The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-05-27
MONUMENTS TO
FOREIGN HEROES
Polish Leaders Who Fought in
the Revolutionary Army
Against British.


umenfs 20 ths memory and deeds Of
Pulaski aud Koseiusko, the Polish
heroes, both of whom fought aud one
Of whom died in the war Of the Revo.
luton. we're dedicated here today. The
time of the dcdications was 30 arranged
that President Taft could attend each.
While the President made the prin.
cipal address at the unveiling Of the
monument to Rulaski, which stands in
the triangle at Thirteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue, Secretary of War
Dickinson was making the principal
address at the Kosciusko statue in
Lafayette Park opposite the White
House, and j. +. smalski, Of the Polish
National Alliance, made an address in
Polish.
The monument to Pulaski was erect
ed by an act of congress, but the statue
to Kosciusko is gift to the nation
from the Polish National Alliance and
other organizations of Poles who have
made their homes in the free republic
for which their distinguished country
men fought, There was double sig
nifeanee to the unveiling of the monu.
ment to Kosciusko, for it marked the
opening here tomorrow of the First
Polish National Congress to attend
which thousands of Poles from all over
the United States have come.
Polish National Life.
The purpose of the congress is to
discuss in all its phases the condition
of the Polish nation, to acquire famil-
iarity with the needs of the Polish
national life and find ways aud means
of fulfilling them.
The ceremonies which preceded the
dedication of the statues were long.
planned and very elaborate. A mill.
tary parade in which all the regular
troops stationed at Fort Myer as we'll
us the National Guard of the District
of Columbia marched, was one of the
features.% BrigadierG Tasker III.
Bliss, U. S. A., was in command.
In the heart of the buster section
of the city the monument to Pulaski
stands fourteen feet from the sidewalk
in triangular green. In the saddle
of charger is mounted the figure of
the hero in the Polish Hussar uniform
in which he won command of brigade
of Washington s cavalry for his gallant
conduct at the Brandywine. Pulaski
always wore the uniform of his beloved
fatherland, and it clothed his breast
through three years of valiant fighting
on American soil until he fell at the
siege of Savannah in 1870 and died on
the United States brig of war Wasp in
the harbor two days later.
The sculptor, Chodzinsli, gathered
material for his work in Paris, Ber.
lin and parts of Poland and secured
from the descendants of Pulaski a
life-size painting of the hero mounted
ON horse, done by Pulaski g sister.
Career of Soldier.
Kosciusko is represented in the figure
as the hero of two hemispheres, us has
countrymen love to refer to him. A
map of the United States, with the
American eagle guarding, is on the
front of the pedestal. On the other
side is the outline Of Europe and Asia
attacked by the snake of despOtism
with the polish eagle fighting in de.
fense A polish soldier wounded and
falling, is being defended by polish
farmer with a scythe. Opposite, an
A merican soldier is cutting the
shackles of an American farmer which
bind him to the foreign yoke Mount
ed on the pedestal is the statue of Kos
ciusko, map of West Point in one
hand, the other on his sword.
The valiant deeds of the man who
fought consistently for liberty in an
old world and a new, so consistently
that he refused to lend himself to the
plans of Napoleon for the restoration
of Poland, are recalled by the inscrip
tions on the monument.
| Driven TO this country by an un
happy love affair, he saw the new re
public established and did not return
to his native Poland until 1856. When
Russia attacked Poland in 1902, Kos
ciusko with 1000 men held Dubien
ka against $4,000 Russians in a fam
GUS battle. After the second parti
tion of Poland in 1894 he put himself
at the head of national moyemeni
and was proclaimed dictator and com
mander-inchief Covered with wounds
he fell into the hands Of his enemie
and was restored to liberty by the En-
peror Paul two years later.
Alexander in 1914, refused to gran
an amnesty to Poles in foreign land
and to make Kosciuslo constitu
tional King of Poland, and for tn
remainder Of his life he lay aside hi
sword and lived the peaceful life of
farmer in France until he was kille
when his horse plunged over preci
J pice The Emperorer Alexander late
moved his body to Cracow and ha
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