Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — MONUMENT To M'KINLEY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MONUMENT To M'KINLEY.

Splendid Marble Shaft la Dedicated q at BafTalo The monument In memory of William McKinley, erected by the State of New York on the site provided by tbe

city of Buffalo, was dedicated Thursday. It is In the form of an obelisk of white marble eighty-six feet high and Is situated at Niagara square, the intersection, of Niagara and Court streets and Delaware avenue. The principal address was made by Gov. Charles B. Hughes.

The obelisk rests upon a pedestal fourteen feet high, tbe base of which is twelve feet above the street level. Tbe whole is surrounded by a tessellated promenade, embellished with ornate parapets and balustrades and splashing fountains. On four sides of tbe base of the column are the following Inscriptions:- ' •' v

: This Shaft Wa* Erected : by the State of New York : : to Honor the Memory of : : WILLIAM M’KINLEY, : : Twenty-fifth President : : of “the United States of America. : : William McKinley Was Born : : at Niles. Ohio, Jan. 29, 1843. : : Was Enlisted 23d Ohio : : Volunteers, June 11, 1861, as : • Private sod Mustered Out r : July 26, 1865, as Major by Brevet : : For Gallantry Under Fire. : William McKinley was : : Elected to Congress as a Representative : : of Ohio in 1576, ’7B, ’feo, ’B2, : : ’B4, ’BB, ’9O. > : S Was elected Governor of Ohio : ~t' In IS9I and 1894 and President : : of the United States in : : 1896 and 1900. : : William McKinley Died In : : Buffale, Sept. 19, 1901. : Victim of a treacherous : : assassin, who shot : : the President as he was : ; extending to him the t : hand of courtesy. : • _ The monument was built under the direction of a commission composed of E. H. Butler and George B. Matthews of Buffalo, John G. Milburn of New York, formerly of Buffalo, and at

whose home President McKinley died, and E. A. Curtis, of Fredonla. Thursday saw an end to their work, when Chairman Butler formally handed over to Got. Hughes a work complete in every detail and of rare artistic beauty.

GOV. HUGHES.

BUFFALO M’KINLEY MONUMENT.