The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
4 SOLDIERS MONUMENT
It Is Proposed to Erect One at
Great Falls.
THE MONEY is AVAILABL {
More Than 81 900 Remains in the Re-
ception Fund. and It Is Suggested
That 1t Be Expended for
Memorial SHAFT.

Great Falls, Dec. 2s.--If any one has
any particular idea as to what should
be done with the balance on hand in
the soldiers reception committee treas
ury, now is the time to speak out If
any one thinks monument should be
built, relief fund started or any
other old thing, write it to the newspa-
pers, to the committee. to Captain
Gregg, to Mayor Collins, or, if it is
preferred, tell 1t to a policeman-it will
all be duly recorded in the big book
Unlike most cities in the state, Great
Falls was enabled to entertain her SOL
diers and those of Kalispell and Lew
istown and have surplus left. This
was due, first, to the magnanimous ac-
ton of Butte In paying the fares Of the
Montana regiment from San Francisco
to that city, and, secondly, to the do
mating of provisions and services to
the committee by hundreds of Great
Falls citizens, more especially the la
dies. Now the committee, having
$l,O37.S9 on hand, wishes the citizens
Of Great Falls to suggest what shall be
done with it.
Captain Gregg wants a monument, 80
feet high, placed at the end of Central
avenue, mounting a soldier in bronze
over the cannon which was given to
the veterans some years ago; so do
some OF the other members of the COM
mittee, but they do not feel like going
ahead without receiving suggestions
from the people who donated the money
in the first place. So let every one
take pen in hand and let the COM
mittee hear from him
|, The committee reports S2,343.l5 col
lected and 81, 24526 expended, leaving
a nf ND in, r1n It's.
report, says 1T is desired, in the
first place, by the committee that the
balance as shown above be used where
necessary for the care and assistance
of any of the returned volunteers who
may need it because of sickness or
lack of employment. and the commit
tee Will request that the friends of any
soldiers notify the committee of any
such need. But, allowing for the needs
of such assistance, the committee ex-
poets to still find itself in possession
| of a considerable surplus, and it is sug-
gested that the balance be turned into
a monument fund with the under
standing that suitable monument be
erected somewhere on Central avenue.
provided a suitable site can be OBJ
tanned. 1t will not only do honor to the
dead soldiers of the present war, but to
the blue and gray of the civil war as
we'll A committee which formerly I'M
aertCok the erection or Such monu-
ment has now in hand nearly $400, and
it has been suggested that this be COM
bined with the reception balance for
the erection of monument that will
be a credit to our CITY,, and that the
two committees obtain estimates and
designs for the same at an early date.
tOf the balance shown above, SAT-. so
was in the form Of subscriptions from
business men of the city, and, in ac-
cordance with the above suggestion,
your committee desires that those who
have not yet expressed a desire re-
garding their proportion of such sur
plus do so Immediately to the secretary,
that all money remaining in the hands
of the committee not otherwise dis
posed of by such instructions may be
deposited to the credit of the monu-
ment fund and work on the same not
be unnecessarily delayed"