The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-11
ATTENDS DEDICATION OF
 PERRY ARCH
Continued from Page one.)

lAi0 <a11lei 4ctin woman. FeFnapS no 1 other Yankee invention" has done l as much to set our women free. l As President Wilson stood on Me
 morIal Day in the beautiful Ameri- can Military Cemetery at Suresnes' looking over that forest of white i crosses, he told us that these men had i died in the line of duty and were buried in "a foreign but not in an alien soil"
 As I stood just behind the President looking at that throng and thinking 1 of our home people across the sea, it 1 seemed to me that these men had in 1 their dying glorified in it's highest as- l pect the morality for which America has such high respect They gave themselves to a cause they did not pretend was their own. They went out in the defence of liberty for all mankind
 The epitaph "died in the line of 1 duty belongs not alone to those white crosses surrounded by the blood-red peoples of France and Flanders but it i belongs to Q citizen at home who loy- ally did his duty with none of the encouragement of public applause without whose faithfuIness the men
 who led the charge over the top could not have won victory. We are all | | dare to think of her not only with | material equipment adequate for i the exercise of her vigorous 1 business life, but city fill ed with those things which sum-
 mon the soul of men to love the beau- | tiful and revere the noble. It is for
 us so to live in the line of duty that
 the ideals for which seventy thousand of our men and women gave their lives shall not be betrayed. Today we honor the memory of this citizen and his gracious wife who lived and died ''in the line of duty.''
 Community singing after Dr. Days address was followed by Justice Wheeler's presentation of the arch to the city and it's acceptance by Mayor i Wilson and transfer to the Park Commissioners, president by George c. Eames. The program concluded with the singing of the National An them.
 In presenting the memorial, Justice Wheeler said:
 MT President, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Mayor Wilson:
 Mrs. Harriet Adelaide Perry, widow of William Hunt Perry. in her will provided a legacy of S75.00D for an arch with bas relief at the main en- trance to Seaside Park.
 The executors paid over to the trus- tees the legacy of $75, 900.
 The trustees unhesitating1y accept ed Mrs. Perry's judgment that the arch should be built at this entrance to our Seaside Park, and the Board Of Park Commissioners acquiesced in our decision. It is fitting that we express to you, sir, to the Park Board and to all city officials with whom this bus l l,,a ligation for the cordial assistance given us and the quick sympathy shown to our every suggestion.
 The place decided upon, the trus-
 tees took counsel and made wide in
 vestigation and then gave to Henry
 Bacon of New York city the com
 mission for the arch, and to Paul
 Morris of Bridgeport the commission
 for the bas relief. MT. Bacon is re-
 garded as the foremost architect in
 America in memorial work. MT.
 Morris was a Bridgeport man who
 had attained repute as a sculptor.
 was a friend of Mrs. Perry and had
 been honored by her by what the
 trustees regarded as a practical se-
 lection for the designing of the bas
 relief. MT. Morris unhappily died
 before his first sketch was complete
 Thereupon the trustees gave to
 Adolph A. Weinman the commission for the bas relief.
 xp MT etaoietaoi etaoi etaoieuaoi MT. Weinman had been noted in
 his profession for many years. In-
 deed, he was under most serious con-
 sideration by the committee which awarded the commission for the
 James W. Beardsley statue at the entrance to our Beardsley park. His sculpture is among the best that the
 sculptors of America have produced. How well these artists have been about their task, arch and bas re- lief testify. They will appeal to the highest artistic sense, and each, I am persuaded, will grow in public regard the longer it endures- It Is apt to be thus, the generation of a later day estimates more truly and higher the
 really great work of today than do
 those who live with it, be it in the
 paths of government, statesmanship, letters. or art
 Architecture and sculpture are all lies in the arts. Finished skill, beau a work of truth and beauty born in
 understanding, sympathy and imag- ination. That is art, that is true ar chitecture and true sculpture. And
 this arch and this baS relief are the blessed children of the hand, and head and heart of artists who possess these qualities.
 Wonder factory chimney and the plant it ministers to are. the. mere mechanism of architecture. The heart of man did not throb in their design ing, nor did beauty crown their build ing. But arch and bas relief are diff ferent. Into these have gone the skill of rare art, the imagination of high soul and there cCmeth forth the wonders of truth and beauty.
 Beauty" said Ruskin, one of its most understanding friends. Beauty has been appointed by the Deity to be one of the elements by which the human soul is continually sustain ed.'
 Yes, beauty is everywhere in na- ture in sky above, in the waters of the Sound in tree and shrub, in flower and tiniest leaf. And the most beautiful of all beautiful things in this wondrous world is a beautiful human life, and that life is beautiful which thinks and does for others!
 This Memorial in all its just dig nifty typifies the character of him in l whose memery it was created. Who | ever shall look here and think of William H. Perry shall see before | him a true type of New England | manhood, a man of strong intelli- l gence, sound judgment and discrimS rif