New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-05
TO HONOR WAR WOMEN
New York Commandery Of Loyal
Legion Plans Monument.
ONE MAN GIVES $4,000
Won't Allow Name To Be Used
and Insists Only That 100000
Be Raised Within Year.

a plan 70 build a s5oo, nm monument in
Washington 70 the women who nursed the
sick and wounded I'm the Civil ar was
started by the New YORK Commandery
Of the Loyal Legion last night with a con
tribution NJ C00O1 That sum was given
by one man. q retired army officer With a
distinguished war record. living in this CITY
Although he was begged by his fellow
members Of tho Loyal Legion 70 allow his
name 10 he made public. he refused to DO
So.
The resolution accepting The gift and
adopting the plan for the 100000 monu-
ment IN Washington was adopted ~ a bust
ness meeting Of the comnlandsry held be
fore tho dinner at Delmonicos last night.
The $50, 600 gift carried with II the condi-
ton that s3oo 200 more should be raised
toward the monument fund within ono
year, and a committee Of ways and means.
consisting Of General Frederick =. Grant
General Thomas II. Hubbard General !.
FREQ Pierson, Major J. Lsngdon Ward,
Captain James y. Scrymser. Lieutenant
Loyal Fsrragut and Lieutenant Thomas
Sturgis. was appointed n undertake the
work OF raising tho 5000 ooo
Copies Of the resolutions will be sent -
all the communicates Of the Loyal Legion.
the commander IN chief Of the Grand Army
~ the Republic the president Of the Wom-
ems Relief Corps, the president Of the
Ladies' n the Grand Army. the Pension
Bureau at Washington and al soldiers
homes and veterans and patriotic ascot
atoms
Following the business meeting there
was q dinner ar which James NJ Beck
counsel Of the commander. spoke 70 the
toast TO the Memory ~ the Noble
Women Of The Civil War" and the toast
was drunk standing. General Edward Rip
ley presided ar the business meeting and az
the dinner. while among those present were
General Henry L Burnett. General Joseph
Plume Captain Benson. o. the hattleship
Utah. General Horatio c. King. Paymaster
A. Noel Brakeman. General George Borden.
Rear Admiral Harrington and Archdeacon
Nelson who asked the blessing.
In speaking OF the plan 70 build monu-
ment 70 the women Of the Civil War. Mr.
Beck said there were few monuments in
the world 70 record the heroism and self
sacrifice Of women, while the noblest
monument erected 70 the memory 81 a
woman as a woman would not he found IN
Christendom. but the orient and was not
built by a civilized nation, but bv q bar
barrie despot. II was the Tai Mahal 70
which he referred. Mr.. Beck said. built IN
India by an Oriental potentate 10 the
memory OF a beloved wife.
There were many memorials 70 tho death
less valor Of the boys in blue. said Mr..
Beck but not less worthy Of commemora-
tive art were the equal self-sacrifce and
courage Of the women of America, who as
truly threw their hearts into the great
struggle for the Union as did their fathers,
husbands and sons, ana gave their lives
as freely a. the no less dangerous posts
OF duty a. the fever stricken camps as the
men on the battlefield. In the Civil War
the sympathetic movement by American
women reached 2 high water mark never
attained before and possibly never To 10
attained again. he declared
After Mr.. Beck had finished his speech
the Rev n. C. Buehler, headmaster Of tho
Lakeville school at Lakeville, Conn, gave
an illustrated lecture on Gettysburg Mr..
Buehler was born in Gettysburg.