The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-15
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A Question That Puzzled Men VINO Hat
Seen Ills Monument for Years.

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Seen His Monument for Years
EVERYBODY who lives in Now York knows
or ought to know by this time where thu
Worth Monument is; but how many know
what it's all about, said, q New Yorker TO
a group Of friends who were standing Va
front Of the Hoffman House, just west OF
the monument.
Il should say he went on, that mora
persons pass by here every day than by any
other spot in Manhattan, excepting Nassau
and Frankfort streets, yet III wager that
most of you do not know who Worth was.
Pooh" remarked the only non-New
Yorker In the group. who had just coma
down from Albany and hadn't been in Madi-
son Square but once before in his life, and
that was when he was a page in the Assem-
bly when Roosevelt was a member. Worth
was with Pope in the Army Of the Potomac
and was killed when he was with sherman
In the march through Georgia
'oh, you're way of there, John inter
rupted another. Il can see near the base,
In big bronze letters:
By the Corporation ...A. ~.
Of The
City OF New YORK,
1851.
Honor the Brave
The year 1857 settled the Army. Of the
Potomac and marching through Georgia
guess.
One Of the %onlookers has been q guest
Of a nearby hotel for several years; lie
knew 1t all-at least he thought he did.
THAT monument, " ie S2id, was erected
a.. A.. ..aA,..wr - Hap Worth who Wnm
great fame with Scott during our war
with Mexico. Am ! right?"
Fright you are" said the onlooker, who
had started the talk, but, he continued.
"why did the city Of New York take such
a special interest in his memory as to build
that monument in his hOnort'
That's easy was the reply OF the an
cient guest Of the nearby hotel, 10 was
because Worth was born In this city and
the city was proud OF him as one OF her
distinguished sons
About this time along strolled a tai
man who was apparently acquainted with
the onlookers and had heard the last ques-
ton and the answer. There was q broad
grin on his face. He was Aleck Williams,
former inspector Of police.
He put in a question or two, and Va
answering not one Of The group could tell
whether Worth was killed in battle or where
he was buried. But all agreed that he
was born in this city.
Just come ovcrto The monument and lake
a look at the north side slab and get posted
said the ex-inspector. And the group went
with him. This is what they read on the
slab, and they all afterward acknowledged
that then and there they had read II Tor
the first time ia their lives:
Under tubs Monument
Lies tie Body "
WILLIAM JENKINS WORM.
Born In Hudson. y. J.,
March ]. i794.
Died In Texas,
May 7. 1917.
The fact is that not one person IN 10000
in crossing to or from Fifth avenue to Broad
Way takes the Twenty-lfth street crossing
on the monument side, and therefore few
persons other than tourists ever stop To
read what Is on the slab, II so happens.
too, that the sunlight seldom touches that
side Of the monument, Moreover, as tha
slab and bronze letters on IL are very dark,
| passersby seldom give IL any notice.
IF out Of a dozen New Workers who have
, lived nearly all their lives within a stones
! throw Of this monument only one knew
that Gen. Worth fought in the Mexican War.
and none knew that his body lies under
the monument where IL has been for ttty
years, how few OF the millions who pass by
It every year ever heard Of the Generals
name?'
That was the remark Williams made to
the group Of New Workers after they had
read the slab.