The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-20
LEWIS MEMORIAL UNVEILED
AN IMPRESSIVE AND INTERESTING
 OCCASION AT EAST ROCK PARK.

Ihe Grays Present in Full Uniform, Headed | by the Second Regiment Band-Many Prominent citizens Present-The Me- morial Address by Colonel Osborn Response by the Mayor-Remarks by James ID. Dewell-The Monument Un- yelled by n Detail of Grays-Inscriptions on the Tablet-Slx Hundred and Fifty Citizens Contributed to the Fund.
 At Lewis Lookout in East Rock park, yesterday afternoon, the memorial bust in honor of the late eX-Mayor Henry G. Lewis was unveiled with appropriate exercises. At o'clock the Grays headed by the Second Regiment band, marched up to the green and there boarded three special cars, by which they were taken to Rock lane. From there they marched to the monument site. They presented fine appear ance and were in full uniform. Be hind the Grays in carriages came the citizens committee composed of Colonel N. G. Osborn, J. D. Dewell, General George H. Ford, Max Adler, Judge Cal lahan, ex-City Engineer Hill and George M. Grant. The city's committee: May or Hendrick, James Macdonald, presl- dent of the board of aldermen; Council man Coolidge, Councilman Neil. The park commission, who furnished the site consisting of Judge Simeon B. Baldwin, w. w. Farnam, Henry F, English, Henry T. Blake, General E. B. Bradley, James M. Townsend, Walter J. Connor, Felix Chillingworth and Rob- ert E. Baldwin.
 Among others noticed were: Honora- ble N. D. Sperry, Dean Wayland o1 Yale law school, Theodore Futile, City Clerk R. F. Lyon, Tax Collector An thony, Mayor B. E. Brown, Alderman Skiff Mrs. Minot A. Osborn, Robert A Beers. Judge York, Frank Futile, ex' Superintendent of Letter Carriers Clark. Henry Cowen and wife, City Sur yeyor Kellogg, Henry Seabrook, Select man Bretzfelder, Edward Taylor, ant Augustus c. Wilcox.
 The opening remarks were made b1 J. D. Dewell, master of ceremonies. MT Dewell told what the citizens had dont to perpetuate r. Lewis memory, ant said that the day chosen for the unvell ing was extremely appropriate, as l was the seventy-fifth anniversary o the ex-mayor's birth. He said tha $50 citizens had subscribed to the fund and the subscriptions ranged fror twenty-five cents to $25. In all abou s2,20O was raised, with the interest amounted to nearly $2,500, the cost c the memorial Miss Enid Yandell, tn sculptor, made the model Richard t Hunt was the architect and the Henry Bonnard Bronze company of New Yorl did the casting of the bust, and othe bronze work. The entire cutting an preparation of the large and handsom monument supporting the bust was b the New Haven firm of Thomas Phillip & Son.
 After the introductory remarks, tn memorial was unveiled by deta from the Grays consisting of Sergear Nicoll, commander, Sergeant F. F. No man, Sergeant E. G. Gruener and Sc geant D. E. Bowers. Colonel N.
  pewell and made the address of presel tation. He spoke as follows:
 COLONEL OSBORN'S ADDRESS.
 MT Chairman, New Haven Gray Ladies and Gentlemen;
 It gives me great pleasure to repr sent upon this interesting occasion tl scores of voluntary contributors fro whose spontaneous generosity tn shaft of granite and bronze counterfe have lierally sprung. It is a comp ment do not under estimate, trust 70 undertake to discharge with the liv Hest feelings of gratitude and hesit ton. It is the first instance in O local history where the people ha selected one of their own number f this especial and enduring honor. T very inception of the undertaking W marked by a spirit of enthusiasm tn lay at the foundation of his charactt and that seemed to have it's source a perennial fountain of youth. It said that enthusiasm is an attribu of youth, and that as the years acc mulate and the gray hairs creep
 among "the fast colors," it softens to a stately prudence, and with
 flies the heart from the sleeve. If u is so then how fitting it is that u memorial, in honor of a useful ( thusiasm which did not lose it's wit ity as years rolled by, should in its represent it's product, caught in running and molded in its prese graceful lines, and firmly imbedded the earth of this historic old hill. WI nobler purpose can granite and bron made captive by the artists skill, SCI than to remind this community of value of enthusiasm as exemplifed the public career of Henry G. Lewis.
 Nor ought we to overlook at t moment what this popular enthusia was that found its conception in the long enthusiasm of the individual
 wasnot an enthusiasm that sprung fir those associated with him in perso and social capacity. It was not an
 thusiasm that divided it's commemo ton between the man and an exclus element of the community in which lived and for which he gave the b that was in him, as too many sha and monument do It was an enth iasm that enlisted the sympathy of c itsI and separated itself from the Sy