The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-14
TAFT DELEGATES
SHAFT TO HEROES
OF PRISON SHIP
PreSident-Elect and Governor
Hughes Eulogize Martyrs
of the Revolution.
10000 PERSONS MARCH.
Charles F. Murphy in Parade at
the Head of the Tam
many Braves.
1900 PERSONS MARCH,.

Cnde- gray skies thousands OF men
noon in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, at
the imposing ceremonies dedicating the
2TO-foot granite shaft that rises above
the bones of the 800 martyrs of the
III famed prison ship OF Walla bout Bay.
President-elect William II. Taft and
Gov Hughes both delivered addresses.
Shortly after ten O'Clock the monster
parade assembled at Bedford avenue
and Division street. 1t is estimated that
1900 persons were in line. Conspicuous
among the marchers was Tammany
headed by Grand Sachem d. F. Cohalan
and Charles r. Murphy. At the head OF
the column rode Major General Charles
+. Roe, Grand Marshal of the parade
Behind him with their bands and colors
were detachments from the regulars at
Forts Wadsworth, Totten, Hamilton and
Jay, of New York, and Hancock, Of
New Jersey. There were also several
squadrons OF national guardsmen in the
military part of the pageant.
Arrival of Taft.
Mr.. Taft. who promised two years go
to deliver the Grafton at the dedication,
arrived in Jersey City from Hot Springs
Va, at p. NJ a stop had been made
in Newark. where National Chairman
Hitchcock boarded the train. A Pennsyl-
vania tug was in waiting at Jersey City
decorated for the occasion, and steamed
round the Battery with her distinguished
passenger and his party. Immediately
after his address Mr.. Taft hurried away
for Washington, where he will spend
Sunday as the guest of President
Roosevelt. He returns to Hot Springs
tomorrow night.
Gov. Hughes, who accepted the monu-
ment on behalf of the people of the
State OF New York, left Albany this
morning to be present at the exercises
, Chairman OF the Board of Aldermen
monument on behalf of the City or
New York, after which Daniel f. CO.
halon delivered an address on behalf Of
the Tammany Society
OF Mr.. Tafts speech Secretary of War
Wright made a brief address of pre-
sentation on behalf of the National
Government.
Mr.. Taft's Speech.
The speech of the President-elect was
sympathetic and instructive review Of
conditions that prevailed between the
United states and Great Britain At the
time of the war OF the Revolution and
a touching tribute to the memory Of the
unknown martyrs who gave up their
lives, under most horrible circumstances,
rather than betray their country.
Mr., Taft related how more than 10000
Americans. confined In the Jersey and
other rotting old hulks on the shore -
Wal about Bay persisted miserably while
4, f,f+iun o
in shallow graves where the BrOoklyn
Navy Yard now stands.
The prisoners were sailors, captured
on prlvatcors which had set OUT from
American ports 10 destroy British COM
niece. They were. not recognized as
prisoners of war, because such recog-
milton by the British Government would
have been tucit acknowledgment of a
state Of war between Two independent
nations. Technically Il oy We're raiturs,
but the British Government could not
bring itself to eNerut" such n vast body
of men on the ground Of treason,