Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 26, 1908, Page 4

N ‘GENERAL SHERIDAN WAS HONORED AT WASHINGTON Statue of Sheridan Unveiled at National Capital—Presi- dent Roosevelt Delivers Splendid Eulogy to the Memory of Great Little Fighter. ‘Washington Nov. 26.—In one of the most beautiful parts of the national capital he helped to save, the magnifi- gent equestrian statue of General Phil- Ip H. Sheridan was unveiled today. Among the throng of notable persons who gathered to do honor to the mem- ory of the great soldier were the presi- dent of the United States, who deliv- ered an address; the army and navy of- ficers resident or stationed in and near ‘Washington, the heads of the executive branches of the government, diplomatic representatives of foreign countries and others of note. B The statue stands in Sheridan circle, named after the general, at the junc- tion of Massachusetts avenue and Twenty-third street. It is the heart of one of the best residence sections of the national capital. The universal opinion of those who witnessed the unveiling today is that the statue of the famous cavalry lead- er is a worthy memorial of his fame. It represents the general at the close of his famous ride when, coming from Winchester, “twenty miles away,” he rallied his men at the battle of Cedar Creek and turned their rout by the Con- federate General Jubal A. Early iuto a Federal victory. Statue True to Life. The bronze general sits his bronze steed like a centaur, hat in hand, urg- ing his men to greater exertion. The effigy of the man is a truc representa- tlon of “Figliting Phi'™ be was in the flesh, and the metal horse shows to the life his famous charger, Rienzi, sometimes known as Wincbhester, who bore the general from Winchester on the storied ride. The sculptor of the statue, Gutzon Borglum of New York, has caught to the life the expression of the general's face. according to Mrs. Sheridan and ber son. Lieutenant Philip H. Sheridan. The horse is a correct facsimile of Rienzi, according to careful measurements of his skin, preserved at the army post on Gov- ernors island, New York, and photo- graphs. The clothing and accouterments of General Sheridan shown in the statue are modeled after garments actually worn by him. He is depicted wearing a service uniform. with sword and spurs, The statue is fourteen feet high and stands on a plinth of granite. The upper part of the statue’s base is rough, indicating the earth torn up by Sheridan’s horse as he js reined up by his rider. Record Bronze Cast. The horse is the largest piece of bronze ever cast in a single piece in this country and perbaps in the world. More than 6,000 pounds of liquid bronze were pourcd into the mold to form the horse. The casting was done at a foundry near Providence, R. I. Preceding the unveiling of the statue GUTZON BORGLUM'S STATUE OF SHERIDAN. peoplé; slioulld b& fittigly™ commet- orated here at the national capital, and I am glad indeed to take part in the unveiling of this statue to General Sheridan. His name will always stand high on the list of American worthies. Not only was he a great general, but he showed his greatness with that touch of originality which we call genius. Indeed, this quality of bril- liance has been in one sense a disad- vantage to his reputation, for it has tended to overshadow his solid ability. We tend to think of him only as the dashing cavalry leader, whereas he was In reality not only that, but also a great commander. OFf course the fact in his career most readily recognized was his mastery in the necessarily modern art of handling masses of modern cavalry so as to give them the fullest possible effect not only in the ordinary operations of cavalry which precede and follow a battle, but in the battle itself. But in addition he show- ed in the civil war that he was a first class army commander both as a sub- ordinate of Grant and when in inde- pendent command. His record in the Valley campaign and again from Five Forks to Appomattox is one difficult to parallel in military history. After the close of the great war, in a field where there was scant glory to be won by the general in chief, he rendered a signal service which has gone almost unno- ticed, for in the tedious, weary Indian ‘wars op the great plains it was he who developed in thoroughgoing fashion the system of campaigning in winter which; at the cost of bitter hardship and peril, finally broke down the band- ed strength of those formidable war- | riors, the horse Indians. General’s Career Eulogized. His career was typically Amerlcan, for from plain beginnings he rose to the highest military position in our land. We honor his memory itself, and, moreover, as in the case of the other great commanders of his day, his career symbolizes the careers of all those men who in the years of the nation’s direst nced sprang to the front to risk everything, including life itself, and to spend the days of their strongest young manhood in valorous conflict for an ideal. Often we Amer- icans are taunted with having only a material ideal. The empty folly of the taunt is sufficiently shown by the presence here today of you men of the Grand Army, you the comrades of the dead general, the men who served with and under him. In all history ‘we have no greater instance of subor- dination of self, of the exalting of a lofty ideal over merely material well . being among the people of a great na- tion, than was shown by our own peo- ple in the civil war. And you, the men who wore the there was a military parade in which | all the regular troops, sailors and ma- rines stationed in and near Washing- ton as