COLUMBUS MEMORIAL
The memory of George Washington is suitably honoxu-ed by a lofty monument dominating the city -which bears his name, and there has this y-esj- been erected in- the same city a noble Lincoln Memorial. America has not yefc, however, attempted any permanent commemoration of a great man who has an even prior claim to remembrance —Christopher Columbus. His remains were brought from Spain to Santo Domingo, "the cradle of America," in 1540, and it is now proposed to give them their final resting-place in that island in a. massive tomb, with its interior modelled on Gra.nt'3 toml> in New York, Superimposed on the tomb itself -will be a beacon tower 300 feet high, in the top of which is to be installed a great light as an aid to navigation. Santo Domingo itself is too poor to contribute the necessary funds, and the project is appropriately to be earned out by a Pan-Ameri-can effort. The paroles of the twentyone republics occupying; the territory of North and South America nro to ba invited. to 00-ojKWfce in the scheme. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1922, Page 24
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179COLUMBUS MEMORIAL Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1922, Page 24
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