The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-10-11
MCKINLEY MEMORIAL WAS
HELD ON OCTOBER ;
Beautiful Monumental Building of
Marble HonOrs Martyred President
At His Birthplace, Niles, Ohio.

On October 5, at Niles, Ohio, was
dedicated a beautiful building in hon
or of our last martyred president,
William Mckinley Most fitting cere-
monies for the occasion served as fit
ting tribute to Mr. Mckinley.
The national Mckinley Birthplace
Memorial results from an inspiration
that came to the Hon. Joseph G. But
Ter, Jr., that something be done in a
substantial way to honor McKinley's
memory at his birthplace, Distin-
guished men everywhere endorsed the
idea and gave it financial support. An
association was chartered in 1911 by
act of congress, unanimously passed.
and subscriptions for the erection OF
the building subsequently made by
people the country over.
The memorial association trustees
desired that the building have a mon
umental character and contain an au-
ditOrium, a library and a statue of the
late President Mckinley, prominently
placed The architects, Messrs, Nc
Kim, Mead & White, of New York. adj
mirably carried out their commission
by placing both departments of the
building on the ground floor and con-
Meeting them with Court of Honor,
surrounded by a peristyle of Greek
DOric columns, especially made for the
reception of the statue of President
Mckinley. The colorado. forming the
entrance to this court of honor, dOmi-
mates the main facade of the building
and gives access to the court through
a double row of twelve columns
To the right and left one enters
from the court respectively into the
auditorium and the library and di-
rectly opposite appears the statue of
the late President Mckinley, heroic in
size, executed by the famous New
York sculptor J. Massey Rhind. To
the visitor approaching the building
the statue is thus visible through the
colorado from afar and occupies the
most conspicuous point in the plan.
The aisle formed by the peristyle
contains busts of statesmen associ-
ated with Mckinley in national af-
fairs
Within the building, in the center
Of the library delivery room, there is
a statue of Henry c. Frick, and in the
second story are rooms containing
Mckinley memorabilia and busts of
| pioneers in the districts iron and
steel industry: Andrew Carnegie.
| Mark Hanna and others.
The court itself is laid out as an
/ Italian garden. adorned with hedges,
/ vases and parterres designed to en-
| nance the effect of the principal stat
ues.
The auditorium, which occupies the
right wing of the building, is de-
signed to accommodate eight hundred
people and has a semicircle stage
dressing rooms, etc
The library, on the opposite side oil
the court, contains a public exchange
surrounded by reading and reference
rooms, the librarians room and the
open stock room.
The entire structure is of Tennessee
and Georgia marble, with American
hazelwood finish throughout.
The Mckinley Memorial is thus {
shrine at which to honor a great Am.
erican. as well as an educational anC
community center for the city of his
birth, Niles, Ohio.
Early in 1916 congress authorized
the coinage of one hundred thousand
souvenir gold dollars in commemor
alton of the erection of the McKin
ley Birthplace Memorial and for tn,
II purpose of aiding in defraying tn,
cost of completing the war.
The coins bear McKinley's likeness
on the diverse and a representation
of the memorial on the reverse side
V. II. Decker. the local jeweler, ha
just received a few of these memorial
coins, which are on display in hi
windows.