Evening star., 1896-03-28
THE ARCH At GAPLAND
Work on the Monument to Commemorate
the War Correspondents.
Additional Subscriptions Received
ed for the Memorial.

The Army Correspondents Memorial AS
ISOLATION has collected 1885, and has un-
paid subscriptions of $275 more. The fol-
lowing persons gave 800 each: C. p. Hun
tington. Stephen 3. Elkins. John w. Mack
ny. Joseph Pulitzer, Whitelaw Reid, VIM
Eing6 riley, H. H. kohlsaat, James Elverson,
Calvin Wells, Joseph B. Mccullough, Victor
Lawson. George M. Pullman, John G. Moore,
Nathaniel Paige, Edwin Abel, st. Clair Nc
kelway, Pierpont Morgan, Frank Thomson,
Hugh j. Jcwett, Eugene O'Neii1 Richard C.
Mccormick. r. c. Shannon, r. c. kerens,
Crosby s. Noyes, George Alfred Townsend,
making $500; VIM. c. Whitney, 500.
The following persons gave SO each; Cal
win Brice, s. H. Kaufman, A. Pope; Levi
P. Morton, John Hay, VIM. L. Brown, John
d. Nichbold John W. Bookwalter, Henry
W. Cannon. making $3.50.
In 50 gifts were the following: Anson G.
McCook. Horace Porter. Granville NJ. Dodge
George L. Wellington, Jay Cooke Gen. W.
B. Franklin. James Mcmillan, James Run
Mon. John G.. Prather. John d. Crimmins,
"A. L. Barber. Studebaker Brothers, Russell
B. Alger. Asa Bushnell, Robert Dunlap, A
l.. ConSer, Chauncey NJ. Depew, NJ. E. In
gals ID. o. Mills, Robt. r. HIT Geo NJ
Boldt. "A. W. Soper. Alex. r. Shepherd. DAN
er subscriptions We're: Frank Mclaughlin,
so; W. b. Allison so: John B. Henderson,
SO: G. Fl. Grosvenor. $40. John A. Mccall,
SlO: Joseph Sibley. so; J. Watts De Peyster
$40: John Sherman, SO: Thos. L. Casey, 81
making $40. Total S3,SS5.
In addition the American Cement Com
pany of Philadelphia gave 100 barrels of
cement, and the American Encaustic Tile
Company variety of designs in tile.
1t will be observed from noting the names
OF editors and publishers above that no
paper in New England mas contributed; the
New York papers helpful are the Tribune
World. News and Brooklyn Eagle, the Phil
adelphia papers. the Press, Record and In
qurer; the Chicago papers, the Record and
Times-Herald; other assisting papers are
the PittSburg Dispatch. Kansas City Star
Baltimore Sun and Washington Evening
Star
The newspapers alone can complete the
subscription and make the memorial
worthy of their age.
Newspapers with large staff of army
correspondents. like the New York Herald,
could be effective in menorializins their
people. one of whom-Mr. WilsOn-waS
killed in battle.
With $1,000 more contributed the army
correspondents memorial could be built of
addressed stone. The present subscription
will only execute II in rubble and broken
range work and varying colored mountain
stone.
No delay. however. will be allowed to
tnterpose. and the contracts will be given
out by early April
Friends of the heroic age of the press and
those who can see in this monument the
inspiration of a higher example for the
journalist are still invited to help this one
achievement of its kind in the world.
The Only One of Its Kind.
There are monuments Of printers and of
authors. such as Diderot, Brunot. Defoe,
Samuel Johnson. Voltaire and Greeley, but
of the youth and knight errantry of the
press this is probably the only one. Re-
spect for this enterprise is good test Of
respect for the profession. The following
are the inscriptions to be placed upon the
ends of the army correspondents memorial
in Bedford stone. They should be in mar
BILE or purple stone, but the funds in hand
do not permit. The north end will contain
the following dedication and examples.
with carved pen and palm crossed:
To the
Army Correspondents
and
Artists
1Sti-'S5
whose tolls cheered the camps,
thrilled the fireside,
educated provinces of rusticS into
bright nation of readers
and gave Incentive
to narrate distant wars
ard explore dark lands.
Erected by subscription.
Out of Zebulun they that handle the pen
OF the wfiter.-Judges.
1t was with labor that they were ascer-
tanned, because these who were present in
the several affairs did not give the same
account of the same things.-Thucydides
A., T. G..
Xenopfon assured him with an oath that
he should not have enough for his expenses
in travelling home unless he sold his horse
and what he had about him.-Anabasis,
BOO B. G..
On quitting school boldly undertook to
write and relate the wars.-Froissart, 1857.
They sent us back the news, which great
ly rejoiced the whole country.-Philip de
Commines. 1872
/ and my son stayed with General Brad
dock several days at Fredericktown, dined
with him daily and had full opportunities.
Franklin. 1755.
artist.-Washington to Lafayette. 1891.
"Dr. Livingstone. I presume Henry NJ.
Stanley, 1871.
The south end of the memorial will con-
tain the following:
This gap
was carried by
seneral w. b. Franklin's corps
September II. 1862,
against
- General Howell Cobb,
: when
} the Army of tho Potomac,
victorious on South Mountain,
! marched to Antietam.
President Abraham Lincoln
soon visited these battlefields.
, felt the pulse of the soldiery,
and wrote the
d. Proclamation of
Emancipation.
Il will be correspondent to command
And do my spriting gently."-Tempest
The tablets in ma Ible giving the names
Of the correspondents will be on the east
or rear Of the structure. As these names
cost 10 cents a letter to engrave them, the
list Is probably to be weeded out and the
Incidental reporters omitted. 1t is proper
to add that very few of the army writer's
have contributed or have Influenced contri-
buttons. The memorial has therefore taken
on a more ideal than personal character
and as such has recommendation to the
organic press and the instinct Of letters
Ornaments for the Arch.
The great arch is being dressed at Hum