The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-04

headquarters OF military. patriot.
socfet1es, and veterans associations.
On the third floor, So rooms are
designated for the use OF states and
territorial possessions. The fourth
hoor is arranged for additional Of
ices for the use OF various societies
whose objects are to promote the
welfare of the country or are of
educational influence.
For Veterans.
1t is planned that one room of
the building be devoted to the use
OF veterans Of the World war. IL
wiii be endowed and provision will
De made for q museum and a Ii
orary OF World War history and
pictures.
For erection Of the building, s1o.-
o0o 900 are sought, more than a half
million or that sum is already in
hand. For the endowment of the
Memorial, from ten to fifteen mil
lion dollars is desired, making a
total OF twenty-five million dollars.
But more than this amount will be
available If the present subscrip-
ton plan proves successful.
The scheme for financing the. I'M
dertaking is believed to be unique.
each being asked TO endow a service
star for every son and daughter
who served during the World war.
me rates to be assessed are: A
minimum OF five dollars for each
blue service star and a minimum
OF one hundred dollars for each
gold star of sacrifice.
France has her Pantheon and
Britain her Westminster, SO now
America may have a Victory Mem
ORAL, revering the Father of the
Country and his ideals established
In IT'S, and commemorative the
valor of the sons of the country
who preserved them in 1917. Gen
eral Pershing, naming the edifice
temple Of remembrance to those
whose valor made it possible" ex-
pressed the hope that cit would also
be a monument to that new era of
international relationship and
frlendliness which alone will guar
antee a lasting peace"
Find Portrait.
Hartford, Conn, Feb. 4.-Discov-
cry of long-lost portrait of George
washington by the American art
lists, Gilbert Stuart, in New York
city recently directs attention to the
Stuart portrait of Washington
which hangs in Memorial Hall in
the State Library building here.
Nearly every artist who comes to
this citu Tnakac On effort 70 eaa %bi,
Gilbert canvass. 1t was bought
direct from the artist by virtue of
a resolution of the general assem-
bly, in May, 1900. The understand
ing was that it had been painted
by order of committee from South
Carolina and was then declined on
the ground that it was not a por-
trait of General Washington.
A committee from Connecticut
consisting of James Hillhouse,
whose acres in New Haven are now
the property of Yale university,
Chauncey Goodrich, of New Haven
and John Trumbull of Lebanon,
conferred with Gilbert as to
Washington portrait and purchased
the one he had painted for South
Carolina. 1t was hung in the SEN
ate chamber of the historic state
house in Hartford and after about
seventy years it was taken to the
senate chamber of the present CAPT
toll. A few years since it was placed
in the state library.
A copy of a Washington after
Stuart but not by him hung for
many years in the state house at
New Haven when Connecticut had
two capitals and two state houses,
and is now in the Hartford high
school
Another Washington, also copy,
is in Wadsworth Atheneum here,
close by a picture of Farragut in
the rigging of the U. s. s. Hartford
in the Battle of Mobile Bay.