Editorialana. 503
My friends, as mayor of the city, and as
a representative of her
citizens, I accept for the city as a
mark to the memory of the heroes,
who, moved by a spirit of patriotism,
made it possible that we might
live in our now pleasant homes. This
unpretentious mark of our love
and gratitude to them will last longer
than the granite shaft that will
some day be erected to their memory by
our citizens.
The Historical Society of our little
city deserves the gratitude of
our hearts for what it has done, and I
hope that in no far distant day
we will be able to have the pleasure of
attending the unveiling of a
mounment built by the city, county,
state and national government to
the memory of the gallant heroes whom
they today honor, to the gallant
soldiers of all other wars in which the
citizens of our county and
state participated.
And now I think it mete and proper that
this monument be again
put into the care and guardianship of
the same hand that created it,
and in behalf of the citizens and
people, I hereby put this mark in the
care of the Historical Society of
Greenville, that their ever watchful
eye may keep it in its present
condition, and preserve it until a more
stately and suitable monument is
erected.
Major Maher was followed by Mr. S. M.
Gorham, Grand Sachem
of Ohio Improved Order of Red Men. His
address was an appropriate
tribute to the crude but simple
character of the Indian, his nobility and
fidelity, his achievements in peace and
was and his debasement and
sufferings at the hands of his
overpowering pale face antogonist. The
historic address was made by E. O.
Randall, Secretary of the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society. The speaker's theme was
the significance and result of the
contest between the white and the red
man in the Ohio Valley, lasting half a
century, from Pontiac's conspir-
act in 1763 to the termination of
Tecumseh's confederacy in 1813.
Appropriate impromptu remarks were made
by Mrs. Edward Orton, Jr.,
Regent, Columbus Chapter D. A. R.; Mr.
Clement R. Gilmore of Dayton,
son of Judge W. R. Gilmore, who
delivered the address at the Centennial
in 18895; Hon. A. R. Robeson and others.
An interesting incident con-
nected with the program was the fact
that the fifer in the G. A. R.
band, Mr. William Henry Harrison
Reppeto, who had spent four years
(1861-5) in splendid service for the
unity and perpetuity of his country
was a grandson of Alexander McEowen, who
though at that time only
sixteen years of age, saw service in the
ranks of the army of General
Wayne and was present at and witnessed
the sacred ceremonies of the
eventful treaty.
PERRY'S VICTORY CELEBRATION.
September 10, (1906) the Maumee Valley
Historical Association
held its annual observance of the
memorable victory on Lake Erie, 1813,