Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-27
Monument in Memory of Ben.
jamin Harrison Unveiled.
DAUGHTER PULLS CORD
Flags Drawn Apart Disclosing
Statue of the General.
REGULARS AND G. A. R. ASSIST
Vice President Fairbanks Pays Eu.
logy to the Character Of the
Indiana Statesman.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. October 81
The ceremonies attending the unwilling
of the Benjamin Harrison monument
this afternoon were preceded by q
parade in which all of the G. A. X.
posts of the city. numbering 700 men.
participated. as we'll as 500 troops %
the regular army. COO National Guard
and 500 of fraternal orders The speak
ers were Vice President Fairbanks.
Gen. John w Noble. Mr. IIarrison's
Secretary of the Interior. and John L.
Griffiths. the Harrison biographer
James Whitcomb Riley read poem
written for the occasion.
Harrison Eulogized.
Vice President Fairbanks reviewed
the efforts of the Gen Ben amin Harrison
erection of the monument. Mr.. Fair
banks said:
I'm every relation of life. from the
beginning. Gen. Harrison set his eyes
upon high ideals and whether at the
bar. upon arduous field in the Senate
or in the office of Chief Executive. he
held fast to them.
Gen. Harrison possessed great ability
coupled with genius for labor. He
never submitted to the people hasty or
ill-considered conclusions. He com
manded respect in every field In which
common consent. His soldiery
qualities won him admiration.
He advanced at the bar until he at
tanned the acknowledged leadership OF
his profession in the entire country.
He was one of the foremost members
of the Senate of the United States.
AS Chief Executive of the nation he
made a record among the best the
country has ever had. He will stand
in the history of this country when II
is impartially written as one OF the
nations great Presidents.
ut becomes my duty to present this
monument to the people OF the entire
country. They will always safeguard
and preserve 1t as one Of their cher
ished possessions. They will come hith-
err to pay grateful homage to the
memory of one who did arduous serv-
ice in behalf Of the great republic"
Ceremony of dwelling.
The monument is in University Park.
facing New York street. Miss Elizabeth
Harrison's part in the exercises made the
event unusually pretty. Escorted by
four members OF her fathers regiment.
10Th Indiana. she walked from the re-
viewing stand on the south side OF the
street to the monument opposite. There
she pulled the cord that unveiled the
figure of her father. The wells were two
flags. one representing the army and the
other the navy. The cord pulled by tn,
little girl drew the flags from around the
figure of the statue and suspended them
one on each side. A company from the
10th Regiment saluted with their guns.
Then the veterans. acting as a guard OF
honor to the daughter. drew the flags to
the tall fiagpoles at each side. The pole
at the right bore the escutcheon of the
army and that on the left the insignia
OF the navy This done the daughter and
her escort returned to the reviewing
stand.
President Roosevelt sent a laurel wreath
and cut flowers to be placed at the base
of the monument. Following the cere-
monies the wreath and flowers were
placed on the grave of Gen. Harrison In
Crown Hill cemetery.