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Beauvoir Restoration Moving Into High Gear
Despite an estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth of damage to the 80-odd acre grounds of Beauvoir, “Operation Restore Beauvoir-Ready for Business” is swinging into high gear.
A team of Mississippi Library Commission experts is on the Coast now, according to Billy Robbins, c h a i rman,Beauvoir board of trustees, treating damaged books in the library and
countless manuscripts, letters, and papers which belonged to Jefferson Davis.
Mrs. Madel Morgan, Miss Sue Morgan, Miss Charlie Sue Mayo, Miss Lee Nelson, and Miss Peggy May, all of Jackson, are working on items in the i n s t itution’s two museums and library.
Dr. R. A. McLemore, director, Mississippi Department of
Red Cross Will Still (Feed Pass Christian
Feeding will be continued by the Red Cross in Pass Christian, although location of the kitchen of necessity may be changed, Red Cross officials said today.
Gene Nunley, director of Red Cross operations in Pass Chris-
tian, said “Anything that Red Cross has been doing will be continued. We will bring ice in; we don’t know about water, but if there is a need for it we will fill it.”
Rumors spread in the community Monday that feeding would be discontinued Wednesday at the Middle Junior High School.
Nunley said feeding will continue, “even if it has to be done by mobile canteen.” A target date of Wednesday had been established for discontinuance of feeding at the school so the building could be cleared for preparation of school opening.
Nunley said food may have to be packed in Gulfport and shipped to Pass Christian, or “we may set up another kitchen elsewhere in the city.”
Ice is being shipped in at the rate of 20,000 pounds every other day, he said, and this will continue as long as necessary. He said the Red Cross had not been handling the water supplies in Pass Christian, “but if there is a need for it, we will fill it.”
Nunley assured the Red Cross] will “continue to meet all needs” in Pass Christian 1
Archives and History, Is in touch with Beauvoir officials, and machinery has been put in motion to secure the services of the National Archives and the Smithsonian Institute relative to emergency work in the museums.
Bryant Horne, well-known Mississippi flower and garden expert, is working on the grounds to repair damage to the gardens. Horne, of Jackson, is to render a report this week on needs in this area.
Dr. James B. Butler, Jackson, has been appointed chairman of the restoration of the Beauvoir library committee.
Walter Bivins, Jackson, and Mrs. C. C. McGinnis, Hattiesburg, both trustees of Beauvoir, are in charge of a project to begin collecting funds for replacing clothing and household furnishings of the staff. Glenn Swetman, Biloxi, trustee treasurer, is in charge of temporary housing for institutional employees and is handling insurance claims concerning the Shrine.
Although the main home in which Jefferson Davis lived was not heavily damaged, half of the ten buildings on the grounds are either destroyed or very s e r i o u sly damaged, according to Robbins. Hardest his was the library cottage, where Davis wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government and other works.
It, along with the managing director's residence, seems to be a total loss. Tree damage is very serious and the cemetery is wrecked, states Robbins. | Employee residences, the equip-|ment warehouse, the front flag poles, walk, wall, fence, and drive-in e n t r ance-way are ruined, according to reports.
“Despite this costly damage to the grounds and buildings and the blow to the priceless Jefferson Davis papers, uniforms, swords, guns, and other personal effects, we hope to be in operation as a tourist attraction by October 1,” Robbins states.