The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
GEN, DWIGHT AT UNWILLING TO PRESIDE AT MCCLELLAN
 STATUE EXERCISES.

Two Interesting Public Functions in
 the State Memorial Day-DedicntiOu
 of Soldiers Monument in Water
 town, the Birthplace of the Late
 Governor Morris of New Haven.
 Hartford, April 2S.-Genersu Henry c. Dwight of Hartford, will preside at the unyeiling of the Mcclellan statue in Washington, D. C.. Thursday of this week. The event taking place under the auspices of the Society of the Army of the Potomac of which General Dwight is president. There will be ad- dresses at the unveiling by President Roosevelt, Major General Daniel D. Sickles, o. o. Howard and Grenville M. Dodge. General Dwight who will pre- side at the ceremonies, is one of the best known veterans of the Civil war in Connecticut. His service in the field was conspicuous, entitling him to high honors. He was a member of the TWenty-seyenth Massachusetts, but came to Connecticut from Norrhamp- ton after the war was finished and has since been a resident of Connecticut. He was 8 member of Governor Henry B. Harrison's staff and was held in lifelong esteem by that ideal chief ex- ecutive General Dwight has been mayor of the city of Hartford, serving the municipality with noted success. The honor that will fall to his lot this week in presiding at the unveiling of the Mcclellan statue in the national capital has been earned by life of patriotic service.
 There will be two interesting public functions to be observed in the state on Memorial Day. May 30. One of them will be the dedication of sold- iers' monument in Watertown, the birthplace of Governor Luzon B, Nor ris, also a noble type of the New Ha- ven list of governors. The monument at Watertown will be a worthy mem orial of the men from that place who served in the war for the Union. The inscription has been written by the Rev. Dr. ]. c. Davenport of Water bury. The second of these functions will be the dedication of the Atwater memorial in Terryville, being in hon or of Dorence Atwater, who preserved the death register of the Union prison CTS of war in Andersonville. The mem orial consists of a heavy artillery gun, suitably mounted and an imposing cluster of cannon balls. The site for the gun is on the public common in the village, comprising some of the finest scenery in the town of Plymouth. Dorence Atwater is the brother of Senator Francis Atwater of Meriden, and spends most of his time on the Is- land of Tahati in the Pacific. He has been United States consul and is con- nected with the regning family on the island The service that Dorence Att water rendered the country in preserv- ing the death rolls at Andersonville cannot be overestimated. The tribute that will be paid to him as public benefactor at the dedication of the memorial will be shared in by Clara Barton, who supervised the erection of the 1400O headstones that point out the burial places of the dead at Anderson vile, using the register for that pur- pose, which Dorence Atwater had pre- served.
 The pioneer of electrotyping in New England, William H. Lockwood, of Hartford, will celebrate the fftieth an- niversary of the Introduction of the art here May 1, He acquired the business in New York where only two electro- typing concerns had been established in the United States, one of them be- ing cnnected with the publishing house of Harper Brothers. He started out fifty years ago on Wednesday of this week under the auspices of Newton Case and James Lockwood, founders of the printing house of Case, Lock wood & Brainard, and is the owner of the largest electrotypng plant in the state. He had an Oriental pupil in the days of the Chinese Educational Com mission here in the person of Kwong Ki Chiu, who acquired the art under Captain Lockwood's instruction. This pupil was of high rank in China and a man of broad education. He was the author of a series of Anglo-Chinese works, which was electrotyped here. Captain Lockwood was in the Civil war and made conspicuous record for bravery in the field,
 The bill for the establishment of trade schools in the state has been made the order of the day for Thurs day of this week. The bill has been re- ported favorably by the committee on education of which Senator Luther of the first district is chairman. Two members of the committee, Representa- tive Luther K. Zabriskia of Preston, and Hobart E, Francis of Durham, re- ported against the bill, dissenting from the majority. But there is no minority report in form that can be taken up in the order of the day. MT. Zabriskie is the clerk of the committee. The house chairman of the committee, Rep resentative Charles H. Tibbits of Wal | lingford, is in favor of the bill and will support Senator Luther in every stage of the contest. MT. Tibbits is a grad uate of Trinity, of which Senator Lu- ther is the president. The report fa- voring trade schools in the state was made to the general assembly two years ago by a commission consisting of ex-Congressman Lewis Sperry of Hartford Isaac Strauss of New Ha- ven, and the Hon. J. H. Whittamore of Naugatuck, During the two years that the report has been in the hands of the state there has been a growing con- viction that trade schools have an i'm portant end to serve in Connecticut The debate on the subject Thursday will be one of the best that the sen ate has listened to this session. The labor unions in the state have in gen eral been opposed to the bill and their views were presented at the committed hearings.
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