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i r j ' .1 i i i i i i :-"-. ..V 117, iA C M mM t, - -.; ' ' VMSS-iKM 111 . .i i i . . ii I. ' ' ' jf IP" W I II I II : H ' 1 III film iff - llV -'-' 1 'I 1 1 a----'- SORXOWTCU'T buy nation p - proachea the anniversary ' of tha death of Its martyred son. Much as the parent with trembling foot- aiapa draws near the grave of soms favored child, -ths great American peo ple, with bated breath ana nuanea voice, pre para to vainer at mi iouii m vu Uam McKlnley. In the late afternoon- of September . 101, kt ni shot by au anarcnlatic fool at the Temple of Music on the Pan- : American, expoaltion grounds in Buf falo, On September 14 ha died at the home ef John CMilburn. formerly of Buffalo, but . now of Kw, loric jar. Mllburn waa the president-of the 111- f at . -Pan-American Exposition " com ..pany and Mr. McKlnley waa ms guest during the time of his stay In Buffalo, to which elty ha had gone at the Invlta- . tlon of the exposition company. ' - Those were history-maktjig days In ' America. Hardly had the late prealdent - paaaed away, whlaperins "Ood willed It ao," before hla aucoeaaor,' tha preaent exacuUTe head of the nation, was aworn in at tha home of Analey Wilcox of Buffalo, earryinar on tha aoiemn occa sion a silk hat the property of another - Bttffalonlan. Mr. Rooaevelt. In order to in confidence to tha country and 1m ' praaa upon the' manipulators of atook tha fact that ho really believed that Me Klnley would recover, had ' axine away '; from otrtliaatlon on a huntin trip, and ' when -the relapaa came he had hurried to Buffalo, much aa he had left the wild woods hunting; ahack with, a wardrobe " hardly suitable for eo Important a cere mony aa tha taking- of the oath of .obe dience for tha rreateat oincs in tne sin of the greatest country in tha world, i An official Hat1- of the borrowed gar , . ments he wore, aside from tha hat, was . never given to the press. ', ' ' And now, after five years, tha nation . realises mors than It aver did tha great- naas of the man who has gone. .In dlf ferent parts of tha country people are bringing tribute, to his life, and with money contributed . by the masses are erecting monuments In his memory. ' The . . prtaolpal monument, of course, Is : that being erected by the nattonal commle ' slon at Canton, Ohio,, and next In lra . porta nee Is the great marble shaft which has been reared In Buffalo by, the atata of New. TorlL.. Pure and whlU.lt.rlses -. In Niagara square. Ha tall obellak spire - pointing as did the life and example of McKlnley ever - upward. At ita -base, majestlo In their repoea, ' Ho monster marble Hons, typloai of the noble nature of the man -whom 'the -monument com memorates. The McKlnley . monument stands In a hlatorlo spot, before the home of the late President Fillmore, who, with - Orover Cleveland, are the only presidents given to tha nation by Buffalo. It coat 1100,000, and the money -waa saved from the New Tork Pan-American approprla-. - tlon by tha -wise and economical ad mlnlatratlon of the Hon. Daniel Newton Lock wood, -lately-, deceased, who, - curi ously enough, was a former law partner of tha Hon. Orover Cleveland and . the man who nominated htm for aherlff of kris county,-mayor of Buffalo, gover nor of tha state of Mew. Tork and for prealdent of, the, United .. states ; three " times. "---' -i '-" J At the etaae. of the Pan-American ex position tba.mooey.ha Wad raised by an act of the legislature, Instead of being turned back .Into the treasury was di verted to tha erection of a monument at , Buffalo, the city giving the alter,eatab llahlng the surroundings and maintaining ' the statue. The keeping of th grave green Is a pretty cuatom that hw.wiM down. to mm througU the ages, acJ the placing ot THE a wreath upon "tha silent mound, '-with tha ever-recurring anniversary of tha death, makes the loss of child or friend less hard to bear.' Happily for the repu tatlon of the nation and the ' preserva tion! of sentiment, this oustom la being, followed In a broader sense .with the grave of William McKlnley. .He lies burled, not only In the narrow box that contafns - his - remains; - hla burial - place la the ...country and the mourners the nation.' And right well are, they keeping green the grave. The" anniversary of his death- this- year marke the comple tion of New York state s mounment. at Buffalo, and next year the ' month of (September will