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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1897)
v i -4 HONOE TO BLACK JACK MAGNIFICENT UNVEILED LOGAN STATUE IN CHICAGO Grand Demonstration in Honor of Americas Greatest Volunteer Sol dier Ceremonies Marked by a Great Parade of Veterans Locan in Bronze Chicago correspondence Illinois luis liuid tribute to the last of the groit triumvirate she gave to the na tion when the nations life was at stake A shaft at Springfield marks the grave of Lincoln the martyred President A magnificent monument at Galena tolls that from that city went forth Grant the silent tanner who became the great mili tary chieftain Now in enduring bronze the figure of Logan the greatest of Amer ican volunteer soldiers stands on the lake front in Chicago With a great demon stration which like the recent Grant com memoration in New York was one not of sorrow and mourning but of glory and joy the monument to Logan was unveiled Thursday This was the anniversary of the battlo of Atlanta fought in 18G4 at which Logan reached the summit of his military fame The ceremony was accomplished in the presence of a multitude notable in its fac tors and with a magnificence of detail quite unprecedented On the platform at the foot of the statue was grouped a com pany that no event of less importance could have ailed together The widow of the dead general army ollieers who served with him through the war Govern ors of States members of President Mc- Kinleys cabinet and United States Sen ators sat in the shadow of St Gaudeus Leroic statue and took part in the exer cises lu the throng that listened to Mr jPecks oration were many of the leading citizens of the nation and in those greater multitudes along the lino of march were thousands of Chicago residents together with other thousands from every quarter of the country The ct has rarely been so profusely decora bid It was not alone from public buildings that bunting had been thing to the breeze but business houses and pri vate residences in every section of the city shared in the general display Presi dent IMcKinlcy could not attend in per son his duties in Washington during the closing hours of Congress rendered such a step impracticable It was well on to 2 oclock when a boy ish figure a lose out of a forest of serried Tow on row of people The sun was fan cied in his hair and on his face almost glrlish in its youthful beauty there resi ded such an expression as might be expect ed upon the countenance of a lad of 1 ijlv j iJKb IS ALEXANDER years entiusted with a great responsibil ity One moment he stood there out lined against the placid background of lake and sky and then made a sudden gesture with his right arm Ip the silken cord tint hid the rugged features of the warrior statesman from thousands of ex pectant tnos there went a thrill and a quiver a cloth fell to the base of the monument and there was no longer a un reason for the immense throng to refrain from feasting its eyes on the surpassing beauties of the apotheosis in bronze of all that wa martial all that was heroic J0sf W WM MKS JOHN A IOGAX in the inspiiing nresenee of the Black Eagle The uncovering of the statue was the signal for a chorus of thirteen guns to growl forth approbative thunder and as the windows round about raitled in their easements a castanet accompaniment smaller pieces of ordnance took up the warlike strain and grizzled veterans burned bj unsparing suns almost to the color of the bronze counterfeit of their nce resistless lederj recalled his valor LOGAN THE LOGAN rOXUitEXT AT CHICAGO ous attitude before Atlanta on another July day thirty three years ago when with tears in his eyes he saw his men mowed down by desperate Southrons like ripened wheat before the reapers and a hundred times at deaths portals a hun dred times eluded on his black charger the pale equestrian of the fates Or they may have been reminded of that other day at bloody Kclmonl when his horse shot be neath him he carved his way through a seemingly impenetrable wall of bone and sinew to a decisive victory but at a fear ful cost to his own boys not less brave than their fierce antagonists Be these things as they may tears stood in the eyes A MmrWMm vi JOHN v y of some whose lids had for years remained unwetted and on the faces of others a faraway expression glorifying and illu minating them rested The pando Avas reviewed by Mrs Lo gan Captain John A Logan and wife John A Logan III Avhose tiny hand loosed the di apery and unveiled Ihe figure in bronze by Major and Mrs William F Tucker the latter a daughter of the hero of Atlanta by members of President Mc Kinleys cabinet and other distinguished guests of the city Besides these ihe re viewers included Gov Tanner of Illi nois Gov llolcomb of Nebraska Gov Drake of Iowa Gov James A Mount of Indiana Gov Atkinson of West Virginia Gov Scofield of Wisconsin Secretary of War It A Alger and Mrs Alger ex Senator D M Sabin of Minnesota Arch bishop John Ireland of St Paul Lord Brendalbnne of England Gov Barnes of