Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-13
CUMMINGS MEMORIAL
REPORT OF COMMITTEES SUBMIT
TED TO CONVENTION.
Proposed Monument Of Granite to Be
Placed in Grounds Of Printers
Home In Denver.

The following report on the Amos Cum
mings memorial was submitted to the con-
vention at today's session, signed by Messrs.
Marsden G. Scott, Alfred D. Calvert, Jo-
seph Johnson, Arthur G. Davis and Fred
H. Brown, the Cummings memorial COM
mittee:
To the Officers and Members of the Inter-
national Typographical Union:
Ladies' and Gentlemen: Pursuant to the
resolution presented by Delegate Herbert
of Columbia Typographical Union, No. 1O1.
and adopted by the Cincinnati convention.
your committee, appointed to devise ways
and means to commemorate the birthday of
our late brother. Amos ]. Cummings, met
in the Typographical Temple in Washing
ton, D. c., January Is and 16, 1903.
After carefully considering the different
propositions that had been advanced by
friends Of Mr.. Cummings the committee
finally decided to recommend the following:
First. That there be placed on the grounds
Springs an appropriate monument of Colo
RADIO granite. with tablet of marble or
bronze bearing a suitable Inscription.
Second. That each subordinate union Sc
lect a committee to interest the members in
the undertaking and to assist in raising the
necessary funds by voluntary contributions.
An anniversary observance, as suggested
in the original resolution. might, after
few years, become neglected; the memorial
we propose will endure for centuries. To
have placed the memorial in Washington
or New York would have been equivalent
to dropping a grain of sand into the sea-
Amos J. Cummings was a union printer,
and we believe that Of all locations he
would have chosen the site we have Sc
lected-the Union Printers Home-for a
memorial to a union printer, to be erected
by union printers.
The members Of your committee were
unanimous and emphatic in the opinion
that all contributions to this fund should
be purely voluntary, and a circular COW
to all subordinate unions early in March,
urging the appointment of local commit
tees to assist in raising the necessary
funds
sued by the memorial committee several
subordinate unions adopted recommended
lions In favor of the memorial taking
different form, as the following letters will
show:
Scranton Typographical Union, No. 112
Scranton Pa, June IT, 1903.
Chairman of Cummings Memorial Commit
Dear Sir and Brother: At the meet,np of
Typographical Union 112. held June IL, the
secretary was ordered to notify you that
this union fndorses the suggestion made by
Denver Typographical Union 40 that the
memorial take the shape of a building or
memorial hall rather than a boulder of
granite. Respectfully yours.
g: L. NEWBOLD. secy. Pro Tenn.
New Orleans Typographical Union, No. IT.
New Orleans, La, June 49, 1903.
Mr.. Alfred D. Calvert.
Dear Sir and Brother: In reply to yours
OF May II will state that your letter in
quiring about the Amos J. Cummings me-
mortal was referred to the relief committee
who submitted the following resolution by
Mr.. Askem which was unanimously adopt-
ed at special meeting Of No. II, held on
the Goth instant:
That New Orleans Union, No. II. is in
favor of a change in the plans advocated
by the Amos J. Cummings memorial COM
| mlttee, so FAR as the Placing of huge
boulder of Colorado granite in the grounds
at the home is concerned and that this
| union ask said committee and the interna-
tional convention to consider and favor the
following:
THAT the amount of s24. 900 Cs12 900 the
memorial committee estimates 1t can raise
and $12, 600 from the home fund.- be used as
nucleus for the erection of a sanitarium in
the benefit of such printers as cannot be
properly cared for at the home at Colorado
Springs. owing to climatic conditions. same
TO be known as the Amos j. Cummings
Memorial Sanitarium.'
That this union instruct it's delegates to
advocate and vote for this proposition on
the floor of the convention"
Fraternally yours,
s. T. STEVENSON. Secretary
(The protests mentioned in the foregoing
communications have not been received by
the committee)
The ACCESSIBILITY Of recommending the
erection of a memorial library at the home
was considered by your committee at its
meeting in Washington. The members of
| your committee are of the opinion that II
is extremely doubtful If the necessary funds
Tor such a memorial could be raised by
voluntary contributions. In addition to the
original cost. the question of maintenance
must be taken into consideration The mem
Ders OF your committee are informed that
the present revenues for the maintenanca
or the home will scarcely permit additional
expenditures and we are unanimously of
the opinion that 1t would be extremely un-
wise at the present time to place a perma-
nent burden upon the membership small
though it be. for the purpose of erecting
and maintaining library or a sanitarium
as suggested by New Orleans Typograph-
ical Union.
IT, however. it is the Judgment of the
convention That the memorial recommended
by the committee should be disapproyed.
and library building erected at Colorado
springs or sanitarium elsewhere, the
convention will. Of course. make provision
for raising the necessary funds.
The design submitted herewith is from
plans prepared by Douglass & Hetherington
of Colorado Springs. who have also SUBJ
mitted the following estimates:
The Denver Marble and Granite Company
all OF silver plume gray granite. 5000;
Platte Canon red granite, 50. S37; Fraser &
Richardson. with inscription boulder of
Platte Canon red balance silver plume
gray. $6.837. Bronze inscription plate viii
cost about $500.
The architects estimate cost of grading.
trees. lawns. architects fees and other in
cidental expenses at 1.450. The design can
be cut down or raised in cost to suit amount
intended to be expended, which would not
be more than $12.0O0 and might be less than
SIC, 600.
In conclusion, your committee recon-
mends that all subordinate unions endeayor
to raise the necessary funds for this me-
mortal by voluntary contributions or by an
preparations from the local treasury In,
New York the proceeds of the annual re-
ception were devoted to this fund, and net
ted more than 81 800. This method of rails
ing the necessary funds might be success
fully adopted by other subordinate unions.
A statement is added showing contribu-
tons which have been made by subordi-
nate unions amounting to s., SEQ. H. all of
which. with the exception of two amounts
of $500 and $3.50. which have been pledged,
have been forwarded to Secretary Treas
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