| Show A romance feht monument I 1 STANDARD special speciale F chronicle ele service cel I 1 nw feb 22 A serious effort has been began among the society 6 61 women omen in new york washington and other cities of the east to raise the money necessary to complete the unfinished and anti neglected monument to ito mary blary washington hington mother mot her of the father of his country tb the a present condition of the monument the corner cortier stone cf of which wai was lad la d by president jackson in 1833 with ith ceremonies and appropriate addresses is certainly a it subject abject for tion A accordian cording to the original on kinal plan of the designer it was to be 0 a yra initial as shaft supported hv bv a pedestal p el lestal four square with two capitols capi on earn aide side and two eagles perched at the top on the and base of the shaft while on the tile very apex on the pillar or shaft itsek itself was a bust of washington in bronze or marble eur pur mounted mou led by an eagle with outstretched wings in the act of laying on the brow of washington a wreath reath of laurel not even the pedestal was wag completed when a notification came to stop the base is much dilapidated whatever inscription there may hae have been is effaced by the hand of time visitors to the battlefield of cf fredericksburg icks burg look at the lie ruin scarcely L kilo ing what it if flit its bides sides have been mutilated by relic hunters the shaft lies where w here it fell when the lie order came to cease work halt half im bedded in soil boil there is a touching romance atta at tachel cliel to the partial building of this monument men la in the ile t first years ears of jacksons administration a beautiful virginian girl was wooed and won b by a rich northerner the lover over w who h 0 aw was as devoted begged his betrothed to command his fortune for any object she desired and anti the lady like a good patriot suggested that lie build a monument to tha tile memory of mary the mother of washington whose remains hf util that time rested in an obscure spot unmarked by any monumental tablet he ile consented aid will orders were niven given tor for the t the site waa as choen and work ws w s well advanced when for some unexplained reason tho ilia hajy married another and jilted the man to it hour the else was e engaged ng aged on hearing this the latter I 1 immediately m t ly ordered that all work ork on the monument be stopped and stepped stopped it wag as |
