The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-11
SOLDIERS MONUMENT
Red Cross Society Will Assist the
Movement.
LAID BEFORE GOVERNOR
EXECUTIVE WILL PROBABLY
CALL A MEETING.
1t Is Proposed to Raise a Fund of
$4,000 and Erect the Monument
In One of the Public Squares
Movement Started By the G. A.
r. Ladies.

The question of who will take the
the Utah volunteers who gave up their
lives in the late Spanish-American war
is still an open one. To the women Of
the q. A. r. posts, and especially to
Mrs Nettie Palmer, secretary of the
Maxwell Relief corps, is due the credit
for starting the idea and for providing
resting place for the remains of the
hrst Utah volunteer whose body was
returned from the Philippines.
1t was when the question arose as to
where Morley Hassard should be bur-
led, and 1t was discovered that no pro
vision had been made for young vol
unteers, that the women of the G. A
r. decided that the heroes of this war
who had sacrificed their lives Cor their
country should be cared for as tender
ly as were the old veterans. their faith
ers and husbands.
Through the efforts of Mrs Palmer
and the generosity of the nagement
OF Mount Olivet cemetery, four lots
were secured, where the body of the
young man was laid away.
To continue their work for the young
volunteers, the women proposed to
erect a monument on the ground that
had been donated, and here the t-Ou-
BILE began
There are those who feel that they
would like to bury their dead in The
city cemetery, when any arrangement
can be made for the return of the
bodies. To these the promoters of the
monument plan sent word that if the
city cemetery would donate a piece of
ground, ii would be entirely agreeable
and the monument might be placed in
some suitable place outside of either
cemetery.
This plan was endorsed by the great
er number of-interested women, outside
of the G. A. r., and members of the
Red Cross society, who feel that to
this organization belongs the duty of
placing a memorial of some kind to the
desire to go into the matter with the
@. A. R. women.
Governor Wells, as honorary presi-
dent of the Red Cross, has been asked
to look into the matter, and it is prob
able that within a few days he will
call meeting of the society, when the
plan advanced by the G.. A. r. women
will be discussed.
Mrs. W. w. Ritter, president of the
Red Cross, is out of the city, and in
her absence the matter was presented
TO the governor by Mrs. Sol Siegel. who
is vice president of the organization
Mrs. Palmer, who is chairman of the
temporary organization that was St-
fected to get the work started, feels
that an impetus would be given the
matter if a greater number of people
or state organization like the Red
Cross society would take it up. These
sentiments are shared by a good many
of the most prominent G.. A. r. women
of the city. among them Mrs. H. Z.
Melton.
A plan by which $1,000 or $4,000
could be raised for the erection Of a
monument in some central location
(such as a city square,, and a fund in
addition with which the cemetery
ground that has already been donated
for the purpose can be cared Tor,
seems to be the popular one.
The idea of placing the monument
which it is expected will be an object
lesson to future generations in a burial
ground, is not a popular one. But"
as prominent representative of The
movement remarked yesterday, ''let us
get the money together first and not
quarrel over where we will place the
monument until we know that we are
to have one"