Monument To Women

The unveiling of this monument, erected to the memory of the Confederate Women of Maryland at Charles street and University Parkway, will take place this afternoon. The monument is the work of J. Maxwell Miller, the Baltimore sculptor.

TO PATRIOTIC WOMEN 

Monument Memorializing Devotion In Cause Of Confederacy Will Be Unveiled This Afternoon.

STATE APPROPRIATED-$12,000

James McC. Trippe Will Speak And Daughter, Miss Mary Ringgold Trippe, Pull Cord.

The monument erected at University Parkway and Charles street to the Confederate women of Maryland will be unveiled at 3 o’clock this afternoon. The unveiling ceremonies will be conducted bỳ the Rev. Dr. William M. Dame and James McC. Trippe will deliver an address, at the conclusion of which his daughter, Miss Mary Ringgold Trippe, will pull away the cover over the memorial.

The monument, which is the work of J. Maxwell Miller, a well-known Baltimore sculptor, is to commemorate the heroism, devotion and self-sacrifice of the women of Maryland in their service to the, wounded Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bill to erect it was passed at the session of the General Assembly of Maryland in 1914 and the sum of $12,000 was appropriated. This amount was supplemented by private contributions to what was known as “The Maryland Confederate Women’s Monument Fund.” The commission appointed under the bill to provide a suitable site was composed of Andrew C. Trippe (chairman), K. Curzon Hofman. James R. Wheeler, Thomas B. Gresham and Bartlett S. Johnston.

The monument was under contract to be completed in May, 1918, but conditions which hampered the securing of materials and transportation caused delay.

Seats at the ceremonies will be reserved for all Confederate organizations, especially the Daughters of the Confederacy.