VIRGINIA TO HONOR MEMORY TODAY OF HER GREAT MAURY

Leaders of Confederate Organizations Will Take Part in Laying of Corner-Stone to Celebrated “Pathfinder of the Seas” —Governor Trinkle to Speak.

Belated recognition of the genius of the man and the service of the officer will come from his native State today when the corner-stone of monument to Matthew Fontaine Maury, world-famed geographer, will be laid with Masonic ceremonies. The site of the proposed monument is Belmont and Monument Avenues, where the ceremonies will be held starting at 4 o’clock.

The Matthew Fontaine Maury monument will be the joint work of the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association and the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the corner-stone laying will be under the auspices of the two organizations, with Meridian Lodge, No. 284. A. F. & A. M., in charge of the ceremonies.

Governor One of Speakers.

Three addresses will be made at the ceremonies. Governor E. Lee Trinkle will be first introduced by Mrs. Frank Anthony Walke, of Norfolk, general chairman of the monument committee of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A. B. Chandler, of Fredericksburg, the next speaker, will be introduced by General Julian S. Carr, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Vetarans. Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler, president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, will be the last speaker.

Meridian Lodge will leave the Masonic Temple at 2:30 o’clock by street cars to Mulberry and Broad Streets. There the procession will form and march to the monument site.

The order of procession follows:

Mounted police.

Richmond Commandery, No.2.K.T

Commander of St. Andrew, No. 12, K.T.

Marshal. Worshipful E. L. Perkins, Tiler, Brother W.C. Lynham, Stewards

(2) with rods, Brother L. A Crew and Brother G. G. Moss, Master Masons in double order. Past masters in double order. A past master with vessel containing corn, Worshipful George W. Lowry. Three master Masons with—square. Brother N.W. Harding; level, Brother T.H. Isbell; plumb, Brother H.O. Burks. Two past masters with vessels containing — oil, Worshipful C.L. Limerrick; wine, Worshipful A.H. Flournoy. Treasurer, Worshipful H.F. Ryder. Secretary, Brother J.N. Otey. Five master Masons with orders architecture — Tuscan, Brother J.G. Frasierl Doric, Brother D.H. Harden; Jonie, Brother L. D. Stout, Corinthan Brother L. H. Watsorg Composite Brother J. C. Bullock. A past maste with one large light, Worshipful O.J. Mallory. Senior Warden, Brother J. B. Anderson. Junior warden Brother H. M. Thomas. Holy Bible square and compasses. by Worshipful J. L. Beck, supported by two stewards with white rods, Brothers H, E. Briel and F. H. Herndon. Two large lights by Right Worshipful Charles A. Nes-bitt and Worshipful A. P. Wilmer. Chaplain, Right Worstepful Frank T. NeFaden. Choristers, Brothers Norman Call, Maurice L. Tyler, E. R. Dyson and M. A. Dyson, Pianist, Brother T. S. Hiteshew.. Book of constitutions, by Worshipful H M. Cousins. Worshipful master, Worshipful A. T. Skelding: Deacon supporting worshipful master-senior deacon, Brother J. W. W. Valentine; junior deacon, Brother J: C. Lewis.

Order of the Exercises.

The order of exercises follows:

“America,” by the assembly. Proclamation of the marshal, Worshipful E. L. Perkins. The worshipful master informs the officers and members of the nature of the occasion. Prayer, Hight Key, Worshipful Frank T. McFaden. Request that the cornerstone be laid according to the ancient usages of freemasonry by Gaston Lichtenstein. of Matthew Fontaine Maury Association. Ode. Stone made ready and box deposited. Singing Grand honors. Singing. Consecration o.f stone Distribution of corn of nourishment by worshipful master. Hymn.

Pouring of oil on threshold and on corner-stone. Wine of refreshment by senior warden. Oil of joy and gladness, by junior warden.

Final

approval of the stone, by worshipful master. Grand honors. Singing

Oration, Hon. B. Lee Trinkle; Introduced by Mrs. Frank Anthony Walke, representing the U. D. C Oration, Hon. A. B. Chandler; introduced by General Julian S. Carr, representing the U. C.V. Oration of Mrs. Livington Rowe Schuyler, president-general, Daughters of the Confederacy. Proclamation. Worshipful E. L. Perkins. Benediction, Brother S.L. Dumville.

