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W. I. Thompson, F. C. Bate,
Frank Aborn, E. P. Fenton,
Will. V. W. Wamelink,
Henry J. Wamelink,
C. W. Wason, W. H. Beaumont,
David Charleswortlı, A. T. Anderson.
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COMMITTEE ON CARRIAGES. Hon. J. V. McGorray, Chairman. Hon. Charles P. Salen, Secretary. LOYAL WOMEN'S AID SOCIETY COMMITTEE. Mrs. Lena Springsteen, Chairman.
Mesdames Alice W. Fuller, L. W. Bailey, Lois M. Knauff, E. Knight,
Nellie Willard, Florence H. White,
Mary Gressmuck,
E. R. Walker,
Mary Clifford,
T. W. Brainard,
Sarah Mitten,
M. B. Gary,
Carrie McReynolds,
W. H. Hayward,
Catherine McQuiston,
R. C. White,
Mary Seymour,
P. H. Kaiser,
Lenora Cunningham,
E. L. Patterson,
Mary E. Myers,
W. R. Austin,
Thankful Prestage,
H. W. Osborn,
Lois Craft,
L. Smithnight,
Clarissa Hubbard,
Thomas Rodgers,
Rose Mayo,
Mattie Barrett,
Jerusha C. Bicknell,
Winnie B. Rogers,.
Amelia Ames,
Dora Brush,
Emma Smith,
Emma Seymour,
Elizabeth Smith,
Alice Slack,
John Dickenson,
Nettie Freeman,
E. M. Hessler, Miriam Gillis,
G. C. Barnes,
Lucy Killam,
Mary Erwin,
Nettie Molyneaux,
Mary Werner,
Elizabethi Dunn,
H. Barnes,
Martha Wherry, A. E. Brockett,
Gertrude Cary,
Kate K. Dorner,
C. J. Sullivan, Willard Abbott,
M. J. Fisk,
Eunice Brown,
Ellen R. Caulkins,
James McMahon,
Eva Loomis,
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W. R. Creighton,
J. G. W. Cowles,
C. C. Dewstoe,
L. S. Fish,
W. J. Gleason,
J. M. Gasser,
James Barnett,
Byron Pope,
Martha L. Hayr,
Hannah Shepherd,
Levi F. Bander,
Sarah A. Lane,
Levi T. Scofield,
Florence Armstrong,
M. D. Leggett,
Ida Williams,
J. O. Winship,
M. J. Sloat,
J. W. Gibbons,
Sue Shengle,
N. Coe Stewart,
W. F. Walworth,
D. H. Kimberley,
Mary F. Claflin,
L. W. Day,
C. F. Olney,
Louise M. Roland,
E. L. Harris,
G. E. Frazer,
A. C. Hyer,
Susie Worcester,
G. Peterson.
J. C. Covert,
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Mrs. Elroy M. Avery, Chairman.
Mrs. B. D. Babcock,
Mrs. M. D. Williams,
Mrs. A. T. Perry,
Mrs. T. D. Crocker,
Mrs. Homer W. Osborn, Mrs. Cyrus Merrill.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION COMMITTEE.
Hon. Elroy M. Avery, Chairman.
L. E. Holden, James H. Hoyt,
General James Barnett, R. C. Parsons,
Professor C. F. Olney, N. P. Bowler,
J. M. Richardson, Pres. Charles F. Thwing,
H. H. Ward, President Cady Staley,
H. A. Kelley,
E. H. Baker.
NAVAL DISPLAY COMMITTEE.
Commodore Percy W. Rice, Chairman.
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SALUTES AND FIREWORKS. Colonel A. T. Van Tassel, Chairman. Capt. J. F. McCauley, Secretary. A. A. Dittricli,
A. B. Honecker,
Daniel R. Hanna,
Charles P. Salen,
L. Smithnight,
J. S. Dickle,
Jacob Waldeck,
Albert Johnson,
Ralph Williams,
Ed. Benham.