Oklahoma The two brothers of Gen Logan Thomas M Logan of Murphys boro 111 John A Logans birthplace and James V Logan of Olney 111 occupied places of honor There were besides hun dreds of men and vromen who had known the general in life and who had come to pay their tribute of honor to his momery twenty Thousand Soldiers In the column which swept away from Twelfth stuet and Michigan avenue at 15 oclock were more than twenty thousand soldiers under anus the whole command ed by Gimj John It Brooke The regular service the National Guard and various uniformed semi military organizations were generously repiesented And no body of marcheis has ever presented in Chi cago a moie inspiring sight In dress in arms in bearing and in the masterful methods of control they were one of the most inteiesting features of the entiie event It would be impossible to exaggerate the interest and enthusiasm which from first to last marked the proceedings The bugle call of assembly with which the formal exercises were opened struck a keynote that expressed the military tem per of the day and not an incident in speech or song or action proved a discord Thousands of heads bent low while Rev Dr Arthur Edwards prayed When he had finished the band played martial mu sic that sliried the old soldiers present to the depths of their souls The selec tion was Battle Scenes of the War in vvhieh the patter of musketry the scream ing of shells the cooing of bullets and the grumbling of cannon all were imitat ed Judge Ileriy W Blodgett president of the board of monument commissioners presented the statue to the Stale of Illi nois in well chosen phrases and the un veiling followed Gov Tanner accepted the statue on behalf of the people of the State in a brief address and George It Peck delivered an oration which quite outran his already splendid reputation Years hence when the clustering curls of the youngest John A Logan shall have become whitened by the rime of many winters he no longer least in age of the namesakes of the cyclonic general will gather ether John A Logans about him and toll them of that wonderful July day in Chicago when by a movement of his tiny hand he bared the greatest triumph of the greatest sculptor to the eager gaze of a patriotic multitude In warlike bronze the man of battle an notated with fire and smoke and the sha dow of impending death has been an notated with libations of praise and given to unboin generations who are bidden to cherish and honor the name of John A Logan With military and civic pomp the people of the nation united to do honor to the hero of Atlanta The son of Illinois who seized the fallen standard and rode through the hail of bullets rallying the broken troops and turning defeat to vic tory has been praised by statesmen and honored by the presence of a fourth of the nations standing army A Heroic Figure The statue which is the tribute of the State cost 30000 The contract for it was made with Augustus St Gaudens ten years ago and he was told to take his time and make the statue his masterpiece He selected as the scene to be depicted that moment during the battle of Atlanta when Logan took command of the Army of the Tennessee Iteaders of history know that this engagement on the banks of Peach Tree creek was one of the bloodiest of the war Brave Gen Mc Pherson was in command when the battle opened Within an hour he had fallen The Union lines had been split the fiank had been turned and Hoods eager legiona were rolling up the Army of the Tennes see like a scroll Then a wild figure burst on the vision of the disheartened men in blue Black Jack Logan dashed along the lines Waving a ragged battle Hay snatched from the hand of a color bearer with head uncovered his long black hair streaming in the wind with eagle like fea tures illumined by the lire of resolve and driving spurs into his horse he looked the very personification of victorious war At his word the lines were reformed Hood was beaten back Seven thousand men fell on either side but the victory was with the Union That is the scene whC TOEX A IOGAX III depicted by the sculptor for this monu ment the supreme moment when Logan headed the Army of the Tennessee and reining back his horse gave the order which saved the battle The statue is of heroic size and mounted on a base rising 2 1 feet above the level of Michigan ave nue Maj Perley the well known Canadian rifleman died of bronchitis at Bisley Ene MAD JJUSH OF WATEB CLOUDBURST DOES AWFUL DAM AGE IN OHIO Crab Creek Near louncetown He- comes a Torrent and Rushes Upon the Residents of the City Many s May Have Perished Swept by a Flood Thursday niirht a terrific cloudburst struck Yoiing town O Hooding the entire valley and causing great damage to prop erty bjth in the city and along the rail way lines Many people are supposed to be drowned The entire country east and west for twenty miles was Hooded and the damsge will be enormous the rail roads being the heaviest losers The Erie Itaiiuad west of Warren fourteen miles and north of Sharon for the same distance