The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-05-16
LOCAL KNIGHTS
ARE TO ATTEND
dwelling of Discoverer of
Americas Monument in
Washington June 8.

Thirty members of clarksburg
Council. No. S72 of the knights Of
Columbus. will go to Washington, D.
c., June 8, to participate in the cere-
monies at the unwilling of a mem
orial to Christopher Columbus. 1t
is expected that as many or more
members of other West Virginia
councils will attend, arrangements
having been made for the attendance
of 400 members and their friends
from this state.
Before the unwilling there will be
grand parade in which $4,000 men
will be in line. Addresses Will be
made by President Taft, Cardinal
Gibbons and other state and church
notables. Saturday evening, after
the unwilling ceremonies. a grand
banquet will be held in Convention
Hall, which will be attended by Pres!-
dent Taft and his cabinet, Cardinal
Gibbons, ambassadors of foreign
countries and other prominent men.
The Clarksburg knights have ar.
ranged for a special sleeping car to
leave here Friday evening" June 4
and arriving in Washington Saturday
morning.
On March 4. 1907, Congress passed
an act appropriating 100000 for the
erection, at Washington, D. G., of a
suitable memorial to Christopher
Columbus.
To carry out the provisions OF this
act, a commission consisting OF the
Senate committee on the library, ID
the chairman of the committee on
the library of the House of Repre-
sentatives OF the Fifty-ninth Con
gress. the secretary OF state, the sec
rotary of war, and the supreme knight
of the order of the knights of Col
umbus, was created. with authority TO
select a site and suitable design,
contract for. and supe:intend the con-
struction of said memorial.
I The site selected was the piazza d.
rectly in front OF the main entrance
to Union Station. The design was
awarded to d. H. Burnham, Of chi
cago, who was the architect of Union
Station. The statue of Columbus ami
the accompanying sculptural features
embodied In the general scheme were
designed by dorado Taft after general
competition among artists of Europe
and the United States.
The memorial is an exquisite white
marble, is the PROV of the caravel
work includes a heroic statue of Col
I umbus standing in front of heavy
square shaft which is surmounted by
a globe and four eagles. At the base
of the shaft, at the right and left Of
the statute, are two figures, one an
Indian, typifying the new world, and
the other Causcasian, IMPLYING the
old world,
At the foot of the statue, carved N
marble, is the prov OF the caraval
Santa Maria" with a fgure-head
representing the head and bust of
woman, and named Discovery"
Mounted AT the ends of the semi-cir-
cular fountain. which provides set.
ting for the statue. are marble lions
mounted on pedestals.
1t is the intention to dedicate the
memorial on June s. 1912, and the
ceremonies are to be under the au-
spices of the knights OF Columbus
The arrangements provide for the
unwilling OF the statue of Columbus
on Saturday, with grand parade in
the afternoon and visits to all the
prominent buildings. On Sunday
special mass will be held at one OF
the churches. attended by the visit
ing bodies of Knights of Columbus