texas sponsor for the South; Mrs. Z ,C. Patten, Jr., of Chattanooga, honorary matron of honor for Tennessee;
Miss Mildred White, of Paris, Tenn., honorary maid of honor for Tennessee. • Below Miss White is Miss Zella Armstrong, of Chattanooga, honorary maid of honor for Tennessee. These fair
daughters of Dixie will all be prominent in the social activities of the reunion. At the bottom. General Bennett H. Young, commander-in-chief, United Confederate Veterans.
meet the sponsors. loiter in the»
evening a "sponsors’ ball will bel
given.
The sponsorial appointees will
number several hundred. They wUl
represent the cream of Southern
beauty and social prominence. The
sponsor for Tennessee, Miss Helen
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Elaborate Plans Are
l rnier Way Also to
Make Social Side of
Reunion a Success.
CHATTANOOGA, May 17.—Day
and night Chattanooga is busy
on its labor of love. It is making
ready to provide for and to enter
tain the 12,000 Confederate Veterans
who will be in the pity May 27, 28
and 29 for the annual reunion.
Men and women of Chattanooga,
alive to their responsibility as hosts,
are determined that this year's re
union will be the most memorable,
and already have well under way a
hundred plans that point to the suc
cess of their hopes.
The bitterly fought campaign of
which Chattanooga was the center,
will be revived. The veterans will
be quartered in a luxurious city of
tents, that will be known as Camp
A. P. Stewart, after the famous lead
er of the Tennessee army. The
camp is pitched on a battlefield.
Where shot and shell once flew thick,
and where men died in the conflicts
that stand out in history as "Mis
sionary Ridge," "Chlckamauga,”
"Chattanooga,’ 1 and “Lookout Moun
tain,” the veterans will live during
the period of the reunion.
Veterans Eager for Camp.
The work of erecting the tents at
Camp A. P. Stewart has been com
pleted, and a most attractive specta
cle of camp life will greet the veter
ans when they arrive. About eleven
hundred large pyramid tents are so
arranged in Jackson Park as to form
a beautiful picture. The large mess
tent and the kitchen equipment are
also completed.
Prominent ex-Confederates who
have visited and carefully inspected
the arrangement and general equip
ment of this camp pronounce it the
best in the history of reunions. Noth
ing has been overlooked in the ar
rangement or general equipment that
could add anything to the health and
comfort of the veterans. From all
reports it will go down -in reunion
his'tory as the model camp.
The message that comes to Chatta
nooga from veterans’ camps every
where tells that the old soldiers are
eager for the camp, a feature which
Is new to their reunions. Their life
outdoors will not be the rigid, hard
existence that on?e it was, however,
because Chattanooga is writing the
menu for their meals even now, a
menu which includes the choicest of
viands and the richest of fare. The
city is not appalled by the fact that
there will be 12,000 veterans to feed,
as well as 2,000 guests, more or less,
each day.
City to Be Decorated.
Within a few days large forces of
men will begin putting up decora
tions which are to greet the Confed
erate veterans. Also the work of
putting dp thousands of extra lights
throughout the business district will
begin about the same time. When
the first visitors arrive Chattanooga
will be a brilliant scene, with Con
federate flags, bunting, pictures on
canvas of the famous Confederate
generals, and other appropriate ma
terials flaunting in every breeze; at
night, the entire downtown section
ablaze with myriad lights, those of
permanent character and specially
erected for the occasion in large
numbers, adding to the gayety and
brilliance of the scene. Aside from
the strings of lights along tile side
walks, many buildings will he cotn-
pletely outlined with streamers of
lights, as there is widespread inter
est in making the entire city do
proper honor to the veterans.