sea ths completion of the national monument at Canton. May the nation, somewhere In some place, com plete a monument Jo his memory each year, until not a town or hamlet In this broad land of ours- shall stand without memorial (be It ever' ao humble) dedi cated to the -.third -. of , the country's martyred presidents.' Already Reading, Pennsylvania, has a beautiful status to the departed president, and Mr. dward I Pausch. . tha :. well-known Buffalo sculptor, - who made the death mask after McKlnleya assssslnstlon. Is at work on others to ba erected at various places about tha country, all to stand aa a reminder of his last sad and fatal Visit to Buffalo;' . .''- V". . Aneodotea of the last Bay. - - Tha Buffalo ' newspaper boys who covered that visit (now grown historic because of tha tragta happening there) tell many little aneodotea of tha occa sion. One man ralatea how, on the day of McKlnley-s first . visit to the Pan- American exposition -grounds., he re paired to tha Mllburn house, la Dela ware avenue, early and waited tha start of the president. His orders had been to follow tha .presidential party all day long, not only to cover the Interesting features of -the trip, but also to be on band -fn ease of any catastrophe, such aa did follow two days later. : When . ths ' start waa made for ths grounds he . In Some , way became crowded out - of ' the - - newspaper car- brlagea . and Jumped onto - tha rear . axle piece of the president o conveyance. One of the scrst servlea men roughly ordered htm off. v Let him stay," said McKlnley. with thst pleasant' smile all who knew him , learned to love- so well. "Lt him stay; the carriage looks strong." ' , - - Another story which- was told .'right after Mr. McKlnley's death,- but neve verified, had to do with a Buffalo news boy, who rushed up to ths presidential carriage as It drove ' toward the Pan- American entrance and threw a copy of a Buffalo morning paper-Into the car riage. The president ordered bis car riage stopped and, -calling tha boy, of fered ' him sa dollar.. " ' - . - ' ' -1 oon t want ao money, said tne lad. Tat paper's my treat." It Is said that' the lata president afterward referred to tha paper aa one of the most valued mementoes of his trip to Buffalo,- and- probably ; would have preserved It many years had not the untimely bullet put an and to his Ufa, - - - v , . - . The scenes and Incidents In Buffalo during the time Immediately preceding snd ' closely following tha shooting- of ths lata pesldent were seen by many eyes and viewed from a different per spective by almost every pair, recorded many strange and varied figures on the sensitive' retina of the memory. I my self, then as ..now, a newspaper man, was employed' St tha news bureau es tablished by Buffalo papers at ths Pan? American exposition, and had . been given ' aa "earl afternoon off by 'the OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SATURDAY s m ii v a mi :f-H .... . , ... . . -. i i y u m va m H til mm im - u vm f 'fri(.e?i.iff jfwi l v. . manager. It waa shortly' after s o'clock when a newsboy rushed madly through tha great sids street where I -was visit ing, shouting: ;y -f : ' - "Extra! Extra All about tha preal dent is shot!" ; His papers went like hot cakes an a cold day, or perhaps to -use a stronger simile, like flrec. ackers on a Fourth of July. I got one of the last of them and read there the meagre,- and, as after ward developed, not entirely accurate account of the cowardly assassination by the Ignorant i tool" of- still more despicable beings, ' who "extended the hand of friendship and fired' tha1 fatal bullet . - , .. . "When It Is understood thst tha first Buffalo paper waa on ths street-14 min utes after ths hlstory-msklng shot rang out In tha Temple' of Moslo It Is not surprising thst some errors crept - In, nor la It 'altogether - strange that , one paper had the prealdent stabbed Instead of shot .'.