Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — MONUMENT BEGUN [ARTICLE]

MONUMENT BEGUN

Rear Admiral E. H. C. Leutze Leading Figure in Ceremonies. New York, Feb. 16. The cornerstone of the National Maine monument was laid by Rear Admiral E. H C- Leutze, U. S N„ commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, at the Colt mbus Circle entrance to Central Park. The monument is designed to commemorate an epoch-making event in American history—the destruction of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor fourteen years ago—on Feb. 15.. 1898—and as a tribute to the men who perished in the disaster and in the v.ar with Spain.