. Book of the Royal blue . THE ;3i> NEW YOUK IXFAXTBY. ODD MONUMENTS ON THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. 18. !fi^*** THE «TH NEW YOKK IXFAXTHY (iN LITTLE KOlXD TOP. beauty and very costly, perhaps the mostunique thing connected with it is the factthat it represents a dead loss of a consider-able sum to the contractor and due to avery singular circumstance. The monu-ment has an entrance and a small room atits base, and so confident was the builder ofthe solidity of the work and so sure was hethat it was like the house spoken of inscripture which was builded upon a rockand could not be moved by an
. Book of the Royal blue . THE ;3i> NEW YOUK IXFAXTBY. ODD MONUMENTS ON THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. 18. !fi^*** THE «TH NEW YOKK IXFAXTHY (iN LITTLE KOlXD TOP. beauty and very costly, perhaps the mostunique thing connected with it is the factthat it represents a dead loss of a consider-able sum to the contractor and due to avery singular circumstance. The monu-ment has an entrance and a small room atits base, and so confident was the builder ofthe solidity of the work and so sure was hethat it was like the house spoken of inscripture which was builded upon a rockand could not be moved by anything, thathe announced his intention of having a can-non placed in the room at the base of themonument and then have it fired oflF, declar-ing that the concussion would not affectthe monument in the least. He could notbe dissuaded from the attempt, and theexhibition came off, and so did pretty nearlythe whole of the upper part of the monu-ment, costing him something over -$6,000to repair and put back in its original shape. Many, many of the other monumentswould prove of great interest if the little
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