The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-14
the PRESIDENT
ELECT SPOKE At
THE DEDICATION
Monument and Resting Place
For Prison Ship Patriots
Of Revolution
HORRIBLE STORY Of SUFFERING
REVIVED BY ToDAY's EXERCISES

Horrible Suffering and Death Of I'm
fortunates at Last Properly Com.
memorated by the Republic Which
They Founded With Their Lives.
New York, Nov. 14.-After more
1 than century of agitation by in
diviiuals and organizations, bones
representing approximately $4,000
martyrs" Of the revolutionary war,
who died on the prison ship Jersey
and other lesser vessels in Wallabout
Bay. Brooklyn. lie at last in fitting
ly marked burial place, for which
the government, New York state and
hundreds Of individuals made contri-
buttons. An imposing Dorio column
Of granite, 270 feet high, surmounted
by funeral urn and flag stan, rises
above the tomb at Fort Greene Park,
Brooklyn, and its dedication today Is
marked by remarkable military pa
rade OF nearly 10000 soldiers and
marines, and memorable addresses by
President-elect William H. Taft and
Governor Charles E. Hughes.
The procession of naval and mill
tAry organizations, said to be one of
the largest in the history of Brook
lyn, the tremendous outpouring of
people from all over Greater, New
York, crowding intensely the line Of
march, and at Fort Greene Park
massed by tens of thousands present.
ed an inspiring spectacle. Major
General Charles F. Roe, commanding
tho national guard of the state, was
grand marshal Of the parade, which
comprised four divisions-troop at
tached to division headquarters, First
and Second Brigade headquarters and
tho naval militia In these were in
cluded two sQuadruns Of cavalry,
three batteries of field artillery, two
organisations of the state signal
corps, one Held hospital corps, three
coast artillery Eeg gfinsnts, i ,headed by
General David e. Austen, the Seventh,
Twelfth. Twenty-third, Forty-sixth,
Sixty-first and Seventy-second infan-
try regiments of the national guard;
fourth division of the G. A. R.. veter-
ans associations and patriotic So
cieties, squadrons OF mounted police
and many military and other bands
The Heroic Deeds.
The vicissitudes of the remains Of
the sailors and soldiers who died Of
fever and starvation, and rotted in the
foul hulks Of the British prison ship
long anchored in. Wallabout Bay,
which they polluted, have been many,
and have caused more than one OUT
burst Of public indignation. 1t was
in 1872, at Brooklyn town meeting,
that definite steps were first urged
to properly bury the remains. Moth
ing was done, however, until 1908,
when the Tammany society secured
funds for temporary wooden tomb,
which was constructed on Hudson
street. To this the bodies, dug from
the trenches along the Wallabout
banks where they had been hastily
inferred, were removed.
With passing years the structure
fell into decay, the bones became ex-
posed and children played with them.
Public feeling became aroused. and
in 1875 the city of Brooklyn removed
all that could be collected, several
loads of them, to tomb at Fort
Greene Park under the stairs of the
entrance, where they had been until
work had begun on the present hand
some memorial which the late Stan
ford White designed, and which rep
resents about 100000. To these
bones were added. four years ago,
after a public service at Plymouth
church, many more, filing about eight
cof1ns. which had been unearthed in
construction Of warehouses at the
Brooklyn navy yard. All the remains
are now encased in metallic collins
In the spacious tomb which is ap-
preached by stately fight Of sever
q hundred steps.
The experiences of the prison ship
martyrs" constitute one of the most
frightful chapters In American his
tory. Eleven thousand sailors and SOL
diers died in the Jersey alone, a ship
constructed to accommodate only 400
men, into which more than q thous-
and prisoners were usually crushed.
Many were kept there for years. "A
survivor. Captain Thomas Dring,
vividly depicted the scenes of the hor-
rtble incarceration: Registered and
sent below, newcomers suffered terri
bly, from the intolerable heat and foul
lir, and when they sought the mark
air holes they found them blocked by
others, who fought with all their
strength for even the faintest breath
bf the precious air"
& Prison Ship Horrors.
Glitter deraneement was q common
symptom of the fever that caused
many deaths on board, and to increase
The horror Of the darkness that en-
4 bhrouded US, for we were allowed no
light betwixt decks. the voice Of warn
mg would be heard: Take heed to
4 yourselves; there is q madman stalk
mg through the ship with q knife In.
ID hand. lsometimes I found the man