To The Brave And Wise

This is an era of centennials and monuments. The discovery of America, close of the Revolution, inaugnration of the uational government and many other events happened in an order which crowds the anniversaries. Among the tnany important monnments may be mentioned that erected to Linnaeus by the Swedes of Chicago, that to be erected to Columbus by the Italo-Americans, that at Trenton, N. J., and those at Gtettysburg, and in many other fields of the late war. The recent unveiling of the monument to Linnseus was a poetic and attractive aflEair. Little Vista Lindblom, daughter of the president of the association, dressed in the garb of the peasants of Ostergotland, pulled the rope at the appointed time; the blue and y ello w banner of Sweden feil at once, revealing the body, but the stars and stripes caught on and fluttered around the head for a few moments. Another pull and the American flag feil, then the great Linnteus stood forth in academie gown, with 6cholarly frown npon bis face, while the flaxen haired Swedes raised their national shout and the band played an inspiring air. The statue is of bronze, heroic size, and resta upon a white marble base, and around the pedestal four allegorie figures are placed represeDting the four Sciences in which Linnaeus was eminent. The work is copied by C. F. Dyferrnan, of Stockholm, from the memorial in that city by Kjellborg. The Swedish Linnsean Monument association, of which Eobert Lindblom is president and John R. Lindgren treasurer, is a Chicago society, and the statue stands in Lincoln park, of that city. Cari Von Linne, that being his family name, was the son of the pastor at Smalund, where the boy was born, May 24, 1707. He died in Upsal, Jan. 10, 1778. His name was Latinized when he became eminent, as was the custom of scholars at that time. He is best known as a botanist. The publication of his "System of Nature" is regardedas marking an important epoch in the progress of science. The monument at Trenton hasbeen many years in preparation; congress has appropriated f30,000, New Jersey $15,000, and $15,000 more are to be raised before the needed snm is secured. The work, however, is under way and the construction is to be by Mr. John H. Duncan, of New York city. The design is simple - a column of victory in the style of the Roman doric, the shaf t and base of light colored granite, and the statuary, both at base and apez, in bronze. "The base is to be of rough hewn stone, and will be thirty-four feet square and within will contain a chamber for the reception of relies of the battle and also of the Revolutionary army and the comOjanders who f ought at Trenon, The main doorway wflT be flaukedby bronze figures of an infantryman and man of the Continental anny, andbronze bas reliëfs will be placed on each of the four sides, representing Washington crossing the Delaware, the first gun of the fight, the final surrender of the Hessians and the simple bnt adequate description: TO COMMEMOKATK : : THE BATTLE OF TRENTON, : DECEMBER 2li, 17TC. "The baso will be surmounted by a poliahed and fluted shaf t with a doric capital, the ehaft being hollow and containing a stairway leading to the top of the monument, from which it is expected that Philadelphia may be seen upon clear days. "The total height of the monument wül be 130 feet, and all will be crowned with a colossal statue of Washington, and at the base of this statue wül be placed a corona of thirteen electric lights. It will stand at the intersection Of Warren and Broad streets and Brtmswick, Princetou and Penaington avenues, the spot where Captain Alexander lamilton opened his batteries upon the leeing Hessians." In 1889 Cavalier Charles Barsotti, editor of n Progresso Americano, set on oot a movement to erect in New York city a monument to Christopher Columras in 1892. The prelirainary work gressed rapidly, and a committee of artists in Italy awarded the task of completing the monument to Gaetano Russo. He has already completed the statue, thirteen f eet high, and it is very highly praised. The monument will be seventy-five feet in height, composed of white marble, bronze and granite, and is pected to be one of the finest ad most autif ui in the city. öp to the present time about $7,000 in cash has been colected, as well as objects to the value of abont $5,000 f or a fair to be held n 1893. A committee of 1,000 Italians is being orga'nized, each agreeing to collect ten dollars in small subscriptions to enable all Italians in the country tf contribtite something. The monument will be given to the city of New York both to commemorate the discovery and testify ;he loyalty of the Italians to their adopted country. The survivors of the One Hundred and f.leventh New York Volunteers will on ,he 26th of June dedícate a monument at Gettysburg that will add another to ,he many memorials marking the scène of Pickett's charge. The veterans of the regiment who at this date answer to the roll cali number severa! hundred, and the dedication of their monument wili be the occasion of a pleasanteunion on the field of their most trying struggles and their sweetest triumph. The One Hundred and Eleventh has good cause to remember Gettysburg and to be proud to have a monument on the slopes of Cemetery Eidge. The regiment served under Hancock, in Hayes' división of the Second corps. On July 2, 1863, when the Confederates had broken up Meade's lef t wing and Sickles' Third corps was engaged against enormous odds, General Hancock, whose line adjoined Sickles' on the right, hastüy gathered some troops f rom his command and went to Sickles' aid. While doing so his own line was attacked by a Confedérate line of battle that overlapped Sickles' front. The last brigade m his moving column was led by Colonel Qeorge h. Willard, and the One Hundred and Eleventh was the last regiment in the brigade. The danger to his own line caused Hancodk to order this brigade to halt, face about and move back obliquely across the Confedérate front. During this march and counter march the brigade was subjected to a heavy fire from the enemy's artillery. A charge was_or4gjed upon the dvancing ííonfeáerates, and waS most gallantly executed, Colonel Willard was killed, and the brigade suffered terribly. The One Hundred and Eleventh bore the brunt of the fight on account of its closeness to the enemy. The Confedérate charge at this point was repulsed. The next day, July 3, the regiment lay in Hancock's line near Ziegler's grove, and maintained a steady niusketry fire upon Pickett's charging column. The Gettysburg record of the regiment, which is inscribed on the monument, is more suggestive than volumes of praise. It is as follows : Reached GoUysburg early morning, July 2. Poöition near Ziegrler's grove. Went to relief of 3rd corps in afternoon. Took this poeition (kt tho Iirian Honse) after diirk, July 2, and beid it to cloee of battle. Numbcr engagod (eight companiee). 390. Casualtics : Killed, 58; wounded, 181; miaeing, 10; total, 29. The One Hundred and Eleventh was organized in the counties of Wayne and Cayuga in 1862 and served to the end of the war. It had the unique experience of being captured entire, ha ving been included in the surrender of Harper's Ferry, Va., where it arrived three weeks after its muster in, Aug. 20, 1862. The monument is of Gettysburg and Quincy granito, -vith a figure in bronze, representing a skirmisher in action. The movement to erect a memorial was begun at a reunión of the survivors of the regiment, held at Auburn in 1888. The sum of $1,200 was contributed by the survivors, and this amount, with the $1,500 given by the state, furnished a fund of $2,700. The monument coinmittee. consists of General C. D. ücDougall, Major R. J. Myers and Sergeant C. J. Stupp, of Auburn, and Captain M. W. Murdock, of Venice Center. General McDougall will dehver the address of dedication. He led the regiment at Gettysburg and was wounded in the charge of July 2.