New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-04-17
MEMORY OF ROUGH
RIDERS HONORED
MONUMENT AT ARLINGTON Ma
TloNAL CEMETERY IS UN-
YELLED.
Address by Observation-Disclosures
Persons on the Speakers Stand
Handsome Monolith Is the Design
of Capt. capron's Widow.


Roosevelt made a speech in which he
touched mainly on patriotism and
| good citizenship, at the dedication
Friday of the monument erected to
the memory of the first cavalry Unit
ed States Volunteers-the Rough
Riders'-of the Spanish-American
war in the National cemetery at Ar
lington.
Mrs. Allyn K. Capron, widow of
Capt. Capron of the Rough Riders,
who fell at Las Guasimas, pulled the
cord holding the American flag that
covered the monument, Rev. DR.. D. J.
/ Stafford of st. Patrick's church. this
! city, made the dedication address,
and Chaplain H. A. Brown, U. S. A.,
pronounced the benediction.
Regular troops and part of the ma
tional guard of the District of CO.
lumbia participated in the exercises
incident to the dedication.
Notabies on the Stand.
: A distinguished company assembled
on the stand from which the presl-
dent delivered his address. They in
cluded Ambassador Jusserand OF
France, Baron Rosen, the Russian
ambassador, the naval and military
attaches of the Japanese and German
embassies, Assistant Secretary Oliver
of the war department, Assistant Sec
rotary Newberry of the navy depart
ment, Gen. J. Franklin Bell, chief Of
staff of the army, and Admiral anc
Mrs. Cowles A number of former
members of the Rough Riders regi
ment are in the city and were invited
to seats on the stand.
The monument is the design o
Mrs. Capron and stands in good 10
, cation in the reservation. 1t is
. monolith, the largest of it's kind il
> Arlington. It is made of Vernon
granite, standing IA feet high on
base six by six feet The memoria
bears the names of more than 10
! former members Of the regiment VIII
died either in Cuba or after the re
turn of the regiment to the Unite
States.
Address Of the President.
President Roosevelt was the colone
of the Rough Riders during most c
II it's existence and he spoke with
H personal feeling. He referred to tn
u peculiar qualification of all the men
h bers of. the regiment in seeing thi
memorial erected to the memory {
m their dead comrades and spoke {
Nj the funeral service that Chaplai
HH n 1yi11nI in th
HI Guasimas fght-s''the first fight thu
we saw, the fight in which we serve
HI under the after time lieutenant gel
iii eral of the United States army, WI
Jill is here to-day, Gen. Young" &c
" Young had promised that if the reg
4 ment got into his brigade he wou
q see that it got into the first fgh
4 and said the president, turning
q Gen. Young, you kept your word.
] The president spoke of the bitt
4 grief any war entails. "The deepe
4 woe, however" he declared, "the gri
4 hardest to bear, must come not
i those who go to war, but the wom'
4 and children who stay behind"
y had no regard, he stated for the m:
Il who breads Over-much to meet t.
- inevitable death in SO worthy fas
. ion as when he meets it in battle f
his country. '"The greatest sacriic
lu in war;" the president said, ''are ma
q not by those who go to the fro,
re- who know the eager excitement
ia' battle and who, if they are worthy
,a' be called men at all, feel the M
90 buoyant eXaltation in the good f
Tvs tune which has given them
les chance to show their manhood
'as stricken fields. Our sympathy is I
re for them, but for those whose hare
task it is to wait at home, uncheel
\ A by the stern joy of battle and W
have to meet with as brave fro
as may be, the news, good or ill., Il
comes from the 'front.'