McKinley Memorials

AS we go to press, the country is just recovering from the shock of the cowardly assassination of President McKinley.
     Throughout the country, cities and organizations are preparing to raise funds for a suitable memorial, and a national movement is on foot to erect at Canton a monument suitable to the occasion, both in scale and magnificence.
     The memorial bridge, which is to be part of a well-considered plan for the improvement of the city of Washington, furnishes a valuable suggestion in this connection. The time has gone by for a massive pile, isolated from vital interests, like the Garfield monument in Cleveland.
     The purpose of a memorial is to bind the remembrance of the great man to the thoughts and interests of those who follow him, and the means to this end is to give it such form, that, as a bridge, a hospital, a park, or a swimming-pool [30][31] building, as is suggested in Chicago, it will have place as a pleasure or benefit in the daily lives of the people.
     That kind of monument will do its work.