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Show MONUMENT TO ERICSSON. A writer in the New York Sun tells how, when Ericsson's "Monitor" model was being criticized by the Naval Board in Washington, President Lincoln Lin-coln sat by, a patient listener, until finally called upon for an expression. Rising from the low chair in which he had been sitting, he said: "I think a good deal as the Western girl did when she stuck her foot in the stocking, that there was something in it," and bowing a good morning he left the room. He took that way to give his opinion to the old and young naval officers who had been harsh In their criticisms criti-cisms of the little model, but after that one day in Hampton Roads they all agreed that Both Mr. Lincoln and the Western girl were right. "There was something in it." There is some little heat in the East about the form which the monument to Ericsson is to take. It does not much matter so that it is something some-thing severely grand. He usurped the functions of both Neptune and Jupiter. He strode the sea and hurled thunderbolts at the same time. He forged a shield for his adopted country, even ao Vulcan did for the mother of Pelides. He was one of the souls that was at home where Nature's great forces were to be called to serve man. Make the monument represent a great nation's gratitude for inestimable services in a crisis when the nation's na-tion's life was at stake. |