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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Two Nations Unite to Unveil Maine Memorial Shaft To-day in New York City
MONUMENT SUGGESTED BY W. R. HEARST-FUNDS RAISED THROUGH HIS PAPERS
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE COMPLETED MONUMENT TO THE HEROES WHO WENT DOWN WITH THE MAINE.
Cuba Joins United States in Honor
ing Dead Heroes.
NEW YORK, May 30.—While bands play the “Star Spangled
Banner,” the huge flags, which draped the National Maine Monu
ment, will flutter to the ground this afternoon and the great shaft
will shine forth as a memorial to the brave men who lost their lives
in the disaster which was one of the causes of the war with Spain.
The'United States will not be alone in honoring her dead
heroes, for a detachment of Cuban soldiers, sailors from the war
ship Cuba, and a commission formed of members of the Cuban
Senate are here to participate in the ceremonies.
. The monument is largely the
result of the work of William
Randolph Heanst mnd his news
papers. Mr. jllearst suggested
the shaft as a fitting tribute to
the martyrs of the Maine and
raised the fund through the in
fluence of his papers.
The sailors amt marines from the
13 battleships of the North Atlantic
Fleet lying in the Hudson Kiver, and
the sailors and soldiers from the
Cuban warship Cuba, are ready at
Moon to-day and assembled in Forty-
Hfth Street near Fifth Avenue in
preparation for the big land parade.
Admiral to Lead Parade.
Rear : Admiral Cameron McRea
Winslow, U. S. N„ will be grand mar
shal of the parade, with Rear Ad
miral Fletcher in command. The
United Spanish war veterans will oc
cupy a prominent part in the march
ing column under the command of
State Commander Chauncey W. Her
rick. The New York National Guard
will be represented by the Sixty-
njnth Regiment, the First Regiment
Cavalry and the Navail Militia.
Troops of the United States army
from nearby army posts also partici
pated in the parade which proceeds
up Fifth Avenue to Fifty-ninth Street,
thence west to Columbus Circle,
around the westerly side of the Co
lumbus monument and .up Broad
way to Sixty-sixth Street, where
it will break up into the various
divisions, each division marching
back to the monument at the Fifty-
ninth Street and Broadway entrance
' to Central Park, where they will as
semble in a fanlike formation about
the monument.
Bishop to Offer Prayer.
The unveiling ceremonies will begin
at 3:30 with a prayer by Bishop Davis
H. Greer. General James Grant Wil
son will then present the monument
to the city. As soon as General Wil
son has finished his address, the
bands wHl strike up the "Star Span
gled Banner” and the huge flags drap
ing the monument ■will flutter to the
ground. While the bands continue
to plav the national air several
wreaths will be placed, at the base
of the monument.
Father Chid wick, chaplain of the
old Maine, when she met her fate
in Havana harbor, will place a wreath
presented by President Wilson, and
Mrs. Frederick R. Coudert will place
a wreath from the State of Maine.
Mrs. Coudert was the rhristener of
the Maine when she was first
launched. A Wreath from the com
mittee will be placed; one from the
Cuban nation will be placed by the
three envoys extraordinary which
Cuba ha's sent to this country for the
occasion, Mayor Gaynor’s daugher will
place’ the wreath from the City of
New York, and Rear Admiral Sigs-
faee, who commanded the Maine at
the time of the disaster, will also
present a wreath. A wreath from the
State <Sf New York will be placed, as
well. * •
Mayor Gaynor to Accept.
Following the placing of the
Wfpaths, Mayor Gaynor will accept
the monument on behaif of the city.
Governor Sulzer, of New York, and
Governor Haines, of Maine, will each
give an address, followed by Sec
retary of Navy Daniels and Read Ad
miral Sigsbec.
, Several survivors of the Maine will
: Se on hand in the stands facing the
speakers’ platform in Columbia Cir
cle. The families, of the men who
lost their lives in the memorable dis-
BEEF Fill IN
0. S.
With Population Increasing, Cat-
tie Supply Has Decreased
Nearly Half in 6 Years.
CHICAGO, May 30.—“Uncle Sam
must pay higher and higher prices to
other countries for his beefsteak or
go without it—unless Mexico comes
to his relief by furnishing cattle for
restocking the ranches of the United
States.”
M. A. Traylor, vice president of the
National Stock Yards National Bank,
of Chicago, made the foregoing
gloomy forecast in an address to an
association of Western bankers.
After calling attention to the tre
mendous decrease in the number of
beef cattle—from 52,000,000 head in
1907 to 36,000,000 head in 1913, while
the population increased 12,000,000—
Traylor said:
“Should this tremendous shortage
be added to annually in the same
ratio for another period of six years
not a very vivid imagination is nec
essary to realize what the price of
beefsteak will be when the nation’s
total supply of cattle has reached
30,000,000 head, of which not more
than 20,000,000 will be beef stuff, and
its population has been augmented by
another 12,000,000 people to be fed.”
Our storage stocks, according to
the speaker, have decreased from
so-me 262.000,000 pounds in 1908, to
little more than 135,000,000 pounds in
1910, while at the close of 1912 they
were estimated at only 35,000,000
pounds.
Argentina and Australia, hitherto
supplying the world from their sur
plus. are going backward in produc
tion. Referring to Argentina the
Speaker said: “So serious has become
the condition there and so insistent
the demand of foreign countries for
beef, that legislation is now pending
to prevent the slaughtering of male
calves and all female cattle under
seven years old. or the export of live
cattle of any character; and it is cal
culated that with this strenuous leg
islation it would take ten years for
the cattle supply to reach its nor
mal proportions.”
