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Show V . 7 POPOSD HfKJMLEY MEMORAL BULDWS the trustees had contribi-ted $1,00C each. A $5,000 subscription was se cured from Andrew Carnegie, and large sums were pledged by many other philanthropists. During the six day campaign conducted in the citj over $58,000 was raised. Fraternal organizations, clubs and Individuals in the city worked and contributed freely, and a tplendid spirit spir-it prevailed throughout the entire cam-paign. cam-paign. Telegraph and telephone connections con-nections were established at headquarters, head-quarters, and a committee was in charge of the responses! to the messages mes-sages sent out. This method of raising rais-ing the $100,000, which the building ia designed to cost, has met with the most sincere approval of the people of Niles, since it giver them the assurance as-surance that they havo a part in the enterprise. The building is the ft'rst of Its type to be designed in the world, and is a fitting memorial to the great statesman. states-man. In the design an effort is made to portray to the present and futur generations the noble character ol President McKinley which shall endure en-dure ,for ages, also the great philanthropic philan-thropic thought of the founder of the movement whereby Niles is to receive this great gift, the lifelong friend and staunch supporter of the martyred president, Hon. Joseph G. Butler. The great generosity of the American Ameri-can people is being displayed in the many hearty responses to telegrams and the large volume of encouraging 1'etters being received daily by Mr. Butler from almost every state in the Union and many foreign posts. f3 5? ON'UMENTS and memorials afg have been erected to the Iwlw memorv f distinguished JLV JjL statesmen, warriors, litera-teurs litera-teurs and heroes of various characters, for many centuries, and the types of architecture of these tokens of love and loyalty have assumed as-sumed as many distinctive designs as lire indicated by the character whom they commemorate, as well as that of the artist or architect who designs them. ' The love and loyalty of one man, a friend, for one whom he had admired throughout his momentous career, will be fittingly portrayed in the magnificent magnifi-cent Birthplace Memorial building, which is to be erected In Niles, O., to the memory of its first citizen, the late President William McKinley, through the efforts of Hon. Joseph G. Butler, Jr., millionaire philanthropist and capitalist of Youngstown. The plans and specifications of this majestic shrine are now completed and a portrait of the building Is herewith presented. It is expected that work on the construction will be commenced com-menced in the early spring, i Plan to Raise Funds, The conception of this memorial 'has been upon the mind and heart of Mr. Butler since the death of the martyred mar-tyred president, and he always expressed ex-pressed the belief that Niles was the fitting place for such a memorial. Although Al-though he contributed liberally to the funds for the majestic mausoleum at Canton, he was then evolving a plan to erect a memorial in Niles himself, but on taking the matter under due consideration, he felt that there were many who cherished the memory of the great statesman as deeply as he, who would feel that they were deserving deserv-ing of the opportunity to contribute to such a cause. A number of friends were consulted, and Mr. Butler was accorded ac-corded the greatest encouragement. He planned to make it a thoroughly national movement, aod decided that It would be a security to the enterprise enter-prise to appeal to congress for a charter, with the understanding that the government was not called upon to provide any of the funds. These are to be raised by private subscription, subscrip-tion, and a bill was accordingly introduced intro-duced into congress by Representative W. Aubrey Thomas, who represented the old Nineteenth district, which was passed without a dissenting voice, in a most stormy period at the close of the third session of the Sixty-first congress, and Joseph G. Butler, Jr., of Ohio; Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, Jacob G. Schmldlapp of Ohio. John G. Mil-burn Mil-burn of New York, and W. A. Thomas Thom-as of Ohio were appointed members of a commission, to compose a body corporate, which would be known by the name of the National McKinley Pfrthplace association, to perpetuate the name and achievements of the late President William McKinley, by erecting and maintaining in the city of Niles, O., his birthplace, a monument monu-ment and memorial building. Will Serve Many Purposes. Impressing upon the minds of his associates that his plan was to establish es-tablish a building, far removed from the usual monumental pile, which would be a dignified structure of noble architecture, to serve as a civic center for the people of the city, to contain an auditorium for public meetings, a relic room, where documents, relics Rnd other valuable mementoes of the McKinley period would be stored and statuary and rare paintings and portraits por-traits of notable people connected with that period will be placed. Another An-other compartment will be given over to the free public library. An effort wi" also be made to allow space for portraits of notable men associated with Mc.Kinley's career, both as a citizen citi-zen and as a statesman, and also Illustrations and other representations of the industrial developments of the McKinley policies. A room will be placed at the disposal of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Wom-en's Relief Corps, and here will be found many relics of McKlnley's military mili-tary career in the Civil war as a private, pri-vate, arising to the rank of a major general, and also of the Spanish-American war. In order to allow the people of Niles to show their appreciation of this rreat gift. It was deemed a courtesy by the trustees of the association to allow them to make such a contribution contribu-tion as they felt In their power to give, and In order to promote the general gen-eral good feeling Mr. Butler and his aids came to Niles and conducted a six-day campaign. Previous to this. Mr. Butler had headed the list with a contribution of $5,000 and each of |