The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-24
WALLINGFORD WAR HEROES
THE BEAUTIFUL SOLDIERS AND
 SAILORS MONUMENT,

The Dedication Of Which is Soon to Oceur-GraBd Event in the Town's Htstory-TO be Erected by Arthur H. DuttOn Post and she People or wai- Iingford.
 All Wallingford is looking forward with great interest and expectation to the coming dedication of the beautiful soldiers monument which the town is to erect to the memory of it's soldier and sailor heroes. which notable erect will take place next month. New Haven has a rirect interest as well as general interest in the event, as the dedication will be under the auspices of Arthur H. Dutton Post of Wallingford, which or ganization is named in honor of the la mented Arthur H. Dutton, a brave and cultured young officer of great promise, who lost his life in the civil war while gallantly serving his country and who was a son of the late ex-Governor Dut- ton of New Haven. There is also fur ther local interest attaching to the event, as the monument is being turned out by the New Haven firm of Thomas Phillips & Son, they having been awar- ded the contract over all competitors by the Wallingford committee appointed to make the award, viz, Messrs. c. A. Harrison, the attorney, William H. Newton and Captain William M. Mix, prominent Wallingford men. The mon- ument will stand upon a most slightly and beautiful location on a triangular | park on Main street, fronting the en- | trance to Wallingfords beautiful In Memorium cemetery. This little park | has been appropriately named Dutton 1 Park in further honor of the late Lieu tenant Dutton. This location com manded a wide view of diversified and 1 beautiful landscape, including the ad- 1 jacent hills, Community Lake, the Ma sonic Home, etc. The monuments bot tom base will be seven feet six inches square and will stand twenty feet high. l Above this is a second and a third base. The third base is octagonal, each side of the base being handsomely utilized to denote something symbolical pertaining to the commemorative object of the monument. The figures 1S61-1S65 the years of the great civil war, appear on each of four of the sides, the wreaths symbolizing victory and representing oak and laurel. Of the remaining four spaces on the octagon block three are devoted to inscriptions of the names of twelve battles in which Wallingford men won glory, each of these spaces l bearing the names of four battles. On the other is the dedicatory inscription. On the front of the polished die of the monument will be carved in bas relief the figure of an eagle to signify free- dom.
 l The whole monument is of the finest | blue Westerly granite and it is sur mounted by statue in granite of fine design representing a Union soldier at | parade rest. The monument will stand upon grassy terrace on the center of 1 the triangular little park and just be- low on the lawn will be an old historic cannon of the civil war ten feet in length and also triangular pile of can- non balls. No more worthy design or beautiful memorial for town of its size has been devised, according to capable judges, and the monument will be an honor to the patriotism of Wallingford and Wortflily commemorate her soldier and sailor dead, who fought for their country.
 The names of the battles in the re- spective spaces on the stone are:
 NEWBERNE FORT FISHER CHANCELLORSVILL
 PETERSBURG l ATLANTA
 NEW ORLEANS PORT HUDSON
 APPOMATOX
 ANTIETAM.
 GETTYSBURG
 MORRIS ISLAND
 The dedication inscription reads as follows:
 ERECTED BY
 ARTHUR H. BUTTON POST No. 36 c. A. R.
 AND THE PEOPLE OF wALLINGFORD TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN WHO DIED THAT THEIR COUNTRY MIGHT LIVE. WALLINGFORD. yec+erday's recorded real estate