Identifier: historyofcuyahog00glea (find matches)
Title: History of Cuyahoga County soldiers' and sailors' monument. Scenes and incidents from its inception to its completion.--Description of the memorial structure, and roll of honor
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gleason, William J. (William John), b. 1846
Subjects: Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland, Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- History Civil war
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The Monument commissioners
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ailors Monument Commission, Wm. J. Gleason, President.Levi F. Bauder, Secretary. This letter not being immediately answered, anamended communication was transmitted, in whichthe word demanded was substituted for the wordrequested, as the law technically required. The onlyresult accomplished was the repeatedly expressed wishof the Park Commissioners that the Commissionwould take and occupy either of the three other sec-tions of the Public Square as a suitable site. Each ofsaid sections being of exactly similar dimensions, theCommission could not see the sense or propriety ofgiving up what the law entitled them to, and what wasconsidered by them to be by far the most desirable site. Then the Park Commissioners made a novel andpurely original proposition : In the sweet bye and bye—very remote bye and bye—they would provide agrand boulevard to encircle the city. On said proposedboulevard they would locate a system of small parks.On one of said parks, to be established at the corner of
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soldiers and sailors monument. 47 Woodland Avenue and Woodland Hills Avenue, to con-tain fifteen acres, they would set aside a plat for theSoldiers Monument! Happy thought! Great headshad these Park Commissioners! Their generous offerwas promptly declined, without thanks. Following along in rapid succession, the schemes ofthe different street railroad corporations began tounfold. The East Cleveland Company, through itsattorney and stockholders, argued for Wade Park; theWest Side Company for the abandoned sand hill knownformerly as the Water Works Reservoir; the SouthSide Company for the old camp ground, PeltonPark; the Superior Street Company for Paynes Com-mons. Still, they all pretended to be disinterested; butthe Commission knew their schemes, and baffled them.The street railroad corporations gained possession of allof the leading streets in the city, without the payment ofa dollar for the privilege; but they could not, and didnot, gobble the best site left in the county for theMon

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