MONUMENT UNVEILED

“Confederate Women Of Maryland” Typified In Marble Statue.

Braving the cutting wind that swept across the intersection of Charles street and University Parkway yesterday afternoon, a crowd of several hundred persons, composed of former supporters of the Confederacy, their friends and descendants, assembled to witness the unveiling of the monument to the Confederate Women of Maryland on the triangle between the two thoroughfares.

The monument, which is the work of J. Maxwell Miller and represents a mother holding a dying hero in her arms, in front of a figure typifying the devoted women of the Confederacy, was veiled with the Stars and Stripes and the Stars and Bars, both being drawn aside by Miss Mary Ringgold Trippe, granddaughter of the late Gen. Andrew C. Trippe, chairman of the monument commission.

Judge James McC. Trippe, of the Appeal Tax Court, was the principal speaker, and he paid an eloquent tribute, not only to the noble women of the Lost Cause of 50 years ago, but, also, to those who are helping to bring about victory in the common cause of right and humanity today.

The Rev. William M. Dame, rector of Memorial Protestant, Episcopal Church, a former Confederate chaplain. delivered the invocation and introduced the speaker. The benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Eugene J. Connelly.

A number of musical selections were played during the ceremonies, beginning with “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and including “Dixie,” “Maryland, My, Maryland” and “The Bonnie Blue Flag. The monument commission, consisting of Thomas B. Gresham, R. Curzon Hoffman, James R. Wheeler and Bartlett S. Johnston, was present and the Daughters of the Confederacy sent a large delegation.