The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-10
Federal and State Troops Turned Out
In New York in the Big
... Parade
UNWILLING MONUMENT OCCASION
Was Considered Greatest German
Born Citizen Of the
United States.
ONE TIME EDITOR OF N. Y. POST
Captain Charles Elliott Warren
Commanded the Military
Parade.

commanded the Military
Parade.
New York, May 10.-Federal AND
state troops turned out here today tc
pay honor to the memory of Major.
General Carl schurz, editor, states.
man, publicist and soldier. The oc-
casion was the unwilling of monu.
ment to the man who has been called
the greatest German born citizen OF
the United States A parade of five
divisions of soldiery and a special
division composed of the Veteran
Corps of Artillery, Captain Charles
Elliott Warren commanding, made up
one of the most imposing military dis
plays which has ever turned out in
New York to honor the memory of
any man who has held an office lower
than that of president of the United
States. Detachments of various posts
of the Grand Army formed a guard OF
honor at the reviewing stand where
the mayor Of New York reviewed the
troops.
Carl Schurz, in whose memory the
statute unveiled today was erected.
was one of the most picturesque as
well as one of the most highly honor
ed German Americans in the United
States. He achieved in turn, the
United States Senate as a member
from Missouri, the presidents cabi-
net, as high, officially, as a man not
a native can aspire, and the repre-
sentative of this country to the court
of Spain. Born in Cologne March 2,
1929, he studied in the schools of his
native city and later graduated from
the University of Conn. In 1S48 he
joined the revolutionists and when
the movement failed, fed to Switzer-
land. Later he went to Paris and then
London as newspaper correspondent.
In London he married Miss Margaret
Meyer, of Hamburg. Becoming in
terested in abolition in America he
came here in 1852, settling in Water
town, Wis.,, where he established a
newspaper. Being defeated for lieu
tenant governor he entered the legis-
lature. He was appointed minister to
Spain in 1861, resiging the post in
1861 to join the Union army as a
private. He rose to brigadier-general
and then to major-general for his
work in the battles of Gettysburg,
Charlottesville and Bull Run. After
the war he became Washington cor
respondent for the New York Tribune
After a year he went to Detroit where
he founded the Post. In 1867 he
founded the Westliche Post, which is
today the leading German publication
in the west, with Emil Preetorius
dean of German-American journalists
Schurz was temporary chairman OF
the Republican national convention
in Chicago in 1868 and served as
united States senator from Missouri
from 1859 to 1875. He was secretary
of the interior from 1877 to 1881. In
1872 Schurz took leading part in
the organization of the short-live6
Liberal party, and was chairman OIL
the invention which nominated Hor.
ace Greedy for president.
In 1881 Schurz went to New York
and for three years was editor of the
Evening Post. He retired in 1898 tt
devote his time to literature. His au.
TYPOGRAPHY was running in a current
magazine at the time OF his death
For his literary work he was made an
LII. D. by Harvard and the University
of Missouri. Tall and sparsely built
Carl Schurz was one of the most strik.
ing figures of his time. His iron gray
hair and square cut beard and large
black trimmed eye glasses, attached tc
a broad black ribbon, gave him a
scholarly look, and he always attract
led attention from those who passed
him in Park Row of Fifth avenue. The
mans character can best be under
stood by two favorite sayings OF
Schurz:
"There is nothing within the range
of human possibility that any mar
cannot do if he puts his mind to it. NJ
normal man is handicapped; if he h.
q brain at all, no matter what hi
place Of birth, he can get anywhere
he wants to II he applies himself