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Show EXTOLLED VIRTUE8 OF LEE. President Roosevelt Eulogizes Leader Lead-er of the Confederate Army. Washington. Tho ono hundredth anniversary of tho birth of General Robert E. I.co wn commemorated Saturday night under tho auspices ot tho United Confederate and Sduthorn society of the District or Columbia. Tho ballroom of tho Now Wlllard hotel ho-tel was filled to overflowing. A apodal apo-dal Bcctlon was sot apart for Confederate Con-federate veterans, who mnrched to tho hnll escorted by Spanish war veterans. vet-erans. Although tumble to attend, Prosldent Roosevelt nc'nt a letter, In which he extolled tho. virtues of tho Confederacy's grout general. Mb suggestion that the ccntonnlal annl-vt annl-vt nry bo celebrated by tho establishment estab-lishment of a pt'rnmnont Leo memorial memor-ial with aomo great representative educational Institution of the south met with favor. Tho exorcises were presided ovor by Hillary A. Herbert, former secretary of tile navy. |