well as the national guard of the District of Columbia took part. In addition to President Roosevelt’s speech an address was delivered by General Horace Porter, who was chief | of staff to General Grant and is/presi- dent of the Grant Monument associa- tion. The principak address was de- livered by President Roosevelt, whe eulogized General Sheridan’s army ca- reer both in the civil war and in the fighting on the western plains with the Indians. The president’s address was as follows: i The President’s) Address. It is eminently fitting that the ng- tion’s 1illustrious men, the men who loom as heroes before the eyes of our blue, would be the first to say that this same lofty indifference to the things of the body, when compared to the things of the soul, was shown by your brothers who .wore the gray. Dreadful was the suffering, dreadful the loss, of the civil war. Yet it stands alone among wars in this, that, now that the wounds are healed, the memory of the mighty deeds of valor performed on one side no less than on the other has become the commom heritage of all our people in every quarter of this country. The com- pleteness with which this is true is shown by what is occurring here to- day. We meet together to raise a monument to a great Union general in the presence of many of the sur- vivors of the Union army, and the sec- retary of war, the man at the head of the army, who, by virtue of his of- fice, occupies a special relation to the celebration, is himself a man who fought in the Confederate service. Few indeed have been the countries where_such a conjunction ‘would have' Pa said us By more than You've -got to do HANKSGIVIN’, when the fam’ly all ‘Was sittin’ round the table, childern should recall, As far as we was able, 2 The many blessin’s we had known Since lag’ Thanksgivin’ day An’ let our gratitude be shown In some substantial way. “'Twon’t do,” says he, “to jes’ confess You're under obligation. You've got to show your thankfulness conversation; some actial thing That’s worth your while to do, Er else Thanksgivin’ day won’t bring Its meed of joy to you.” “YOU’VE GOT TO DO SOME ACTIAL THING.” Then ma spoke up. Bimeby pa looked at me an’ said, “I #'pose you heard the question.” An’ then it popped int§ my head That I'd bear indigestion. “I guess,” says I, “I'll take some more Ice cream an’ choc’late cake, Then curl myself up on the floor An’ stan’ the stomach ache.” “It’'s my idee You've got to go still fu'ther An’ mortify the flesh,” says-she; “In one way er another. i You've got to make some sacrifice, You've got to stan’ some pain That’s hard to bear, er otherwise Your thanks is all in vain.” “That’s so,” says pa, an’ then an’ there He ast us in rotation ! What pain each one of us would bear To show our obligation. Sue said she’d give up chewin’ gum; Tom said he’d split some wood; I jes’ kep’ on a-keepin’ mum An’ thinkin’ hard ’s I could. peen possible, and blessed Indéed are we that in our own beloved land it is not only possible, but seems so entire- ly natural as to excite no comment ‘whatever. Americanism Defined. There is another point in Generali Sheridan’s career which it is good for | all of us to remember. Whereas | Grant, Sherman and Thomas were of the old native American stock, the parents of Sheridan, like the parents of Farragut, were born on the other slde of the water. Any one of the five was just as much a type of the real | American, of what is best in America, as the other four. We should keep ! steadily before our minds the fact that Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of ‘character; that it is not a matter of birthplace. or creed or line of descent. Here in this country the representa- tives of many old world races are being fused together into a new type, a type the main features of which are already determined and were deter- miged at the time of the Revolutionary war, for the crucible jp which all the new types are melted into one was shaped from 1776 to 1789, and our na- tionality was definitely fixed in all its essentials by the men of Washington’s day. The strains will not continue to | exist separately in this country as in the old world. They will be combined in one, and of this new type those men Will best represent what is loftiest in the nation’s past, what is finest in her hope for the future, who stand each solely on his worth as a man, who scorn to do evil to others and. who refuse to submit to wrongdoing them- selves, who have in them no taint of ,Weakness, who never fear to fight ‘when fighting is demanded by a sound and high morality, but who liope by their.lives to bring ever nearer the day ‘when justice and peace shall pre- vail within our own borders and in our relations with all foreign powers. Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon and the lessons that it teaches to S-the generations that come after. . We OF TIils generdtion have Gur owii prob- lems to, solve, and the condition of our solving them is that we shall all work together as American citizens without regard’ to differences of section or <reed or birthplace, copying not the di- visions which so lamentably sundered our fathers one from another, but the spirit of Dburning devotion to duty Wwhich drove them forward, each to do the right as it was given him to see the right, in the great years when Grant, Farragut, Sherman, Thomas and Sheridan, when Lee and Jackson and the Johnstons, the valiant men of the north and the valiant men of the south, fought to a finish the great civil war. They did not themselves realize in the bitterness of the struggle that the blood and the grim suffering mark- ed the death throes