The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-06-10
TWO GREET MONUMENTS.
Project for Erection Of One to Lincoln.
The Shaw Tablet Other Memorials
Recently Unvailed.,

It can no longer be sad,of rs, as IL was 20 fire.
qusntiy said before tho War, that this 10 .
country without monuments. No country ever
had - many with 20 brieba history behind it.
And many Of these u1ouumsnts are works of
high art, and will conpaD favorably with any
monuments Of similar ss1le the world over.
A movement has bsGsn in California to build
monument to Abraham Lincoln. Two months
ago the movement began in Lincoln Post, Ssn
Francisco, and t0.dayc0ntTibuti0ns or express
ion of approval have poured in from every
State in the Union. Lsstars hsve bsen received
from Presidents Mckinley, Robert Lincoln, J.
r. Sovereign, Fred. Grant, Frances E. Willard,
Commandsr-in-Chief Clatkson, Cardinal Glib
bons w. 7. Harris. Comm issioner of Ed ucaton;
and Ss.jo Superintendent Charles R.gSkinner.
Of Ohio; Samuel T. Black, Of California; E.
A. Jones, of Ohio, and c. H. Meane, of Alabama
President Kellogg, of the University of Cali.
fornis; Helen II. Gardiner, and others Of high
distinction.
Lincoln Post, through the cooperation of tho
State Superintendent Of Schools aud the school
authorities of San Francisco, secured the OBJ.
servance of May % Is Lincoln Day in the Cali
fornia schools. Dstails0f the comrades visited
the schools and explained the meaning of the
day, with . view to securing contributions.
The late Department Encsmpment Endorsed
the movement, also the California Division,
s. Of ", tho Encampment making IN appro.
comrades having the matter in charge.
Lincoln Monument League has been formed,
and everyone who contributes 90 cents receives
. membership certi6cats from the League
Tho monument will be erected in Golden
Gate Park.
A most imposing monument was lately erect
ed on Boston Common as . part Of the OBJ
memory of Col. Albert Gould Shaw, who was
killed in the storming Of Fort Wagner, where
his regiment, the 54th Mass. (colored), lost 2S5
officers and men. This was the first regiment
of coi0red troops ever mustered into the army,
and at time when it was generally said that
the negroes would not fight Col. Shaw, in
whose veins ran the blue blood of Boston, took
the command offered him by Gov. Andrew
very reluctantly. and then, with sense of
duty. determined to show that the black men
could and would fight for their country
Col. Shaw never had cause to regret his
action, although in little more than two months
he was shot and killed, and his body thrown
in . trench with the black heroes whose in
vincible charges he had led. His body was
never recovered. as his father believed that
"a soldiers most appropriate burial place is
on tho field where he has fallen" Fort Wsg-
ner settled the question Of negro courage and
patriotism for all time to come.
The Shaw memorial is 2 massive arched gran
ite tablet designed by st. Gaudens, and set pom
q high foundation built against the surround
ing Enclosure. aud is very imposing in appear
ance.
The first soldiers monument in Hennepin
County, Mimi, was dedicated Memorial Day
by William Downs Post, g. Minneapolis. A
plot of ground sufficient for 100 graves was se.
cured in Hillside Cemetery, and in the center
the memorial to the dead was placed. Its base
consists Of large slab Of Kasota stone, with
smaller slab In the center. This small piece is
about 10 inches high, and on top of it rests
cannon, the central piece in tho monument.
This cannon has history. II is 32-inch
smoothbore, resting or deck carriage. 1t
was used in active service aud was one OF two
smooth bores on board the Carondelet. one of
the boats in Admiral Porter's river feet, that
ran the Notifications Of Vicksburg during
that memorable siege. The gun was secured
through Congressman Fletcher, whose applca-
ton WAS answered Immediately by the War
Department..
D. F. schenck Post, George Coles Com.
mander. dedicated q beautiful GAR monu.
ment at Fulton, N. Y. Memorial Day. The
total cost was over 81, 200, of which nearly half
was raised by the comrades.
A beautiful soldiers monument erected at
Oak Hill Cemetery, Owosso. Mich, by L. B.
Quackenbush Post, EOS, and the W.R.C., was
unvailed May 81 49,
A cannon secured from the Watertown
Arsenal was placed in front of Memorial Hall,
Upton, Mass, May 81 ST. y the comrades Of