The unsettled political conditions
forced the Mexican ranch owners to
sell their herds to prevent their de
struction. Our total imports in 1912
amounted to 326,000 head, of which
305,000 head came from Mexico.
Admiral Badger, in command
of the fleet.
aster have also been given seats in
these stands.
The large number of Spanish war
veterans who will take part in the
parade will add to the touching sen
timent of the event, and Cuba, to
whom the destruetion of the battle
ship meant the beginning of her free
dom from the yoke of Spain, has
shown her appreciation by sending
the warship Cuba, a detachment of
soldiers and three envoys. Thus the
two nations will gather to honor the
heroes, who, although they did not
fall in battle, sacrificed their lives for
their country.
LEST JflPS BE
War Department’s Plans for the
Prompt Shipment of Big Guns
Are Strangely Blocked.
BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON, May 30.—Order3
apparently from the men higher up
have delayed the plans of the War
Department to place at once the four
teen-inch guns for the defenses of
Hawaii, the Philippines and the Canal
Zone. The fact seems clear, the rea
son Is unknown.
Three weeks ago officials of the
Ordnance Bureau of the War Depart
ment informed the Hearst papers that
two fourteen-inch guns with their
carriages were ready for Hawaii and
two for the Philippines, and that work
was being rushed on the eight four
teen-inch guns that were intended to
make the East and West terminals
of the canal impergnable.
The War Department counted on
the shipment of the guns some
months ago. No official about the
department has any explanation to
offer about the delay. It is broadly
hinted that the policy of giving no
offense to Japan may be the reason
for the apparent lack of energy in
the War Department.
In this connection a statement giv
en out at the State Department to
day 'is interesting. The American
charge d'affaires at Tokio was in
structed by this Government to tell
Japan that no reinforcements were be
ing sent to the Philippines and that
only a few artillerymen had been or
dered to Hawaii.
Furthermore, it was explained to
Japan, with a touching excess of pre
caution, that even the few artillery
men were going to Hawaii according
to a plan of the War Department for
mulated a long time ago.
As a matter of fact, the defense of
Hawaii, Manila and the Canal Zone
were also all determined upon in the
same scheme of defense “formulated
a long time ago.” to which Mr. Bryan
so thoughtfully refers.
Meanwhile Japan proceeds with
open activity and without apology or
explanation to perfect its naval equip
ment, to add mighty cruisers to its
fleet in foreign ports and to purchase
merchant vessels and auxiliaries.
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SHAFT DEDICATED
10 MAJOR BUTT
Monument for Titanic Disaster
Hero Located on Spot He
Selected for His Grave.
WASHINGTON. May 30.—A monu-
ment to the memory of Major Ar
chibald Butt, who was military aide
to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, and
who perished on the Titanic, was ded
icated here to-day in the Arlington
National Cemetery. The spot was se
lected by Major Butt for his burial
place in 1913 when he was depot
quartermaster and In direct charge of
the cemetery.
The monument is a twelve-foot*
granite Latin cross and was erected
by Major Butt’s brothers. A portion
of the inscription reads:
A devoted son and brother and
efficient officer, a loyal friend who
in death as in life, served faith
fully God and humanity.
It is planned to build a small orna
mental fountain near the White
House as a memorial to Major Butt
and to Frank D. Millet, a Washing
ton artist who also died on the Ti
tanic. The fountain is to have a
shaft with two classic figures in has
relief. one of chivalry, representing
Major Butt and one of art, represept-
\ng Millet.
Jack London’s new story,
‘' The Scarlet Plague, ’ ’ begins in
the American Monthly Magazine
given free with every copy of
next Sunday’s American.
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Rear Admiral Sigsbee, captain of the ill-fated vessel, who will
participate in the unveiling.
Rabun Jury Declares State Has
No Claim to Tallulah Falls
Gorge.
CLAYTON, GA.. May 30.—The
State of Georgia has no claim to the
lands in the gorge at Tallulah Falls,
where the Georgia Railway and Pow
er Company is constructing its dam,
power plant and reservoir, according
to a verdict of a jury-in Rabun Supe
rior Court. But the State will ask a
new trial, and eventually appeal to
the State Supreme Court. The liti
gation will not end until the higher
tribunal hands down a decision.
Jury Out Two Hours.
The jury’s verdict in the suit that
had been on trial here since Monday,
to determine the State’** right to claim
title to the gorge land, was returned
shortly after 6 o’clock last night, after
the case had been In the Jurors’ hands
two hours. The Georgia Railway and
Power Company was declared to have
legal titles to the lands it had pur
chased for the power plant.
Judge J. B. Jones, in his chafrge to
the jury declared that a verdict must
be rendered on law and justice and
not on sentiment or emotion. The
jury was composed of eleven, farmers
and a country school teacher. Daniel
M. Kel4, a farmer more than 6<f years
of age, was foreman.
Attacks Mrs. Longstreet.
In the argument for the power
compnay, before the case reached the
jury, H. H. Dean. of Gainesville,
charged Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet,
who has been the chief spirit behind
the litigation, with “malicious hound
ing” of the power company. Com
menting on her failure to be present
at the trial, he said:
“She’s deserted at the very crisis
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Father John Chidwick, chap
lain of the Maine.
of the suit. She doesn’t want this
case tried. She wants it postponed
and dragged out so that it might be
held as a terror over the head of the
power company.”
The attorneys from Atlanta who
participated in the trial return there
to-day.
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