. History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its of the memorial structure, and roll of honor . thewarrants, and that Treasurer Shields had paid them,they got immediately down to business. They resolvedfirst, to go to work immediately, and put up the Monu-ment without delay. Secondly, they resolved to requestthe City authorities to remove the Perry statue and thewater main. This resolution will be presented to theMayor, the Director of Public Works, the Board otControl, and the City Council. They further resol
. History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its of the memorial structure, and roll of honor . thewarrants, and that Treasurer Shields had paid them,they got immediately down to business. They resolvedfirst, to go to work immediately, and put up the Monu-ment without delay. Secondly, they resolved to requestthe City authorities to remove the Perry statue and thewater main. This resolution will be presented to theMayor, the Director of Public Works, the Board otControl, and the City Council. They further resolved,that if the City will not have removed the obstructionsby the time they will be ready to put in the foundation,they will remove them of their own accord. They thenresolved to hold an executive session at Captain Sco-fields office, Wednesday evening, and to spend moremoney. Contractor Grant wanted a bonus, and wasnot ready to proceed further without it. He had losta great deal by the delay caused by litigation, and hisbid was several thousand dollars lower than any was urged that there be a full attendance at thesecret meeting, Wednesday evening. Several members. ORDNANCE EMBLEM IN CAPITAL. soldiers and sailors monument. 205 of the Commission thought that there was no necessityfor a full meeting, and suggested that the ExecutiveCommittee attend to what business was it was decided to make the meeting one for theExecutive Committee only. Count}- Commissioners Mattison and King tookunder consideration, Wednesday, the demand of theMonument Commissioners to issue bonds in anticipa-tion of the tax for Monument purposes. They took noaction, however. They desired to have legal advice be-fore proceeding. They were in doubt as to the manda-tory character of the act of the Legislature which au-thorizes them to issue bonds. The act states that theyare authorized and directed to issue bonds. The Com-missioners stated that they were in no hurry to takeany action
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