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car-load of cement, the design had to be revised and scaled down. 
The seat feature was omitted entirely and a truncated pyramid, of 
rough-dressed native stone, with a platform reached by a broad 
flight of steps from the side opposite the outer rim of the promon- 
tory, was adopted by the Secretary of the Interior from designs 
made in his office. 
The modified monument was completed on Sentinel Point, 
December, 1916. The bronze tablet (pl. v) designed by J. R. 
Marshall, with an insert of a low relief portrait of Major Powell 
by Miss Leila Usher, was set in the face of a low altar-like wall 
rising from the outer edge of the pyramid in such a way that the 
visitor sees it as he mounts the steps and looks out into the wide 
chasm. 
On each side of the portrait of the leader are the names of the 
men of his two parties who stood by him to the end of his canyon 
adventure, and below is the statement: 
ERECTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO 
VMMNOR= JOON» WESEEY. POWPEL -PiRSE = EXPEORER OF) THE 
GRAND CANYON WHO DESCENDED THE RIVER WITH HIS 
PARTY IN ROW BOATS TRAVERSING THE GORGE BENEATH 
THIS POINT AUGUST 17TH 1869 AND AGAIN SEPTEMBER sr 1872 
The dedication of the monument (pl. v1) rested with the Sec- 
retary of the Interior who made up his mind to hold the ceremony 
while on a trip west in the spring of 1918. On May 20, accord- 
ingly, 49 years after the event the final touch was given, to the 
monument marking the conclusion of a great epoch in the history 
_of the United States, the epoch of western exploration and explora- 
tory development which closed with the romantic achievement of 
Major Powell. 
The hasty telegraphic invitations to the survivors of the expe- 
ditions, Messrs. Jones, Hillers, Hattan, and Dellenbaugh did not 
allow them time to reach the scene from their distant homes, so 
neither they, nor Mrs. Powell, nor her daughter, nor any of the 
original committee on the monument, were present.!_ Fortunately 
' Another member of the second expedition is still living also, ‘‘hale and hearty,” 
Captain F. M. Bishop, but as Capt. Bishop severed his connection with the party at 
the end of 1871 and did not go into the Grand Canyon his name does not appear on 
the tablet. 
