Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Fremont’s Monument. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Fremont’s Monument.

Mrs; Gilo Hinton Huniker, of New York, has finished a design for a monument for John C. J'remont, to be erected in Rockland Cemetery, in Ban Francisco. monument illustrates the following story: In first expedition across the continent in 1542 he had made the ascent of what is now cllled Fretnont’s Peak, in Wyoming. There, upon a great rock, to which the name of Rock Independence has since"been given, the soldier made a mark, of which he has written: ‘‘Here, pot unmindful of the custom.of early travelers and explorers in our country, I engraved qn this rock

of the far West a symbol of the Christian faith. I made on. the hard granite the impression of a large cross, which I covered with a black preparation of India rubber, well calculated to resist the influence of wind and rain.” The cost of the monument is being defrayed by the associated pioneers of the Territorial days of California. A rock will be placed on thegrave in Rockland Cemetery, the elevation of which will be fourteen feet. The statue, *gybich will beof heroic size, is to be of bronze and will stand upon the rock.

THE STRIKING MONUMENT TO THE PATHFINDER.