With the adjustment of the rail
road rate from west of the Missis
sippi River, all veterans and friends
in he Southeastern territory may feel
sure of seeing thousands of the Tex
ans and others from the trans-Mis
sissippi Department during the re
union. The Western lines having
succumbed to the storm of protes.,
the rate is just the same for the
Western veterans and other reunion
visitors as for those who are com
ing from the Southeastern States—
1 cent a mile each way. Reunion
tickets may be extended for thirty
days by depositing them with a spe
cial agent here. This will allow only
a lengthy visit in Chattanooga that
is necessary to thoroughly enjoy all
the sights, but will permit nice side
trips to points in adjacent States at
exceedingly low' rates. This shouid
prove a great inducement, especially
to persons whose former homes art-
in the Southeast, or who have rela
tives in this section, or who wish to
visit a'particular city before return
ing to the West. The same is true to
a large degree of people who come
farom comparatively near and wish to
taae more of a trip than to Chatta
nooga. ,
Social Plans Elaborate.
While the first thought is for the
comfort and the entertainment of
veterans, hardly less strenuous
is the work that is being accom
plished tow-ard the success of the
social side of the reunion. Plans for
this are elaborate. The festivals for
the sponsors and their attaches ap
pear. in the prospect, more gorgeous
than any of previous reunions.
Mia« Kate Daffan. of Texas, has
been chosen sponsor. She will be
attended by a number of maids, from
among the girls of the oldest and
most prominent Southern families.
The stories of dazzling beauty and of
eharm that have come to Chatta
nooga about the young women who
will figure in the reunion are many.
No girl is eligible for appointment
as sponsor or maid who is not of
Confederate ancestry.
Miss Daffan, sponsor for the South,
Is one of the most prominent young
women in the Lone Star State. The
Legislature of Texas has passed reso
lutions thanking the commander-in
chief for conferring this coveted hon
or on a daughter of that State. Miss
Daffan is former State President of
the Daughters of the Confederacy of
Texas, and a large chapter at Denton,
Texas, is called in her honor the
Kate Daffan Chapter.” She has pre
viously acted as sponsor for the
Texas divisions at general reunions.
Miss Daffan was the first superin
tendent of the Confederate Woman’s
Home, at Austin, an institution erect
ed by the Daughters of the Confed
eracy and presented to the State,
which now owns and maintains It as
a refuge for dependent wives and
widows of Confederate soldiers.
Secretary of Brigade.
She is secretary for life of Hood's
Texas Brigade, which brigade her
father, the late Colonel L. A. Daffan,
entered as a hoy soldier, serving ^for
the four years of the war with t^e
Army of Northern Virginia. Miss
Daffan is former State president of
the Texas Woman’s Press Associa
tion, which is composed of the active
literary women of the State. She was
until recently State historian for the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion. and is at the present time first
vice president, of the Texas State
Historical Association.
She is the author of four books,
“Women in History,” ‘The Woman
on the Pine Springs Road,” “As
Thlnketh a Woman,” and a book of
stories. She is a sympathetic and
convincing speaker.
Miss Henry, the chief maid of hon
or, is a daughter of General Patrick
Henry, commander of the Mississippi
division, and Miss Haldeman. also
maid of honor, is a granddaughter of
w. L. Haldeman, of Louisville; Miss
Essie May Williams, of Jacksonville,
daughter of General A. D. Williams,
has also been named as maid of
honor. Miss Marcia Rodman Myers,
of North Carolina; Miss Mary Calla
way, of Georgia; Miss Mildred White,
of Tennessee; Miss Fannie Rhea
Bachman, of Tennessee; Miss Wyeth
Jones, of Mississippi; Miss Catherine
Todhunter, of Missouri; Miss Eugenia
Caldwell, of Tennessee; Miss Roselle
Cooley, of Florida; Miss Zella Arm
strong. of Tennessee; Miss Jean Mo-
Laurin of Alabama, and Miss Jennie
Blackburn, of Kentucky, have been
appointed honorary maids of honor.
Under the resolution passed by the
association at Macon last year, the
President General of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy be
comes by virtue of her position,
matron of honor for the reunion. Mrs.
