The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-22
WAR MEMORIAL DEDICATED.

Simple But Impressive Ceremonies al Presentation of Cheney-Ives Gate-
 way.
 The dedication of the Ives Cheney
 memorial gateway between Osborn
 hall and Welch hall on College street took place at 9;3O o'clock yesterday
 morning. Several hundred ladies and gentlemen were present. The exercises
 were simple, but very impressive. As Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, of Hartford,
 formally opened the exercises all the
 men who stood around barred their
 heads.
 Rev. MT. Twichell introduced Harry J. Fisher, of New York, Yale '96, who was a classmate of the two young men
 In whose memory the gateway was
 erected by the class of '96. Mir. Fisher
 was one of the committee who arrang- ed for the erection of the gateway. Mr. Fisher said that he represented the
 class of 96 in presenting the gateway as memorial to Ward Cheney and
 Gerard M Ives who died in service during the Spanish American war He further said that its stone and iron l typify the courage and manhood of those in whose honor it has been erect ed. The Yale men of to-day and those who shall follow were not to look upon | it as monument, but rather as a sym bol of perpetual manhood and cour
 age.
 The next speaker was President Had ley. He said:
 "Of all the memorials which are of- fered to a university by the gratitude
 nf la ,tai, so closely and fully the purposes of her life as those monuments which com memorate her dead heroes. The most important part of the teaching of a place like Yale is found in her lessons of public spirit and devotion to high ideals which it gives. These things can in some measure be learned from books of poetry and history. They can in some measure be learned from the daily life of the college and the ideals which it inculcates. But they are most solemnly and vividly brought home by visible signs such as this gateway fur nishes that the spirit of ancient hero ism is not dead, and that the highest 1 lessons of college life are not lost
 Tt seems as if your best and bravest
  been sacrificed to the cruel exigencies of war. And they are not sacrificed. It is through their death that their spirit remains immortal.
 That rivers bow into the sea
 Is loss and waste, the foolish say; Nor know that back they find their Unseen, from whence they wont to be. Showers fall upon the earth springs flow
 The river runneth close at hand;
 Brave men are born into the land, And whence the foolish do not know.
 Tt is through men like these whom we have loved, and whom we here commemorate, that the life of the re- public is kept alive. As we have learn ed lessons of neroism from the men who went for4h to die in the civil war so will our children and our children's children learn the same lesson from the heroes who have little whne liv- ed with us, and now enter into an i'm mortality of glcry."
 The memorial gateway Is a very handsome one. Two monstrous brown stone posts support the iron fence work which is prettily designed and bear overhead the year 1s96 On each of the stone posts is set in bronze tablet, one of which says: ITO Gerard M Ives, Private K. Troop, First U. s. V. Cav airy, Died in the Service, New York, August g. MDCCCXCXIII Erected by the Class of 1S9e.' The other tablet says; ''To Ward Cheney, First Lieu tenant, Fourth Infantry, II. s. A., Died of Wounds Received in Action, linus, Luzon, P l., January :, MDCCC; Erect ed by the Class of 1896."
 Gerard Merrick Ives volunteered In Troop K of the Rough Riders when the war with Spain broke out, thinking that they would be more likely to see active service, since he was a member of Squadron A, New York cavalry, at the time He was appointed lance cor poral July 23, but shortly afterward | was stricken with typhoid fever He obtained a furlough and started for home, unattended, August 4, 1898 He arrived in, New York completely ex- hausted and died at his home on Au- gust 9.
 Ward Cheney was a son of Colonel Cheney, of South Manchester For a year after his graduation he studied in Germany and on his return he went to work on the Courant staff at Hartford, When the war broke out he enlisted in Company G, First regiment, Connecti- cut Volunteers He was appointed second lieutenant by President McKin ley in the regular army June, 1898. He soon was made a first lieutenant and went to Fort McPherson, serving in the Fourth United States infantry. He was taken i'll early in August and was sent to Fort Sheridan. He recovered and sailed with the regiment for Ma nila in early winter For gallantry in action In the battle near linus in 1899 he was recommended for brevet by Major Bubb, commanding the battalion If the Fourth regiment. At the time he was shot he was acting captain of Company H, Fourth regiment. U. s. A.