Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-06-28
MEMORIAL CAR
WILL ARRIVE
TONIGHT
R0DMAN .WANAMAKER EXPEDITION,
TRAVELLING IN PRIVATE CAR,
SIGNET, WILL SPEND SUNDAY
and MONDAY HERE.
WHAT THE Big
MOVEMENT MEANS

The arrival of the private car Sig
net" at midnight tonight from Albu-
querque, carrying Dr. Joseph X. Dixon
and party, will give Santa Fe and the
i1i Indian pueblos under the local In
dian agency, Of which Harold q. Cog
seshall is superintendent, their first
olrect touch with the great movement
backed by Rodman Wanamaker which
has for its purpose the erection of a
memorial to the North American In.
Clan at Fort Wadsworth, on New York
harbor, and contemplates bringing in
direct contact with this work and in
action participation i'll it, the 1863 In
clan tribes of the United States.
On February %, President Taft
threw up the first spadeful of earth in
the construction of this memorial at
Fort Wadsworth, and following him
Chief Hollow Horn Bear. a full blood.
ed Sioux, and one of the participants
III the Custer fight, with ID crude
shovel made from the thigh bone of a
buffalo, also dug up a spadeful and tn:
great work was started.
Further elaborate exercises were
conducted, in which participated 81
representatives of various Indian
tribes, but it was Mr. Wanamaker
aim to make every chief and governor
of every tribe and pueblo ip the coun-
TRIP an active participant in these exer-
Cises. so he outfitted in the private car
Slgnet, under DIR. Joseph K. Dixon,
who travels as the personal represen-
latlve Of the president of the United
States. and assisted by Major James
special representative of
the department of the interior, to
make this trip to visit the Indians and
As nearly as is possible put them all
L, personal touch with the movement.
The Signet left Philadelphia at 4:3)
lame 1th, going through st. Louis to
oklahoma, visiting all the tribes there,
hence to Tuarosa where IA stop was
7lade al the Mescaero reservation, {
hence to Albuquerque, by way of Ell I
'aso. AT Albuquerque, the regular ex- '
rclses were held, and the Car will ar
i've in Santa Fe tonight d
Sunday, with Superintendent Cog. T
,eshall, DR.. Dixon and party will visit A
anta Domingo, and Monday afternoon I
t the Indian school near this city, L
lie exercises will be held that will G
lace the representatives of the II
ueblos in this district in direct touch "
18th the movement.
DR.. Dixon carries with him the "
lentical flag which was raised on II
ebruary % at the Fort Wadswortn c.
Xercises, and also on phonograph h. +
aries a message to the Indians di.
act from the president of the United q
tates, the secretary of the interior =
nd the commissioner Of Indian af-
.irs.
At the close of the exercises each
1eblo VIII receive a magnificent
merican flag which they will be ask
to fly over their pueblo as symbol "
al of their interest in and love for W
e United States. la
Leaving here Monday evening the bI
gnet will be taken to Gallup where Vi
stage the Iuni and Navajo reserva. IN
ons will be visited 10
When if arrives in SAINT. Eo toriobt w
e Signet will have travelled 3775i5
lies on its big journey. BY the time ~
e trip has been completed, which ie'
II be about December 1st the Car
II have travelled 1888 miles, while W ~
. Dixon's party in addition to this ~
leage will have travelled 22S9 miles ",
stage and 315 miles by water. They
II have visited SO reservations and
8 different tribes. ~
The party consists of Dr. Joseph X.
Xon Rollin l.. Dixon, II. Trevor
eth, NJ. Harris Cole, Montgomery .o
;Conkey, stenographer, and Major l''
mes Mclaughlin, representing the "a
partment of the interior
This project to erect national :,
morial to the North American In ~.
=, CCI
n was authorized by congress by =
tH. b. No. 1671) introduced in the ~,
It session of the 62nd congress and mo
ned by President Taft on December st.
. 1911. This provides for the erec- n
n Of The memorial without cost to of
United States, by Mr.. Wanamaker, fro
IN site to be selected by the sec ave
airy of war and the secretary of the
~. The site selected was in Fort bal
dswcrth New York harbor, on a
eminence 300 feet above
level A commission was also au- 70
rizcd by congress to select a suit
e design. The design selected con-
lplates heroic figure of an Indian,
feet high, on a pedestal I feet high
ch in turn will be superimposed on G.
magnificent building which will be fce
oted to 3 museum of the American and
ian. In the museum will be rooms the
ed up for the various distinctive tiet
es. The cliff dwellers of New Mex tysf
will be there: the Aztecs, and all 60 {
different tribes and Indians epochs est
historic and prehistoric times will ed.
represented. A magnificent library tude
tanning books devoted to the In ficu
is of America will also be a fea- linen