Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-26
THE TRENTON MONUMENT.

THE TRENTON MONUMENT.
Tho Site of thu Revolutionary Battle sElt.
tIngly Marked The Memorial Monument
Oedicated-Thu Governors OF Several
States That Participated in the War for
Independence Graced the Proceedings
with Their Presence.
TRENTON, N. j., Oct. 2O.-The Tren-
ton battle monument was dedicated to-
day. The pomp and splendor of the
affair were impressive. Governors of
many states participated, and an i'm
pressive military display was one of its
features. The city was never more
decorated in honor of any oc-
and never did any people mani
fest their patriotism more enthusiast
tically. Every workshop and factory
was closed and the entire population
turned out to witness the exercises and
and thousands of strangers
swelled the great throng of sightseers.
The monument commentaries the
historical encounter of Gen. Washing
ton with the British and Hessians in
the streets of Trenton on December
26, 1776. At that time Trenton was a
struggling village. The place where
Washington with his ragged and half
famished army crossed the Delaware
on that cold Christmas night. before
the battle. is 2 miles distant.
Through glass the battlefelds of
Princeton and Monmouth may be seen.
The monument stands in Monument
park, at the junction of Warren street
and Brunswick, Princeton and PEN
nington avenues, the exact SPOT where
Capt Alexander Hamilton, of New
York, opened his battery of the New
York state company of artillery on the
Hessian foe. Around about the monu-
ment 10000 people were gathered to
witness the exercises. The military
rested arms in Warren street, the thor
oughfare down which the Hessians
were swept.
The failure of President Cleveland
and other distinguished men to arrive
from Washington was deeply regret
ted, since it was their intention to be
present if possible. However, the
dignity and interest of the occasion
were scarcely lessened, for otherwise
there were no disappointments, and
every feature of the programme was
carried out.
The national and state dignitaries
that were present included Governors
Flower of New York, Pattison of Penn
sylvania, Fuller of Vermont, Reynolds
of Delaware, Russell of Massachusetts,,
Werts of New Jersey. Morris of Con-
necticut and Brown Of Maryland. Ex-
Governors Albeit and Green were on
the grand stand, as was also the vener-
able DR.. E. 81. Doty. of Jamesburg, whose
cousin VanWart was one of the cap
tors of Andre. Near him were Col. John
Schuyler and VIM. d. II. Washington,
of New York. The latter is a grand =
son of Capt. William Augustine Wash :
ington, who participated in the charg e
on the Hessian force and was wounded
within hundred yards of the monu-
ment. The civic societies large
ly represented were the Society
of Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution,
the New Jersey Society of Colonial
Daughters of America, Princeton Eat
tie Monument association, Daughters
of the American Revolution and the
Monmouth Battle Monument associa-
ton.
The exercises of the dedication were
opened with music by the band of the
Seventh regiment national guard Of
New Jersey.
Bishop Starkey, of Newark, offered
prayer, and Gen. William S. Stryker,
president of the monument association,
delivered an address on THE Victory
at Trenton"
The tablet presented by the New Jer-
sey society of Cincinnati was now un-
yelled, the address being delivered by
Clifford Stanley Simms, president Of
the society, who described its origin
and patriotic character, and alluded to
the appropriate nature of its contribu-
ton to the shaft. Hugh H. Hamill, Of
the association, accepted the tablet.
The next unwilling was of the statue
of Blair McClenachan, the presentation
address being made by Capt. j. Laps
ley Wilson, commanding officer of the
Philadelphia city troop. who gave q
detailed history of the famous organi-
zation. Ex-State Senator John Taylor
accepted the gift for the monument as
ISOLATION.
The unwilling of the statue of John
Russell occurred next, Gov. Russell of
Massachusetts, delivering the address.
j. H. Shaw, mayor of Trenton, made
the address of acceptance.
The relief ''The Continental Army
Crossing the Delaware" was next un-
yelled, and Gov. Pattison made speech
which was among the most eloquent
of the day. William L. Dayton, ex-
United States minister to The Hague,
gracefully for the Monument
and when he had done
the relief entitled, 1.-THE Opening of
the Right" was unveiled, Gov. Flower
making the presentation speech, to
which ex-Congressman John Hart
Brewer, of New Jersey, made response.
1.-THE Surrender of the Hessians," the
last relief, was now unveiled. Gov.
Morris spoke for the state of Connecti-
cut, which was the donor, and ex-Mayor
Frank A. MACEDONIAN of Trenton de-
livered the speech of acceptance.
A letter of regret was received from
President Cleveland.
Killed by . Collapsed Building.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. ia build
ing in Hopkinsville, XIV, which was
repairs, collapsed, killing
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