Evening star., 1896-03-28

nelstown, Pa. Some of the stones in it
weigh ton, and are three feet high and
thick. These with the belt courses cost
near $500. Heads of Poetry and Mercury
are in the spandrels in terra Gotta. The
niche or recess on the line of the three
upper arches will contain a metal figure
of Orphcus half Sheathing sword and play
ing wind or paEdean pipe.
1t is to be regretted that want of means
prevents the purchase of an original bronze
figure of Hero offered to the memorial for
$3.50: she holds her torch aloft welcoming
Leander buffeting the waves.
Horses, heads are in the memorial near
the battlementS
If means permit the front face of this
gateway at least will be built of hewn
limestone. The superf1ces of the front are
near forty feet square, with the tower and
partisan rising at the ends to near fifty
feet.
The economy of the enterprise can be
seen from comparing it's large dimensions
with any of our pedestals of equestrian
statues, which cost $4,000 to $4O00O or
with the lean Worth obelisk in New York,
which Is some thirty feet high, and cost
$4,000.
Mr.. Henry Watterson has subscribed 500
TO the army correspondents memorial: he
was the correspondent of the lost cause
who wrote liveliest
Henry NJ. Stanley. the explorer. who
went from the expiring echoes of our war
ara our Indian wars. to Turkey, AbysSinia
Ashantee and the Soudan. has repeatedly
written his interest in the army CORE
spondents' memorial from parliament
Ihree busts of our war correspondents. of
which Stanley's will be one, if it can be af-
fordeti. Will hlmanize the memorial in the
upper arches.
The active persons in this enterprise are
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend of Washing
ton city and Mr.. Edward NJ Mealey, the
latter cashier of the Hagerstown Bank.
They would like to raise $1,000 more. for
which addition they could give better re-
suits.
To this day the potent pen of the revolu-
tionary war, which wrote the pamphlet to
persuade the army camps to come to the
resolution of our full Independence and pre-
ceded the declaration of that name by sew
eral months, has no cenotaph. Its authors
hrst pamphlet was directed to the manu-
mission of slaves in 1114, work carried out
by Abraham Lincoln eighty-eight years
later. after visiting the camps near the
Army Correspondents Memorial which
monument therefore marks the event and
piece where the pen was the mightiest of
the swords of war
The spot of the monument in Crampton's
Gap, South Mountain realizes the descrip-
tlon OF PRESIDENT Lincoln, as given in Hay
and Nicolay's life of him, where, about the
time he wrote the proclama ton of emanct-
patton, these authors say:
he ieit MS tent early in the morning and
walked With a friend, Mr. 0. NJ. Hatch of
Illinois. to an eminence,, which commanded
view of great part of the camp. For
miles beneath them spread the white tents
OF the mighty hosts. glistening in the rising
sum- Mr.. Lincoln sazed for awhile in silence
upon the scene, then turned to his friend
and said: Do you know what this is? He
answered in some astonishment, 1T is the
Army of the Potomac so it is called re
sponded the President. but that Is mis-
take: it is only AIcClellan's bodyguard' He
went back to Washington; the proclamation
or emancipation was promulated to the
army on the 9th of September, in general
order
This eminence described is in plain sight
OF Crampton's Gap, and is only four miles
distant; 1t Is called ''McClelIan's Lookout" I"
or signal station. A much better view is
from South Mountain summit, opposite, two
miles from the memorial, and on the same
range. The memorial Is expected to be dadi-
Gated September "a, 1896. Col. Wright Riyes
VINO accompanied President Lincoln 70 An-
tietam. and slept in his bed is now the COM
panion OF President Cleveland on lIs -Poto-
mac cunning expeditions