--'. "People stood aa if stunned after read ing the news, snd aa ths fact slowly forced Itself upon them wept with bitter shams at ths disgrace of Buffalo. Hur rying toward tbs exposition grounds. I saw everywhere about ma grltny men hst from tha daya toll, hurrying, horns and full of ths awful news. 8ome went along the streets with big. salty (esrs coursing down their cheeks and making furrows In ths dirt accumulated, at an honest day's work., Othsra were stony syed and pale. Men sat In streetcars, convulsed with sobs, . and. one woman, who particularly came under my notice, deliberately lifted her black, silk dress and blew her nose In her petticoat Grief had msds her Insensible of all surround ings. Perfect strangers conversed with each other end all social distinctions were wiped Out. As man communed with man expressions of. hatred for the then unknown wretch who had done the deed crept Into the conversation. aUowly tha riot spirit grew, and; from tailing v. : -',,1 e" t 4 . what ought to ba dona to the despicable atom men began- to tell what they had a good mind' to do. and then. 'with a tightening of lips, what they would do. Many a supper wss hurtiedlysaten that nig bt-ahd many an ordinary peaoe-lov-lng citizen got. down town as fast aa he could to be in at the death to have a part in atamplng out tha life of the aaarchlstlo vermin. Happily for the good name1 of thia fair- country, -the police . authorities hid anticipated " ths mob spirit, and,- under the command of Police Captain Regan now the chief of Bnffalo'a department had massed every man that could be epared around police headquarters, where it was generally believed the assassin hsd been taken. Perhaps he waa there; perhaps not The mob never knew. The police never told. Tha. mob thought he wss there, how ever,' anf time and -time again started down the varloua streets leading to the old brick building, determined to storm the stronghold or die In the!' attempt only to be met by the wall of bluecoata And the coppers on horseback, -who used the flats of their hands, but never their clubs, and' so checked tha crowd without angring it Tha mob lacked a leader, and each 'time It dashed Itself against the police formation and eddied away again. " Captain Regan -advanced his lines a little farther until hs was holding-the crowd safe, fully two bloc Ms away from tha point of attack. It vu a wild "night a never-to-be-forgotten i night with the chief '.executive of the nation lying mortally wounded In the Pan-American Exposition hospital atone end -of -the town and tha .enaddened hordes angrily clamoring for- the Ufa blood of his asssssln at tha other. - Immediately after the shooting ' the entrance gates at tha exposition were eloeed to all except those who had busi ness on the grounds, snd ths pleasure seekers who passed the exits found thst they could not get back.. Only very few left.' however. , The Pan-American hos EVENING,"' SEPTEMBER 1, T 3is?Fi ; ii--t -i pital, to .which ths wounded president had been conveyed,' was guarded by United States marines, city police and expoaltion guard a Ths' shades of even ing feU and the' beautiful city of tha night took form, traced In lines of alec trio, light, and still the crowd lingered on, 'talking In - whispers "and - treading softly, in startling contrast to the howl ing mob which In another part of the otty was clamoring for tha Ufeblood of the man who had struck at the heart of tha nation.. . -, . "- - ' , ! r- ' As each- hurrying newspaper man or dignified orderly left- the hospital " he would -. ba besieged - by hundreds, who would anxiously ask THow is bar. and with .bated breath would await tha an swer. ;'.;' . '.'Z. A hearty "Thank God." would greet the answer, and through - the throng would go the .words, "He still Uvea,' their '' passage in a whispered sound wave over the Immense sea, of human ity being foUowed by many more "thank Goda.", . . -- - - - - After -Dr.- Mann - had performed -the first "operation' Kr. McKlnley waa 're moved to the 'Mllburn home. A little knot of half a dosen newspaper men and ona or" two ,' spectators - were- the only people before- tha house when the am bulance drove up to the door. - Then fol lowed the anxious day of waiting, with the seat of tha government removed to Buffalo, the military camped about- the home In which the. prealdent Uved. the hurry aad bustle of ths hundreds of newspaper tne n -who - poured Into the city from every point of tha compass, tha alternating hone and fear, the gath ering of notables-from all parts of the world to' offer condolencea and the flnnl great throb of grief that shook the city and nation when the end came. . It all seema Ilka some hideous dream to the Buffalonlana who went through It - , . -' Koma of the Moammeata. . - It la but meet and: proper that Cuf- - ;f . - t v . i UCT.' I falo, ' tha scene of tha assassination, Jahould be, the efts for one pf the most I imposing