of what was worn out and the birth pangs of a new and more glorious national life. Mighty is the heritage which we have received from the men of the mighty days. We in our turn must gird up. our loins to meet the new issues with the same stern courage and resolute adherence to an ideal which marked our fathers who belonged to the generation of the man in whose honor we comtemorate this monument today. { RECEIVES SEVERE JOLTING Swedish Minister in Auto Accident at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Nov. 25—Herman de Lagercrantz, Swedish minister to the United States, and his secretary, Count Ugglas, narrowly escaped in- jury here in an automobile accident The prominent foreigners arrived over the Pennsylvania railroad from ‘Washington to attend the official cele bration of the Pittsburg, 3 While being taken from the Eas Liberty station'to the Hotel Schenley the front axle of the automobile broke. The car ploughed along the street for some distance and the party received 8 severe jolting. sequi-centennial o1 | BILL FOR Master Robe One of the Cleverest Child Actors on the American Stage. The Burt Imson Dramatic com- pany will give the famous standard play, “East Lynn,” at the City| Opera house, as their Thanksgiving offering, this evening, and it is; hoped that the company will be given the large crowd that the ex- cellence of their performances deserve. This play is one of the very best dramas that was ever written; and the members of the Imson company are cast especially strong for thel play, each character having been studied carefully by the person to whom it was given. i No play that was ever written has a more pathetic story than has “East Lynn,” and the audience is always moved by the subtle lines of the play. The misfortunes of an erring woman ate vividly portrayed and the unscrupulous acts of a designing villian who ruins a home in his| mean-ness, is shown very strongly.: The charactar of “Lady Isabelle” | will be taken by Miss Leona Gray, | who has proven herself a very cap- able actress. Miss Gray is espec-| ially strong in the leading role, and has made a study of the character of “Lady Isabelle.” The balance of the characters are cast very strong, Mr. Sutherland being especially clever in his role. Harry St. Clair will have a prominent part in the play. Mr. St. Clair, by the way, is one of the| EAST LYNN WILL BE THE strongest Elks in the United States.! THIS EVENING Burt Imson Company Will Put on Their Strongest Play for Thanksgiving Night.—Cast Is Exceptionally Strong —Clever Specialties on Program. rt St. Clair, He is a charter member of No. 1, New York City, and is one of six who signed the original charter, and who are still in the land of the liv- ing. Harry is a clever actor, and is always at home to his friends at the play. Master Robert St. Clair, the 8- year-old son of Mr. St. Clair, will appear in the cast this evening, and will :Iso give a specialty. This boy possesses a splendid voice, and his singing has created much favorable comment among the Bemidji people. The Pioneer hasbeen asked to re- quest of the management of the show that Master Robert ;zain sing ‘““Ihe Holy City,” which is one of the most difficult songs that could be selected for one so young to sing. Robert will probably comply with the request. The members of the Burt Imson company spent Thanksgiving very pleasantly in their private car, “Idaho,” and a splendid special dioner was served in honor of the day. Those who attend the play this evening are guaranteed a splendid performance. If any are displeased they are privileged to step to the box office, after the second act, and call for their money, which will be cheerfully refunded, if the show is not satisfactory. Spend your Thanksgivirg evening at the City Opera house and witness one of the best productions of *‘East Lynn” ever attempted in this city. During the Thanksgivin The Sisters of St. Benedict, who hospitals Minnnesota, operate a number of throughout northern including the St. Anthony’s hospi- tal in this city, have issued a circn- lar asking for donations to the; hospitals for the Thanksgiving sea- san. As these hospita_]s are many times called upon to care for cases in which there is absolutely no recompense and oftentimes a heavy outlay, a generous response should tollow the receipt of the circular, which is as follows: “THANKSGIVING DAY.” *Dear Friend:—ThanksgivingDay being the “Donation Day” for our hospital, it gives an opportunity to our good friends to aid us in the ST. ANTHONY’S HOSPITAL SHOULD GET AID ASKED Sisters of St. Benediet Request that Donations Be Made g Season for the Benefit of Their Hospitals. cause of suffering humanity. We therefore, earnestly appeal to your charity in behalf of the sick poor. “We are daily called upot to care for patients who are entirely desti- tute of means, and have no friends, and the result is a considerable financial strain upon our Institution. ““Anything in the line of groceries, eatables, bed-clothes, night-dresses, night-shirts, as well as money, will be accepted with much gratitude. “Thanking you in advance for kind favors, and invoking God’s blessing upon you in our daily pray- ers, we remain, “Yours very respectfully, “Sisters of St. Benedict. “St. Anthony’s Hospital, “Bemidji, Minn.” The Pioneer---40¢ per Month, HE. open fire- place, the | P the roasting chest- nuts, the jingle of lleiglfl:e% the snow-mantled pride in that silver! And now—your family silver? Is it the“Colonial”made in the historic old town of Newbury- port, Massachu- settsd If so, you have equal pride in yours. 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