Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-05-10
HONORS PAID TO
SHURZ'S MEMORY
IMPOSING CEREMONIES AT IN
YELLING OF MONUMENT TO
GREATEST GERMAN AMERICAN.
CIVIC AND MILITARY PARADES.
GERMAN REVOLUTIONIST. AMERI-
CAN MINISTER TO SPAIN, PRI
VATE SOLDIER. GENERAL UNIT
ED STATES SENATOR. ORATOR.
EDITOR. AUTHOR.
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New York. Nav 10.-Fedcral and state
troops turned out here today to pay honor
to the memory of Major-General Carl
Shurz, editor, statesman. publiciSt and
soldier. The occasion was the unwilling
of a monument to the man who has been
called the greatest German born citizen
of the United States. A parade Of five
divisions of sOldicry and a special dlviS
ion composed of the Veteran Corps of
Artillery Captain Charles Elliott Warren
commanding, made up one of the most i'm
posing military displays which has ever
turned out in New York to honor the
memory of any man who has held an Of
flee lower than that of president Of the
United States. DctachmentS 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 Shurz in whose memory the sta
tue unveiled today was erected was one
of the most picturesque as we'll as ono
of the most highly honored German
Americans in the United States. He
achieved in turn. the United States sen
ate as a member from Missouri the pres
ident's cabinet. which is as high. official
ly, as a man not a native can aspire. and
the representatives of this country to the
court of Spain. Born in Cologne. March
2, 1929. che studied in the schools Of his
native city and later graduated from the
University of Bonn. In 1913 he Joined the
revolutionistS and when the movement
failed, fed to Switzerland. Later he went
to Paris and then London as a Newspaper
correspondent. In London he married
Miss Margaret Meyer. of Hamburg BE
coming interested in abolition in Amer
lea he came here in 1852. settling in Wat
ertOwn. VS.. where he established Il news
paper. Being defeated for lieutenant GOV
crnOr he entered the legislature. He was
aOinted minister to Sain. resign
inc the post in 1861 to join the Union
army as a private. He rose to brigadicr
general and then to major general for
his work in the battles of Gettysburg.
charlottesville. and Bull Run. After
the war he became Washington CORES
pOndent for the New York Tribune. After
a year he went to Detroit where he found
ed the Post. In 1867 he founded the West
liche Post. which is today the leading
German publication Of the West, with
Emil Preetorius, dean Of Gcrman-Amcr
lean journalists. ShurZ was temporary
chairman of the Republican national
convention in Chicago in 1865 and served
as United States senator from Missouri
from 1859 to 1875. He was secretary
of the Interior from 1877 to 1881. In lS72
Shurz took a leading part in the organ
izatOn of the shOrt-lived Liberal party
and was chairman of the convention
which nominated Horace Greedy for pres
ident.
In 1881 Shurz went to New York and
for three years was editor of the Even
ing Post. He retired in 1898 TO devote his
time to literature. His autobiography WAS
running i'm a current magazine at the time
of his death. For his literary work he
was made an l.. L.. ID. by Harvard and
the University of Missouri. Tall and
spare1v built. Carl Shurz was one Of the
most striking figures Of his time. His
iron grey hair and square cut heard and
large black trimmed glasses attched TO a
broad black ribbon. gave him u Scholrly
look. and he always attracted attention
from those who passed him in Park Row
or Fifth Avenue. The mans character
can best be understood by two f~avoritc
savings of Schurz:
"There is nothing within the range of
human possibility that any man cannot
do if he puts his mind to do it. No normal
man is handicapped; if he has a brain ut
all, no inter what his place of birth. he
can get anywhere he wants to if he ap
plies himself"
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