The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-09-20

of the letter "A" of the mute alphabet.
The little girl is initiating the letter
with her left hand. In front sits little
boy apparently eight or nine years of
age, who has a slate in his hands and is
making the capitals of the Alphabet. A
lad stands by their side with a portfolio
under his arm, watching the movements
Of Mr.. G. very intcntly.
On the last side is the following in.
scription;
Thomas HOPKINS GALLAuDEr, LII. D.
Born in Philadelphia,
December 10th 1887.
Died in Hartford,
September 10th, 1851.
Aged Ga years.
On the West panel is the following:
Erected to the memory Of
Rev. Thomas ii. GALLAUDET, LII. D
by the Deaf and Dumb of
the United States,
as test onial
Of profound gratitude
to their
earliest and truest friend
and benefactor.
On the North panel is the name of
Gallaudet in the same alphabet
The die is surmounted with a cap Oh
the cap rests the base of the column. 2
feet 6 inches square, the column rising
10 the height of II feet on the south
side of tho column, in alto relief. sur.
rounded by radii, is the Syriac word
" Ephphatha," spoken by our Savior to
the Dumb and Blind, meaning be open.
cd" The band that connects the two
blocks with the main column is sur.
mounted with wreath Of ivy SYMBOL.
cal of Immortality The column is
crowned with an ornate capital, which is
surmounted by Globe. The whole
height OF the monument is 20 feet c
inches
The following is list Of the articles
deposited in the box enclosed in the cen.
tire of the Monument
!. The annual reports Of the Ameri-
can Asylum from 1917 to 1881, and al
SO 1854.
2. A sermon delivered on the opening
of the Asylum, April 20, 1917.
3 An address written by Laurent
Clerc, and read BY Rev. Mr. Gallaudet
at public examination Of the pupils
before the Governor aud Suite and both
Houses of the Legislature, May session,
1917.
4. A discourse delivered by Mr.. Gal.
lauGet at the dedication of the American
Asylum, May %, 1921.
8 A sermon on the duty aud advan.
tages of affording instruction to the Deaf
and Dumb, delivered in 1924, by Rev.
Mr.. Gallaudet in Vermont, Maine and
New Hampshire.
6. Early history of the American
Asylum in letter to the Editor of the
North American Review, i'll 1919.
7. Papers on Deaf and Dumb instruc-
ton, published in the Christian Oh.
server, London, October and Decem Der,
1919
s. Papers on Oral language, and the
language of signs and on the language
of signs auxiliary to the Christian Mis-
sion, published by Rev. AIR. GaIIaudet,
1926.
Q. Six volumes of the American An.
nails of the Deaf and Dumb.
10 A Tribute to Rev.T IL Gallaudet,
LII. D., by Henry Barnard.
IL. The Connecticut Register for
1854
II Geor's Hartford City Directory
for 1854.
Is. The Daily Times of Sept. 5th,
and the Daily Courant of Sept. 9th.
Ia. The names Of the officers of the
Gallaudet Monument Association, the
artists, and the architect.
Is. Proceedings of the Convention of
the American Instructors of the Deaf
and Dumb, held at Columbus, o., 1853.
l6. Scriptural Catechism for the Deaf
and Dumb.
The Monument was designed by a
on the part of the Deaf and
Dumb, consisting Messrs. Carlen and
Howlen, of New York, and Mr.. Newsam
of Philadelphia, in connection with Mr..
Patterson the architect, who has dis.
played his usual good taste and skill on
this piece of work and we may add that
Mr.. Argent, tho artist, has left another
of his scientific and artistic
Such artists and such an
are creditable to our city.
Our public cemeteries are studded with
of taste aud beauty from the
hands of patterson.
The Gallaudet monument stands in
front of the west wing of the Asylum,
and is to be surrounded with beautiful
iron railing.
Al half mast m oiolock Mr. Turrar