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will be necessary during the coming year to have the work done 

 over, if the Arch is to be illuminated, as it should be on special 

 occasions. 



The bas-reliefs of Lincoln and Grant, produced by Maurice J. 

 Power, were accepted by the Department under protest. The 

 bill covering the last payment was not passed until the Corpora- 

 tion Counsel decided that under the terms of the contract made 

 with Power by the Arch Commission, there was no escape. The 

 work has been declared inartistic by those who profess to be 

 critics, and there has been a public demand for the removal of 

 the bas-reliefs. This has not been done, however, because there 

 is a lack of authority to accomplish the result. It has been sug- 

 gested that the bas-reliefs should be removed, and in place thereof 

 tablets bearing the names of Brooklyn's famous soldiers and the 

 battles in which Brooklyn regiments fought for the maintenance 

 of the Union. 



HONORING GENERAL WARREN'S MEMORY. 



A monument to the memory of General Warren was erected 

 by the G. K. Warren Post, No. 286, G. A. R., and unveiled on 

 July 4, 1896, at the southern end of the west mound. The sculp- 

 tor was Henry Baerer. It is virtually a reproduction of the mon- 

 ument at Little Round Top on the battlefield of Gettysburg, 

 placed on the spot where General Warren stood when he dis- 

 covered the enemy stealing to the rear of the Union army — a 

 discovery that saved the day. The base of this monument is 

 made from stone taken from Little Round Top. 



The statue was formally presented to the city by the adoption 

 of the following resolution : 



"At a regular meeting of the G. K. Warren Post, No. 286, 

 G. A. R., Department of New York, at which meeting a quorum 

 of the comrades was present and voting, it was unanimously 



-Resolved, That G. K. Warren Post, No. 286, G. A, R., De- 

 partment of New York, present, and by this resolution does 

 hereby present to the City of Brooklyn the statue of Major-Gen- 

 eral Gouverneur K. Warren ; and it was further unanimously re- 

 solved, in accordance with the report made by the General Gou- 

 verneur K. Warren Monument Committee of this Post, that this 

 Post hereby certifies that there is now due and unpaid on account 

 of said statue the sum of thirteen hundred and fifty ($1,350) dol- 

 lars ; and it was further 



