Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-06-25

Mr.. Charles Mooxe, who had come
from Washington to attend, anc
Messrs. Herbert Adams, the sculptor
William w. Kendall, of McKim, Meac
& 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 II, 1919,
Messrs. Harvey Wiley Corbett and
Cornelius V. r. Bogert as our con-
sulting architects. MI. 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 magnificent 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, DIR. Byron G.
Van Horne was unanimously elected
President. On this date the officers
and enlisted men turned over to the
Association, $500 for said Memorial
In the meantime, the ideas of those
interested as to the size and cost of a
proper memorial had grown. Several
meetings of the bodies interested were
held and new members added. 1t is
now proposed to erect a memorial to
cost not less than $150,000, the money
to be raised partly from an %appropria-
ton by the State of New Jersey, by a
similar appropriation from the Board
of Chosen Freeholders and from popu-
lar subscriptions from this and Other
states whose men passed through the
great camp.
In the early part of February, 1920,
a bill, Assembly No. 179, was intro
duced by Mr.. VIM. st. John Tozer and
referred to the Appropriations Com
mittee Of the House. This bill was
passed on March 8. Speaker of the
House, w. Irving Glover said of it:
Assembly Bill No. 179, introduced
by As~semblyman William st. John
Tozer of Bergen County in the House
and now awaiting final passage, I be-
lieve Is n of the most meritorious,
~commendable and patriotic measures
the House of Assembly will have to
consider during its deliberations. 1t
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, Nv loIioofipor n ,,o,oap;aI - H.
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 that land, which
meant so much to the world in that
struggle, and upon their return, with
victory written on 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
the greatest embarkatiOn camp this
country had"
The bill is now in the New Jersey
Senate. One of its foremost sponsors
is Senator VIM. B. Mackay. He has
this to say about the movement:
Someone has said that Republics
are ungrateful. 1 don't believe it. 1t
may be that in the stress and f1ux that
naturally follows all great economic
disturbances-and all war can be so
classed-the brave deeds of those who
won the victory, may be temporarily
obscured but, they "a 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
than a million men from New Jersey
and other parts of the United States
were sent from this camp to the ships
which bore them overseas, in the great
World War. The spot will ever be an
historic and sacred ole to them and to
the people of our state.
"For this reason, | am glad to vote
for the appropriation which the legis-
lature of New Jersey is asked to con-
tribute to this splendid project"