Alexander B. White, of Paris. Tenn.,
known for her splendid services for
the cause of the South, and for her
earnest and untiring efforts in all that
makes the hearts of the Confederate
soldiers glad, will therefore become
entitled to this exalted and important
position.
Georgia Woman Chaperone.
Mrs. W. D. Lamar, of Macon. Ga.,
has been designated chaperone for
the maids of honor, and Mrs. Roy
Weaks McKinney, of Paducah, Ky.,
chaperone for the sponsor for the
South. Mrs. Lila C. Moore, of Friar's
Point. Miss., has been appointed hon
ours chaperone for the maids of hon
or. Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, of Mont
gomery, Ala., whom every Confeder
ate will' gladly receive as first matron
of honor, is a daughter of Bishop
Wilmer. Mrs. Henry McCarthy, of
Kentucky, Mrs. J. Coleman Ander
son, of Virginia; Mrs. Grace Robbins,
of North Carolina; Mrs. Charles R.
Hyde, of Tennessee; Mrs. Elizabeth
Stone, of Kentucky, and Mrs. W. S.
Holn»an, of Kentucky, have been ap
pointed honorary matrons of honor.
The sponsors are the charms of re
unions, always. The custom of hav
ing sponsors was originated when
Winnie Davis, “The Daughter of the
Confederacy,” first was named in that
capacity. At her deat* another was
named. Then it became the custom
to name them yearly, not only for the
South, but for each division of the
United Confederate Veterans and for
each state.
The "presentation of the sponsors"
is always a thrilling and spectacular
event. Each sponsor is accompanied
by her matron of honor and her maid
of honor, and settings and costumes
so elaborate as to vie with the beauty
of the Southern girls are arranged.
But the balls! The balls are the
great event of reunioryj, as all indica
tions point to the fact (hat the ball
In Chattanooga will be. The big
athletic field of the Universtiy of
Chattanooga will be converted into a
dance hall, will accommodate the larg
est crowd ever entertained at a single
social function in the United States.
Numerous Dances.
There will be a number of dances,
but the first event on th^socialw-aien-
dar for the reunion will be
the ball, which will be given Thurs
day evening. General Bennett H.
Young, of Louisville commander-in-
chief of the veterans will lead the
grand march, accompanied by Miss
Daffan, sponsor for the South. After
them will come the maids of honor—
Miss Anne Henry, of Bandon, Miss.,
and Miss Florence Haldeman, of
THE GLORY
Y DU have a hard thing to do. So
hard it is that your breath
comes short when you think
about it, and your heart sinks down
and down a bottomless pit of
despondency.
If you let it go on gfnldng down
and down you are don™for; so stop
it! Climb up again and look round.
You under-rate your own courage
if you tell yourself you cannot ac
complish this task which looms be
fore you.
Men have done great things before
now’—things which make one gasp
at the splendor and glory of human
achievement. Do you think their
hearts never failed them; that they
never looked forward with utter
weariness to the heights they must
climb and the seas they must cross,
and the years they must wait before
success crowns them?
How did they manage it?
The secret is simple.
Through the eyes of imagination
they pictured their distant goal as
close to them; they saw it only one
day ahead. Then they did one day’s
work—cheerfully, hopefully. And
Watkins, who will be the official
hostess of the reunion, is one of the
loveliest young belles of Chattanooga,
j She will be attended by a group of
young women representing the Sons,
| and many notable social honors will
I be conferred upon her. Representing
the Sons will be Miss Ruth Brady, or
| Oklahoma. Miss Brady is a beautiful
young girl, now at school at Nash*
j vllle. She is of Cherokee blood, is an
Indian Princess and wealthy.
U. S. Cavalry to Parade.
The opening dav of the reunion will
be devoted to a meeting of the Con
federate Southern Memorial Associa
tion, of which Mrs. W. J. Behan, of
. New Orleans, is president. Tuesday
j morning the Eleventh regimen.,
) United States cavalry, w ill parade for
the benefit of the veterans, and the
enlisted men later will be entertained
at a luncheon by the old soldiers. At
' 10 o’clock Tuesday morning the con-
vention will be called to order for
business. Thus will be marked the
j real opening of the reunion.
