The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-28
GENERAL WORTH.

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GENERAL WORTH.
His Monument In New York and Why
1t 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
Il should say he went on, that
more persons pass by here every day
than by any other spot in Manhattan,
streets, yet I'll wager that most of you
do not know who Worth was"
Pooh" remarked the only non-New
Yorker in the group. who had Just
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"
"Oh. you're way of there, John" in
terrupted another. II can see near the
base In big bronze letters:
by the Corporation
of the
City of New York,
1857.
Honor the Brave"
The year 1857 settled the Army Of
the Potomac and marching through
Georgia guess.
One Of the onlookers has been a guest
Of a 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 1
right7"
Right you are" said the onlook er
who had started the talk. but" he con-
tinued, why did the city of New York
take such special interest in his mem
DRY as to build that monument in his
honor?'
That's easy" was the reply of the
ancient guest Of the nearby hotel. ut
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 stroled tai
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 theyshad read it for the first
time in their lives:
Under this Monument
Lies the. Body OF
WILLIAM JENKINS WORTH,
Born in Hudson. n. Y.
March J. 1894.
Died in Texas
May Z. 1919.
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 tc
read what is on the slab. It 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, passersb!
seldom give it any notice.
IF out of a dozen NV Workers wht
have lived nearly all their lives within
a stones throw Of this monument only
one knew that General Worth tough
in the Mexican war and none knew
that his body lies under the monument
how few of the millions who pass b!
1t every year ever heard of the gen
erals name
That was the remark the ex-inspecto
made to the group of New Yorker
after they had read the slab. - New
York Sun.