The officers of Meridian Lodge, No. 284. are: Alfred T. Skelding, worshipful master: James B. Anderson, senior warden; Hunter M. Thomas, ju-nir warden, Harry F. Ryder, treasurer, Joseph N. Otey, secretary: John W. W. Valentine, senior deacon; John C. Lewis, junior deacon: Charles A. Nesbitt, James b. Beck, Gaston Litchenstein, chaplains; W. C. Lynham (51), tiler: A. W. Baker, purveyor. Stewards, T. S. Hiteshew, T. J. Gary. Trustees. A. H. Flournoy, George W. Lowry. E. H. Terrell.

Daughters Take Up Project.

The Matthew Fontaine Maury Association is responsible for the work up to the present time, having started the monument movement and raised approximately $16,000 to get the work under way. Two years ago the Daughters of the Confederacy were actively interested in the project and have undertaken to raise the sum necessary for the completion of the monument. The site was donated by the city of Richmond. and the State has made an appropriation of $10,000 for the memorial.

The idea of erecting a monument to Maury in Richmond was first expressed publicly in 1912 when Gaston Lichtenstein, of Richmond, wrote to the editor of The Times-Dispatch making the suggestion. Mr. Lichtenstein, on May 7, 1915, again wrote to The

Times-Dispatch, recounting his experience several years before, when in Hamburg. Germany, he saw the hame of Maury boldly displayed upon the exterior of the Seaman’s Union. The sight of that name brought from him the observation: “If the

Germans think a Virginian’s name worthy of display upon one of Its institutions, it seems to me that the capital of his own State ought to take pleasure in erecting a statue to his memory.”

Mrs. Moffitt Interested.

The second letter from Mr. Lichtenstein was published after an ac. count of an address by Professor A. B. Chandler, of Fredericksburg. on the presentation of a portrait to Maury to Bowling Green High School of Caroline County, had been published in The Times-Dispatch. It was the address of Professor Chandler that interested Mrs. E. E. Moffitt of Richmond. in the project, resulting in her becoming a member of the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association started at that time, and of which she is now the president.

F. William Sievers, of Richmond, the sculptor whose Lee and Jackson’s monuments have created widespread interest in world art circles, has been selected to model the Maury monument. The work is being done by Mr. Sievers in his Forest Hill studio. At the present Mr. Sievers has a small model embodying his idea of what the monument should be.

As now planned, the monument will have as its outstanding feature, a huge bronze globe, showing the sea lanes that Commodore Maury plotted out. The figure of Maury, slightly larger in life size, will be seated before the globe, the statue being just an incident in allegorical representations depicting the great Virginian as a world-wide scientist.

Considerable Sum to Raise.

While the corner-stone will be laid today, it will be several years, prob-ably, before the completed work is erected and unveiled. The Daughters of the Confederacy have yet u considerable sum to raise, and an active campaign la now under way Mrs. Frank Anthony Walke, of Norfolk, in general chairman of the committee, with State chairmen in every Commonwealth.

Mrs. Schuyler, the president-general of the U. D. C., will take an active part in the ceremonies today, an Will Mrs. Walke.

The officers of the Matthew Fontaine Maury Association are: Mrs. Moffitt, president; Mrs. T. Catesby Jones, Miss Luey Willlams, Mrs. Decatur Axtell, Mrs. John H. Southall and Mrs. Mann Valentine, vice-presidents; Mrs. Beverly T. Crump, recording secretary: Gaston Lichtenstein, corresponding* secretary, and Mrs. Herbert T. Jackson, treasurer.

The life of Maury is one of the romantic chapters of American history. He was born in Virginia, but was raised on a frontier farm in Kentucky, from which he entered the naval service. A fall incapacitated him from active sea duty and he became the father of the present-day Weather Bureau and hydrographic service. While at sea he wrote a number of books that are now used in leading schools. Later he compiled his charts of the wind and currents, his work bringing him recognition from practically every civilized nation.

Never forgetting the State of his birth, Maury, in 1861, resigned from the United States Navy to enter the service of Virginia. He organized the coast and river defenses, and while living in Richmond invented an electric submarine torpedo. On his death his body war brought to Richmond and now rents in Holly-wood. His only surviving child, Mrs.

James P. Werth, in a resident of Richmond.