The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-31
is WITH COMMISSION
QUESTION OF SITES FOR MONU-
MENTS Is ITS FIGHT.
so A VETERAN DECLARES.
VETERANS NOT DISPOSED TO TAKE
A HAND AT PRESENT.

A Member of the Veterans Commit
tee on Monuments Says That Every
PrOviso of the Ordinance, Grant
Monuments to Gen. Barlow and
Gen. McLavs, Has Been Met-Sites
Selected by Park and Tree Com
nlfssiOn-A Veteran VIII To-day
Seek a Pacific Adjustment with
the characterization of Park and
Tree Commissions Jurisdiction Is
Raised.
IT consider the question of the Local
ton of the monuments to Gen. Fran
els S. Barlow and Gen. Lafayette Nc
Laws is one for the Park and Tree
Commission to settle with the City
Council. if the latter body, now that
the Mayor has seen fit to take up the
matter, shows any tendency toward
a demand that the locations upon
which the foundations have been es-
tablished be changed"
The speaker was a Confederate vet
eran, a member of the Monuments
AbAAlAllllCGs dl4Q OliC WIZ hoS ldhCA a
very active part in the ARRANGEMENTS
that have been progressing for many
months. He considers that every pro-
vision of the ordinance passed by the
City Council, granting the right to
establish the monuments at the Bull
and CASTOR street entrance to Forsyth
Park, has been met.
The ordinance provided that the Park
and Tree Commission should approve
the sites chosen. This approval was
secured. That was the only provIso
hedging the grant of the right to es-
tablish the monuments at the north
end of the park, and it is held that
it is for the Park and Tree Commits
sion to fight any change that may be
decided upon by the City Council.
II do not question the right of the
City Council" said the veteran, ito
amend any ordinance that it may have
passed, but l do think that it should
consider such a question as this very
carefully. 1t set forth that the Park
and Tree Commission should approve
the sites. The commission, or three
members of it-Capt. Ellis. Mr.. Theus
and Mr.. Entelman, chose the locations,
ASNA4AAS mat lllG nAOnuiHGiilS HIlOulu
be placed upon the intersections of the
straight line continued from the Sa-
vannah Hospital fence with the pro-
1ections of the central lines of the
Bull street sidewalks.
Chairman Datfin of the Park and
Tree Commission was not in the city
at the time of the adoption of these
sites. The matter received the atten-
ton of the other members
of the commission. think
it is the commissions place to COM
bat any change that the Mayor may
contemplate"
was seen. Ee said that it is his pur-
pose to visit the Mayor to-day to see
II some amicable adjustment of the
matter may not be reached. This vet
eran is confident that there has been
anything rather thsn bad taste or poor
judgment displayed in the selection of
the locations, and he said that. II it
should come to that, in the argument
of the matter before Council the COM
mittee would request that those gen
tlemen appear, who have questioned
the wisdom of the sites
The monuments" said the veteran
are not TO be distractions in any
sense of the word, nor are they to de-
stroy the visuas of the park. 1t is true
they are in the center of the walks,
but if they were placed just ten feet
further south, they would be in the
way. AS it is. they will stand where
plenty of room will be afforded on all
sides to walk around them. They will
have bases six feet square but the
column will narrow just a short dis
uance above the ground"
The Confederate Veterans do not
consider that the matter is yet any
fight of theirs. For this reason they
are averse to having their names APP
pear in the interviews they give.
Should it be necessary, however, they
say they will take up the monument
question and insist upon the locations
remaining as they were chosen.
Mayor Myers makes the point that
the Park and Tree Commissions au-
thority to approve the locations chos-
en- is questionable. The locations are
without the lines of the park, being
on the sidewalks and. therefore re-
moved from the jurisdiction of the
commission. He holds, therefore, as
sidewalks will be INSTRUCTED if the
monuments are erected there, that il
Is the place of Council to see that
they are placed in more suitable spots.