The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-06-17

The grand staircase, guarded right and left
by two couchant lions facing each other, from
opposite sides, is one of the sights Of Boston,
and. indeed OF tho world No palace was ever
more magnificent the marble quarries OF
France and Italy having been searched ior the
finest specimens of marbles for use In the
structure. Saffron, topaz and every shade OF
cream and yellow glow in the walls and arches.
The treads are ivory gray marble from France.
marked with fossil Shells and the landing Is OF
red Numidian marble from Africa.
And so has been carried out throughout the
entire building the grand scheme of making
this book palace OF the people the unexampied
object lesson Of everything that Is beautiful
and rare in architecture art literature and re-
search. How touching, then, that the mons
keeping watch and ward over all. should have
been placed there by soldiers OF the Union
armies in memory Of their fallen comrades
The lions rest on pcdestals upon when are IN
scrbed, in bronze letters, the fact that they are
memorials of the officers and men OF Two
Massachusetts volunteer infantry regiments
that to the right of the "a regiment, ana
that to the left of tho Goth.
The lions are tho work of st. Gaudens. who
promises to be scarcely less illustrious than his
moro famous brother.i Augustus st. Gaudens.
They arc of yellow Sienna marble, lke the
rest of the staircase but are unpublished, giving
them the grayish-yellow lion tints.
MONUMENT TO THE UNKNOWN.
Through the energy Of Mrs. Kate Delap
mon UNI entail tablet has been erected to the
memory of Union soldiers in Magnolia Gene
terry, Green Cove, Ga 1t is expected that she
will greatly extend the work OF tho patriotic
Loyal Home Workers in tho South by having
flags raised over Southern school-hOuses She
recently joined the L. H.W
Green Cove Springs was something of resort
of Northern consumptives before the war. Many
of them are at rest there After the war broke
| out the 18th Ohio Md Inf, commanded by
Col. N. c. Mclean, were quartered near there.
| with Headquarters at the Magnolia Hotel,
| they having taken possession after 1t had
been vacated by thesConfederates
Mrs. Dclap, whose husband is buried In
Magnolia Cemetery, organized cemetery asso-
citation in June, 1891, at which time the memo
| rial to the Union dead was projected. She is
the only white.person who is a member of the
association, and her experience has been Of
great assistance in shaping the work the re-
suit is the neat little white marble spire, three
| feet six inches in hight. paid for from con.
| tributions ranging from to 80 cents.
About one hundred and fifty people attended
| the dedication of the monument. The inscrip
| ton on the spire reads, Memorial to Union
Soldiers OF 1864"
When o. II. Mitchell Post. Jacksonville
learned Of the erection Of tho monument, they
forwarded Mrs. Delap vote of thanks. There
is no record, unless it be in the Department a
Washington, of the soldiers who arc buried IL
Magnolia Cemetery. except that Of five mer
killed in the encounter with Dickinson's troops
Three belonged to Co. c, 18th Ohio. and two t
Co. d, U. 8. c. I. Seventeen soldiers in al
are buried there.