was entirely washed out and orders were issued to discontinue all trains Many residences in Youngstown were flooded out ud the occupants were taken away by the police and fire departments The Mahoning Valley electric lines were flooded out and all the bridges washed away The Catholic church at Xiles was struck by liuhtnnir at the same hour and nearly destroyed by fire while busi ness houes and manufacturing concerns were flooded Ilen y Mers a tailor while standing at his residence on Mill street was struck by Iighnhig and killed instantly Evoij railroad hading into the city reports ex tensive washouts and bridges swept away and the ellicials say the loss will be the heaviest tl ey have ever known About 10 oclock the water came dowr the Crab creek valley into the city and formed into a flood sweeping everything that was not fastened down before it The bed oi the creek was not more thai twenty feet wide and the flood spivau out to a width of about 2000 feet II rose quickly and in Ie s than thirty min utes the water vastup to the second story of all the dwelling hou es in the floodeci districts ami was still rising The whole district was covered with darkness ex cept one small place where a lonely light shone Firemen police and others were on ha ml quickly but were powerless to res cue anybody as not a boat of any kind was to be had in that portion of the city The cries of the people in the houses wore heartrending to those who stood at the waters edge and were forced to retreat slowly on account of the gradually rising water Many People Drowned It is almost a certainty that many peo ple were drowned One whole family was heard crying for help from an upstairs window when suddenly there was a grinding noise as if the house was beinj moved from its foundation and soon the cries lvom that place ceased The in tense darkness made it impossible to see what was going on but it is supposed that the lioino and its occupants went clown in the flood People at the waters edge heard a man crying for help who was apparently being carried down in the flood The voice grew fainter and it is supposed the un fortunate man perished Pitiful cries for help were heard continually but the crowd on the shore could do nothing in the way of giving aid Police and firemen went at once to an other part of the city after boats It was midnight before boats were gotten to the flooded Crab- creek district and the work of rescue could be started The boats were manned by firemen who went to work with a will but could not make rapid progress on account of the swift and dangerous current Nine families were taicen out of second story windows within a half hour and many people were picked up clinging to debris Our ad ice is stay at home and save what little you have Kalamazoo Tele graph Its cpiite easy to get the gold fever but unfortunately that doesnt lessen the hard work of getting the gold Binghamtou News When Constantinople was captured by the Turks its walls were not battered down with collective notes New York Tress Dont start for the Klondyke gold fields without about o00 and a years supplies omitting ice cream from the menu Far go Argus Peary can very easily reimburse those who subsciibe for his polar expedition by towing a few icebergs home Chicago Times Herald It costs money to go to the Klondyke but you can get all the advice you want about staying at home for nothing Phil adelphia Ledger Turkey has anticipated the powers with an ultimatum It now remains to be seen which ultimatum will be ultimate Bal timore American Unless n man has the capital to invest in an oatfit and a large commissary he is taking more chances on death than for tune St Louis Post Dispatch If Itussia had known that portions of Alaska were principally composed of gold she wouldnt have sold it to William H Seward for 7000000 Minneapolis Tribune The powers are treating the sultan with great mildness They evidently believe that moral suasion is much more effica cious than brick bats Cleveland Plain Dealer Uncle Sam has never made a mistake in annexations and he Is not likely to go wrong in the next one after having thought it over for sixty years St Louis Globe Denocrat In view of the enormous amount of metal some of the pans in that Klondyke district are said to wash its very proba ble that lots of these stories wont wash Philadelphia Times And now the Hawaiian volcano of Ivi lauea is in a state of active eruption Maybe the poor thing is trying to voice the native opinion of the annexation scheme St Louis Itepublic With his abundant opportunities for as sociating with colossally intellectual war correspondents the Turk is so shockingly ignorant that he does not know the war is really over Kansas City Times PLAIN OR FANCY s 1531 JPriK I NTING - V I h X X QUICKLY SSi PECIALTIES BILL HEADS LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS STATEMENTS ENVELOPES INVITATIONS PROGRAMMES MENUS LARGE POSTERS BUSINESS CARDS SMALL POSTERS CALLING CARDS SALE BILLS ETC CHROMO 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