E. S. Wright,
H. H. Burgess,
E. W. Bowers.
C. A. Selden,
COMMITTEE ON THE EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.
Hon. A. J. Williams, Chairman. H. C. Hawkins, Secretary.
Hon. R. C. Parsons,
H. M. Addison,
Geo. F. Marshall, Solon Burgess,
R. T. Lyon,
Darius Adams,
Bolivar Butts, Judge Frank H. Kelly.
Wilson S. Dodge,
MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE. C. A. Davidson, Chairman.
Director J. H. Farley, Director M. J. Herbert,
Director H. H. Hyman,
Dan. O. Caswell,
Dan P. Reynolds, Esq.,
Supt. Henry Hoehn,
H. H. Burgess,
John Wilhelmn,
Chief James Dickinson,
P. J. McKenney,
B. W. Jackson,
W. I. Thompson,
R. E. McKisson, Esq.,
F. Hesoun, Jr.,
Director W. J. McKinnie, J. V. McGorray. Director W. A. Madison,
COMMITTEE ON POLICE. Hon. M. J. Herbert, Chairman. Supt. Henry Hoehn, Captain Michael English, Captain James McMahon, Captain E. K. Hutchinson, Captain M. F. Madigan, Captain A. S. Gates.
George G. Mulhern,
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The committees thus fully organized proceeded with their work with a vim and vigor that was bound to be successful.
The question of Orator of the Day was raised. It was thought advisable to select one as early as possible. General J. J. Elwell moved that ex-Governor Joseph B. Foraker be the Orator. It was so decided unani- mously.
As President of the Monument Commission, it was Major Gleason's privilege and honor to preside at the dedication, if he so wished. In order, however, that National significance might be given that great event, he named Governor William Mckinley as President of the Day. His voluntary act was enthusiastically re- ceived.
At the meeting held May 12, this action was taken :
"Hon A. J. Williams submitted the following state- ment and resolutions which, on motion of General J. J. Elwell, were unanimously adopted :
"First to challenge the attention of the visitor as he enters the imposing Monument erected to the memory of Cuyahoga's volun- teers in the late War is the bronze representation of a group of women. 'Who are they ? ' he inquires. The answer comes : 'They are the noble patriotic ladies who were most prominent in woman's. great work in contributing to the cheer and comfort of the heroes whose names adorn these walls.' Of that group but three survive, and as they who know them look upon that picture they at once exclaim : 'There is Mrs. Josiah A. Harris, now the venerable and honored Vice President of the Early Settlers' Association; and there is Mrs. Peter Thatcher, both living in Cleveland ; and there is Miss Ellen F. Terry, now Mrs. C. F. Johnson, at present a resi- dent of Hartford, Conn.'
" How fitting and proper it is that these only living members of that group should be accorded deserved prominence at the dedica- tion of the Monument; therefore it is
" Resolved, That Mrs. J. A. Harris, Mrs. Peter Thatcher, and Mrs .. C. F. Johnson be most cordially requested to be present at the cere- monies of the dedication, and that the Committee on Reception be- instructed to provide them with proper accommodations.
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" Resolved, That the Committee on Invitations be instructed to forward a copy of the foregoing to each of the persons named."
A letter which was addressed to L. H. Williams, Department Commander, and the delegates to the Twenty-eighth Annual Encampment of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, requested their presence at the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument. The committee approved the letter and ordered that it be forwarded to the Encampment.
Mr. Luther Allen, President of the Chamber of Com- merce, made an announcement which was received by the committee with regret. Mr. Allen was appointed as the Chairman of the Committee on Merchants and Manufacturers, and he said that on account of his numerous business engagements it would be impossible for him to give the subject the attention which it would require, and for this reason he desired to tender his resignation. Major Gleason said he hoped Mr. Allen would reconsider his determination, as he was eminently fitted for the head of the committee for which he had been chosen. He said the merchants and manufactur- ers' division could be made a great feature of the parade. Mr. Allen said he fully appreciated the im- portance of the subject, and finally said he would remain as chairman of the committee for another week at least, and in the meantime would appoint the remaining members.
