| Show Holl ummi A kl 8 t F wua k fia z rrb 7 L I 1 21 4 4 01 aa ier aum ium r az ir 1 roe t XI ITS A ajeh AN ogg by ELMO SCOTT WATSON ROM texas cornea comes the announcement aano atno that it if present plans are car ailed riled out a monument la is to be erected on the state capital grounds at austin as a memorial to the wild mustang which played such an important part in the development of texas and the whole southwest the movement for such a memorial was started aby by a fort worth worth citizen and at his suggestion Bug a fund of with which to erect the monument Is being raised among the ranchmen ranchman ranch men of the state up in alaska last year a bronze plaque bearing a bas relief of a mule and a horse was dedicated by the ladles of the golden north an auxiliary of the alaska yukon pioneers to perpetuate the memory of the faithful paste pak animals both mules and horses who lost their lives on the white pass trail during the klondike gold rush days with gov george A parks paries of alaska and george black member of the canadian parliament from yak yukon on territory officiating the dedication took place near inspiration point above the famous dead horse gulch tt these two memorials are the latest but by no means the only ones which have been erected to honor members of the equine world go down to lexington ky and drive out along the winchester pike until you come to hamburg place the farm of J E madden nestling to in a little grove of trees on this farm is what Is thought to be the only cemetery tor for horse cel in the world dominating the grassy plot of ground of less than an acre and enclosed by a stone wall stands a statue of a horse upon the foundation on which the statue stands la Is this inscription nancy hanks for this Is the last resting place of 0 the world champion trotter from 1892 to 1804 nor Is nancy the only grent great horse honored in this resting place of celebrities or westminster abbey of the turf as this graveyard Is called another monument marks the grave of hamburg belle whose worlds race record of stood tor for many years and whose victory over the great uhlan at cleveland in 1909 when she stopped stepped two heats in and Is a classic in american harness racing other stones tell the name and fame of miss bliss kearney Kc arney the mother of zev winner of the international race of 1924 plaudit winner of a kentucky derby silicon dam of trotting cham champion plon of europe major delmar act the trotting marvel of hi ida pickwick known as the queen of the west ogden and plaudit both famous turf names star shoot tor for five consecutive years the running worlds leading sire imp the black whirlwind credited with winning CO 60 races thus earning the title of queen of the east and lady sterling famous us as the mother of sir barton and sir martin hidden away in a field near crown point N y stands a simple granite monument nied anil and unmarked A X SQ pd except on one side where Is chiseled this inscription I PINK brintz died sunday may 25 aw age 30 years rears tills this horse carried his master 25 years and was never known to show fatigue while other horses in cavalry and flying artillery were dying from want of food and exhaustion lie ile was present in 88 skirmishes and 31 battles notably winchester orange courthouse second bull run hanover II anover penn gettysburg hanover II anover va brandy plains buckland mills the wilderness court house north anna ashland white oak swamp reams keams station the master was brig gen john hammond who served through the civil war in company 11 II of the fifth new york cavalry and whose name went on the roll of honor for merl meritorious service and each memorial day the grave crave of this equine hero Is decorated along alth the graves of the human warrior dead even more traditional than love of man for his horse Is his love for his dog so it Is not surprising that in various parts of the world may be found monuments erected to jo the memory of mans best friend most famous of these perhaps Is lord byrons monument to his newfoundland boatswain in newstead abbey in nottingham england in central park in new york city stands a bronze statue of a dog which commemorates an incident that has become a part of the heroic legend of america for this Is the statue of balto an important member of the dog team which leonhard drove over those snowy miles from nenana benana to nome alaska carrying his precious load of diphtheria serum to a frozen city in the throes of the epidemic while the whole world awaited with breathless interest to hear the result of his race against death and a similar bronze statue Is soon to stand either in the or under den linden in berlin which will perpetuate the memory of the red cross dogs who served so BO heroically in the world war it Is not especially unusual perhaps tor for man to erect monuments to ills his two best friends the horse and the dog but it Is unusual for him to erect a monument to a cow for that reason the statue of segis pietertje prospect a holstein cow which stands over her grave on the banks of the snoqualmie river near seattle wash is unique among memorials the reason for tills this honor Is explained by the inscription on the bronze tablet at the base of the statue it reads as follows here lived and gave her service to mankind segis pietertje prospect worlds champion milk cow born 1913 died 1925 twice she re registered ts production records that set act her fame above nil all dairy cattle of any age in each of two years she e exceeded quarts of milk 1400 pounds of butter yielding for the two a total of quarts of milk pounds of butter sired by a king and of purest holstein strain she herself bore sons and daughters daugh teri of champion achievement I 1 inest finest type of the noble patient animal that is most justly named the foster mother of the human race her queenly worth deserved the gratitude in which this tribute Is 13 erected by her owner carnation milk farms 1923 1928 1 in n salt a L lake e C city utah ta stan stands d s a gr luit ake ak rity ou top lofty lof t y granite a e column lu on n top of 0 which w h lc Is a large granite ball upon which two bronze birds co covered ered with gold leaf are gently alighting on the tour four sides of the base are bronze tablets three bearing bas relief scenes of pioneer days in the salt lake valley one shows the beginning liggIn ning of agriculture lu in the arld arid west a pioneer and his family and a yoke of oxen at work reclaiming the desert soil the second shows the wheat fields overrun by crickets the pioneer man sits with bowed head on his face a look of helplessness and grief but the pioneer woman Is lifting up her face to the skies as she sees a miracle about to take place winging oyer over the mountains into the valley come a great flock of gulls the third bronze shows the harvest days the gulls gull have devoured the crickets the crops are saved and the pioneers in the wilderness will have bread on the fourth tablet are these words sea gull monument erected in grateful remembrance mem brance of the mercy of god to the mormon pioneers thus this monument Is an everlasting story in stone of one of the most beautiful and dramatic incidents inel dents in american history the story of how the gulls saved the wheat fields of utah in 1848 while monuments to horses dogs dogg cows and gulls are unusual enough there Is one monument which is absolutely unique there Is only one monument in the world to cheese it stands near the little city of dimou tiers in the th camembert district of normandy france on the farm of a certain beau moncel where lived during the latter halt half of the eighteenth century marle harel who Is credited with being the inventor of camembert Camern bert cheese not only Is the fame of this norman milk maid commemorated by this stone shaft on the farm where site she worked but la in main place in the city of itself Is a statue of her back of which Is a stone has bas relief showing the farmhouse on the marcel farm where she was born bom in 1761 where she lived until her death in 1817 and where she made the new kind of cheese which Is now known the world over these monuments were erected through the efforts of a new york doctor joseph kurla karim for many years he conducted a sanatorium in new york where the only medicine he gave his patients for all kinds of stomach ailments was Ill sener beer and camembert cheese cli eese because lecause I or of his gratitude to the inventor of the clinese cli eci eese with which he made so many people well and saved their lives he made a to romantic mantle pilgrimage to dimou alers a year or so ago and the result was this most unusual of all moon menu merits ments |
