Show TIlE THE MEMORIAL BRIDGE The proposed memorial bridge across the Poi Polo Polo- 0 mac at Washington js is s an un enterprise that every e lover lo of his country must approve e It is the hope of the Civil war veterans veterans those those of the gray as fiS well as is those of the blue blue that that the stone corner of the structure ture might be laid in October when the G. G T. T A. A R. R holds its thirty sixth annual encampment in the 1 Capital All ll ll the host hORt of Grand Army men arc are enthusiastically for the bridge and so arc are the majority o of f the thc Confederate veterans President Roosevelt has given it his hearty indorsement as IS lid the thc late President McKinley The bridge 1 is designed partly as a n memorial of the thc late Chief f Executive e and partly as fiB an enduring monument to symbolize the last link in iu the reunion of North and aini South l Rut lInt ut the bridge is to be no mere ornament but a u practical structure for fol service ericc over ocr the Poto Polo mac T The c Aqueduct t bridge is old and decaying I Maryland an and Virginia more am and more each passing passin day Many any Washingtonians now no live Jive in Virginia Vii and Arlington and Mt U. U Vernon arc are almost a part of the Capital The fhe City of Magnificent nt Distances as us it ii has been called needs a it span across acres the beautiful Potomac in keeping with the other othe splendid structures of the cit city The fhe time is ripe f or Ol its construction construct on The time of the October en Cu- encampment is the time for the laying of the corner corner- stone slone |