monuments erected In his memory, and It Is also fitting that Buf falo. should- take soma- active: part .In tha erection of ail other monumsnts. k. r. Edward U Pausch, tha . Buffalo sculptor mentioned earlier, and the man who made tha McKlnley .death mask, has been ths designer of a marble bust of McKlnley for the Philadelphia post- office.. This, bust was paid for out of funda. raised among - the Philadelphia letter-carriers,' and has tha distinction of. being the first monument to tha lata lamented president that waa dedicated, Buffalo, through the' work of Mr. Pausch, Is also ths source of other monuments now pointing skyward in silent com memoration - of " him -who .was - struck down by a dastard's hand. ,'. ; . , The greatest McKlnley monument the-j national monument - If - It may be so called, will be .erected at Canton. Ohio. McKlnley's home town, and, will ba paid for by funda gathered from every atate In the union and almdst every hamlet In every state. - Here, too,' Buffalo. -In a minor way,' takes sn active part In ths erection of the monument ' the grsntts for ths' work being supplied by a Bison elty contractor. - v V - ; ' ' - '" i :' Pictures on this page show1. ths work On ths Canton' monument as it stands today,' and also the mausoleum, ' ss it will look -when ' completed. No -satisfactory pfctura Uf the finished - design. Including environments.' has- yet been mads. '-. i . Tha McKlnley' National Memorial as sociation's project Involves the raising' of a fund of $500,000 to pay for the Canton ' memorial, and- "sn - additional 11 00,000, to be -converted Into -ear en dowment fund, from - the- earnings of which the magnificent marble memorial will ba maintained and kept In repair. Tha money to cover the ' cost of the memorial -baa been raised and la la hand..-Tha endowment fund la not com plete, and- efforts are now being made to rales - the- balsnce -probably about 150.000. ,-,.-.. Work on the Csntoh.. monument. Is progressing: favorsbly, Ths exterior work on- the mausoleum, the grading and tree- planting, and all but the Interior finishing -will be -completed during the present year'of grace 1 tot. The Interior work. Inntudlng marble - and glass ef f sets, win' ba continued during the com ing wlhter. and the contracts call for a finished structure by September 1, HOT. Though tha time la yet too tar advanced to admtt ot perfect plsnsvtt Is the hope of the trustees to ba sbls to dedicate tha- McKlnley - monument . at Canton eometlxee during - September: of next year, the data -to be -chosen being ss aearly as . possible - that of ' the anniversary- of ' McKlnley's death Septem ber 14. " i "i '" '.: Tha mausnreum proper , la belnr eon- straoted- eatlraly' ot Ml) ford granite a light pink material, quarried at Mtlford, Massachusetts,-' Ths - Interior - will be finished, with Knoxvllls marble, and the general aspect tit Is said,, will be fsr more pleasing snd handsome than either that of tha Garfield monument In Cleve land or tha Grant tomb, on the banks of the. Hudson; In. New Tork atata Ths general -contract for the erection of this magnificent memorial la held by the ItarrtsotuQranlte company of New Tork. while the-rontraet for granite proper Is In tiie Imn'ls M (lwr W. Malioy A h -'t'S of 1 Uf'-ilO. Nee k. en Huron the arrlu- Is l and territory in the union. - Its truetees land of (Vers are all men worthy of the highest . lonrtdcncs snd esteem. - They are: , r ' ' - WOllam R. Day, president: Myron 'f. Hanick, treasurer; Ryerson Ritchie, secretary; Fred eric B. artsei, assistant Trustees Wllllnm R. rjay. Cornelius N. Bliss. W. Murray Crane, Charlea W. Fairbanks, Oeorge -B, Cortelyou, Wil liam ' A. - Lynch. William . McConway, ! Robert J. -Lowry, ' Franklin Murphy, James A. Gary, Horace H. Lurton, My- I ron T. Herrlcs. Thomas Dolan. Alsxsn- Ider K. Revell, Henry M. Duffleld. Ell Torrance. John. Mllburn; David R. Francla. Henry T. Scott.. E. W. Bloom In gdals,-Charlea O, Dawes. - a , - The Hate Marcus A. Hanna. President McKlnley's confldentlal adviser and best friend, was up until ths time of his death the vlce-presldsnt of the McKln ley National Memorial association. It was Mr.' Hanna-who, on the day after Mr.' McKlnley's death, said of him: "He was. ons of ths most adroit handlsrs of men I ever saw, and those who accused him of being; led about by me were mis taken. His tact was perfect, and his manner so gracious that he brought all those who came Into contact with him ' to his own way of thinking. Hs wss led by - nobody hs was ths leader ot others." '. ; ,: i ' Frank A. Munsey, In what la termed an appreciation, added to tha words of Mr.