."^^ ^0^ .^^^ ^^' .0^ ^^-V r^0 ^^-^. - K^^ The Perry's Victory MEMORI AL Put'iri'Bay Soiith Bass Island, Ohio OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PinLIiiHED BV The National Board of Memorial Commissioners PRICE TEN CENTS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi SHORK LINK OF MEMORIAL RlvSERVATlON HKFORK CLKARINti TIIK SITE The Perry's Victory Memorial THE Perry's \-ictory Mcnn)rial. at I'ut-in-Bay. S.aitli I^.ass Is- land, Ohio, was erected under the auspices ..f the Tnited States Government and the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania. Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. New York. Rhode Island, Kentucky and Massachusetts (the states being here mentioned in the order in which their Commissioners were appointed, except Massachusetts, which made no provision for Commissioners) in commemoraticn of the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and his men ..ver the British fleet under Commodore Barclay in the l)altle of Lake Erie, commonly called Perry's \'ictory. fought an.l w^n September 10, 1813; and in commemoration of the Northwestern Campaign of General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1S12 and of the\un- dred years of peace ensuing between Great Britain and the United States. In connection with the construction of the Memorial, Xation.il and State legislation provided for a Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Lake Erie, which was duly observed under the direction of the Tnter-State Board of the Perry's Victory Centennial Commission- ers, September 9-10-11, 1913. These joint enterprises orij^Hnated in legislation by the State of Ohio, the first Commissioners being ap- pointed l)y that state in 1909. The Memorial, plaza and approaches are constructed in their entirety of pink Milford granite from the quarries at Milford, Massa- chusetts. Its geological composition is particularly adapted to the objects of a monument destined to endure through the ages. The color effect is pure white. The foundations of the column and the plaza rest directly on rock. The Memorial stands on the isthmus of South Bass Island, overlooking the waters of Lake I':rie and the scene of Perry's Victory off West Sister Island. The great Doric column rises 352 feet above the Lake level. It is the highest monu- ment in the world, excepting the Washington Monument; the great- est battle monument in the world and the most massive column ever attempted by ancients or moderns. APPROACHING THE MEMORIAL FROM EAST PdIXT The column is forty-five feet in diameter at the base and thirty- five feet and six inches at the neck; thickness of the walls at the base, nine feet and nine inches, and at the neck five feet. l"he diameter of the clear space in the interior of the column is twenty-six feet, six inches. There are seventy-eight courses of stone in the height of the column. Two flights of granite stairs built in the thickness of the walls afford communication l)etween the four entrance vestibules ad- jacent to the rotunda and the elevator floor above it. At this level the elevator and staircase start and run to the top of the column. The elevator, protected by all modern safety devices, ascends in one minute. The stairway to the top is composed of 467 steps. From the upper platform a door leads to the outside parapet or spectator's gallery, capable of accommodating two hundred people in the open air. The entire column is lighted electrically. From the parapet, 329 feet above Lake Erie, is disclosed a scene or unrivaled beauty. Surmounting the spectator's gallery is an im- posing great bronze tripod, holding the beacon light of the Memorial, which is a glow upward. The tripod is of solid bronze, twenty-three feet in height, its greatest diameter twenty feet; weight, eleven tons; cost, $14,000. It