MONUMENT TO MARYLAND DEAD

One to Be Unveiled In Baltimore To-Day in Memory of Confederate Soldiers.

(Special to The Times-Dispatch.)

BALTIMORE, MD., May 1 – The first monument to the memory of the lost cause ever erected here will be unveiled tomorrow.

The monument has been placed in position on Mt. Royal Avenue, near Lafay-tte, in one of the most beautiful portion of the city. In the same broad avenue a monument is now being erected to the memory of the Marylanders who fell in the Mexican War, while far down this magnificent driveway there was recently unveiled a noble shaft to the men of Maryland who gave their lives to the cause of the Revolution.

The Confederate monument is now on its pedestal, and is boxed up awaiting the unveiling, the details of which have been arranged, and will be carried out under the direction of the Daughters of the Confederacy, through whose efforts this tribute to the valor of the sons of the South has been made possible.

A large platform has been erected for the speaker at the unveiling, the programme of which will open with the strains of “Dixie.” Rev. Dr. Willlam M. Dame, a Confederate veteran, will deliver the invocation. Tho monument will bo unvelled by Miss Margaret Lloyd Trimble, great-granddaughter or Major-General Isaac R. Trimble, Confederate States Army, and Miss Nannie Young Hardcastle-great-granddaughter of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Confederate States Navy.

Mayor Thomas G. Hayes, of Baltimore, himself a wearer of the stay, will accept the monument on behalf of the city, the presentation being made by Captain Geo. W. Booth, vice-president of the army and Navy of the Confederate States In Maryland. Captain McHenry Howard will deliver the oration of the day, and will be Introduced by General A. C. Trippe, commander of the Maryland