New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-26
IN MEMORY OF NATHAN HALE
A STATUE TO THE MARTYR UNVEILED IN
CITY HALL PARK
THE SONS OF THE REVOLUTION HAVE CHARGE
OF THE CEREMONIES SPEECHES BY MAYOR
GILROY, GENERAL o. o. HOWARD. Ed
WARD EVERETT HALE, w. G. HAM
ILTON AND +. S. TALLMADGE,


WARD EVERETT HALE, w. G. HAM
ILToN AND F. S. TALLMADGE,
The officers and committees Of the Society or the
Sons of the Revolution having the direction Of the
unwilling ceremonies met about p. m. In the Gov
ernor's Room of the City Hail. where Mayor Gilroy'
the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. the orators OF the DAY.
the Colonial Danes of America and the State OF
New-York, the Daughters Of the Revolution, the
Art Commission. members of the New-York Histori-
cal Society and other invited guests were duly well
coined Among the arrivals was little Miss Cor
nelia Montgomery. the six-year-old daughter OF
James Mortimer Montgomery, secretary OF the
society," who was to pull the string which held the
flag yelling the statue. 20 releast it, She was accom-
panied by her father AMI mother. and speedily re-
ceived the attention due the important office she was
TO perform.
At about 2:30 D. m the sounds OF military music
warned those In charge that the paradng column,
marching I'D Broadway, was nearing the statue.
A procession headed by the beaIer OF an immense
laurel wreath afterward placed at the base OF the
statue formed. Mayor Groy, thanked on
either side by Frederick S. Tallmadge president
of the society and William CASTOR Hamilton, chair
man Of the Statue Committee followed the wreath
bearer After them came General o. o. Howard.
Collector James T. Kilbreth. the Rev. DIR. Edward
Everett Hale, great grand nephew of Captain Ma
than Hale the Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix, in full eccle-
siastica robes; the Rev. DR.. ID. c. Weston, in uni
versty attire Colonel George Il. Mcclellan, presi-
dent Of the Board Of Aldermen; President Abraham
b. Tappen, of the Park Board, and probably 800
others. The plaza crossed, and the grand stand
overlooking with men bers of the society,
their wives. daughters and friends. ~ p
GUESTS ON THE STAND.
The stand had been built to face the statue. and
occupied the Broadway sidewalk fronting on the
park between Mail and Murray SITS. In the space
allotted for the officers speakers and clergymen or
occupying seats on other parts OF the grand stand
were. besides those already named. General Daniel
Z. Sckles, Cornelius N. Bliss. Colonel FLOYD Clark
son. vce-president Of the society; Controler-elect
Ashbel p. Fitch. Major Asa Bird Gardiner Post
master c. w. Dayton. Jonathan Trumbull of Con-
necticut: Arthur NJ Hatch. Charles Isham James
T. Van Rensselaer, II. w. lie Roy, Robert Lenox
Belknap. Robert Olyphant. John Lawrence John
c. Tomlinson. Charles A. Peabody, IT, Colonel
Delaney Floyd-Jones. Smith +. Lane William
Phelps Dodge. James NJ. Varnum. Abraham " w
Van Vechten. Sheppard Knapp ex-Commissioner
Edward L. Parris Andrew d. Hammersey, 1r.
States Army David Banks, Robert D. Williams
Jacob Cox Parsons Frederick A. Guild, Edgar In
derhill. Talbot ELEPHANT, George W. Oney John O.
Marshall. Frederick Ciarkson, Henry Prescott
Hatch the Rev. George Stuart Baker, A. r. Thomp-
son, Jr..aJ. Blocker Miller Bradish Johnson John
Henry Morgan. Charles H. Woodruff John b. Hol-
land, william Shrady and Frank L. Montague
Police Inspector Alexander r. Williams was In
command of several hundred policemen. and his
arrangements for maintaining order were complete
Captain Christopher c. Collins. of the Park De-
partment, was also on hand with a large force
q Park police. and ably seconded the efforts OF
Inspector Williams. s M
City Hall Park presented . brilliant and inspiring