w^as designed by the architects of the Memorial and cast by the Gorham Company, of New York. It supports a massive bowl for illumination purposes, the top of which is of ground plate glass one half inch thick, having two hundred incandescent lamps beneath it. The main approach to the Memorial is from Put-in-Bay Harbor. The granite steps ascending to the plaza are sixty-seven feet wide. S .s o :^ s o M ^ OXK OK THK FOUR MASSIVE GRAN ITE URNS OX THE PLAZA Entrance to the rotunda of the Memorial is i^aincd tlirou,^:li fniir bronze doors marking- tlic diameter-- of the column and facinj^ the cardinal points of the compass. The rotunda is faced with Indiana Hniestone, and the floor of Tennessee marble, with a centerpiece and border in color. Beneath it, at a spot ap])roi)riately marked, re])ose the remains of the three Americans and three British officers killed in the Battle <.l Lake Erie, Axhicli fi>r a lunidred years lay buried nn the shores of Put-in-Bay, where they were interred after tlie battle. They were disinterred by the Commissioners of the Memorial and placed in the Memorial with im- pressive services Sej^tember 13, 1U13. one hundred years from the date of their original l)nrial on the shore. The seamen killed in the Battle of Bake I'rie were buried at sea. The officers killed, whose remains now re-^t within the Memorial, were (Americans) Lieutenant John Brooks of the bri^- "Lawrence": Mid- shipman Ilenrv Laul), of the "Lawrence." and Midshipman John Clark, of the -chooner "Scorpion"; and (I5ritish) Captain Robert Finnis. of the l)ri.i,^ "Queen Charlotte"; Lieutenant James Garden, of the Boval New Foundland Kefjiment. an.d Lieutenant John Ci.arland. of the ship "Detroit." Amund the walls en,iij;n was (k-lcrniinod in the largest architertural t-dmpetitii m cxer held in this eonntrN' or Euroi)e. 1die conijictit i\ e designs were exhihited in the Xational Mnscinn, AA'ashini^ton, and the jnd.^es of awards were the members of the National Fine Arts C'omnii'-siMii. consisting- of i)a\id II. I')nrn- ham, architect, Thomas Hastings, architect, Cass (iilhert, architect, Daniel C. French, scnlptor, iM-ank I). Millet. ])ainter, Frederick Faw Olmstead, architect, and Charles Moore, art connoisseur. The Building Committee of the Memori;d. authorized hy the Jnter-State I'oard of Commissioners, consisted of Fresident-Ceneral George II. Wdrthington, chairman: First \'ice-President-Cieneral Flenry W'atterson ; Ihiited States Commissi, .ner Nelson A. Miles; with Secretary-Ceneral W'ehster 1*. Huntington as secretary. The Doric column was constructed hy J. C. l\ol)inson »!<: Son. of New- York and Chicago, and the jilaza and a|)])roaches hy the Stewart Fn- gincering Corjxiration, of New ^'ork. both under the sui)ervision of Superintendent of Construction C. K. Sudler. The Custodian of the Memorial is S. M. Johannsen, of the Ohio Commission, residing at Put-in-Bay. Idle Comniissioners appointed hy the President of the F'nited States and the (iovernors of the States ])articipating in the erection of the Memorial organized the Inter-State Board of the Perry's 10 THE CHECKKKBOARD OP ISLAND CULTIVATION View From the Spectators' Gallery. Victory Centennial Commissioners at a meeting held at Pnt-m-Bay, September 10th, 1910. This organization has since continued and is now known, by act of Congress, as the Perry's \'ictory Memorial Commission. At the period of the Centennial Celebration in 1913 it was composed of the following Commissioners: General Officers: President-General, George H. Worthington, Cleveland, Ohio; First Vice-President-General, Henry Watterson, Louisville, Kentucky; Secretary-General, Webster P. Huntington, Columbus, Ohio; Treasurer-General, A. E. Sisson, Erie, Pennsyl- vania; Auditor-General, Colonel Harry Cutler, Providence, Rhode Island- Financial