In Memory Of Marquette

On August 5, at St. Ignace, a beautiful ruable shaft is to be -anveiled and dedicated to the memory of Father Marquette.the famous French priest and explorer. It is fitting that his memory be thuspreserved,yet how unnecessary ; for the fascinating story of his life and works is forever preserved in onr echool histories and from thence transierred to the memories of each succeeding generaton of school boys and girls. What school boy or girl has not followed with delight the story of his journey, in company with Joliet, in search of the great "Father of Waters" - the trip from Mackinaw to the head of Green Bay ; the paddie up Fox river in birch bark canoes; how they carried the canoes auross to the Wisconsin down which they dropped with the current; their floating out on a beantiful day in Jnne npon the broad bosom of the upper Mississippi, and their three weeks silent joiirney whithersoever the river would carry them - past open prairies and by miles of unbroken forests - until they reached the spot where DeSoto had crossed more than a hundred years before ; their laborious return ; their work among the Indians ; their wintering in a rude cabin, the flrst human residence on the present site of Chicago ; his continned journey in the spring, stricken with disease, and his death just after Easter, at a point in Michigan just below the promontory known as Sleeping Bear. From here his rem ainswere carried to St. Ignace and deposited in a vault in the center of the chnrch. It is not definitely known what was done with the bones of Marquette when the Jesuits broke up their mission at St. Jgnace in 1706. But wherever they jnay now be resting the monument erected in his honor by his admirers will be equally potent.