Show f of r mD m D- D er err DR r r t R jf 4 r R 0 a I- I IA A y S w r sl I IE Il Ia Ir It Ii Iq E l r i a n t q a f V 0 r It t tt t y r w ws wa a s r rt t 1 ep tl r J t tt z d t 4 Q l aF TKO s By ELriO ELrO SCOTT WATSON r P AI AIL L the et events In 1 10 1927 7 which w have marled cd the theone theone they 9 one hun hundred red fiftieth nn an annl nh of the critical year of the Resolution S 1 11 S fe few irate ha commemorated more appropriately the world wide significance of the be Amer AmerIcan Amerlean Ican can for freedom than tho e eIn eIn In n which the he name of Thaddeus loa hOb Ko has lias figured Ills name and fame were last summer when press dispatches the lie news s new that the bronze urn containing the heart of this his I and friend of American free freedom freedom dom hind hod been reclaimed by Ly his hl nathe lan laud They were ere revised r at nt the lie Sara Saro Saroto Saratoga to toga celebration In New l I w fork lork last month when hen honors honori were ere paid among others to this youth whose organizing work ork won son for him the title ULie of ot ot of American merlean and who ho sel select selected selected t te e ed and planned the lie fortification of I 1 erol heights which had such on an important part pirt In s detent defeat It was HIS nt ot the Saratoga too that there was as launched a nallon wide Ille l among teachers and sch school 01 children cf ct f America to 0 rais fun funds for the lie endowment ment of a scholar ship hip to be known n as os The G GeorgeW George orge W lil of ot the I will III pro pro Ido for the he education of a from I oland at an on Amer Amerl Amerlean Amerlean lean Icon and of an tin American l student at n a Polish lolls Thus be i 1 not only the he oft repeated wish of I Let us n gl give glie our children en a good ll II e a of ot Justice and ond honor but also the m memory mory of the Hie fir sr E len ld friendship between him and aud the len lend lead ci el of the army rho once declared ed to hill care and aud sedulous al ap the are Indebted fl r fi-r r the de s LS of lest cst I L I lor or it was as ho Ko ho planned pl the fortifications 01 of the Hud Hudson son and who when It was as Iter ater dt d d t tj tl found a II training scho school l fo to future officers officer UI urged gul tat Int I est I Joint oln t be Le as os the hr site I hut But most 0 of all nil the thee e ha hae lia e er ld ed to recall the name mIme of ot Kosciu ko ilo was as the Uon on October IG 16 alien hen i a new statue of him was wis unveiled tinselled In tl tie e I ubI garden In 1 0 TI Tl e a statu a was the girt to I 1 ston of the rho I 1 el ci lie ot of New ew situ ho ho raised a fund of for lint r i urpo-t urpo and und on I that lint day more than llian of Polish ancestry marched in the parade pill e nt ot the hea head of which were ere carried d both the rho Stars an 1 es and the national colors of ot I oland to the itc of the lie he statue where here the un un selling and dedication took tool place In Inthe Inthe the pre presence of many distinguished This I hl memorial Is lie he work orl of I irs rs Theo t I 1 ug les lt I on of I ram ingham 1188 noted for her own sculptured pieces Including rite Flie of 01 nt at e lias Mis- Mis on an another other at II Miss Ills the Spanish ar students at nt linn and ontI 1 and ond the lie he statue nt at Galesburg m III mas as well ell as ns for fur the fact fot that Hint lint she slie Is the wife of Henry II Kitson creator of the r I ton Minute Men Ien and the I obert turns Hums statue In the I 1 en a The date ate Sunday October 10 ot of othe lie he un un of ot this tills statues statue was wis s espe especially significant It was wai on October 17 11 1811 1317 tl tint at the tho Polish champion ch then at nt the oge age of se se ent one seers tact lil death h l i n a fall foll from his horse nn on c cent c ent which the lie he poet Camp Campbell Campbell bell has lias made historic with hIs Ills Hope II pc for tor f r ft n son feison bade the tir world word tar tar tar- r well wellAnd And Free rree Ir Tom I m shriek d as ns K tell foul I The date datt however however was elected mort mor particularly because Lecause It w r is on lQ 14 1 1770 1 that landed landell In Nety l lark lork with the lie I 1 rehei e to aid nid the hc colonies So the thelie rte lie h hundred first ann h rr t hia beginning a 0 new ne fight for fl freedom edom and ond the one hundred tenth anal annl of tI ll tic e a en end o 0 nr his loni Ion St struggle tru rug gle In the cause of liberty saw a great patriotic to honor him The whole career of wItS was dedicated tod to the lie single purpose ot of oth h human uma n libel t I 11 II e a hossu Kossuth th the Hungarian Info eUe the lie I I and other he lie was as far tar In n advance athance once of his time lie He was IS boor bom 