New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1927, Page 2

& o . CITY 100KS ANEAD * TODEDIGATION DAY Preparing to Pay Tribate to s World War Martyrs Mayor Weld will lay the corner- ! stone of the World War memorial | shaft In Walmgt Hill park, Wednes- | day, July 20, advaneing one step farther to' d realization a move- ment begun more than three years ago, once rejected and later ap- proved by a unanimous vote of the common council Renewal of activity iooking to the construction of a memorial began soon after Mayor Weld presented his first message to the common coun- | cil, in which he declared: “I want to ask the members of | the common council and every citi- | zen in our city to give thought and | study to the erection of 4 suitable memorial to the World War soldiers and sailors. Time is passing, and it | has been a well known fault with our city to allow too much time to ! £0 by before honoring t gave their lives that we in peace and security. Frankly, have a selfish desire when I that I earnestly hope, during my ad- ministration, to find a tain sufficient money to carry such | a project through to completion.” At the suggestion of the mayor the committee in charge of drafting the original memorial plan which had Leen rejected by t meeting board, again undertook the task of bringing about a memorial. The plan which had been prepared by Architect H. Van Buren Magonigle was revised in some detail and after a series of meetings and conferences the board of finance and taxation was asked to approve expenditure of $160,000 far a shaft. The vote to do so was unanimous. With nothing other than com- avon council approval standing in the way of erecting the shaft ru- marings were heard of dissension amang the councilmen. When the learn ,its work was unanimous vote. Shortly therca the comtract was awarded to the Hayes Construction Co. of this city and excawation began. Mayvor Weld turned ovar the first spade of earth April 4 with simple but impressive exercises in Which veterans of three wars assisted, The origina\ design consisted of a mighty shaft, 12 feet in diameter, *rising 90 feet from a circular plat- form eight feet in diameter placed at the north side of the platform which was enclosed by a parapet wall. Bronze plates containing the name and rank of each dead soldier ‘or sailor were placed about the out- side of the wall. A bronze plate “apprapriately etched was on the Yorth side, the idea being that the north side would be the main ap- iproac: X In the adopted plan the of design are similar, but their r lations. @re changed. The shaft been maved to the center of the 80 foot plagform and a rostrum for | speakers| upon patriotic occasions has beeni provided at its base. The memorial tablets have been changed from the outside of the wall to the inside. A flight of steps has been introduced on the north side, lead- ing up to the circular platform; in the old design tthere was no access from the north to this enclosure. The level of the latter is not so high above the pool as before. The parapet wall top on wWhich the tablets of #ndividual soldiers will be placed is beveled forming & continuous reading desk. The tab- lets perpatuate in another form the idea of inividual tributes so touch- ingly carried out fn temporary ma- terals at the foot of the hill. Un- der each tablet is a bronze rosette to which the families and friends may affix floral tributes. The base of the shaft is cylindri- cal. Ahove it rises the fluted shaft iteelf, draped in the flag with its astripes and stars and surmounted by two immense eagles in stone, who seem to be rising heavenwa ing the flag in their talons eagles are about 14 fect high by 10 feet wide. The shaft will be illuminated by night. The memarial is being erected by a building committee of which Arthur G. Kimball is the chairman. George H. Dyson is chairman of the memorial comittee. After the shaft is erected a fund will be maintained for its upkeep, providing the neees- sary money for pointing the stone, cleaning, ete. Discussing his plan, Magonigle explains:— “In conclusion let me say t this memorial as designed and described elements becomes a part balanced southerly flag pole proach, so p must perforee jthat point amd pected effy will them—the memorial in the then follow the around the basin them constantly ¢ the mermmorial rér points, and; t Architect | of the monumen The first fi Hare | ori fame {war or a bad pe ‘Al Gaul » parts.” 1 they “T propose this line if it tal 6—What nd Mediterr T—Where s are At The “Handy Hardware” Store H. L. MILLS 336 MAIN ST. 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They must | curved footpaths | which will give hanging views of trom fi 1 h the circular enclosure r above the level of far enough away from it to make it a quiet retreat where their though: may be directed toward the meaning the pool and just NOW YOU | WHO SAID THAT? e of today's questions Tell who a good canal mran S Abraham A SUICIDY July 13 war ve » i with d & native of Tury lis took poison in died before his summon a physi- | Sunset Roc Lincolr 'SEEK FIREBUG IN SOLDIERS’ HONE California Refuge of 3,000 Men Is Again Ablaze Sawtelle, Cal., July 13 (P—Inves- tigation of the ninth of a series of fires in the soldiers’ home here, which yesterday burned a part of a barracks, was started today by Colonel John Hadley, governor of the institution, on the theory it was of incendiary origin. E. E. Enos, chief of the Los An- geles bureau of fire investigation, also will begin an inquiry by ques- tioning every man in the company quartered in the barracks. Only one man was in the building at the time !the fire was discovered. He escaped. The building is of frame construc- tion, three stories high, stands a few yards from the ruins of the large mess hall burned last March, with a loss estimated at $125,000. The appraised value of the barracks is $23,000. The three thousand veterans of the home, many of them aged, crip- ! pled or bed-ridden, live under the shadow of this persistent and m: terious fire menace, while four in- { vestigations were carried on in an ieffort to determine whether the home houses a pyromaniac or an |arson gang. i {Three Persons Injured In Grade Crossing Crash i Wayland, Mass.,, July 18 (® — |Three persons were seriously in- |jured last night when an automo- [bile in which they were riding was struck by a locomotive at a grade crossing at Wayland station of the Boston and Maine railroad. One of them, Ralph Yetton of Wayland, aged 14, may die, physicians said. Miss Harriet Ranney of Wayland was driving the car, and with her {were her sister, Emily, and their inephew, young Yetton. The automo- bile was carried 300 feet up the track by the locomotive, and Miss {Harriet Ranney was ried along with the wreckage, while her sis- ter nd Yetton were thrown free, The women were taken to a hos- pital in Natick, where their condi- tion was said to be serious. Yetton was taken to Framingham hospital. OVERCOME BY HEAT Springfield, Mass., July 13.—(@— While seeking relief from scorching sun, Jesse Hewey, 22, of Lishon Falls, Me., was stricken in Forest Park yesterday afternoon and rushed to a hospital. Several other minor cases of heat prostration were reported during a day in which the mereury climbed to 8 in the shade and reached a maximum of 112 in the sun. The S. R. & L. 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