Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-26
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Congroes F1nds No End 20 the lnvitAtions
20 Erect Them at Public Expenss
The latest contribution 70 the numerous
projects for expending the surplue ON
statues and monuments comes from Sen.
ator Squire, who proposes that NlOO,OW
shall bs devoted 70 an equestrian efngy. Of
Grant q the national capital. In tho laee
COngrees somebody wanted bridge built
across the Potomac, which was 70 Be called
Grant memorial bridge; but the new
posing to odd TO the remarkable collsction
Of marble and bronze horses and their
riders at Washington, at least contem-
plates . les exponsive structure snan inc
A tribute to Columbus At washing !.
ton, to include mot only sta.ue
but q building, whoss foundations are
70 be laid n 1897 II another re-
recent project. In Mr.. Morrilfs version Of
the plan, for there are several, the image oi
thO great discoverer 10 TO DO bronze, and
| the laval monument 10 70 make way for Il,
going 70 Q new site. Another costly pre-
b 1saI Of this sort IL the erection Of me-
mortal ball inf ir mount Park ~ an apprs :
priation from Congress, In honor OF tho
Mr.. Grout, Of Vermont, has pret entei . bill
/ to erect . centennial monument TO on r
national existence. A SlOO,OO0 monument
for which something can be said 10 the one
which 10 proposed to erect ut Old Fort
Greene, In Brooklyn, In honor q the
victims Of the Jersey and the other British
prison hulks of the Revolution, that used
| 10 be moored in the WallabOut b,low.
These victims, with those Of the other New
York military prisons, numbered more
than all the patriots that died on all the
not be forgotten that the Tammsny Society
long ago erected q fine monument to their
memory in New York. The fact II that .
completely neglected subject for q really
Important monument 10 hard to find now
adays, &c that the committee on the library
has genuine sensation when 1t stumbles
upon one. The proposed Grant monu-
ment, for example, must take into account
the one projected in New York, and the
Philadelphia memorial Ill cannot ignore
New York's memorial arch.
However, the Revolutionary field Is still
worked over with diligence, and some sup
jects are still found there in which new
monuments aud statues will not be simply
other honors added to those already render
cd. Such Is the battle Of Point Pleasant,
which, to be sure. preceded the Revolution
q little, but Is allied to its era and asks .
monument. The Senate has passed q bill
to contribute $4,000 to q monument for
tho battlefield of Trenton, provided the
local association raises as much. A like
bill Is pending to put a monument on the
battlefield of Princeton. Senator Daniel, of
Virginia, who makes rather speciality Of
such matters, has bill appropriating $40
600 for a statue of Patrick Henry, TO be
erected in Charlotte county of that state,
and another bill of $20, 900 for the compile
tion Of the monument at FREDERICKSBURG
10 Mary Washington, the mother of the
first president, which has been unfOr-
tunately mixed up with very bitter suit
ut law. North Carolina Is desirous to have
two Revolutionary memorials on her soil,
one to Gen. Greene, to bo placed ON the
field of Guilford Court House, from which
he was Obliged to retreat, but not without
infiicting severe loss on CORVALLIS, and
the other to Brig-Gen. Davidson, who was
killed while commanding her militia at
Cowan's Ford. Then there Is bill for
monument to Gen. Knox, to be erected at
Thomaston, not that he fought any battles
there, or even that he was born there, but
on the ground that there he died and was
buried.
When we once look, however. at the
Revolutionary monument bills, the story
10 erect memorial to Ethan Allen on the
bite of Fort Ticonderoga, whose surrender
10 that hero is certainly pleasanter in
cident to recall than its later abandonment
10 Burgoyne with a couple Of hundred
cannon. Another bill calls for memorial
10 Warren at Boston; and that there Is any
Existing lack Of suitable honors to the
patriot of Bunker Hill will strike most
people with surprise. There are bills also
10 commemorate Morgan and Sewer, of
patriotic renown.
Then there are the presidents to be pro-
vided for. The Senate has voted $4,000
for monument to Madison, and there are
bills pending for monuments to Harrison
the elder, and to Zachary Taylor, as well
hs bill sppropriating $l5, ,0Oo TO buy Mr.. c.
w. F. Travis portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
statues are also proposed for Secretary
Stanton, for Maury, for Commodore
Tucker, for Francis s. Key, because he
wrote the "Star Spangled Banners" and
most oddly of all, for old Mr.. j. Gray, on
the ground that he was the last survivor
of the Revolution.