Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-13
President Roosevelt Made &
Speech on Patriotism and /.
Good Citizenship.
MONUMENT IS IN ARLINGTON
Was Designed by Mrs. A. x. capron
Whose Husband Was Killed while
With the Rough Riders and she
Also Unveiled It-Military Display
Preceded Ceremonies.
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., April H..
President Roosevelt made a spcecn
in which he touched mainly on pat.
riotism and good citizenship at the
dedication today of the monument.
erected to the memory OF the First
Cavalry United States Volunteers
inc tough Riders-of the Spanish
war In the National cemetery at Ar
lington. ~
Mrs. A. X. Capron, the widow oil
captain Capron of the Rough. Rider
regiment, VINO fell at Las Guasimas,
pulled the cord holding the American
flag that covered the monument, i;cv.
j. f. Stafford of ST. Patrick's cimrc,t
OF this city made the dedication
prayer and Chaplain II. A. Brown.
United States Army, pronounced the
bcnediction.
regular troops and part of the Ma
tional Guard OF the District of Cor.
umbia participated in the exercises
incident to the dedication. They in.
Guided four troops of the Thirteen; IN
cavalry, battalion of field artillery.
four companies of the District Ma
tional Guard and a portion OF TIM
District u Naval Reserves. nae
PRESIDENT was accompanied Front Tpe
White House by Lieutenant tieu,5ra.'
Young retired, and Major Frank 3.
Mccoy. his naval aide. were met at
Fort Mycr by Captain Preston's troop
or she Thirteenth cavalry ana escol
Cd to the cemetery gates where they
were joined by the remainder Of the
military and naval contingent ih the
march to the monument A distjn.
guishcd company assembled on the
stand from which the President de-
livercd his address. A num1G. ~
former members of the Rough Riders
regiment were invited to seats on TIC
stand
Mrs. capron's Design
The monument is the design of Mrs.
Capron and stands in good location
in the reservation. 1t Is n mono.
lith. the largest Oh its kind in Airing.
ton. 1t is made of Vermont granite
and stands II feet high on a base
six by six feet.
The President was the culonei q,
the Rough Riders during tho most OF
its existence and he spoke today with
personal feeling. He referred 10
the peculiar qualification d all the
members of tho regiment in seeing
this memorial erected to thu memory!
of their dead comrades and spoke Oh
the funeral services that Chaplain
Brown held of those killei in tignt-
ing. "'rhe first fight thai we saw. 4
the fight in which we soKed unGer
the atiortime Lieutenant fcneral o. 1
the United States army VINO is win
us hero today, General Y>ung. Gen
eral Young had promised that if i:le
regiment got into his Higade he
would see that it got iGo the first
light. and said the PRECEDENT. turn
ing to General Young. you kept
your word The Presidht said the
paramount reason why our peop;e
should look back TO thisIthn Span:ss
American war with satjiaction was
ut marked the compiled reunion of
our country"
He said sons of md who had
worn the blue and the bns of those |
who had worn the gre fought 10.
gether and sido by sid{ with Young
and Chafrce and Lawth and had
served under Wheeler Ind Fitzhugl; !
Leo: thoy stood shoulder to should
or knit together by tie closest of