The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-05-17
Heroes Honored
In the Capital
OF the Nation

DECORATION day, as Ii Is oftentimes err
r0ne0usly called-comes to the Ameri-
can nation with added meaning. All
over the country there are thousands
who will decorate the graves of loved
ones, who had mourned for them In
the absent cemeteries in France, or
Belgium, or England. This year many
are with us. All through the year SOL
emn corteges have escorted to the great
Arlington cemetery, just across the
Potomac river from Washington, the
earthly remains of the gallant Ameri-
can boys who left home end country
to cross the seas and stop the onward
rush of the Hun. Sometimes these
burial professions accompanied, with
highest military honors, few, some
times large numbers of the dead,
through the streets Of Washington to
their final resting place in beautiful
Arlington. And so 1t has been all over
the country. Memorial day is holi-
day in the true sense-a holy day. In
Washington 1t is especially observed
for at Washington 1t is not only the
silent resting place of the heroes Of
three wars, but in Washington wreaths
and decorations are placed also before
the statues and memorials of the
earlier heroes of the nation-those of
the Revolution, the War of 1912, and
the Mexican war. Washington is in
deed City Of Memorials, writes Guy
Elliott Mitchell In Grit.
All Held In L IVA
To describe all the public memorials
Of Washington would require many
pages. They range from small ex-
quisite structures, such as the Archie
Butt fountain erected south of the
White House to that beloved member
of the newspaper fraternity In Wash
ington and aide to President Roose-
welt, victim of the Titanic, to the
great group Of statues of Marquis La
fayette, Count Rocbambeau. John
Paul Jones and General Thomas.
known as the Rock of Chickamauga.
and others who fought either for
American freedom or the Union.
Nor are all the open park places and
inches of the nations capital yet filed
with memorial statues and mOnu-
ments There are many projects which
are under way and others that are
certain of fulfillment. A splendid gov
eminent park has recently been COM
pleted to the north of the main body
of the city, and already 1t contains a
Of Arc presented by the French citi-
zens Of New York city and the statue
Of Dante presented recently by the
italian government. Here also will
be erected by congress a splendid
memorial to President Buchanan.
Daniel Webster. who himself has a
splendid statue in Washington, once
said that President Andrew johnson
proposed to span the Potomac with
"arches of ever enduring granite SYM
bolical of the firmly established union
of North and South" This is now
bearing fruit. The magnificent Francis
Scott Key memorial connects Wash
ington with Virginia and Arlington,
while another great S5.0OO,OOO bridge
tower down the Potomac is to connect
Washington with Virginia and the
boulevard leading to Mount Vernon,
the home of Washington.
To the Titanic Victims.
Another beautiful memorial is to be
erected In commemoration of the vic
Tins of the Titanic disaster. Yet an
other striking memorial figure is to be
n statue of Alexander Hamilton, our
first secretary of the treasury, erected
at the south front OF the Treasury
building. as commemorative of the re-
markable genius who founded our
present financial system.
Another large memorial is to be
erected in recognition of the brilliant
invention by John Ericsson of the iron
clad Monitor. Jointly by appropriation
from congress and contributions from
Americans Of Scandinavian descent.
Not the least of the great memorials
which are soon to be erected Is the
George Washington building Of white
marble. to cost $2.OO0,OOO. This is to
be used for inaugural receptions and
special public meetings authorized by