The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-10
OFFERED A CHOICE
TWO SITES ALLOWED VETERANS
FOR THE MONUMENTS.
CHIPPEWA SQUARE FAVORED.
CAPT. DILLON THINKS THEY MAY
BE PLACED THERE.

Meeting of the Park and Tree Com
mission, the Council Committee
and the Confederate veterans SUB
Committee Held Yesterday to Con-
slider the Question of Location of
the Memorial Busts to Gen. Me-
Laws and Gen. BnrtOw-It Was
Agreed That the Veterans Might
Choose Between Chippewa Square
and the Intersection of Bull Street
and OgIethOrpe Avenue-ZOlnay
Once Thought Well of the Latter
Location.
The Confederate Veterans have been
offered their choice between two loca-
lions for the memorial busts to Gen.
Lafayette McLaws and Gen. Francis S.
Barlow that are awaiting erection
somewhere in Savannah. The locations
are Chippewa Square and the intersec-
ton of Bull street and Oglethorpe ave-
nue..
A meeting of the Park and Tree Com
mission, the Monument Committee
from the City Council and the sub
committee from the Monument Com
mlttee of the veterans was held yester-
day at the City Exchange. when the
question of the location of the memoir
ials was considered. At the meeting
were Chairman Daffln, Messrs. George
]. Baldwin, 1. A. Solomons, c. S. Ellis,
and ]. II. H. Entelman of the Park and
Tree Commission, Aldermen Bacon,
nd nd oh
Dillon and Capt. c. L. Chestnut.
The meeting was perfectly amicable,
and the representatives of the Veter
ans, Capt. Dillon and Capt. Chestnut
had nothing to say that indicated that
| they had the least feeling toward the
City Council because of the with
drawal of the permission that had been
! granted for the establishment of the
monuments at the Bull street entrance
to Forsyth Park The discussion.
hinged altogether upon the selection of
| some other location, and finally it was
agreed to allow the Veterans Monu-
ment ComInittee to choose between
Chippewa Square and the intersection
of Bull street and Oglethorpe avenue.
1t is probable that the choice of the
Veterans will be Chippewa Square.
Capt. Dillon inclined to that view,
though it is a matter for the general
committee to determine He believes,
personally, that it is the more advant-
! ageous location, but the ma jority may
elect to have them placed at Bull street
and Oglethorpe averAle.
when Zolnay. the sculptor who de-
signed the busts was here several
years ago." said Capt. Dillon, che him
self named the intersection of Bull
! street and Oglethorpe avenue as best
suited for the establishment of the
monuments one on either side of Bull
street, in the center of the avenue
The objection al that time, however,
was that the avenue was not paved,
and the fire engines We're accustomed
to run full tilt down the middle of the
| grass plots, as a firmer roadway was
| afforded there than could be found in
the sand to either side. Manifestly it
would not then have been advisable to
put the monuments there. The paying
of the street has removed this objec-
! tion and it may be that the committee
VIII decide upon that as the location
II the monuments are established in
Chippewa Square one will be to the
east and the other to the west of the
| fountain. East and West of the foun-
tain, just beyond the curbline of Bull
street, there is a small triangular grass
plot and it is proposed to place a
! monument in the middle of each of
these. The location is conspicuous.
| At an early meeting of the Monu-
ment Committee of the Veterans the
report of the subcommittee will be
submitted, and a decision as to the
! location will then be reached.