Of the meeting held May 19th, the Leader said :
" There is no longer any doubt that the Fourth of July celebration in connection with the dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument will be the grand- est of the kind ever witnessed in Cleveland. Almost all the committees are actively at work, and they are assured of success. A meeting of the General Commit- tee in charge of the demonstration met in the rooms of the Board of Control, yesterday, and there was quite a large attendance.
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"Mr. Luther Allen, Chairman of the Committee on Merchants and Manufacturers, made an encouraging report. He said that he had been somewhat handi- capped in his work for the reason that many of the men whom he wanted to see and interest in the work were out of the city. He said that his idea was to divide his committee into two subcommittees, one to be known as the Merchants' Committee, and the other the Manufacturers' Committee. The field he said was too large for one committee, and much better results could be obtained by the division. He intended to appoint a chairman and a vice chairman for each committee. Mr. Allen said that he had already secured the consent of one gentleman to act as the Chairman of the Subcom- mittee on Merchants, and a gentleman who had been selected as the Chairman on Manufacturers had prom- ised to give his decision on Monday. He said that he would be able to announce his committees, and make a full report to the meeting of the General Committee on next Saturday afternoon. The General Committee was much encouraged by Mr. Allen's report.
" Professor Olney suggested, and the other members of the committee agreed with him, that a pleasant feature of the day would be to have the chorus which will sing on Memorial Day render patriotic airs during the time of the dedication of the Monument. The feasibility of building a platform in the Public Square for this pur- pose was discussed. It was the general opinion that the children should have some part in the exercises of the day on account of the lesson of patriotism which it will teach.
"Captain James Hayr, the Chairman of the Commit- tee on Old Soldiers who are not attached to any Soldiers' organization, announced that he was meeting with much better success than he hoped for. He said that he was in correspondence with Comrades in many
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States, and he hoped to have every unattached Soldier now living whose name is in the Soldiers' Monument in the parade. He has already heard from fifty-seven regimental associations, and every one of them will be headed by their battle flag. The custodian of the flag room in the State Capitol at Columbus will bring all the old battle flags to the city for the occasion, and will be responsible for their safe return. This report was received with much favor, as the carrying of the blood- stained battle flags will be a prominent feature of the parade."
Considerable headway had been made by the several committees previous to the meeting held June 2d, of which the Leader spoke :
" The General Committee having charge of the ar- rangements for the Fourth of July demonstration was well represented at the meeting held in the rooms of the Board of Control, in the City Hall, yesterday after- 110011. The meeting was the most business-like and interesting of any yet held by the committee. The program is well under way, and if the people of Cleveland are as generous as they have been in times past on occasions of the kind, the demonstration on the Fourth will be the grandest ever witnessed in the State. When the meeting had been called to order, and the routine business transacted, reports from the various subcommittees were called for. The first to respond was General J. J. Elwell, of the Committee on Invita- tions. He said that the committee liad held a meeting with a full attendance before the General Committee had convened. It was resolved that the chairman of the committee should invite the following distinguished persons to attend the celebration: President Grover Cleveland and Cabinet, Vice President Adlai E. Stev- enson, Major General John M. Schofield, General O. O. Howard, General Nelson A. Miles, General Nathan A.
