The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-01-08
TO MARX SITE OF
FIRST CHURCH
IN VERMONT
Considered at Annual Meeting
of Monument Association
COM'TEE REPORTS PROGRESS
Satisfactory Design Has Been Sc
cured and Some Funds Have
Been Raised.

The annual meeting OF the Benning
ton Battle Monument and Historical
! association was held at the Office OF
Batchelder & Bates, this forenoon
Col. Lyman f. Abbott, vice president
presiding. Members present were Rev
Isaac Jennings, Elijah Dewey, Henry
C. Day, Alexis C. LaMarre, Otto Eu
gene ReimeL. Henry d. Fillmore, Mel
rift b. Morgan, Edward l.. Bates
John Nash, Edward j. Hail, Ernest
T. Griswold.
The minutes of the annual meet
ing of Jan. 10, 1912 and OF the
special meetings of May Goth ant
September 18th, 1912 were read anC
approved The report of treasurer
| George f. Graves was read and ap
proved showing a balance in his
| hands amounting to $SS0.43.
The report of Henry G. Day, lrv
| ing Il. Gibson and Edward l.. Bates
as the committee having in charge
the Bennington Battle Monument ana
| lands here owned by the State Of
Vermont reported an attendance Of
visitors at the monument for 1912 oi
| 6.779 and of receipts therefrom TO the
| association of SS3S.95.
The report of the committee APP
pointed to collate funds OF the associ
alton reported in hands OF the treas
urer SSS043 in hands of Monument
committee $lS9.39 and in hands Of
| the treasurer OF the state OF Yer
mont Sl,065
The report OF the committee on tn,
monument, marking the site of tht
of the old First church, reported b!
Rev. Isaac Jennings as follows
your committee charged with Sc
curing a design for proposed monu
ment, to stand on the site of the ole
church, commemorative OF its contri
button to the early history Of on
state. beg 10 submit the following re
port:
so soon as possible after its ap
pointment, suggestive designs, Will
estimated cost OF erection, wer,
sought and obtained from some nal
dozen different artists,
From among these, one, by Charles
Keck of New York, was selected a:
most nearly expressing the idea, anC
its adoption recommended to this
body at an adjourned meeting held il
May last. They voted its adoption
Since that date Mr. Keck has me-
with the committee several times
visited the site where the monument
is to stand, reviewed the history pro
posed to be commemorated, and as
a result very satisfactory ligur,
has been produced
THE next step OF the committee
was the preparation of an appeal
with letter. and return stamped en-
velope. For the appeal a half-tone
cut of the figure was procured. and
500 each of them ordered printed.
'In due season, when all was ready
these five hundred solicitations were
sent out to Vermont Sons and Daugh
tiers in various parts of the country
This was done on the 31st of Deem
Der. Up-to-date some forty-five re
sponses have been received of which
twenty have contained checks and
bills amounting to 1884. which have
been deposited in the First National
Bank
There is, i'm addition to the 1--WE
hundred names, TO whom appeals
have been sent, supplementary list
of at least half as many more for
which We have ordered an additional
amount of printing.
AT the 1912 annual meeting of this
association held on January 18th last
the sum of 5000 was appropriated by
this association for the use OF this
committee. Your committee has spent
OF such appropriation the sum of sos
81 and the entire amount collected by
way of subscriptions is intact and
must be kept so until such time as a
sufficient amount is received for the
dsired purpose.
Il was voted TO pay the bill OF Hans
Kelson, amounting 70 $3.50, for books
descriptive of the battle OF Benning-
ton. furnished New York State His
torical Society.
For the committee on Memorial hall
for soldiers and sailors Of the war Of
1S61-lS65 f. J. Hall reported as fol-
lows:
The committee on memorial hall
AoA HNAhANic anu ccAlolH vi tue war OF
lS6l-lS65 report that IL approved by
the association they are about to is
sue the following letter.
The Bennington Battle Monument
ana Historical association have voted
to raise funds for the building OF a
memorial hall as a memorial to the
soldiers and sailors from Vermont
who served in the war of 1S6l-1S65.
hereby suggest that they would glad
~ receive rough plans showing the
general appearance. exterior and IN
terror Of such a building 10 be used
IN the solicitation Of funds. In event
Of success in the undertaking the as
ISOLATION will pay the successful ar
chitect whose design is selected the
usual architects commission. but will
make no payment 10 unsuccessful
competitors.
Plans should be submitted By Auril
18th. and based on a cost Of not less
than $4,000 nor more than $500"
The report was on motion accepted
and adopted
Remarks were made By Rev. Isaac
Jennings, L. L. d., relative 70 the his
tOrial supremacy Of Bennington. 70
the marking Of the site Of the Old