Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-11
lantern TOWER A
TITANIC MEMORIAL
Will Be De Dictated Next Tues
day, on Anniversary of
Disaster.

NEW YORK. April lion Tuesday
next. one year from the day on which
the Titanic sank, viii be dedicated
the lantern tower and time ball which
has been erected on the new Seamen's
Institute in New York as a memorial
to all those who lost their lives when
the steamship Titanic made her
maiden voyage.
At these dedication ceremonies, held
on the roof of the new institute at
3:15 p. m, brief addresses will be
made by Bishop David II. Greer, the
Rev. William p Merrill, of the Brick
Church, Presbyterian. and Or. Henry
Lubbock, formally declaring the light
house tower to be given in memory of
the engineers who ssent their stokers
up on deck while they went to certain
death; of the members Of the heroic
band of musicians who played even
while the water erept up to their in
struments; of the postal clerks who
bravely put duty ahead OF personal
safety; of the Mareoni operator and
of the officers and crew who stayed
of those in the Storage who per-
ished without ever realizing their
hopes of the new land, the America
of endless possibilities. 1t is given
in memory of all the heroic deeds by
| first and second cabin passengers. In
short, il is a monument to every per-
son without regard to rank, race
creed or color, whose life went down
when the giant vessel slipped beneath
the waves.
The tower is Identical with the ac-
cepted form of lighthouse, with stairs
in the rear. a lantern gallery and a
fixed green light. which will shine OUT
over New York Harbor and be visible
TO all the lower anchorage down
through the Narrows to Sandy Hook;
Surrounding the tower is time
ball. Just at five minutes before Il
each noon the cleaning ball will be
hoisted to the top of the steel ROD
And promptly at noon, when the time
is flashed over the wire from Wash
ington, the ball will drop.
BY 1t the chronometers will be sci
of the schooners creeping along the
coast; of the great four-masted ships
loaded with oil for the Far East; OF
the tramp steamer setting out for
South Africa. and of the passenger
and cargo boats sailing for the West
Indies and South America.
Situated just where the island of
Manhattan turns. on the corner OF
South street ana Coenties Slip, the
new building of the Seamen's Insti-
tute commands the attention of every
vessel entering the great harbor OF
New York, whether by way of Sandy
Hook or through He'll Gate. And be-
cause of its close relation to sailors
and the sea it's roof was chosen for
the "Titanic Memorial Lighthouse" by
the two societies responsible for rails
ing the fund to erect the memorial
the Seamen's Benefit Society, OF
which Miss Catharine S. Leverich is
president, and the American Scenic
and Historic Preservation Society, OF
which DR.. George F. Kunz (vice-pres-
ident of Tiffany & Coz is president.
| The firm of the late j. Pierponi
Morgan acted as treasurer for this
fund, Mr.. Morgan having also con-
! tributed 100000 toward the new Sea-
mems Institute.
An oval tablet of bronze beautifully
designed, is placed on the corner OF
the building, sufficiently near the