Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — JEANNETTE DEAD MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JEANNETTE DEAD MONUMENT.

Proposition to Krect a Duplicate One in Woodlawn. Senator Chandler is expected to introduce a bill in the United States Senate shortly to provide for the erection of a monument over the graves of the dead of the Jeannette Arctic expedition in Woodlawn cemetery, New York. The monument, if the present plan is carried out.

will be similar to that erected of wood and stone by George W. Melville, the present engiueer-in-chief of the navy, over the spot where the body of the brave De Long and his conqianions were first buried. The amount of money required will be small. It is proposed to duplicate this tomb in every respect in Woodlawn cemetery, to which place the bodies of the brave De Long anjl most of his companions were removed in the winter of 1883-84. The only difference between the monument proposed to be constructed and that which marked the original tomb of the De Long party will be that the cross will be of cast bronze instead of timber.

MONUMENT MELVILLE ERECTED.