Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-04

His Monument In New York and Why
II Is There.

II Is There.
Everybody who lives in New York
knows or ought to know by this time
where the Worth monument is. but
how many know what it's all about"
said a New Yorker to a group OF
friends who were standing in front of
the monument in Madison square.
III should say" he went on, chat
more persons pass by here every day
than by any other spot in Manhattan,
excepting Nassau and Frankfort
streets, yet I'll wager that most Of you
90 not know who Worth was"
"Poohp' remarked the only non-New
Yorker In the group, who had lust
come down from Albany and hadn't
been in Madison square but once be-.
fore in his life. worth was with
Pope in the Army Of the Potomac and
was killed when he was with Sherman
In the march through Georgia."
ooh, you're way of there, John" in
terrupted another Il can see near the
base in big bronze letters:
"By the Corporation
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 nearby hotel for several years.
He knew it all-at least he thought he
did.
"That monument" he said, "was
erected to the memory Of General
Worth. who won great fame with Scott
during our war with Mexico. Am
right?"
Fright you are," said the onlooker
who had started the talk, "but," he con-
tinued, why did the city of New York
take such a special interest in his men,
DRY as to build that monument In his
honorY
That's easy" was the reply of the
ancient guest of the nearby hotel. "It
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 strolIed tall
man who was apparently acquainted
with the onlookers and had heard the
last question and the answer. There
was a broad grin on his face. He was
a former inspector of police
He put in a question or two, and in
answering not one of the group could
tell whether Worth was killed in bat
tie or where he was buried. But all
agreed that he was born in New York
city.
"Just come over to the monument
and take 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 it for the first
time In their lives:
Under this Monument
Lies the Body of
WILLIAM JENKINS WORTH,
Born in Hudson. N. T.,
March l. 1894.
Died In Texas
May z, 1S49.
The fact is that not one person in
ten thousand in crossing to or from
Fifth avenue to Broadway takes the
Twenty-fifth street crossing on the
monument side, and therefore few per-
sons other than tourists ever stop to
read what Is on the slab. 1t so hap
pens, too, that the sunlight seldom
touches that side of the monument.
Moreover, as the slab and bronze let
ters on it are very dark, passersby
seldom give 1t any notice.
eff out of a dozen New Workers who
have lived nearly all their lives within
stones throw of this monument only
one knew that General Worth fought
In the Mexican war and none knew
that his body lies under the monument
how few Of the millions who pass by
1t every year ever heard Of the gen.
erals name?"
That was the remark the ex-inspector
made to the group of New Workers
after they had read the slab. - New
York Sun.