1 12 the ho LII of ot another great e c c of freedom In the Sear 1740 17 In n a 11 mole part pirt of ot I It was wasat wasat at a 0 time hen Poland was as c 1 by war wars nr not wars Or fr the betterment of tl tI e a P OI Jell of 1 I but hut lIet between een ambitious 1 0 o el ills father was as a nine man of ot noble 1 I Irth and large estates The young loung oun attend 1 I the Jesuit college In his home own tsun 1 n antI and In hi 1 enterer 1 the coils s of ot cadets In the 10 nl al School of Warsaw lIr n 1 During DUling his lils tons nt at home lie he talked with tie peasants pe on his fall f tl ers cra state learned of their a aF af ay ar I F f y l d r 1 J 1 rs Ii cy i 7 c rZ ff discontent and lOll In his min 1 the seed seedof seedof seedof of protest against t t tyranny ranDy begin to grow Inter he lie west went el t t where here he stu lied engineering ep especial especially Iy fortifications n a tu lv which was to toI I rung nn him f flute At the age of twee tweet h cn t eight he lie returned to I oland to find the family fortunes In the hands of a spendthrift older I rother and rapidly In the meantime the first partition of I oland hi 1 I taken len and ond I estate were lre l td b bi the Russians who were el e overrunning He t country having Ila heard of ot the ret of the American colonies the I king ho 1 Ko- Ko clu r Oh oil II to cyst cist his lot with them lie ne arrived In I soon coon after the signing of the Declara of Independence ha hazing haling In mort mortgaged mortgaged his patrimony an and borro borrowed d 40 ducats to get Iet there lIe He s seems ems to hale e made the acquaintance of Franklin either In I 1 ranee or after his arrival In Philadelphia for we e next nest heir of ot him presenting himself and a letter of In from I to Ills HIs rs George a In On Oc October tober 1776 1770 I I I hat shat hat can cin you do asked Wash Washington Ington according t the familiar story Try me and we shall see sel I was s response So l a ton made matle him a n colonel of engineers and ond from October 1776 1710 to April 1777 he be was a busy fortifying continuing the work there that ho had undertaken before Ills hits sen en Ices had been accepted Then he lie j jr Ined Gates army arlU In the North orth and per performed performed performed formed the tyre son cen Ices at nt Saratoga and amI andest sect e est t Point already referred to Later he was as of valuable Invaluable lo assistance to General Greene is chief engineer In Inthe Inthe the lie southern campaign and ond It Is sold that lint Greene s escape flom Cornwallis during his m memorable retreat was due largely largel to the work orl of the Polish om oft In constructing pontoon bridges which allowed 1 allow ed Greene Greenes s army to cross cro rh ers before the British could over o overtake overtake taLe take Itt It It At t the lie dose close of ot the Revolution evolution boa hos I returned to his nn no lye ire Ian tan 1 and had hall a n pi prominent part in the storms storm times which preceded I the he ec cec second and of that lint unhappy country In his fight for the of ids hb cout COUI tri tr he lie was t finally finalli wound wounded ell In bat battlo le and captured by the Russians t who held him hem prisoner for h two 0 3 icaro ear Th Then n nhe he was ns released upon his Ills request to sit once more fler his hb cecon second here he be settled llo down llon n to In InI I 1 arts and then cd to Switzer Switzerland 5 laud land where hele he lie was wis Ii slag at It the ha time timet t t the fatal fill fall from his horse As helay he heIny lay Iny thIng it t Solothurn Switzerland he requested that hi his heart houll 1 not be tal e in I n back to his lils country until lie day when lol 1 oland was wis flee five So it was as r removed mo etl from his lils body hid was taken tal en to Cracow v and burled buried In Inthe inthe the cathedral II I ere cre embalmed d and andI placed In to n a bronze urn uru which was 11 kept at ot uJ it I there until some thirty years igo go Then ihen 1 h n II was as removed to the lie little chapel of 01 Chateau au I 1 linens neat neni Zurich Lunch DUl Dining Ing all these thee years ears I oland had been n l i r football for the lie pow PO ers era of I But tho the en end of POI thin tho th thorl orl war nr found It an Independent state stale at nt list last So the tho heart beart of ot hoe hoc I Iris Ins gone gont back to his native e eland land hand to 0 t 1 te e rl In hi the Ilse cath cathedral nt at Cracow there to be honored cd by hl hi for fr his In their behalf And In lu where w litre Ito hp no also fought for freedom monument In W a DC D C nt at W U e est t In i nr ark In III Chicago on an 1 thi latest 01 of e a In 1 I oston stand ns as con COli slant of tin list debt we e owl ow to this his great champion of humor 11 bert |