-Hstm-the-follwlng tribute: "In William McKlnley there was the most perfect blending of pure democ racy and splendid dignity possible to man. - His democracy waa so pure and true as ths best example this country haa-,axar produced, .whether on . the . farm. In-the professions or In the af faire of business, snd his dignity was of the finer kind tltat sprang from his own soul rather thsn that reflected from exalted station. He was alwsys ..Wil liam McKlnley,' alike In the army as a common soldier, In congress and In ths Whits House aa the chief magistrate of a great nation alwsys the man and never the official. Genius Innrt. In science. In statesmanship, fascinates us.- Ws admire It and bow down before It but We love Whera -there Is lave a " heart that responds to onr hearts, wsrm and tender and true.". -' -rtha Ufa af XeElaley. -' William. McKlnley was named' after his father. The elder William McKlnley Was oorn In 1107. "H wss a pioneer In tha iron Industry In the west Ha msr ried Nancy,-Allison, who, like himself, wss of Ktw England Puritanical stock, and ' together -they were a remarkable couple.- Mr. -MKisy h-. lived to be AS years of age. Ills wife, who bora him nine children.- waa nearly 19 years of sge when she died eight year a ago. She had lived to sea her third son In tne White House, but fortunately the grim reaper gathered her in hla harvest be fore he met his untimely end.' This son, the seventh child, wss born at Nlles, In Trumbull county, Ohio. In a frame house which Is still standing. Ha attended the public schools in-ths city of his birth. and later- was graduated from the Po land seminary. As a boy he waa much like other boys, active, full of life, fond of hunting: fishing and horses, but withal sober and lnduatrioua. Ha was not possessed of a remarkable sense of humor and could not alwaya see a joke. Whan .If ' yearsof -age- he Joined tha Methodist church, and attended It aa a eommuntcant until tha day that he died In Buffalo, still strong In tha belief of hla boyhood and still passionately fond of his church's ' great ; ' song, "Lead, Kindly Light" ' Just after joining tha church ha en- tared Allegany college, r at Meadvllle. Pennsylvania, but broke down, and after somewhat regaining, his health taught a district- school near. Poland, Ohio, until tha Civil war broke out Ha enlisted and for 14 months marched in tha ranks of the Twenty-third Ohio as a private In Company ' E. In April. 18(2, ha was made oommlssary sergeant and at An- tletam the bloodiest engagement of the war he: distinguished himself by com ing on ths firing line, after tha men had fought -all day,- snd serving the boys with hot coffee snd rolls, aa they stool rapidly firing their muskets in the thick of battla.' ' For this deed of bravery he waa commissioned a second Ueu tenant. In aU ba was In mora, than tt battles and skirmishes and cams out ot tha war a captain.-.' Before being mustered out of service be - was advanced ona more peg by brevet; and to the end of his days his old friends knew him by that well-earned tUle Major McKlnley. . After tha war. young McKlnley h was then but 11 took up tha study of Isw la tha office of Charles SL Glldden of Poland a Judge ot ability and learning,- Ha graduated front the law school at Albany,. N.-T- In 11(7. was sdmltteU to tha bar and opened an offtoa at Can ton. Ohio,, then a flourishing town of soma (.009 Inhabitants. . Hs msds a con siderable success st tha prsetlce of law. but his glowing prominence in tha polit ical arena, soon overshadowed his lesnl successes. -. His first political distinction cams with ths nomination for ths off Ira of prosecuting attorney of Stark count y, Ohio, a reputed stronghold of the oppo sition, r)ls won. Two years later, or 1 i 1171. ha waa renominated and wss t-'-en by it votes In a county that uu. i beat tha eandldates of his party by s- -oral hundred.. In tha same year he m ried Miss Ida Sax ton, a woman tho destined to have a wonderful lit npon his subsequent career. T dren- were born to the P'r " ' ! died snd ths mother nr r -from the blow, (the Me h-" '"' ' for nearly 10 yrs n-w, sn l t lng devotion sml t- '"i" ' her by the as- " among the tn --t ! carr. In 1TT ' r ' In t!' c r i.i.i , ' I '-