OCR Text |
Show YEARERS OF GRAY MEET. United Confederate Veterans Hold Big Reunion. Louisville, May 30. The reunion of the United Confederate veterans began at noon today. It is estimated that the number of visitors is in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 50,000. . Major General Poyntz, commanding the Kentucky division of the Confederate Confeder-ate veterans, called the reunion to order in- Reunion hall. Mayor Weaver of Louisville welcomed the visitors to the city. Then came a series of short welcoming wel-coming addresses, the last being delivered deliv-ered by General Simon Bolivar Buck-ner, Buck-ner, who spoke for the Confederates of Kentucky. Colonel Bennett H. Young of this city, chairman of the reunkm committee, presented the building to the veterans in an eloquent speech. General John B. Gordon, commander of the United Confederate yeterans, responded, re-sponded, accepting the- building from the committee and extending the thanks of the veterans to the city of Louisville. |