Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-16
THE YORKTOWN MONUMENT.
The Contract for Building 1.-THE In
scriptfOns.
Baltimore Sun.

The contract for building the monument
at Yorktown, Va, has been given to the
HallOwell Granite Company of Maine.
The monument is to be built of fine granite,
TO be 81 feet inches high, crowned with
I'm allegOrical figure IS feet high. The in
criptiOns contain 1 ,4SS letters, with pol
ihed faces, raised 1 inch. The sum to be
aid is sos, 752, and the work is to be COM
eted October Is, 1894, the anniversary of
e surrender. The contracting party
| eye $4,000 bond. The monument is
| 9cted under the supervision of Gel. VIM.
| L Craighill, United States Engineer
Cps. All the granite will be of first
| guilty, light in tone and even in color.
ii sculptOr's work, including the allie
| gOcal figure browning the monument,
thRlto-relievi of 13 figures surrounding
! tharum, the capital shield and palm,
ba1s and stars on shaft, and the four bas
refs, one on each tympanum of the die,
is be done by skilled men after models
| ap'Oved by the monumental commission.
| Thlrum bearing the figures in relief will
bevO courses in height. The browning
| nge and the drum Will be of the Statua-
ry ante of Westerly, r. |. The remain
def the monument is to be of light-col-
| Oregranite.
T inscription on the front of the die
vile as follows: ''At York, on October
ID, 81, after siege of nineteen DAYS by
| 5,5OAmerican and 1000 French troops
of thine, $500 Virginia militia under
| the mmand of General Thomas Nelson,
and French ships of war, Earl Corn
wall commander of the British forces at
1orkand Gloucester, surrendered his
army, 251 officers and men, $40 seamen,
244 qnOn and a standards-tOH is
EXcehcy George Wash ingtOn. Com
mandin-chief of the combined forces of
Amerl and France. to His EXcellency
the cote de Rochambeau, commanding
the alliary troops of his most Christian
MaJestn America, and to EHis Excel
lency tCOmte de Grasse, commanding
IN chlethe naval army of France in
Chespee."
The RI inscription will be: Erected
III pursnce of a resolution of Congress,
adoptedlctOber 30, 1871, and an act of
Congress approved June 7, 1880, to COM
memorable victory by which the indie
pendenclf the United States of America
was achied-'
On oneide will be: ''The treaty con-
cluded bruary 6, 177S, between the
United SEES of America and Louis XVI.
King OF Rnce, declares: The essential
and dlreond of the present effective al
lance is maintain effectuallv the liber-
ty, sOVerrnty and independence, absO-
luUe ana nllmlted, of the said United
states, as III in matters of government
as of comIfce.'
And onhe other: ''The provisional
articles OF ice concluded November 80,
u.s., and tdetinite treaty of peace con-
eluded seplber 3, 1888, between the
United Statef America and George Ill,
King OF Gre Britain and Ireland, de-
clare: His itannic Majesty acknowl-
cages the salpnited States, viz: New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Raw Rhode
Island ana Evidence Plantations, Con-
nectlcut, NeWork, New Jersey, Penn.
syNanla, Delare, Maryland, Virginia,
North CarollnSouth Carolina and Geor-
gla, TO De tree,Yereign and Independent
The follOwinAre the inscrintions for
the drum: ''0n,ountrv. One Constitu.
ton. One DestT.v
The work is commence at once.
full descriptions the monument was
given In the Sun the time of the laying |
lOf its corner-stOlduring the YORKTOWN
celebration.