The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14

A few days since Mrs. A. S.
Hubbard, president of the Val
entine Holt Society, received a
letter of acknowledgment from
the father of the Misses Fair
child; also a letter from the
eldest of the two girls, who is
now 10, in which we're inclosed
photographs of the writer and
of the tablet.
The photograph of the tablet,
as now shown, was taken when
the tablet was first placed
within the walls of the old
prison and directly over the
one grave of the thirteen SOL
diers. The increasing number
of visitors to view the monu-
ment to the memory of the
privates of an army of heroes
became at last such an incon-
venience to the military au-
thoritles that they requested
the Misses Fairchild to remove
the tablet to the outer wall of
the building, about in the same
position, however, and, the re-
quest being granted, the in
scription was changed to read
within this building and d.
rectlY beneath this tablet" etc.
Mr.. Fairchild is a merchant
of New York City who has a
home on the Hudson and one
at Cap-Rouge on the ST. Louis
road, Quebec, overlooking the
st. Lawrence, and whose pa
triotism is known to every
American who visits Quebec.
In his letter to the president of
the local society he wrote:
Your kindness bringing to the
society over which you preside
the act of my two young daugh-
tiers in having a tablet placed
over the remains of the thir-
teen soldiers who were killed
with their gallant leader, Gen
eral Montgomery, in the assault at
Pres-de-Ville, Quebec, has deeply
touched US all. The resolution of
the society and the election OF my
daughters as honorary members
have given them even greater
pleasure than the successful
issue of their persistent and
untiring efforts to secure the
necessary permission to erect
the tablet, for at all points
they were confronted with diff
nc nfft q
tapeism and a narrow nationalism
on the part OF the public. Your
society is the first to recognize the
zeal of the young ladies, and they
are deeply conscious of the honor
it has done them and very proud
to think that from far-away Cali
fornia came the beautiful ac-
acknowledgement of their patriotic
effort to add their mite toward
concentrating the heroic deeds
OF long ago.
Their full names and ages are:
Frances Isabel Fairchild, aged 10
years, and Constance Nelson Fair
child, aged 13 years. The chill
dren's grandfather on the mater
nal side was one of the early pio-
neers in California, reaching there
early in 1850, and was resident
of San Francisco for many years
and 6 citizen. He now resides
near us and is a frequent visitor.
His great pleasure is to relate the
story of life in California in those
days to very interested grand
children.
The elder Miss Fairchild, in
the July issue of st. Nicholas
of last year, gave an illustrated
and Tery interesting account of
the tablet, and in another ar
ticle, published in another pa
per, she gave an account of the
i'm prisonment of the American
troops in Quebec.
In her letter to Miss F. NJ.
Walton, secretary of the Val
entine Holt Society, she wrote:
My sister and l were so much
pleased with Mrs. Hubbard's kind
letter, telling Us that your society
had elected us honorary member
1t is, indeed, very great honor,
of which we are deeply sensible.
No other society has before this ]
thing for the poor soldiers who
bee. Our marble tablet is now in
on the outside walls of the old
were placed in q large coffin and
beside the wall, near where they We
Perhaps you would like to hear
prison few days after
soldier in charge, named Lewis, '
short talk, in which he described