Show BEGINS MONUMENT TO OILY JOHN D. D DE DENTON TO- TO TOT T Tex x Sept IS A A monument monument monument ment ment to John D. D Rockefeller Is 15 being erected by E E. G. G L Lee e two miles south of this town where two traveled much roads cross Of Ot course It Is unusual to put up upa a a. monument to a man before he has been gathered to his forefathers I know that monuments should be post mortem said ald Mr Ir Lee ft a man of great ireat Intelligence I 1 know kno you jou ou cannot write epitaphs In the present tense But Andy Carnegie and Teddy Roos Roosevelt elt have set ret the example only And Andy Is working up building libraries and Teddy Is working down digging pit pits I consider John D. D Rockefeller tho the greatest man n In tn the world Mr Lee continued continued con con- d with emphasis I am era trying to Induce him to come hero here and live wh where r I he wont won't he be hunted and persecuted I want him to run on the Democratic ticket I Ifor for president next time h he would b b- he elected You see soe the pedestal d Is nearly I completed It symbolizes Mr Ir Rockefellers Rockefeller's Rockefellers Rockefeller's I lers ler's natural strength breadth and depth I have havo ordered the statue It Itself elf froma from froma a IJ bronze casting firm In New Now York City No I will not tell you OU which firm be because because be be- cause 1110 Mr Rockefeller I shun publicity pub pub- I am ani spending on the statue and pedestal I expect Mr Rockefeller Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller flIer and bl his kin ln to be here for tho the unveiling un- un unveiling un 1111 veiling which mD may bo be pert next November No and If not then In the ell ell- early spring He lie has assured d me that nothing except except ex ex- ex- ex business can keep him away So I Iam Iam Iam am very hopeful ho will bo be here for ho he hol l d tho the other othor day you OU will remember ber th that t he has not been attending to I business for some gome years Anyhow whether heth er r or not he Is hero the monument wIllbo will willbe willbo bo be unveiled d Despite the difficulty In wording epitaphs rid epi In past or present Mr Ir Lee IM has quite n a largo o collection from which ho ex expects expects ex- ex to make a n ex In J letters of ot bronze there may mRY bo be on one face of ot th the pedestal pedestal- I He lie never n cared for monc money for moneys money's money s I Iak sake On another faC face the following I Christopher pher Columbus discovered tho the country a George Washington liberated tho the coun coun- try Abraham Lincoln united the tho country John D. D Rockefeller Illumined ll tho country And on a It third face face- I Millions U burn oil oil he hc burned money mone for tor the sake of charity and anil 1 learning I The statue will stand on the tho top of or a n amass mass of ot rocks piled plIc-d sixty piled sixty f tl feet et t high the I circumference of or tho the base of the mass being feet teet I |