The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-04-01
DEDICATE E
CROSS MEMORIAL
$500, 900 BUILDING AT WASHING
TON is TRIBUTE TO WOMEN
OF CIVIL WAR.

Washington, ID. C.-President'Wil-
son and former President Taft take
part today in the ceremonies of lay
ing the corner stone of the new Red
Cross building which is to be erect
ed as a memorial to the women OF
the civil war.
The new building is to be n of
a group of stately structures-the
Corcoran Art Gallery, teh Pan-Am-
erican Building and the Memorial
Hall of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Notwithstanding the wide
sweep of grounds back of the State
Department and White House.
The building and site, provided by
government appropriation and pri-
vate subscription, will be turned over
in perpetuity to the American Red
Cross. Here the organization will
make it's permanent home, and the
building will house all of the admin
istrative offices in charge of Red
Cross work. The plans and construc-j
ton are under the control of a COM
mission headed by President Wilson,
with SECRETARY Garrison, Senator
Luke Lea and Representative Slayden
as members.
The commission las at its disposal
$500, 900, of which 100000 was APP
propriated by Congress, as condition
that the Red Cross raise an equal
amount by private subscription. The
additional sum was made up by the
following subscriptions: James A.
Scrymser, %$1O0,000; Mrs. Russell
Sage, $3.50, 900; Mrs. Edward III. Har-
riman. $4,000; the Rockefeller
Foundation. 100000.
The new building, like most of the
others in the stately group about 1t,
will DE of white marble and the gen
eral design of the structure, its ia
cade, columns, etc, Will be on classic
lines. A parked terrace will raise
the building above the street level,
and wide marble steps will cad up
to the entrance. a row OF twelve
orinthian columns of white marble
will stretch across the entire front OF
the structure, the capitals supporting
the copper finished roof. Two mas,
sive bronze entrance doors are one OF
the striking features of the architec-
tural plans.
Within the high-arched vestibule
a flight of broad marble stairs will
lead to the second and third floors
On the stairway landing a marble
lAbACL a OS PAoSSN
following inscription:
ga memorial built by the govern
ment of the United States and patrio'
tic citizens to the women of the
North and the women of the South
held in loving memory by a nov
united country, and that their labors
to mitigate the sufferings of the sick
; and wounded in war may be forever
p~erpetnuated, this memorial is dedl-
Gated to the service of the American
Red Cross"
On this landing will also be placed
three allegorical busts in white mar
!, BILE, representing Faith. Hope ant
Charity. All of the decorations vii
: be marked by dignity and simplicity
Greatful to Red Cross
Washington, d. C.-England's
queen mother, Alexandria, has writ
: ten an autograph note to Mrs. White
law Reid in London, expressing graf
itude for the aid given by the Amer
lean Red Cross in caring for sick ant
wounded British soldiers and sailors
i, The queens note, made public at Re-
! Cross headquarters here today, fol
lows:
r. LAS president of the Englihs Rec
Cross society / beg you to kindly con
vey to the American Red Cross m,
highest appreciation of their magni
, Acent gifts to this noble work, TO
which the whole English nation
= profoundly grateful. l an mos
deeply touched by the kind assistanc
= and sympathy shown us by the Ameri
. can people,"
7 Mrs. Reid also forwarded a lette
of thanks and appreciation she ha