I'HE ( ’ { JENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTY, PA. JANUARY 3 3908 - Elaborate Project Is Now Well Under Way to Honor Brooke lyn’s Great Preacher. Museum For Relics. ® T is about five years since the long cherished dream of friends of Henry Ward Beecher re garding a suitable memorial to the great lrookliyn preacher began to take ble form It is over twenty years since Mr Beecher's death. In the winter of 1903 a NEWELL mass meeting was R238 held in the old lemy of Music, since h the ideas of the pro the memorial sub he public. Addresses were dent Grover Seth Low and Is or admirers the ww the cause liberal ideas woject a good tang REV. DR, D, H1 Brooklyn burned, at moters of mitted to t made by ex-Pre land, Mayor noted men, frien man who did so much of his remarkable ¢ of huma ty This mes start sum of and mot were Cleve. other of the course reer fi parish | for the of the ot gymnasi a large and lecture be a connect vitl ! Beecher and bis fam le ily | with | glass windows il { of the Puritans a | on | efited In the old chur who attended the | er, wril - A New Parish Building, Park and a Second Statue Planned—Beecher’s Old Pulpit Chair. B= career Brooklyn. At the time words the memorial project had not taken definite form, but the authorities decided not to acquire the land for the purpose proposed, and fortunately it was left for use as the site of the memorial building. To carry out all the features of the plan will re quire some little time. Meanwhile the objects ted with Mr. Bee life work are ted with the view placing them in the museum of " Henry Ward Beecher in Dr. Hillis wrote: these thus ASSOoCIn her's being collec of or ms ed Hon first Beec! eran, 8 own | speaker. ke has in bh merous articles Beecher or in Career ome nu by Mr associated stained Ig hist« heir influence up were dedi h recently those service noted on the platform a chair which to many had | a familiar guise. It was the old chair | owned way When lustr ati nd t institut once some his the the wy American fons | which thé Yiend of the slave and the 1 Olives, | Twenty exponent of freedom of thought in re- | Hg upled in the pulpit for twenty years previous to 1860 It was In the latter year that the pre pulpit and pulpit fur in the churcl They wade o & tree brought from the Mount in Malestine, by Moses Beach, of the New York after its removal HIters of US I niture were pls were owner sun once years from | the pulpit a search for the old chair HENRY WARD BEECHER AND PLYMOUTH CHURCH. be built beneath it, with a door open ing into the auditorium of the church, and here will be placed the remains of Mr. Beecher and his wife, which now repose in Greenwood cemetery. Four | city lots across the street from the | church will be converted into a park, | archy like that of England. He is the and in the center of It will be a mony ment to Mr, Beecher, There is already | a statue of him In Brookiyn borough. | It occuples a conspicuous position in the plaza in front of the borough hall, is the work of the noted sculptor John Quincey Adams Ward and was erected in 1801. But it Is felt that the imme diate scene of his labors should also possess a monument containing his features and form In bronze, Several years ago when the publie authorities proposed to take two lots adjoining Plymouth church on the west for a publie school the Rev, Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, the present pas tor of the church, wrote in protest against the contemplated action and sald “When a great man has lived In a eity for forty to his city and his tomb to our children and our children’s children, The ideal thing is to use the two lots as a burial place for Mr. Beecher with the me morial room nbove, with his portraits, his manuscripts, his old pulpit and chairs, his writing desk, the many seript of Mra. Stowe's ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lyman Beecher's old pulpit from which he preached the sermon on ‘Dueling’ after the death of Hamilton and the five sermons on ‘independ. ence,’ with everything related to the years his dust belongs | familiar to attendants at was instituted by Stephen M. Griswold, and it ‘was found in the cellar covered with dust and almost crushed beneath the weight of several old and discarded pews. It was re- habilitated and placed temporarily In the Brookiyn Museu: Arts and Sci ences When the memorial room Is built it will be placed in it, with the old pulpit desk behind which Mr Beecher stood on Sundays during the score of years from 1840 to 1860, which formed so eventful a period both in his career and in the history of the nation once so Plymouth n of PAUL MILYOUKOV. Leader of Russit's Constitutional Demcerats and His American Visit. Professor Paul Milyoukov, who came | to the United States in the interest of the liberal movement in Russia, is the | leader of the Constitutional Democrats | in the douma, Rnssia's new parila ment. By many he Is regarded as the | man entitled to chief credit for the | fact that Russia has today a body which is entitled to some voice at least ia the government of the empire. He is not a revolutionist and supports the | throne, but advocates a limited mon- PALL MILYOUKOY, editor of the Retch, the chief organ of his party, and has been in prison three times because of his liberal views, He was formerly professor of history in the University of Moscow, but was re- moved because of the liberal leas he the students and was banished to ria, where he became A pro fessor in the University of Sofia. | tive posts. [ Secretary to The President. Stone to Higher Honors— The Case of William Loeb, Jr. HE position of secretary to the president has to be re garded as a stepping stone to higher honors or more lucra B. Cortelyou step- ped from this position to that of first secretary of the new department of comme and labor, later postmaster general and then being pro moted still further to the highly Im portant post of secretary of the treas ury, of the in the gift of the chief magistrate. Mr. Cor telyon is now In the list of presiden tial possibilities, Dan Lamont, as everybody call him, stepped from the private secretary to that of war in the cabinet Cleveland. Retiring fro; he became a street mag and when he wrth mil Willian r., has been Pre Roosevelt's cretary since Mr. Cortel you, in 1903 urrendered the post to accept a hig He was sed to Mr hen tl in tl as Mr. « come George ree one most honorable used to position of ary sident al life of secret of Pre y poitll a8 Wi Ons ident died w der Stat 1" n of word me Baend a prepar 30. (xx sages, not to mention the volm state apers and correspond i every tion Incident to the routine at » White House or the li terviews and states the numero the capital, reqn of executive ability There has been talk recently to the effect that M Loeb would leave Mr. Roosevelt's ser ice before long in order to take up duties as head of a Washington tras tion corporation. There has also been gossip about the probabllity of his nous nents given out to Spot wWents at res no small IS Press corre amonnt | the nation, | & tremendous | he not seconded In his efforts by | who is able i ous life, | and becoming | | up to the mark physica peng promoted to the eabDinet the next | time a vacancy oceurs, Mr, Loeb draws the comparatively modest sum of £5,000 a year as secre! tary to the president. It has been sald that he might now be receiving £25,000 a year Instead of $5,000 if he were do- Ing the same work for a eorporation { that he Is doing for Mr. Roosevelt and The Office Has "Bees a Stepping | for he is a sort of Mr. Roosevelt himself is worker, tut he could hardly accomplish what he does were a man self, who 1 strenn between thousand “deputy president.” to be his second like himself, to lead to stand as a buffer chief executive and a one persons and things ng upon him and in danger of leaving h'm no time or energy for his most lmpor tant duties, Secretary early much is able, the presy Loeb and so | time for at his work that he does not have he keeps y and at forty one Is a good specimen of robust man- hood His fay method of go alr and exercise is horseback r in which he indulges can Though he calls “park rider,” fn that line as When he w is 80 nte exercise, yet orite tting ding, as ofter himsel he can do | his first trip hunting ex) planning horse that i en one o dation a chat LIAM LOEB, JR lope were One sald “We picked you for a tenderfoot, but you ain't none. 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