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Kimball, General Dan E. Sickles, General Lew Wallace, ex-President Harrison, Hon. James E. Campbell, Gen- eral A. V. Rice, General W. H. Gibson, Major E. M. Hayes, General Aquilla Wiley, Hon. A. B. Kennedy, Hon. E. P. Scammon, Hon. J. D. Cox, Hon. J. C. Cowan, the Garfield family, Speaker Charles E. Crisp, Hon. Franklin J. Dickman, Hon. A. G. Riddle, Hon. S. O. Griswold, Hon. John Sherman, Hon. Calvin P. Brice, Hon. Allen G. Thurman, Hon. George E. Hoadley, General Thomas Ewing, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Colonel John A. Cockerell, General I. H. Sherwood, Colonel William Perry Fogg, Hon. Joseph R. Hawley, General Russell A. Alger, General W. H. Powell, the Judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the surviving members of the Northern Ohio Sanitary Commission, and the members of the Ohio Senate and House of Representatives.
" Major W. J. Gleason reported for the Committee on Program. He said that his committee had mapped out a partial program, but many details remained to be completed. He said that the committee would be able to present a magnificent program.
"The military part of the program was answered for by General James Barnett. He said that he liad assurances that all the military companies in the city and county would be in line in the procession.
"The next committee to report was the Committee on1 Grand Army of the Republic, for which Captain G. C. Barnes responded. He said that a letter had been pre- pared, and it would be sent to all the Grand Army posts in Cuyahoga and adjoining counties, requesting them to participate in the parade. Captain Barnes said that if satisfactory railway rates could be obtained he was sure that there would be a large attendance of Grand Army men from outside the city.
" For the Sons of Veterans, Captain Henry Frazee
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said that he had sent letters of invitation to all the camps in the county, and he was satisfied that there would be a large attendance.
"Colonel C. C. Dewstoe responded for the Civic Societies. He said that his committee was making good progress. He said that he had a list of all the uniformed societies in the city, and they were all anx- ious to turn out and make a creditable division of the parade. The committee was given power to invite all the civic societies in the city to participate in the parade.
"Mr. W. J. Akers reported that the Committee on Transportation had met with the various passenger agents of the city, and they had agreed to recommend to the traffic association that tickets be sold from all points in Ohio, and also from Detroit and Buffalo, at one fare for the round trip, and that tickets be good from July 2 to July 7, inclusive.
"A report from the Committee on Music was made by Professor Charles F. Olney. He stated that it would be difficult to determine what the Committee on Music would do until it was known whether a platform would be erected, and how large it would be. 'If a platform is erected,' he said, 'which will hold 4,000 people, we can have a large chorus of school children, which would be a pleasing feature. If we know definitely about the platform, we can proceed understandingly.'
"' I hope that enough interest will be aroused to erect a platform,' said Mr. W. J. Akers. 'We should get the school children out and instill patriotismn into them. This is a celebration in which they should participate, and I want to hear them sing. '
"'We want the children,' said General Elwell. It will be an object lesson for the rising generation, even if it is not for us old fellows. I want this committee to tell Professor Olney to go ahead and prepare for a chorus of school children.'
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" Major Gleason offered a resolution, which was adopted, providing that Professor Olney should call on Director Sargent and request him to co-operate in the movement to secure a chorus of school children to sing during the dedication of the Monument.
"Captain James Hayr reported for the Committee on Unattached Soldiers. He said that he already had as- surances that sixty-two commands would be in line with their old battle flags. He expected to have fully one hundred different commands represented in the parade. He would also have a number of Marines in his division, and it was possible that they would have a float representing the Monitor.
"Mr. L. N. Weber reported for the Committee on Decorations. He said that his committee had held several meetings and had discussed various plans for decorating the down town portions of the city. 'We would like,' he said, 'to build an elaborate arch, and to decorate the Public Square profusely with flags, bunting, and mottoes. Evening decorations have also been discussed by the committee. It has been sug- gested that we have Chinese lanterns hung about the Square, and that red, white and blue electric lights be suspended from the wires over the streets.'
