The evening times., 1900-06-14
MAINE MEMS MEMORIAL
A Great Anchor and TIVE Spanish
Guns Over Their Graves.
One of the Most Interesting Tributes
i'm the Great Cemetery mt ArlinE-
fug Piuce of Lavfon, But Inn
posing One soon to BE Prepared

Many interesting features have been
added to Arlington. the city of the nations
soldier dead. as result of the war with
Spain and the subsequent military opera
tions. The great cemetery has become
more than ever the objective point Of the
pilgrims who Wait the Capital. and not a
day passes. unless the weather be unusu-
ally clement, that does not see a host Of
barred heads and solemn faces at the grave
of General Lawton or the mounds that
cover the men Of the Inflated Maine.
With all it's remarkable monuments in
stone and tributes in bronze, Arlington
contains nothing more striking than the
memorial that has just been erected over
the bones of the battleship Names men.
1t is a huge. old fashioned anchor. prob
ably made n century ago and recovered
from the deep sea near Boston Harbor.
This relic OF the sea is roughly welded out
of iron. with an immense wooden cross
bar. and as 1t reposes above Captain Sigs-
bees brave fellows rears itself ten feet in
the air. II rests on a spacious concrete
base, raising it from the level Of the hun
dreds of mounds. and can he seen from the
Potomac outlined against the sunset sky.
In the centre OF the cross a large bronze
tablet he's been riyeted, bearing the fol-
lowing inscription:
l. 5 S. MAINE
BLOWN Up
FEBRUARY FIFTEENTH,
IsQS
HERE LIZ THE REMAINS OF ONE HUNDRED
AND SN-I-THREE MEN OF THE NAMES
CREW. BROUGHT FROM HAVANA. CUBA. RE
INFERRED AT ARLINGTON DECEMBER TWEN-
TY-EIGHTH 1893.
Very APP ropriately. the huge anchor,
with its eloquent Inscription. is fanked on
either side by a ponderous-looking Span
ish mortar of antique bronze. and showing
the signs of great age. The mortars are
mounted on low piers OF masonry. and.
though either would be imposing by itself.
they appear diminutiye in comparison
with the giant anchor.
The piece on the right bears the follow
ing inscriptions:
NO 55l-SEyiLLA q DE JUNO DE lSOI
BTonces Yitios 6e S0lano Y Wore J Abet.
NCra Clio. p. o. 2725
The inscriptions on the mortar which
guards the left Of the anchor are:
NO. GI7s-SEvILLA 90 DE FEBRERo DE 1904
Cobe de Mexico. Sanz P. q. 2s25.
Eeach of the mcrtars has the Spanish coat
of-arms engraved on the barrel underneath
which are the Roman numerals ".
General Lawton's grave is not yet beau
titled with monument, although II is uE-
derstoOd that an imposing one is in course
OF preparation. At the head of the mound
there waves the flag for which he died in
the Philippines, and entwined about the
stan are the wreaths OF native everlasting
/ flowers which were plucked by his men
and sent with the body from Manila. These
tributes to the brave soldier are as fresh
as the day they left the Far East. and have
outIiyed tons Of more beautiful blossoms
that have been laid upon the grave by be-
Teaved friends and sincere admirers So
eager are the thousands who go to Arling-
ton for an opportunity to gaze upon the
spot where LawtCn lies that the lawn
about his resting place. when is within the
shadow Of the great amphitheatre OF the
dead has been worn almost 50 a pathway.