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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1913. 5 / 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 i v J in a (Vunp l)o Luxe. . • 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. 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