Show confederate the reunion of confederate veterans which meets in memphis in the closing days ot may promises to be the most successful gathering in the history ot the confederate organization the railroads entering memphis are olive to the situation and have promised to do everything possible looking toward the comfort and pleasure ot the old soldiers and their friends every courtesy will be extended the local committees in meeting incoming trains that the thousands of strangers may be taken in hand and assigned to their quarters A special rate of one cent a mile has been recommended by the general passenger agents of all lines interested and it Is certain that the joint passenger association will authorize the rate fifty thousand dollars will be raised by the citizens of memphis so that all visitors may be insured of a good time all of the subscriptions so far have been voluntary and one of the most notable was that of robert R charch a representative negro citizen who contributed a check for 1 church was born a slave in mississippi and after the war removed to memphis where he nas since ih ed he Is a good business man and citizen and numbers among his friends many of the representative senta tive business men and financiers of the berlin ands that the ad mission in diug adward s speech that the war is not en led is significant months after lord roberts proclaimed the annexation and interprets this aa an acknowledgment that the are a war making power |