Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-01

"Belleau Wood corner of the forest pre-
serve at Rand and Ballard roads, has been made
Cook county's first living memorial to her World
war soldiers of Cook county, Illinois. The area
in accordance with the plan of the county board
to name forest preserve tracts after battles Of
the World war, commentaries the deeds of the
Second division at the famous wooded hill near
Chateau Thierry
A $20OO,OO0 memorial testifying to the regard
of the people of Tennessee for her who gave
their lives in the World war, soon will take its
place among the most beautiful and elaborate
buildings of the kind IN this country. The state
appropriated $1,000,000, the city of Nashville
raised 100000 and the county of DavdsoI put
up 100000.
The General Federation Of Women's Clubs,
comprising the majority of the clubs of the entire
nation, has Endorsed and it's component clubs will
take an active part in the campaign for border
ing the Victory highway, national memorial trans
continental highway, with living monuments to
the soldier dead of the United States in the form
of trees planted and cared for by the local clubs
which are members of the general federation.
HattonchateI, the little village which was
almost wiped out five years ago in the course of
the hard, swift drive by which General Pershing's
men cleared the st. Mihiel salient of German
troops, in September celebrated its resurrection,
thanks to American generosity, along with the
fifth anniversary of the deiverance of the vii
lage from the Germans. Miss Belle Skinner of
Holyoke, Mass. is the wealthy American woman
to whose generosity the village is indebted for
it's restoration.
At Chaumont in June a monument was ded-
Gated to Franco American friendship" Chau-
mont was the headquarters of the American gen.
eral staff.
The French nation has begun the erection of
ma gnifcent and colossal monument to the Amer
lean soldiers. 1t will stand upon the Pointe de
Grave the lonely cape upon the stormy Bay OF
80
in the great World war. The monument will rise
to a height of $50 feet 1t will be by far the
greatest monument of it's kind In the world.
The principal sculptural feature of the work
will be gigantic figure of France on the seward
side, gazing straight the Atlantic in the
direction of America
The foundation stone of the monument was laid
with imposing ceremony by Prime Minister Pon-
care in company with the American ambassador
to France The day chosen for the ceremony was
the anniversary of the landing of the American
troops and happened also to be that of the arrival
of Lafayette in America with French troops at
the time of the Revolution.
Belleau wood, which Marshal Foch called "the
cradle of victory" was consecrated in July to the
memory of the Americans who died there The
French flag, at Foch's command, was hauled down
to trumpeting by French buglers and the "AIar-
seillaise" by the marine band from the u S. S.
Pittsburg. and the American flag was run up to
the strains of the "Star Spanged Banner" A
group of Americans from many states and rea-
tives of the dead assembled inside the ring of
French villages. the homes of which the Amer
leans saved. The wood formally dedicated as
permanent memorial by the Beleau Wood
Memorial association. represented by the presi-
dent Mrs. James Carroll Frazier, who directed
the plan to buy the land and preserve the bat
tlefelds, with trenches and machine gun nests
and erect a monument and place descriptive
tablets.
demand for congressional investigation into
the alleged deplorable condition of the American
military cemetery at Belleau woods, France was
made in October by Edward b. Spafford, New
York state commander of the American Legion