Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-03
cSnurnal ano Gouriet.
TuesAay s1vrning. Oct. 3, 1882.
Monumental Decorations.

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 Monumental Decorations. Report of the Commtt ttee on Mayor Rob- ! ertson's sugg gestions-Feco ec 0 mm ions for u Soldiers nIonumenu-other Timely Suggestions. The committee appointed by the Court of Common Council to consider that portion of His Honor Mayor Robertson's last message the recommendation for the ersc- ton of statues of eminent deceased citizens, made their report last evening, and the same will be read with interest by all those inter ested in the city parks and who would keep green the memory of departed worth. Fol Board of Aldermen: To the Court of Common Council:
 Your committee to whom was referred so much of His Honor the Mayors message as relates to the erection of statues to eminent deceased citizens beg leave to report That they have given this subject such careful consideration and inquiry pos sible for them, and of opinion that a l large majority of our citizens agree with the | unanimous sentiment of your committee, that there is high expediency and special fitness in the erection of monuments to the memory of such deceased I 1 gree in their day and generation have shed l a lustre on the city by their character and l life. Such public and permanent expres- i sions of grateful admiration and public l gard have their chief value in considerations | far higher anu nobler than any mere i triumph of art or any pecuniary recompense. l Little indeed can the most costly votive of l fering be and do for those whom we thus
 seek to honor. It is for ourselves and for l those who shall come after that such ! r,p~iolS be of Rut for and
 for them the cost of such tributes
 to eminent worth may be ,stifed
 as wise and judicious expenditures l they appeal to and educate generous public | spirit, sense of the infinite worth of high l character and 8 noble life, the commercial
 value of true sense of honor and of the
 simple perpetual gratitude for things well 1 and worthily done for the benefit of all; for
 such purposes they worth in the hardest
 cash far more than they cost. Peculiarly is
 this true of memorial to the dead heroes of
 the war, intended as it should be to keep
 fresh and vivid in the minds of succeeding generations the name and fame of those who
 did great service and finally gave up their l lives for their country. It will be an object ! lesson in patriotism, in fidelity to public
 trusts, in an elevating chivalrous military ! spirit, not for aggression, but for the up holding of good order and the majesty of ! law.
 The action of the Court of Common Coun II, ! quest of the Admiral Foote Post of the Grand ! Army of the Republic, in giving the most l conspicuous portion of the lower public ! Green, and the dedication of that spot by the l surviving comrades of that Post to monu l ment to be hereafter erected there assur ances that fitting reminder of our dead he | roes will ultimately be built-the most prom inent and att, active object in that open anc z beautiful space-where all shall see and honor it they pass, and where, in ths glowing \ -15 of ohcfar Sfo1n 1D1- $o ! and be proud in the midst of it's toil.' 5 Your committee are unanimously of the 2 ] opinion that to the soldiers, sailors and ma rines of New Haven who died in the servic, | of their country monument befitting tn, | place and objects ought to be erected. You ! committee believe that this work will be un vs dertaken as @ long neglected public dut, T. T. that will be gratefully accepted and performed !, | by the concerted action of individuals, asso citations and the city itself in it's corporate ca 'a pacity.
 ,s The expense of such structure can onl. + ! be known when 8 design shall have beer t. selected and approved.
 ,S If any memorial to any eminent citizen - ! shall be determined on, it seems that tn . ! assocating of their with useful, nobl D and growing public institutions, witl is beautiful public structures useful to ivinl ! generations, as we'll as honorable to the dead x \ are rather to be preferred being in mos < ! cordial sympathy with the spirit of the live 8 ! and characters which we hold in peculia S ! veneration and regard. What honor to E ] benefactor, wrought in marble and bronze a { could possibly equal the simple calling of ou a 1 venerable college by the honored o E ! Elihu Yale?
 2 If it shall be determined, in accordanc s ! with the taste of many cultivated persons ant A the practice of many cities, to erect specia M ! monuments solely in honor of any eminen ! citizens, your committee would state that th ! cost of statue in Lronze of heroic size an $ ! commanding form, wrought by an artist 0 N the first class, with suitable pedestal an ss properly placed in position, will be not les a 1 than Ss15, COG and it might be 1925, 900 N Your committee believe that from lis s ! that should contain the names of John Q. A M ! Ward, August St. Gaudens (whoss statue c q ! Farragut in Central Park is much admired H Laurel Thomson Olin L. Warner, Mir. Bar sH ! lett and our own Professor Weir, selectio & ! may be made of an artist in whose hands, a # | order might be placed for such 8 statue wit 5w the best hopes that it would be worthily an ae | conscientiously executed, honor to tt s city,a fitting memorial aof illustrious cit M ! zen, and be satisfactory to citizens H E Honor the Mayor and the Court of Comme 58 l Council.
 8 If it was intended that your committe @ 1 should suggest specific names from the TO ga If the dead for such an honor, they feel th # this portion of the tax if devolved upo @ them might perhaps be invidious, and the - would enter upon it with some reluctance but after some consideration, and under a deep conviction that to be of any value the a memorials must be few, the committee, par ,r ly to evoke decided expression of publ r, opinion, partly to express their own, ventul > to suggest two names, both associated in Il minds of the people with the public gree , and both worthy of the noblest conlmemor tion:
 0 James Hillhouse. the patriarch of form $ generation, whose life is still an inspiratie ). and whose wise foresight has given the ci }, of our homes and hearts the graceful nan | of the City of Films.
 And Leonard Bacon, who has just close r, among us 8 life noble and honorable tn S no words of ours deepen the impressit
 it has left
 Your committee fully aware that in Il - present unusual and unfortunate condition
 the finances of the city, where many wor
 of the most immediate practical and pressil
 importance to the living deferred f
 want of means to carry them on, they cam
 hope that these important, but more reno
 and less pressing, demands can be immet
 ately met. They nevertheless present t
 suggestions herein contained, confident tn
 whenever individuals or associations sh
 move in the direction indicated in this I
 port, and whenever the means to assist
 carrying them out can be provided, that t
 best interests of the city will be served
 rendering to them generous cooperation al
 assistance
 JOSEPH SHELDON,
 J. J. O'KEEFE.
 W. l.. CUSHING, Commit
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