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PARK AND CEMETERY 
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER MEMORIAL, LOWELL, MASS. 
Bela L. Pratt, Sc. 
MONUMENTAL NOTES. 
The memorial to Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, shown in the 
illustration, has just been erected on the Butler family lot, in 
Hildreth Cemetery, Lowell, Mass. 
The central feature of the monument is a beautifully modeled 
bronze group, by Bela L. Pratt, which was illustrated in these 
pages in December, 1902, in connection with the exhibition 
of the National Sculpture Society. The conception is well 
taken to symbolize the two sides of the man’s character. 
Military courage, a fine martial figure drawing his sword, is 
guided and restrained by gentler forces represented in the 
figure of the woman, who clings seemingly for protection as 
well as in guidance of the stronger spirit. The faces are beau- 
tifully expressive and the drapery and other details delicately 
wrought. 
The group is set in a niche in a massive monumental tablet 
of pink Milford granite, fifteen feet high. On the other side 
is a bronze tablet bearing the following inscription : 
“Benjamin F. Butler, jurist, soldier, statesman, patriot. His 
talents were devoted to the service of his country and the 
advancement of his fellowmen. Born Nov. 5, 1818, at Deer- 
field, N. H. ; married, May 16, 1844, Sarah, daughter of Israel 
Hildreth, Lowell, Mass.; died Jan. n, 1893, at Washington, 
D. C. 
“The true touchstone of civil liberty is not that all men are 
equal, but that every man has the right to be the equal of any 
man if he can.” 
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The grave of the late senator, John J. Ingalls, in the ceme- 
tery, at Atchison, Kas., has recently been marked by a rough 
boulder bearing a bronze inscription tablet. The stone is of 
red porphyry, about five by four and one-half feet, and was 
selected in deference to Mr. Ingalls’ own wishes, expressed as 
follows in a letter to his wife, which is reprinted in the “In- 
galls’ Book” — his collected writings : 
“Our ground in the cemetery should have a ‘monument.' I 
hate these obelisks, urns and stone cottages, and should prefer 
a great natural rock — one of the red boulders known as the 
‘lost rocks’ of the prairie — porphyry for the North — brought 
down in glacial times — with a small surface smoothed down, 
just large enough to make a tablet, in which should be inserted 
the bronze letters of our name, ‘Ingalls,’ and nothing else.” 
The inscription on the tablet is a quotation from Mr. Ingalls’ 
famous essay, “Blue Grass,” and reads as follows : 
“When the fitful fever is ended and the foolish wrangle of 
the market and forum is closed, grass heals over the scar 
which our descent into the bosom of this earth has made, 
and the carpet of the infant becomes the blanket of the 
Another rustic memorial — chosen for its sentiment and sug- 
gestive associations with the man honored, is the rough-hewn 
shaft erected at Fargo, N. D., in memory of the great Nor- 
wegian poet and dramatist, Bjornstjerne Bjornson. The me- 
morial stands in an attractive and appropriate natural setting 
on a mound in the center of the campus of the North Dakota 
Agricultural College, and was unveiled with patriotic exercises 
by Norwegian citizens on the anniversary of Norway’s inde- 
pendence. 
The shaft is of Norwegian granite, 13 feet high, and is from 
the quarries at Aulestad, near Bjornson’s home. It was cut 
and dressed at St. Cloud, Minn. 
The only ornamentation is a bronze medallion of the poet, 
modeled by Sigvald Asbjorsen, of Chicago, and a bronze 
wreath. Beneath this is the name Bjornson, and on the other 
side is inscribed this quotation from his son: “Ja vi elsker 
dette Landet.” 
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Photo bv W. G. Noble. 
SENATOR INGALLS’ MONUMENT, ATCHISON, KAS. 
The Caledonian Club, of Denver, Colo., unveiled the Robert 
Burns monument, July 4, with appropriate exercises. The 
bronze statue of the poet is a replica of the well-known statue 
at Kilmarnock, Scotland, executed by W. Grant Stevenson, 
of Edinburgh. It was modeled from the famous Naismith 
portrait of Burns, which is considered the best likeness of the 
poet extant. The statue is ten feet high. 
