Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-07-24
strines and upon the city

from which she takes her name
The gunboat Marietta" is our city's
pride in the navy of today, but out in
the old and mysterious Mound Gem
eterv there sleep more the illustrous
dead. whose names blazed in bygone
naval and military, than in any other
burying ground in the United States.
Could that gallant old warrior of the
sea, Commodore Abraham Whipple,
have been of the present generation,
his name would have been sounded
with that of Dewey, and Hobson, and
Schley; for no better testimony to a
hero's bravery and devotion can be
found than the inscription that marks
his last resting place beneath the
shadow of the Mound. $3.50
saa2 Sacred
To The Memory Of
COMMODORE ABRAHAM WHlPPLE
Whose name. skill and courage Will
ever remain the pride and boast of his
country. In the late revolution, he
was the first on the seas to hurl de-
fiance at proud Britain; gallantly
leading the way to arrest from the
Mistress of the Ocean her sceptre, and
there to wave the Star Spangled Ban
ner. He also conducted to sea the
first square-rigged vessel ever built on
the Ohio opening to commerce re-
sources beyond calculation"
Floods are by no means agreeable
or harmless, yet through the dire ef-
fects of the great flood of 1898, the
members of St. Luke's Episcopal
church will have cause to rejoice over
the hastened completion of long talked
OF plans for the great enhancement
OF the interior beauty of their house Of
worship. The work, which is already
in progress, in accordance with de-
signs of rare taste and elegance, con-
sists of the deepening of the chancel
and of the frescoing of the walls and
ceiling of the body of the church, and
also the rooms adjoining.
The fresco work is in charge of Mr.
C. B. Bonn, of Pittsburg, one of the
foremost church decorators in the
country. This work will follow a
Gothic design throughout. The cell
ings are to be in varying shades of
ivory, with tracings of delicate sage
green. The upper side walls will be
finished in delicate sage green with
figures in lighter shades, and the low
er side walls in terra Gotta with an
outline border of sage green. A spec
ial feature will be made of the chan
eel, the frescoing there to be done in
crimson and ivory, with gold leaf
tracery. The chancel will be deepened
six feet, increasing markedly the ar
al; o,,fr &c tL1 oh, IL
will be lighted by clusters of candle
gas lights, mad will receive new fur
in the way of chancel rails
and pulpit.
The Marietta Improvement Associa-
ton is branching out on lines of work,
which when the success of its initial
efforts is considered, augurs we'll for
the increased beauty and cleanliness
Of our fair city. One of the missions
which the Association has accepted in
the natural course of its labors. lies
IN the care and preservation Of our
parks. On Monday of this week the
Park Committee, numbering twelve,
will make a carriage tour to the vari-
)us parks to investigate the condition
If the numerous public plots with re-
gard to the formulation of plans for
uture work in that direction. Mari
'ta's parks have many grand histori-
al associations connected with them
md this besides their beauty should
ndear them to us all.
Suppose We imagine a series of re-
erse pictures in the grand panorama
# war now being unrolled before us.
,et us trade coalitions vi b Spain for
n instant. and view the awful chaos
# ruin that some unfriendly foreign
avail and military critics prophesied
or US at the beginning of the war.
What if Dewey's glorious May Day in |
be far east were but dream, and the
iou of Spain flaunted proudly above
ur sunken fleet in the far away bay
Manila. What II Sampson, and not |
ervera, were prisoner of war; our |
allant Schley dead; and our great
eet lost to us for ever. And Shaft
RS army forced to bitter surrender, |
nd mighty squadron on its way to /
avage our shores. These ere the pic
ures that Spain boasted she would
how to the world should we ever |
lake common cause with Cuba And |
would cheer the heart Of continental !
'urope were Spain instead Of America
4 the position to dictate terms and
emand huge idsnmity. But with |
s, all this would be but the beginning
I the matter. Twelve million men
7ould shoulder arms and there would |
e ringing echo throughout the land
4 one eloquent Americans words.
Millions for defense, but not one cent
or tribute"
II is well, however, that Yankee
sunners have sure aims, and courage
,eyond. comparison.
The Paris Figaro" of recent date
says:
1T is time the powers took ex-
treme measures to prevent Commo-
lore Watson's dispatch to Europe and
to end the war. Italy, Austria, Rus
sia and especially France have the
greatest interest in reminding the
l nited States that they cannot allow
America to acquire footing in Eu-
rope. The friendly representatives of
these four powers at Washington will,
it is TO De hoped enable the United
States to perceive the dangerous
course on which it is embarking."
The Powers" are not the bugaboo
to the United States that thev uera IN