Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-08-16
The renth of september Celebration

In 1852 Military Eneampment was held at
Put-in-Bay on the 81, 4th and 5th days of July
in which six companies joined. under the COM
msnd of DR. McMeens. of Sandusky. Many
spectators were in attendance, and at prelimin-
ary meeting held on board the steamer bound to
PGt-in-Bay on the 5th, by the e1cursionists
from Sandusky, it was resolved to form Mon
ument Association, and at a meeting convened
on the Island the same day an organization was
effected. under the style of "The Lake Erie
Monument Association" 4 Constitution was
adopted, and Gen. Lewis Cass was chosen
President Twenty five Vice Presidents, a|See-
retlry and Treasurer, and an Executive Com
mittee were also appointed. Subscriptions
were circulated, and considerable amounts were
subscribed The funds, some $500 we under
stand, are still in the possession Of the Treas
urer
1t is meet and proper that the resolve of the
Monument Association formed SIX years ago
should now be carried out. in the erection Of an
appropriate memorial on one Of the Put-in-Bay
Islands to the memory of the gallant. seamen
by the heroic OLIVER HAzARD PERRY, who
won glorious victory over the British squad
ron on Lake Erie, on the 10Th of September,
1913. The reunions of the cities of Cleveland,
Sandusky, Toledo and Detroit this season at
Pdt-in-Bay have impaired fresh energy to the
good resolve, and cannot fail to result in raising
the necessary additional means to erect the
proposed monument To this end It is
proposed to celebrate the approaching An
niversary of the Battle of Lake Erie at
the very point from which the youth
- -rat-s-vr-y----- ss-vaq1o4,
the American Lake cities generally unite in the
fefe, and contribate to the pleasure of the occl-
sion and to the monument fund. Sandusky las
very properly taken the initiatory steps, and We
learn by the Register that the managers of the
steamer Bay City have with commendable gen
erosity placed their boat at the disposal of any
committee of arrangements appointed by the
Sanduskians for the Tenth of September cele-
braton, and that all the means collected from the
sale Of tickets to the excursion will be con
tr.buted to the Perry Monument fund The
Register well remarks
The custom of celebrating this anniversary
will be inaugurated on the approaching Tenth
of September. Delegations from Buffalo, this
city, Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, have sig
nifed their intention Of participating, and the
Chicago papers intimate that 1t is not improba-
BILE that that city may also send out 4 arty of
excursiOnists Ii will be proud day. The |
only two surviving officers of PERRY's Fleet |
will be in attendance, Capt. CBANPLIS, of /
Buffalo. and DR.. USHER PARsONs, who was PER- |
avs only Surgeon. Dr. McMEENs. of this city, /
received letter from the latter gentleman yes
terday morning, which states that he viii posi- 1
lively be present, nothing preventing, and par /
ticipate in inaugurating series Of sbserEances
that he trusts may be kept up long after the 1
eyes that may behold the glorious occasion Of /
their induction, are dimmed in death, and the 4
hearts that now beat with pride In contempla-
ton ofthe great event We celebrate are forever |
stiIled
We repeat, then, that the approaching Tenth /
of September will be an appropriate occasion |
To give tbiz Monument Association fresh i'm 4
petus Let Buffaionians. Cleveanders, San
dusk;ans. Toledoans and Detroiters go 70 Put
in Raw preeared to contribute literally Of their
means "a this glorious work, and let US have a
monument erected 10 commemorate the event 4
which makes prominent the day we celebrate,
that will DO us honor We appeal to naval
men who frequent our inland seas, and those
gSllant fellows who hazard their lives and their
az jn doing business upon these waters. Con-
tribute to the erection of monument that viii
celebrate he fame of him who fought 50 nObly
for az sailors tights" To all we extend this
appeal and to he end herein urged let rs al
labor.