The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-07-03

Mr.. Charles Moore, who had come
from Washington to attend, and
Messrs. Herbert Adams, the sculptor,
William w. Kendall, of McKim, Mead
& White, architects; James Green
leaf, landscape architect Edwin H.
Blashfield. artist.
The result of this meeting was.
that with the advice of these repre-
sentatives of the American Fedora
ton of Arts, this Association appoint
ed, under date of December l., 1919,
Messrs. Harvey Wiley Corbett and
Cornelius V. R. Bogert as our con
sUlting architects. Mr.. Corbett is the
architect who plans and builds all of
the Bush Terminal Buildings, and is
at present building, from his own de
signs, the magIifieiaHf Bush Building
in the heart of London
Mr.. c. V. R. Bogert on account of
this Appointment resigned, to the re-
greet of all, from the Association. and
on November 10. 1919, Or. byron G
yan Horne vas unanimousIy elected
President. On this date the
and xenlisted men turned over
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS yAa-Isss
IN the meantime, ~thesideas Of .bles'
interested as to the size aDd cost of
proper memorial had grown. Severa
meetings of the bodies interested were
held and new members added. 1t is
now proposed to erect a memorial t.
oo.f not Loco +B., G. n nnn a.. 49,.
to be raised partly from an appropr:a
zion by the State of New Jersey. by 2
similar appropriation from the Boar6
of Chosen Freeholders and from popu
lar subscriptions from this and othel
states whose men passed through the
great camp.
In the early part of February, 1920
a bill, Assembly No. 179, was intro
1uced by Mr.. VIM. st. John Tozer and
referred to the Appropriations Com
mittee of the House. This bill wa
passed OF March 8. Speaker of the
House, w. Irving Glover said of it:
Assembly Bill No. 179, introduced
by Assemblyman William St. John
ToZer of Bergen County in the House
and now awaiting final passage, be
lieve is n of the meritoriOus.
commendable and patriotic measures
the House of Assembly will have to
consider during its deliberations. L
stands second only to the Soldiers
Bonus Bill in patriotism. If this bill
becomes a law, it may be the stepping
stone upon which other states will fol
low by %dedicating a memorial to the
brave men who passed through Camp
Merritt on their way to the great world
conflict. To many thousands, it was
the last they saw of hat land, which
meant SO much to the world in thai
struggle, and upon their return, with
victory written IN their banners. it was
the first of the Land of the Free and
the Home of the Brave to greet them.
What finer thing could the great State
of New Jersey do than to join in the
statewide movement to commemorate
and permanently mark the site Of
he greatest embarkation camp this
ountry had"
The bill is now in the New jersey
7NAoAN gbC VI u HVANiAioSl SIbiiNuI :
S Senator VIM. B. Mackay. He has
his to say about the movements:
Someone has said that Republics
are ungrateful. l don't believe it. L
may be that in the stress and fiux that
naturally follows all great economic
Northumberland all war can be So
classed-the brave deeds of those who
Won the victory, may be temporarily
)bscured but, they can never be for
GOTTEN.
Directly in line with this high and
noble purpose is the project of erect
ing a memorial on the Site of Camp
Merritt which the Senate of New Jer-
sey will be asked to help build. More
han a million men from New Jersey
and other parts of the United States
were SEM from this camp to the ships
which bore them overseas, in the great
World War. The spot will ever be an
historic and sacred one to them and to
he people of our state.
For this reason, l am glad to vote
for the appropriation which the legis-
AZURE of New Jersey is asked TO con-
rlbutc 20 this splendid project