New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-01
4 MONUMENT
TO PILGRIMS.
Features Of Memorial to Be
Dedicated at PTOYincetOWn.
SHAFT MADE OF MAINE STONE
National Government Supervised the
Work on the Observation-Disclosures Me-
mortal Stones Recalling Historical
Scenes Used In Interior Decoration.


Scenes Used In Interior Decoration.
Practically complete, the new pill
grim memorial at Provincetown, Mass,
awaits the decision Of President Taft
as to the exact date Of dedication. In
all probability the event will take place
during the first week in August. In
addition to the president, the commit
tee believes it has great drawing
card in the fact that President Emeri
tus Eliot of Harvard has consented to
deliver the historical address. The
cornerstone was laid Aug. 20, 1907, by
former President Roosevelt.
By the terms Of the contract the
shaft was to be $50 feet high, but it so
happens that the finished structure ex-
ceeds that figure by two feet and seven
inches. The monument has cost about
100000, of which sum $4,000 was con-
tributed by the national government
and $4,000 blythe state of Massachu-
sets. The remainder has been raised
by private subscription through the eff
forts of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memoir
al association, an organization which
came out of gradually growing senti-
ment that there should be erected at
Proyincetown a memorial that should
be a worthy reminder Of the deeds done
by the pilgrims at the tip end of the
cape In the weeks preceding the sailing
of the May1ower for Plymouth, for,
contrary to common opinion, it was at
Proyincetown and not across the bay
that the pilgrims made their first land
ing in New England.
Pilgrims at Provincetown.
The great reason for linking Prov
incetown and the pilgrims lies in the
fact that while the historic craft lay at
anchor there and before the passengers
set foot on land there was drawn up in
the cabin that immortal compact of
civil government which Edward Ev-
erett Hale declared was as important
as the Declaration Of Independence, its
veritable forerunner, in fact, and which
so excellent an authority as Abraham
Lincoln believed had done more for the
cause Of human liberty than the wrest-
ing Of Magma Charta from King John
at Runnymede. Some years ago the
state erected on the lawn Of Province
town town hall granite slab bearing
on it's face bronze tablet with this in
scription:
This memorial stone is erected by the
commonwealth of Massachusetts, to COM
memorate the compact or constitution Of
government signed by the pilgrims on
board the Mayfower in Provincetown
harbor Nov. II, 1920. old style.
This date. it will be seen, is a full
month prior to the day commonly OBJ
served as forefathers' day. On the re-
verse side of the slab another tablet
bears the text of the compact and the
names of the signers, among them such
well known ones as Edward Winslow,
William Bradford, John Carver, Miles
Standish and John Alden.
Government Supervised Work.
The monument is almost a replica of
the tower Of the Palazzo della Repub-
lea, at Siena, Italy. The stone for
it was quarried in Maine, where each
block was rough hewn and numbered
so that on arrival at ProvincetoWn it
was only necessary to trim the blocks
and set them in position. The stone
was transported by water, unloaded
by means Of lighters and carried to the
summit of hill over a temporary rail-
road. AS the national government had
contributed so generously it asked the
privilege Of supervising the work, and
this request was readily granted.
Members Of the army engineer corps
| have had oversight of the construction.
The shaft rests upon a concrete foun>
dalton about six feet deep, and when
tests were made by the engineers it
was found that the foundation had
sunk only a fraction of an inch and,
this depression being equal over all the
huge pile Of masonry, is perfectly
plumb.
Memorial Stones For Decoration.
There is no elevator, the ascent be-
ing made by series of steps and in
clined planes so arranged that it is
really very easy to reach the top. The
interior decoration is made interesting
by the presence of various memorial
1 stones depicting or recalling scenes