Besides arrangements for social
• features and patriotic events, plans
j have been laid for the amusement of
the veterans. Spectacular events, re
producing the old battles, will be
staged, flying machines will be ob
tained, band concerts will be sup
plied, and fireworks every night.
I Chattanooga is not sleeping.
For the first time in history every
important event of a Confederate re
union will find its way into the mov
ing picture shows of the world. Ar
rangements have been made with a
leading firm to make these pictures
at the Chattanooga reunion. The
several parades will, of course, be of
paramount interest, but other events
will be pictured. As soon as the films
can be made, they will be offered in
all of the better class moving picture
shows in the United States and
Europe.
Announcement has been made that
Governor O’Neal and staff will be
here during the Confederate reunion
to officiate at the dedication of the
Alabama monument in Chickamauga
Park. The unveiling of this monument
will be one of the attractive features
of reunion week. The monument cost
$25,000, and is the result of the work
j of patriotic women of Alabama. Gov-
! ernor O’Neal w r ill deliver an address
on the occasion.
The gun mount of the battleship
Maine that Senator Newell Sanders
secured from the War Department
for the battlefields of Chattanooga
will remain in the depot here during
the reunion alongside the “General,"
the famous locomotive with a war
record. The relic will be removed
after the reunion to some appropriate
spot on the battlefield of Chickamau-
ffa.
The religious side of the Confeder
ate reunion will not be neglected by
Chattanooga. It was announced a
day or two ago that all the pastors
will throw open their churches every
day to the veterans and visitors.
Prayer will be held in practically ev
ery church in Chattanooga daily, brief
addresses on religious topics will be
delivered and regular choir music
* provided. Some religious program will
j be announced for each day and night.
Louisville, Ky., and the matron of
honor, Mrs. Z. C. Patten, Jr., of Chat
tanooga, each accompanied by a dis
tinguished Confederate veteran.
After the first group will march
the sponsor for the Army of North
ern Virginia Department, Miss' Co-
rinne Hampton, of Columbia, S. C.,
w’ith General Theodore S. Garnett, of
Norfolk. Va., commander, and fol
lowed by Miss Carrie Thompson, of
Hartsville, S. C., maid of honor, and
Mrs. N. D. Eller, of Lynchburg, Va.,
matron of honor, with officers of
General Garnett’s staff.
Following these will come in order
the division sponsors and maids for
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
and North and South Carolina, with
the commanders and officers of these
divisions.
Then will come the department of
Tennessee, commander by General
George P. Harrison, of Opelika, Ala.,
with Miss Marguerite L. Holland, of
New Orleans, La., sponsor, and Miss
Elizabeth Atlee, of Atlanta, and Miss
Dorelle Barnes, of Opelika, maids of
honor, and Mrs. Warnie Hooper Day-
ton. of Chattanooga, matron of honor,
followed by the division sponsors and
maids for Tennessee, Alabama, Geor
gia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Missi&sippi,
and Florida, and their attendants,
with staff officers and division com
manders.
Numerous Social Features.
The trans-Mississippi Department
will be headed by General K. M. Van
Zandt. of Fort Worth, commander,
with Miss Catherine Cano McLaurin,
of Dallas, sponsor, and followed by
Miss Sarah Cockrell, of Dallas, maid
of honor, and Mr*?. Sam S. Wasst.il, of
Little Rock, matron of honor, with
division and staff officers, together
with the sponsorial appointees for
the divisions of Texas, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and the Northwest.
The social features as arranged are
numerous. For one thing, prepara
tions are being made for an elaborate
lawn party to be given the official
sponsors at Warner Park, following
the sponsors’ parade, May 27. The
plans have been pitched on the same
tremendous scale as has marked the
other arrangements. At the lawn
party, not only will the sponsors and
their attendants be invited, but the
Sons of Veterans and the young men
composing the committee on enter
tainment and reception of sponsors
and maids.