Secretary, Mackenzie R. Todd, Frankfort, Ken- tucky.' IWiP'lll Commissioners: For the United States Government, Lieuten- ant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., Ret., Washington, D. C. ; Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis, U. S. N. Ret., Washington, D. C. ; Major General J. Warren Keifer, Springfield, Ohio. Ohio: John H. Clarke, George H. Worthington, Cleveland; Webster P. Huntington, Columbus; S. M. Johannsen, Put-in-Bay; Eli Winkler, Nicholas Longworth, Cincinnati; Horace Holbrook, Warren ; William C. Mooney, Woodsfield ; Horace L. Chapman, Co- lumbus ; George W. Dun, Toledo. Pennsylvania: A. E. Sisson, Milton W. Shreve, Erie; Edwin H. Vare, Philadelphia; T. C. Jones, McKeesport ; George W. Nefi, M. D., Masontown. .Michigan: (Icori^c W. Parker, John C. Lods^^e, Detroit; Arthur P. Looniis. Lansing-; Roy S. Barnhart, (irand Rapids; E. K. Warren, Three Oaks. Illinois: William H. Thompson. James Pugh. Kichard S. Fol- som, Nelson W. Lampert, Adam Weckler, Chesley K. Perry, William Porter Adams. Willis J. W'ells. Chicago; General Philip C. Hayes, Joliet; W . H. Mcintosh, Roekford ; J I. S. Bekemeyer, Si)ringheld. I.OOKTXr: TTP\V\in) TlIUolMiU CLKAK SI'ACK of coll JIN Showing Ouncii'tL' Stairway Around Elevator. Wisconsin: Rear Admiral Frederick M. Symonds, U. S. ISl. Ret.. C.alesville; John M. Whitehead. Janesville; A. W. Sanborn. Ashland; Louis Pohmrich. Milwaukee; C. B. Perry. Wauwatosa ; S. W. l\andol])h, Manitowoc; Sol P. Pluntington, Green Bay. (Jos- e])h McPell. .Secretary, Milwaukee.) New ^"ork : William J. C«jnners, George D. Emerson, William Simim, Jchii F. Malone. l^dward 1). Jackson. Buffalo; Simon L. .\dler, Rnchester; ALartin II. Glynn, Albany; Clinton B. TIerrick, M. D., Troy; William F. Rafferty, Syracuse; William L. Ormrod, Churchville; Jacob Schifferdecker, Brooklyn. Rhode Island : John P. Sanborn, Newport ; Louis N. Arnold, Westerly; Sumner Mowry, Peace Dale; Henry E. Davis, Woon- socket ; Colonel Harry Cutler, Providence. BRONZE TRIPOD SURMOUNTING THE COLUMN Kentucky : Henry Watterson, Colonel Andrew Cowan, Louis- ville ; Samuel M. Wilson, Lexington; Cok)nel R. W. Nelson, New- port ; Mackenzie R. Todd, Frankfort. The General Officers of the Inter-State Board have been annu- ally re-elected since 1910. The Memorial and Reservation are the property of the United States Government, and the Reservation a national park, both under the direction and control of the Perry's Victory Memorial Commis- \\ sion, created by Act of Congress approved by President AVHlson 13 MASONIC KXKKCISKS AT TIIK LAYlXd OF TIIK CORNER SToNK OF THF MKMdRTAL. ,lu!y 4, 1913. Alanli :>(!, 1!)1I». 'Hie i)r(>pcrly contained in the Reservation was orii^inallv ])nrcliasc(l from prixale owners, for the ol)jects to which it has been (U'(Ucate(K hy condemnation i)roccedin,L;s l)roui;ht in the name of the State of ( )hio, and the title vested in that State. By act of the (ieneral Asseml)ly of ( )hio the i)roperty was ceded to the I'nited Slates, and the title was accepted on the part of the I'nited States ])\ the Act of C'oiii^ress referred to. The \ iew from the top of the Memorial is never for^dtten by those who ha\e liad the ])ri\i]e^e of ascending-. I'>y day the ])icture L^n-ows u])(»n the senses with charming? allurement, while ni.^^ht reveals a fair\land of starlit skies, shadowy forms and shimmering- reflections. I'rom an artdiitectnral stand])oint the Memorial is one of the j:^reat work'- of the a^es. ha|)])il\' destined to endure as lon^- as any rcarc-cl l)y human hands. .Scientilically. it has been the subject of nnbMimdcd admiration on the ])art of experts of both hemispheres. Tlie ]inb]ic has not been --low 1o realize the educational value of a \ i^it to rut-in-P>ay and the Memorial. The Island is readily accessi- ble bv dailv ])oats from .^an