"Mr. McGorray suggested that the committees had progressed very satisfactorily, and that the time had arrived when the Grand Marshal of the day should be chosen. Professor Olney moved that the selection of the Marshal be left to General Barnett, General Elwell, and Major Gleason, and Mr. McGorray favored that mode of procedure. Major Gleason offered as an amendment that General James Barnett be unanimously chosen as the Grand Marshal of the day. General Barnett attempted to utter a protest, but his voice was drowned in the applause which followed Major Gleason's amendment. Colonel Dewstoe said that he had rode
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with General Barnett when he had said that it was positively his last appearance and he wanted to do so again. General Barnett was then declared the Marshal of the day, but he said that he would have to positively decline.
"Major Gleason then enlogized the General. He said that he had commanded the largest parades ever held in Cleveland and that he wanted to see him in the front again. 'General Barnett led the first troops from Ohio into the enemy's country,' said Captain Hayr, 'and he ought to lead us in our final triumph-the dedication of our Monument.'
"'I regret,' said General Barnett, 'that I was the marshal of the parades at the funerals of two Presidents in this city. I was in charge of the parade when Gar- field was buried, and later had the honor to be Chief Marshal on the occasion of the dedication of Garfield's Memorial, and I expected and desired that it would be the last one which I should ever head. I am now at the time of life when the younger men should take charge. I understand your kindness, and appreciate the honor, but you must excuse me.'
"It was finally decided to lay the choosing of a marshal over to the next meeting."
At the next meeting, held on June 16th, General Barnett respectfully urged that he be excused, his dec- lination being received with regret.
General M. D. Leggett was thereupon unanimously selected as Grand Marshal, and given power to appoint his assistants.
General James Barnett presided at the meeting in the absence of Mayor Blee, and called for reports from committees. A report for the Committee on Pro- gram was made by Major W. J. Gleason. He said that the committee suggested a salute at sunrise, a yacht race on the lake at 9 o'clock, and the dedicatory
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exercises at the Monument to be commenced at 10 o'clock sharp. The procession he thought should form at 1:30 o'clock, and move at 2 o'clock. There will be a salute at sunset, and the streets down town will be illuminated after dark, as will also the yachts on the lake front. Major Gleason said it was the desire of the committee that there would be a general decoration of the dwellings and business houses of the city with flags and tricolored bunting.
Mrs. Lena Springsteen, representing the Loyal Wom- en's Aid Committee, said that her committee had held a meeting and decided that they wished to do some- thing to add to the celebration. Mrs. Springsteen said the ladies had decided to furnish two large baskets of flowers for the speakers' stand, and each Relief Corps will furnish five hundred or more button-hole bouquets for the old Soldiers. When Mrs. Springsteen announced that this would be done without calling on the General Committee for money, she was applauded.
The following letter, received by General J. J. Elwell, the Chairman of the Committee on Invitation, from Mr. James F. Rhodes, the historian, who formerly lived in this city, but who is now located at Cambridge, Mass., was read at the meeting :
Regretting that it will be impossible for me to be present at the dedication of your fine Monument, I feel highly gratified at the receipt of your invitation ; for although I have left Cleveland in order to have better facilities for the prosecution of my historical work, my fondest associations cluster around my native city. What pregnant and glorious memories are called up by the dedication of your tribute to the patriotism of the Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War, on the Fourth of July! For you bring to mind the greatness of the men who declared and achieved our independence and the wisdom of those who framed the Constitution, whose work, after fully recognizing the valuable lessons and experience they had de- rived from England, still remains a wonder to students of political science ; and you revive still more vividly the recollections of those four years crowned with events which began with the firing on Fort Suinter. No nation ever had richer memories. Writing the story
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of the Civil War, and living in imagination in 1861 and 1862, I feel keenly the meed of admiration due to the volunteers of those years, who forsook home and comfort and apparent advancement in life to risk their health and their lives for what they thought, and what the world now thinks, was a noble course. For the meaning of the war, and what gives it a place among the historic events of the ages, is that the Northern people, although not avowedly at first, grappled with an evil which they must destroy, or it would destroy the republic. A brilliant English writer has fitly called it the War of Liberation. And it would seem as if posterity could not know it by a better name, for what a liberation it was, not only of the blacks, but of the white men of both the South and the North, from association with an evil condemned by the rest of the enlightened world. Lincoln's leadership in the movement against slavery will eventually make him the hero of the whole country, as is Washing- ton now; and it has already given him a place among the great benefactors of the world. With the blue and the gray mingling in fraternal union on the noted battle fields of the War, with the recol- lection of Joseph E. Johnson as a pall-bearer at both Grant's and Sherman's funerals, the dedication of such a monument as yours is not a revival, but rather a burial of sectional discord and hate. For while the judgment of history will undoubtedly be that the men of the South were mistaken, the muse will not fail to express her ad- miration for their manly virtues of heroism and self-sacrifice which the Soldiers of the North, who met them in bloody contest, have always been ready to recognize.
