Evening star., 1923-07-15

Committee of Women. created
by the women's auxiliary
committee of the Unlteu
States of the Second Pan American
Scientific Congress. will hold simul-
taneous meetings of it's national sec
tions in the various capitals OF North'
south and Central America on Column
bus day. October 12. The conferences
were originally convoked ana the
suggested program dispatched by the
women's auxiliary committee OF
which Mrs. Charles Evans Hushes is
chairman. This statement demon
strates that after a lapse or many
years Christopher Columbus is to re-
ceiye the recognition he so deeply
merits-that after many years this
man who, In face of defeat after de-
feat, managed to carry out TO sue
cessfui conclusion the dream that ne
had fostered from early boyhood.
Part of the recognition to be ac-
corded the early explorer is in the
form of the erection of memorial
light that will cast it's rays for hum
dreds of miles, a beacon that Will
ever remind mariners of the splendid
achievements of one of their KIND 4
man who, though baffled by many
turns of fate. stood by the helm and
established communication between
two worlds, and by so doing gave to
mankind a larger area in which TO
carry on his undertakings.
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THE Columbus light project has
L been formally indorsed and 'ap-
pr6ved by the Pan-American confer
ence at Santiago de Chile, ana re-
newed interest attaches to a project
which had been initiated some years
ago by well known Santo Domingans
and fostered by prominent Americans,
among the latter being mentioned
William Z. Pulliam, receiver of Gus
toms at Santo Domingo. Dominican
republic.
The project calls for the erection
of monumental lighthouse at Santo
Domingo, where the mortal remains
of Christopher Columbus Will remain
for all time. No more fitting monu-
ment than q lighthouse nor more
appropriate spot than Santo Domingo
could have been conceived. for 1T
was at Santo Domingo that Column
bus established the first permanent
Christian settlement in what he
called the new world. 1t is the only
place in America where he maintain
ed a residence, where he ruled his
people and the Indians 1t was there
that he was, through treachery, tenn
porarily shorn of his power and cast
into the greatest depths of humilia-
ton. He was put in irons, and, in
spite of the unpleasant occurrences.
he always cherished Santo Domingo
and before his death requested that
his remains be sent to the spot he
loved so well.
The lighthouse will be memorial
TO Columbus in which the peoples of
the republics forming the Pan-Ameri-
can Union will all participate, and it
will for all time direct the attention
of the travelling public Twenty-one
republics Of the Americas will jointly
erect the memorial. This is assured
by the action Of the representatives
assembled at Santiago, all pledging
cooperation Of their respective coun-
tries.
Inc tentative SheIcH
this article was prepared by Walter
: F. Boyer, consulting engineer, OF
Washington, who has had wide eX-
perience in and is an authority on
the design and construction of large
lighthouses in this and other coun-
tries. He designed and built several
of the largest, and truly monumental
lighthouses in the great lakes. Boyer
also prepared the project for lighting
the Panama canal and designed all
the structures pertaining to that
work. He prepared the scheme of
aids to navigation on the Pacific coast
of Panama for the republic of Pan
anna and has made a personal exami-
nation and study of the largest and
most important lighthouses in France
and England.