Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-20
IN HONOR OF PERRY
Plans to Commemorate VIC
tory Over the British.
GREAT COLUMN PROPOSED
Plan Contemplates Monument $50
Feet High.
MEETING OF COMMISSIONERS
Appropriation Made by Congress
and Several State Legislatures
for the Memorial.
OF COMMISSIONERS
RY WILLIAM z. CIRIIS

Chicago Record Herald.
CLEVELAND, June is, 1911.
Doubtless everybody has read in the
newspapers of an act of Congress, passed
at the recent session. for the commemora-
| ton of the centennial anniversary Of the
battle of Lake Erie, which was fought
by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
against a British feet under Capt. Bar
clay, of Put-in.Bay, Of South Bass
Island, fourteen miles from Port Clinton,
twenty-five miles from Sandusky. forty
four miles from Toledo, sixty-two miles
from Detroit and sixty-five miles from
Cleveland. An appropriation of S2j0.OO0
was made as contribution toward a
general fund to pay for a suitable monu-
ment, and the President was authorized
to appoint three commissioners. an army
officer, naval officer and a civilian, TO
represent the government of the United
States. He has named as the navy MEM
Der Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark. who
brought the battleship Oregon fourteen
thousand miles around from San Fran
cisco without scratching a bit of her
paint, just in time to do the most eff
Gent work of any vessel of the fleet that
had been lying off Santiago for weeks.
The army member of the commission is
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, and the
civilian member is Gen. Warren Kefer,
recently member of Congress from
Ohio. and major general in the volun-
teer army, both in the civil war and the
war with Spain.
The centennial celebration had already
been agitated for two years in Ohio and
the legislature of that state had already
appropriated $4,000. The legislature of
Pennsylvania had appropriated 100000
and the Rhode Island legislature had ap-
propriated S25,OO by a unanimous vote.
but the governor vetoed the bill after
the legislature had adjourned and it must
be re-enacted at the next session. Bills
have been introduced in the legislatures
of New York for $4,000, in Illinois and
Wisconsin for $4,000 each and it Is ex-
pected that Kentucky will do equally
we'll, because that state furnished nearly
all the soldiers for Gen. HarrisonS army
in the war of 1912 and a squad of the
Minnesota has done nothing. nor has In
diana. The Governor OF Indiana declined
to recommend an appropriation on the
ground that he did not think 1t good
idea to contribute money to erect a
monument in another state. a good deal
is expected from Michigan. but nothing
has been done there yet except to appoint
a commission to meet with those repre-
senting the national government and
Ohio. Pennsylvania. New York. Rhode
| Island, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Illinois
Action of Commissioners.
These commissioners met in Cleveland
June 4 and organized by the election OF
George Fl. Worthington of this city as
president general, Henry Watterson OF
| Kentucky as vice president general. Web
| ster B. Huntington Of Columbus as sec
| rotary general and A. f. Sisson of Erie
as treasurer general. 1t was decided to
| open headquarters in Cleveland. Com
| mittees on finance, Legislative promo
| tennial celebration were authorized and
| appointed Gen. Miles, Henry Waiter
| son and George II. Worthington of Cleve-
| land were selected building com
| mittee. with instructions to invite the
| competition OF ten or twelve of the fore
most architects Of the country for plans
for memorial to be. erected at Putin
| Bay. AS the national art commission
| authorized by an act of Congress a few
years ago to censorize all national monu-
| ments will have to approve the design
when il is selected. the committee i'm
| mediately got into communication with
| its chairman. Daniel H. Burnham of Chi
cago and the other members. who are
Col Cosby. superintendent of public
| buildings and grounds in Washington
Charles Moore of Detroit. Frank b. Mille'
of WASHINGTON Daniel c. French. Cass
Gilbert and Thomas S. Hastings of New
| York and Fred Law Olmsted of Bos-
| ton These gentlemen are assisting the
building committee in preparing specifl-
| cations and instructions for those who
| will be invited to enter the competition
| but the choice will not be limited to those
| to whom formal invitations are sent. The
building committee, of which Gen. Miles
| is chairman, and Col. Webb G. Hayes OF
| Fremont Ohio, is secretary, will be glad
TO receive and consider volunteer de
signs. SO that the invitation is general
| John Eisenmann. an architect Of Cleve-
land. submitted design which the com
v,,ice mad To net o
| IL is thought to have some merit, and
| it will have to go into the competition
| with the rest.