On Wednesday evening the official
sponsors, including the chief sponsor
and her attendants, will be guests of
OF GOING ON
By Irene Rowe
still the goal was one day distant—
only one day; and. in fact, it has been
tThn ught one day nearer.
Sometimes through weariness or
discouragment the goal vanished from
sight, but the acquired habit of plod
ding on steadfastly,step by step, one
day at a time, from hour to hour,
brought them close to it in spite of
themselves. And so, necessarily, at
last, they “arrived.”
“For tasks in hours of insight willed
Can be through hours of gloom ful
filled.”
Never were trueiv words spoken.
Let us make the most of our “hours
of insight." never thinking of the
visions we see in them as delusive
dreams and impossible ideals.
To dream great dreams and then
shrink from the sacrifices and hard
work that the effort to make them
come true involves, is to art the part
of a coward. More than this, it
means misery.
You cannot be wholly unhappy
while a beautiful wish hovers near
you on butterfly wings, and you are
making wild efforts to grasp it. As
long as the chase lasts you are hap
py- the joy of the sportsman is
yours—the sportsman who plays the
game for its own sake, and not for
the prize he may win.
But once you give up and admit
defeat there can be no more bright
ness for you, no more beauty and de
light in the world. Your, heart
groans under a weight of unconfessed
failure. And this burden must be
carried all your life long and there
is no shifting it; no friend’s help
makes the trouble endurable.
You are not going to be a failure,
my reader? You will achieve the
“glory of going on,” at least which is
the best one ('an do in this world
where success is not to be com
manded by mortal.
You may think you cannot bear
the trouble which has come upon
you. It may seem impossible to live
t If rough the consequences of your
mistake or your sin, or the misdeeds
of others.
The magnitude of the task laid
upon your shoulders staggers and ap
pals you. Your duties are so monoto
nous that you do not know how to
bear the continued dull round.
Well! I know all this. I know Just
that feeling or hopeless neawkness. I
know the length of the narrow black
tunnel you must traverse before you
come out again into the light of day.
And I still say—Go on!
You do not know your own
strength or courage you do not
know what you can bear—you have
not guessed the heights and depths
of your character.
The depths you need not plumb—
leave them beneath you. The heights
must be scaled, and if you believe in
yourself you will reach the summit.
You look forward now and sigh—
“imopssible! I can never be brave
enough to do that!”
Some day you will look back and
smile. "Fancy doubting! Fancy
failing! Fancy hesitating to make the
attempt! And here I am! Not on
the heights, maybe, but some way
up the steep hill side.
“There can be no more doubts or
fears—I will go on in faith, one step
at a time from one day to the next,
until the eternal dawn breaks upon
the soul’s Himalayas.”
a committee of Chattanooga ladies at j
the Country Club. Covers will be laid ,
for two hundred and fifty.
On the same evening the Sons of I
Veterans will be the hosts at a ball, i
to be given in a specially constructed j
ballroom, which will hold six thou-!
sand people.
This will be led by J. P. Norfleet, i
of Memphis, commander-in-chief of
the sons, with the chief sponsor for
the sons, Miss Ruth Brady, of Okla
homa, followed by the other official i
sponsors and maids in the order of |
their rank.
Sponsors’ Parade.
Another feature which bids fair to
be spectacular will be the sponsors’
parade. Miss Daffan \\ill head the
procession in an automobile gorge
ously decorated, with outriders and
attendants by the dozen. After her
w’ill come the sponsors and their
maids and matrons, and after them
the brigade sponsors and attendants
and outriders. The parade will be
escorted by a troop of cavalry’, and
will wind through the principal
streets of the city, and through Camp
Stewart, so that every veteran can j
stand within his tent and see the
young women who represent depart
ments, divisions, camps, corps and
brigades. The parade will come to j
an end in front of the home of Mrs.
Josephine Conn Guild, where the
young men of Chattanooga and the
Sons of Veterans will be bidden to
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