Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-23

Many visitors have expressed their
depreciation of this selection, and all
agree that more fitting place for the
final repose of the presidents remains
i could not be selected.
4 After the corporation has effected its
i organization steps will be taken to pro-
4 cure subscriptions with a view to the
n speedy erection Of the monument.
While the committee have taken up
on themselves the formal steps cf the
Incorporation of an association under
the laws of Ohio, the association, when
formed. Will be in no sense local in its
character, but will be made thoroughly
4 national in its Management and control =
Judge Day said to the representative
of the Associated Press that Senator
Hanna and Col. Myron T.. .Herrick, of
Cleveland, favor the plan.
From many states messages are being
| received promising assistance. School
children seem to be particularly enthu-
i siastic, and it may be that from their
contributions enough will be raised to
/ pay for the shaft, but this will not be
depended upon. There viii be large
appropriation by congress, and for that
purpose bill is already being pre-
pared. which will probably be intro
duced by Syreno 3. Payne, chairman of
the ways and means committee.
The first contribution to the monu-
sment fund was made by the public
schoolstof Sherman, Tex. The first COM
ltributlon by citizen came from John
EC Deuber, of'this city, who has pledged
| 81 900 and who has indicated his inten-
ton OF giving further. Speaker Hen
i derson, Mr.. Payne Gen, Gi'osvenor and
| Representative Daizell spent an hour
in Westlawn cemetery while here se-
lecting site for the proposed n1onu-
ment. They came to no definite ICON
clusion, but viii make SOM. recommen-
dations to the Mckinley Monument As
ISOLATION, which is now formed and of
| which Judge Day, a long personal friend
of President Mckinley. will be press
dent. The men who Went over the
ground are of the opinion that the mon
Eument should be erected In the part of
|sWestlawn which is directly north from
the present one containing the McKin-
ley burial plot.
| The Mckinley burial plot Is at the
crest OF knoll, the highest spot in the
old cemetery. 1t faces the main drive
lway and is sprettily shaded by great
oak trees. Fronting to the north and
east lisa bed Of living plants into which
has been worked Mckinley" The
| tombstones that have been erected there
mark the tragedies of th, presidents
| life. In that plot are buried his father
and his mother, brother and sister.
| There, too, lie buried the tlabes, sorrow
because of whose death first caused
4 Mrs. McKinley's break in health
which has reduced her finally to her
present pitiable state. Marking the
graves of William Mckinley. the elder
and of his wife, President McIllnley's
mother, are marble shafts of consider
4 able size Small granite ooelisks stand
Fat the head of the graves of the chill
dren.
An the first is inscribed: ida Nc
i Kinley, Daughter of William and Ida,
Died August 49, 1878. Aged Four
| Months, Twenty-Five Days
1 On the second obelisk: Katie McKin-
LEY. Daughter of William and Ida, Died
June Is, Aged Three Years, Six
1 Months
on still another tombstone is marked:
Annie Mckinley
On another: James Mckinley
i
the president. The shafts for his father
and mother are simply inscribed thus:
/ civilian McKinley-1S07-l IN. "A.
[ Mckinley, 1s09-1S97."
\ Simplicity, it will be seer, is the char
| acteristic of all these Inscriptions, and
this line will doubtless be followed on
the presidents monument.
Chicago, Sept. 23.-At a meeting OF
the committee held Saturday the fol-
n low resolution was adopted:
Whereas. In pursuance Of action TAX
| en- a meeting of citizens of Chicago, held
II at the Union League club on the 18th
inst, committee was appointed to de-
termine the ACCESSIBILITY of inaugural
ing a movement for the collection OF
funds to erect memorial arch, or Other
suitable memorial, in the city of Wash
ineton, In honor of our late president
William Mckinley; and
Whereas, This committee has, thru 1T:
chairman, had conference in relation
to such proposed memorial with some o
the close personal friends of our lat,
president, including Judge VIM. r. Day
senator Mark Hanna, Judge VIM
q LYNCH Hon. Abner Mckinley. Hon. My
IRON #. Herrick, and Hon. Charles G
Dawes, and has thus learned that 1t i
the desire and Intention Of these friend
to inaugurate movement which It \
d hoped by them will be national in IT
scope, for the erection az a suitable
monument in Canton, o.
Therefore, 1t is the judgment OF thi
committee that no steps should be TAX
| en- which might in any wise condic
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