The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-06
THEY love THE OLD mosumEnr.
Opposition to Turning the Shaft at Fred.
ericksbure Into Relics.


Opposition to Turning the Shaft at Fred.
ericksbure Into Relics.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May s.-The
Mary Washington Monument Assccfa-
tion of Fredericksburg met in their
rooms last evening. Letters were read
from Mrs. Waite, president of the
National Mary Washington Monument
Association, and from Mrs. Terhune
marion Harlsnd.) Mrs. Waite's letter
announced that the National Associa.
ton objected to the old monument now
over the grave OF Mary Washington
being retained on the property.
Mrs. Terhune suggested in her letter
tnat the marble In the old monument
DO cut up into small models OF the new
proposed monument and sold Mt 81 5o
each After the reading OF these letters
the meeting became very lively. State
Senator w. A. Little, gr., and Mayor A.
Z. Rowe, OF the advisory board were
present.
Senator Little earnestly opposed both
suggestions in tho letters read. He
SAID that to cut up the marble in the
old monument In models OF the design
OF the proposed new monument would
cost about $3.50 apiece and would never
sell for 81. snd further that he WAS
eesONN5 NFF@SO0 oh0 NC hu6W GQ6 f2Q1e8
OF fredericksburg and Virginia were
opposed to disoarding and throwing
aside the old unfinished marble monu-
ment, which cost over $40, 900, and sub.
stitute In It's place the proposed tribute
from 1.-THE women OF America" ut
cost of ST. 900.
Mr.. Little earnestly urged that the
monument the National Association
proposed to erect was not o suitable
monument in any respect; that when he
drafted and delivered the conditional
deed to Mrs. Waite and Chief Justice
Fuller, Mrs. Waite expressed the belief
mat $4,000 could DO raised from each
State, and 1T was thought that certainly
$4,000 could be gotten to begin the
work; that now the National Association
has contracted for monument to cost
Sll 900. and quietly demanded that the
fredericksburg Association should sell
and dispose of the present structure.
MIR. Little further said that the peo-
pie have some affec tionate regard for
the old structure; that it might be mere
sentiment, but 1t was nevertheless a
patriotic sentiment. The man who
erected 1t showed greater love for
Washington's mother than the govern
ment or the nation had ever done, and
he much preferred appealing first to the
proposed monument, and take the
money in hand and improve and re-
build and complete the present struc-
ture: that it is absolutely sound and can
be completed.
If the National Association declines
this, Mr.. Little said tina, he then
thought 1t the duty of this present asso-
citation to notify the National Associa.
tion that the proposed monument was
not suitable, and then advertise to the
world that it was proposed to take the
little sum of $1,000 and complete the
OLD monument and ask the help of all
patriotic people.
Mr.. Little expressed the opinion that
Congress would make an appropriation
to this end and ultimately the work
would be performed with credit and
honor to the women OF America and to
the nation. Mr.. Little was requested
by the association to embody his re-
marks in resolution to be laid before
an earlY-called meeting for final action.