New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-24
THE GARFIELD MEMORIAL
A MONUMENT IN LAKE VIEW CEMETERY.
DEDICATION CEREMONIES TO TAKE PLACE OF
MEMORIAL DAY, 1890.

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| MEMORIAL DAY, 1890.
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. % (speclaD.-On Memorial
Day, 1890, will be dedicated the magnificent monument
erected in Lake View Cemetery in this city In memo9
of ex-President James a. Garfield. september 10 d
this year was at first selected being the eighth ami.
versary OF President Garfelds DEATH but accident
compelled pOstponement The marble statue had
been almost completed when the sculptors In Itay d
covered black streak chsel could eface. Tbs
stone had 10 be thrown away and new block cut
The statue represents Garfield in the act Of addressing
the House Of Representatives II is of Italian marble
and IS pronounced marvelOusly like. 1t stands on
marble paved dais and with its base about ten feet
in height.
The memorial temple shrine surrounding the statue
occupies the entire space enclosed BY the great walls
Of the tower Arranged in circular form about the
statue eight great double columns Of deepFoored
granite These support dome twenty-five FEET In
diameter forming beautiful canopy sixty feet above
the statue. second ambuatOry outside OF thess
columns allows the visitors to survey the interior from
every point Of observation.
The Masonic bodies Of Cleveland will probably hays
charge Of the dedication services proper and knlgno
Templar from every state and Territory in the Union
will come but the event will be IN manner con-
fined to organization or creed. The Jaton's military
Will in force and the veterans of the war; Cvn
organizations of every kind Will participate. Ex-
Presidents Cleveland and Hayes the Of ever
state, and all the Senator'S and Representatives WI
be invited.
The address will be delivered by Ex-Governor J. D.
Cox ard 1t Is possible that the names Of President
Harrison, Secretary of State James G. Blaine and Hon
Chauncey NJ. Depew may be included upon the pro-
gramme of speakers. brief poem viii be read By
some writer Of national reputation. hymn written
for the event Will be sung by 80 900 school children
The design for the monument was selected By Mr.
Henry Van Brunt. of Boston. and Mr. Calvin Vanx, OF
New.York, from over fifty contributions from tho
best artists of America and Europe. The tower was
10 have been 225 feet high, but on account OF mo
great cost the height was eventually reduced to los
feet The saving thus effected permitted the mosaic
decoration, the superb marble work and the ilumnad
windows.
The monument is fashioned like a circular tower.
1t IS fifty feet In diameter and is elevated broad,
high terraces reached by 100 wide steps like thos
in the base of the Statue Of Liberty in New.York
HarbOr. At the base Of the tower projects grost
square porch handsomely decorated Internally with
historical frieze divided into five panels representing
in low relief the career of Garfield The first panel %
the north side OF the portco shows an oriinsr
country school in early days; the young teacher 10
Garfield at twenty The second represents
General Garfield chief of staff Of General Rosecraus
at the battle of Chickamauga. The third shows
Garfield as an orator He is addressing the people
at an outdoor mass-meeting, rousng them BY DIS
eloquence. The fourth represents Garfield taxing
the oath of office President of the Units sts'e.
Among those represented as spectators are exprs'
dent Hayes, Vice President Chester A. Arthur'
General sherman. General Logan. James G. BialD,
Chief Justice Waite, William NJ. Evarts ana Csn
Schurz. The fifth panel represents the bier
Ten great windows and the four panels near wv
door are emtslliShed with female figures reprse""s
Ohio and the thirteen original States. with the arms
OF each blazOned on shield below. Inc walls ''
painted TO harmonic with the other decorauo"N
The vesiibue within the porch IS vaulted III sO'N
with a pavement of marble mosaic. Above The cehVr1
space reserved for the statue is fifeLe OF the sa
beautiful material Columbia and her daughter ss',
are represented as weeping over the bier OF the uss
President. on other panels are figures Represents
Law. Justice Concord, War Literature and IS0'''
The dome is nlatd with Venetian mosaic.
Over one of the entrance doors are seaten ms
figures representing War and Peace. Undernesn
the inscription Erected By grateful couhg
memory OF James Abram Garfield. twentieth n 80.
of the United states Of America. scholar sSt
Statesman, Patriot. Born loth Nov' 1871 D'''
Tse $50 600 which the monument cost ws "A
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personal subscriptions collections anons and css
neghbors and donations by seer SrV came from @
following states and countries ,,o 90. CalIforIA
IA Aaaam@ $3; A.Ea ", Connecticut eS sosS:s
delaware ss5 Florida. $50: Georgia. slog Is IS.
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Whcn the dedication takes place me president
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nh h lowered 10 the crypt underneah ia The ~
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mains Of his mother