Show TABLETS FOR SOUTHERNERS Westminster Abbey A h 1 h 1 C y Honors Poets Authors and Iud Educators By fly MILLAR FERGUSON Special Correspondent of or The Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association ASHEVILLE N N. C. C C C. Nov 26 20 The The Westminster Abbey of or the South to preserve the names of great southern southerners ers ranging from Crom O O. Henry to Gen Gen- General General eral Lee Is being erected ten miles here at Old Calvary church near Fletcher N N. C C. by the Rev Clarence Stuart McClellan Jr a descendant t of or General George B B. B the tue Yankee soldier who did share toward vard defeating the con con- The Abbey Isn Isn't t In the thc shape of or an imposing structure but takes lakes the form fo rm of simple tablets In the church yard where great Tea t oaks and pines furnish Curnish shade The church Itself Ivy covered and mellowed by time suggests the little chapel at Stratford on where the dust of or Shakespeare rests HONOR EDUCATOR When the northern minister came cameto cameto to tel the aristocratic old church four I years jears ears ago 1110 go as rector he grew deeply I interested In southern history and conceived the Idea of or shrine a dedi dI dedicated dedicated to tel the poets artists musicians and statesmen of or the south He found that there were mc monuments mon ments enough to warriors Even Enn th the tablet to Lee while It shows him on his war horse Traveler Is erected to Lee ue the ed educator ed- ed educator educator rather than to Lee the soldier Among the markers In the Abb Abbey y proper are tablets to tel James Whitcomb Riley Dan Emmett Stephen Collins Foster George Christian Reid Bill Nye Nyc and Sidney Lanier Not all are arc southerners but the real Westminster Abbey contains tablets to men born In other lands than England and the southern shrine like like- likewise likewise likewise wise will wilt be broad In Its conception though tr-ough Its purpose Is to preserve the memories of oC great men m n of the south routh TABLET TO AUTHORS When the tablet to Dan Emmett was B B. B L L. Lunsford's one ont of oC the best bands In the south played Dixie At the unveiling of or the Steph Steph- Stephen Staphen en Collins Foster FOiSter tablet the principal address was delivered by William Green president of the American Federation of or Labor and Fosters Foster's s songs were sung sung Old Old Black Joe and My Old Kentucky Home Archibald Henderson spoke at the dedication of or orthe the O 0 Henry memorial and the short story writers writer's widow was as among those who attended the exercises e OTHER MONUMENTS In 1929 tablets will be unveiled to Edgar Allen Alien Poe Frances O O. I who wrote the famous Camous Civil war poem Little Griffin of or Tennessee Tenness e Henry Timrod and Father Ryan Other monuments of or the future will willbe willbe willbe be to tel Joel Chandler Harris Thomas Nelson Page John Esten Eaten Cook who wrote Hilt to Hilt and was poet laureate of or Georgia The northerner who conceived this Idea ot 05 a southern Westminster Ab Ab- Abbey Abbey Ab- Ab Abbey bey was born In New York City and was as graduated from Crom New York university sity Ills personality Is much like that of General McClellan who ho had such sich courtly manners that a Virginia lady described him during during- the Civil war as being really quite nice You could hardly tell tel him from a Virginia gentleman |