The evening world., 1894-05-30
STATUE OF GREELEY.
It Is Unveiled To-Day with Inter-
esting Ceremonies.
Offering Of Oak Leaves from Chap
paqua by His Daughter.
Work Begun Years Ago, but It Took
Printers to Complete 1t.

An. event Of the day was the un-
yelling Of the statue Of Horace Greeley
at the newly baptized Greeley Square,
Broadway and Thirty-third street.
The statue was erected under the
auspices of Typographical Union No. 6,
the members Of which. with Brooklyn
typographical Union No. 9s, Horace
Greeley and Farnham Posts, G. A. r.,
and the Colonial Guards of the Sons Of
the Revolution. marched to Greeley
Square. headed by the Catholic Protec-
tory Band
The exercises began at go o'clock, with
Pilgrims Chorus by the band. The
Rev. G.. NJ. C%lendennin, son-in-law Of
Mr.. Greeley's favorite hymn. "Ont Sweet
ly Solemn Thought" was sung. w. W.
Niles. Chairman Of the Statue Commit
made an address, and George ii. Moore,
PRESIDENT OF the present statue Commit
tee. presented the statue to the city.
The statue was then unveiled by Miss
District-Attorney Fellows. in behalf Of
Mayor Giiroy, accepted the gift. and then
CONGRESSMAN Amos J. Cummings who
knew Mr.. Greeley intimately, made the
chief grafton. John w. Keller, Presi-
dent of the New York Press club. spoke
on Horace Greeley's Influence on the
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\. Mrs. +. NJ. ~Clendenin. II daughter OF
Horace Greeley. placed in the lap of the
statue at the conclusion of the exercises
2. wreath OF oak leaves from trees in
old home. Attached to the wreathe was
card on which was written by the
Loving hand TO Of the famous editors
,snd greeting to the n who loved
When MI. Cummings arose to speak
hA UVaa rnNAtNral ptsI
plause.. As soon as quiet had been re-
stored he spoke'i in part as follows:
Horace Gfeeley. like Lincoln, was
security. Like Lincoln he was a thor
ough American. Both were striking
: examples of de yelopment under the new
"Although twenty-one Summers have
warmed the soil of freedom since Horace
. Greeley was laid to rest in Greenwood.
his memory is still fresh in the hearts
Horace Greeley was born twenty-nine
years after the surrender OF CORVALLIS
twenty years after the death of
second Franklin, but there were marked
differences between the men.
Franklin had wonderful intellectual
energy, tempered by the best of Judg-
ment. Greeley had equal mental energy,
but swayed by the emotions of the
. Continuing, Mr.. Cummings reviewed
o. - - - N"l'Nl III t.
ments In the Journalistic field. and his
mi influence as an editor.
4FOn the morning after Lees surren-
3 DER continued Mr.. Cummings, his ap-
peal for universal amnesty rang through
( out the land. His sympathins were free
" extended to the ruined Confederates.
IS but his appeals for generous treatment
: awakened bitter resentment in the
4 North.
\ ,""The baihng Of jefferson DAYS. then
the most condemned and unpopular act
of Mr.. Greeley's life. Is to-day considered
! the most ~magnanimous and dlsinter-
ested. 1t furnished the whole keynote
< of his career.
at revealed his Puritan independence,
4 his intense passion for Justice to every
man and his tenderness of heart"
At the conclusion of Mr.. CumminRs's
: speech there was tremendous applause.
Nv Letters of reEret were received by the
Committee from President Cleveland.
Z and Murphy. Speaker Crisp. John q.
Whittier, Rev. DR.. John Hall and st,
Clair McKelway.
The statue shows Mr. Greeley sitting
In an armchair. "a newspaper In his righ'
hand and his spectacles IN his left
Evidently he a just finished reading
and Is ponderinE over what he has read
The statue proportions are heroic. i
Is sixteen feet from the base of tn,
pedestal to the top of the statue
which Is the work of Sculptor Alexander
Doyle.
The movement to erect the statue wa!
But the panic Of 1870 ensued. and tn,
matter ran along in desultory fashion
until the printers took 1t up and man
s aged to complete the fund.