Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-08-24
THE MONUMENT TO WASHLNGTOM
IN NEW YORK.

The New York Tribune states thatthe
recently. revived project OF erecting in that
city a noble monument 10 Washington
the lower portions Of which will furnish
accommodations for a Library Gallery
OF Paintings, Staluary, &c.--is received
with much favor. II appears thstin 1888
a movement in favor of erecting m0nu-
men. was made, at which time subscrip-
tons 10 the amount OF $50, 900 were OBJ
tanned. Fortunately the greater amount
of the moneys actually collect d fell into
honest hands, and the Treasurer deposited
the money in the SavingsBank, whe' e it
has b en- accommodating ever since. This.
fund will be transferred TO the new associ-
alton recently Incorporated for the same
object, ard new subscription list is to be
opened in few days. The Tribune says,
"we have COOL authority for stating that
our pubic spirited fellow citizen, the Hon.
Moses H. GIinnell, heads the LIST Of sub
scribers with the princely sum OF $ 10, 900,
while Mr.. Mason, one of the contractors
on the Harlem Bridge, agrees to furnish
stone from his quarries for the entire work,
the value of which is estimated at $780,
OO0."
The proposed monument will be car
ried to the great height Of 425 feet, and
its entire is estimated ct S400, 900.
Willis, in his last letter TO the editors
of the National Intelligencer, thus refers
to The subject:
understand great enthusiasm is a
bout 10 make itself manifest or the subject
Of the STATE MONUMENT TO WASHING
TON. The Association is now incorpora-
ted by the Legislature, and the design,
as it stands formed at present, is one of
unit qualled magnifcence, worthy (and no
more than worthy Of the subject. -Four
hundred and Twenty-Five feet is the propos-
ed height; and this, one Of the New York
papers states, will make ii the highest
building in the world-not quite correctly,
as the pyramid OF Cheops is six hundred
feet high. To realize this prodigious ele-
vation, however, one must remember that
the steeple of the new Trinity Church,
which is 10 be the tallest in this country,
will only reach to one hundred and seven
ty-fve feet.
1t is not 10 be merely monument, but
an immense public building, containing
halls, Libraries, 81 other appropriate apart
ments. The shape is TO be a pentagon,
and the style ilord Gothic. Union
square is named as the site, but the i'm
mense size Of the base, | should suppose,
would require an area of much greater ex-
tent, and it would be PITY, besides. TO
break up the salulary fountain and open
park already ornamen.ed enough in that
part of the city. The placing Of this no.
BILE monument on the central elevation
now occupied by the Tabernacle, and tho
opening ola new square extending back
to the Bowery, over the Five Points,
would in the first place turn that lester
ing sink into lungs for this crowcd metrop-
oils, and in tho next place, centralize, IN
the neighborhood Of tn City Hal, tho
prominent public buildings. This great
monument is 10 be built by subscriptions
of one dollar each. The object is one
which every American must feel in
terested in, and there is no citizen, pre-
sumo, who would not give his dollar to.
wards it. Let il be, if Mr.. Dickens choos-
es so TO call il, dollar" monumen, to
showing that, devoted 10
dollars though we are, land yet not more
than Euglishmfn TO pounds, shillings anu
pence, our dollar patriotism can raise TO
the first patriot OF history the erandess
monument of modern times. bar. AMe''