The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-04-17
DEDICATE BRIDGE
TO BUTTS NAME
MasOns Pay Tribute to Titanic
Hero.
EMPIRES. TAFT SPEAKS.
Former Chief Executive One of
Those Who Praise Life and
Death OF Georgian.


dedication here today of the Butt
memorial bridge, erected as tribute
to the memory Of the late Mai.
Archibald Willingham Butt, aide to
Former Presidents Taft and Roose-
welt, who perished in the Titanic
disaster on April IA, 1912. Former
President Taft, delegation of
Masons from the Temple-Noyes
lodge of Washington, of which Major
Butt as a member, local Masons and
members of the Butt Memorial AS
sociation, participated in the ser
vices which were held on the hand
some new bridge spanning the
canal at Fifteenth and Green
streets.
Arrangements had been complet-
ed for the dedication to be held yes
terday afternoon, but on account Of
rain it was necessary to postpone the
ceremonies until today
The formal dedication Of the
bridge was preceded by the laying
of a cornerstone with ritualistic cere-
mony by the Masons.
Former President Taft, the first
speaker, spoke feelingly of his
former aide as "Southerner
through and through"
II like to think of him." said Mr..
Taft, "as the best type of the new
South with it's full flavor of the chi
valrous and patriotic sentiment of
the old war and it's consequences,
mellowed by success in it's struggles
against obstacles after the war, and
turned into the deepest loyalty to the
flag by the Spanish-American war
and a sense of a full share in the
power and responsibility of the gov
eminent Of the country
"He was a Southerner through
and through. He had the traditions
OF the South, deepseated in his ma
ture. But he had the self-control
that enabled him with entire self
respect to pass unnoticed expressions
OF prejudice or criticism toward
what he held dear, made thought
lessly, or upon the assumption that
he was not a Southern man.
KNEW HE WAS LOST.
"Archie went to his death in a
great disaster that attracted the at
tention of the world We do not
know the details, but we know that
women and children were rescued
and he went down with the ship Re-
turning from much needed vaca-
/ ton, full of what he had seen and
enjoyed, he was Fastening again to
take up the duties in the beautiful
and stately White House that should
know his earthly form no more.
When l heard that many were lost,
| l knew that Archie would never re-
turn.
He would have selected no other
death had he been given choice
3 He is preserved to us in his manly
beauty, in his soldierIy form. in his
kindly attitude of help in the dis
charge of his highest duty. Thus he
is in the memory of us all Sad as
his end seems, how happy in fact.
This bridge, on the site Of which
for years there has been bronze
memorial Of another sacrifice of a
'fe for a life and Of another hero.
rnishes n most appropriate means
of expressing the love that his fel-
low townsfolk bore and bear TO
Archie alive and dead Standing on
this plain, sloping gently up to the
sand hills where he was born and
which revived his fondest memor$&
IL will remain forever to record khe
story OF his highest duty HUbly
done"
The other bronze tablet, referred
to by Mr. Taft, bears the name OF
"ennis Cahill. a young laborer who
umped into the canal to rescue a
child who had fellen into the water.
Cahill was unable to swim and
nerished in the attempted rescue.
SPLENDID CONTRIBUTION"
Carter Keene. representative of
the Temple-Noyes lodge of Washing
ton, spoke of Mayor Butt as "a
splendid contribution Georgia had
made to manhood"