At the meeting held on June 28th, the chairman re- ported the program, which was adopted, and eventu- ally carried out, as follows :
The day will be ushered in by the booming of cannon, ringing of all the church and fire bells in the city, blowing of steam whistles and a general hurrah.
AT SUNRISE, A FEDERAL SALUTE will be fired in the East End. A Prize Yacht Race will be hell on Lake Erie, off Lakeview Park, the boats starting at 9 o'clock.
The Dedicatory Exercises will be opened in the amphitheater on the Public Square, commencing at 9 o'clock, by a Grand Concert given by the Great Western Band, under the direction of Prof. F. H. Hruby, as follows :
I. OHIO FESTIVAL MARCH, composed for the occasion and dedi- cated to the City of Cleveland by Anthony Machan.
2. MARCH CLEVELAND GRAYS, F. H. Hruby.
3. OVERTURE-Tancredi, Rossini.
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4. GRAND MARCH-From Tannhauser, . R. Wagner.
5. WALTZ Heart and Hand, Faust.
6. AMERICAN OVERTURE, R. N. Catlin.
PRAYER-REV. JOHN MITCHELL, D. D.
SONG-Columbia, Columbia-Words by Mrs. N. Coe Stewart; music by N. Coe Stewart, . SCHOOL CHILDREN'S CHORUS. INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS, GOV. WM. MCKINLEY, President of the Day. MUSIC-American Flag Song-Zundel, SCHOOL CHILDREN'S CHORUS. READING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
VIRGIL P. KLINE, EsQ. SONG-The Red, White and Blue, . . SCHOOL CHILDREN'S CHORUS. ORATION-The Soldiers' Monument and the Lessons of Patriotism it Teaches, . HON. JOSEPH B. FORAKER. SONG-The Star Spangled Banner . . SCHOOL CHILDREN'S CHORUS.
READING OF AN ORIGINAL POEM, REV. DR. LEVI GILBERT.
SONG-America, SCHOOL CHILDREN'S CHORUS. BENEDICTION-MONSIGNOR T. P. THORPE.
NATIONAL SALUTE OF FORTY-FOUR GUNS of Armory Grounds, cor. Bond and Lake Streets, at mid-day.
FORMING OF PROCESSION-Under direction of Grand Marshal GEN. M. D. LEGGETT, at 1:30 P. M. Procession moves promptly at 2:00 P. M.
NAVAL SALUTE at sunset on the West Side, foot of Duane Street. GRAND ILLUMINATION of ships and yachts in Lake Erie, off Lake View Park, at sunset.
AFTER SUNSET, a brilliant display of electricity, and various colored lights on the Public Square and all the down-town districts, commencing at S:oo P. M.
GRAND CONCERT, commencing at S:oo P. M., in the amphitheater, Public Square.
THE CITY will be gorgeously decorated and lighted up until mid- night.
MAJOR -GENERAL ALEX. MCDOWELL MCCOOK.
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ALL, ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE FOR THE DEDICATION.
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