The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-30
Lamented by Every American
School Boy
who Reads the Sad Tale
Golden Rod for n Soldiers Grave.
MAJOR JOHN ANDRE,
Died OctOhcr 2nd. 1880.

At the bottom Of the card are the words, in q
fslieSts hand Az From an English woman in
A b~as.relief upon tho monument tells tho
story of Gen. Washington receiving the petition
telling how he wanted death to come. There is
tho customary tablet, and on 1t you may read
Characters Of the war Of the Revolution. IL tells
OF bis being raised by his own merit at an early
eSaiiV Of ii the III Br iis 'G FORCES aee rf IN A% 9r Aissa Of bis em:
ployment lin an important and hazardous en-:
%terprise, In which he fell, a sacrifice to his zeal
sally he was beloved and esteemed by tho army
in which he served, and lamented oven by HIS
George Ill. caused the monument to DO erected.
Andre was executed on the I'd day of October,
resting rastHii aI pia eeS at %re' Tappan mi by james, Hanes B fSDah ansn.
English Consul at New York, and removed to
England. Andrt lies a fey feet from the monu.
on the 10th of August, 1921, and, under tho
slow sea time sailing. of those days, did not
2sth Of November.
Through. low.groincd arches, along q dim
the CRIME and smoke Of tho centuries, over a
pavement deep.worn by the feet Of world .faring
pilgrims, you come to the entrance OF the Chap
ter House, the work OF King Henry Ill, the first
home of the Parliament of England. In q rather
dark place, just before you enter the Chapter
half bushei or moro of small oards-yisiting
cards; They, arc resting on a tray. Tho hel,
and up-to-date policeman, says as you look OF
!he heap Of dust,soyeFed cards, with here and
som So% on them St 'd don!t. ''1 i't'ss 9 5as { o Ssfa t To e.; & @aa
Of them have wanted to do It, and, they. say
down in that pile there are some OF the best
known names in America"
The trayload of cards was lying at the base of
the memorial to James Russell Lowell, cards
placed there by American tourists In the years
since the memorial was put in place, to show
their appreciation of one who stood among the
foremost English.sGeakipg poets Of his day.
lief medallion of the poet notes that the tablet
and the windows above wero PLACED there in
lister to the Court Of St. James from 1880 to
1886. by his English friends" 1t was first in
tended tend IN that "a. 1hs memorial roT o s should d, oGSS ns2 q 2
fongfellow, but it was not possible to place any
stained glass at that point. SO the hall or clois-
a part Of. the Chapter House itself, was selected.
The light comes in but dimly on a dull Lon
memorial. but t is a tender and sympathetic
light. and 1t falls lovingly on q dry and scared
,Ss Ssaa Of po sEe r. csm5 DlSGeed ah IN s sas EaFd asPo ss
the sea to rest before this memorial.
The windows show from the works Of the poet
scenes from The Vision OF Sir Launfeil.' st
Ambrose and THE Bigelow Papers" while
the shield of the United States, the shield Of
that Of Westminster Abbey illuminate the Dor:
ders. Though 1t is an 9utiot.the.way corner OF
the tourists from america, as the heap Of visit.
ing cards shows.
One need not describe the memorial Of Long
fellow, conspicuous among the memorials Of
the Poets Corner. 1t is too we'll known, but it
should not he overlooked In bringing to notice
Americas place in Westminster. 1t stands in
the very heart of English song. Dryden to tho
left, shakespeare tomb at elbows touch, Chau-
Ger, Browning, and Tennyson at the base of the
bust beneath t cir slabs of stone, this recogni.
tion of the gifted poet Is surrounded by the
memorials of the greatest men OF the land that
| has delighted to honor him.. Cut in the base Of
| the bust are these words, typical Of the feeling
which moro than we sometimes realize. exists
between the unprecedented masses of the two
nations:
This bust vas placed among the memorials of !:
the poets OF England by the English admirers OF !.
an American poet.
|
With but one exception. and. that in the
instance of the musician Hhndel. more than
half an Englishman. 10 other nation In the
world but America is recognized among the
| noble memorials Of EnRland's great abbey.