| Gives Up Czolgosz Tomb   MISS HENRIETTA TICE MAKES CHANGE IN PLAN.
 Abandons Scheme for Mausoleum in Honor of Assassin and Proposes 
              a Boarding-House Instead as a Memorial—Thinks Cold Stone Not Appropriate 
              for “Warm and Loving Nature” of Doomed Anarchist—Says She Would 
              Uphold Society.
      Should the public respond to her 
              request for contributions to build a memorial to Leon F. Czolgosz, 
              the assassin of President McKinley, Miss Henrietta Tice of 360 Fulton 
              street will go farther than erect a mere mausoleum to his memory 
              and will build and run a cheap boarding-house for workingmen. She 
              has changed her mind, and now believes that a cold marble slab is 
              not a fitting testimony to what she terms his “warm and lovable 
              nature.”Miss Tice styles herself a “revolutionist,” 
              and would upturn the entire order of government to obtain a state 
              of free society. She considers Czolgosz a protesting human sacrifice 
              to the present order of the human race. She lives in the rear rooms, 
              on the ground floor, of a two-story frame building, and her neighbors 
              say that she spends her time reading socialistic and anarchistic 
              literature.
 Cold Stone Not Appropriate.      “I would go farther than build a 
              shaft,” she said last night, “for his heart beat too fervently for 
              his fellow-men to be represented in cold stone. Like Ben Adhem he 
              loved his fellow-men, not wisely but too well. He could not do other 
              than he did, for he was one of those men who are compelled by circumstances 
              to step in and protest with their lives against the present system. 
              He was a martyr for his down-trodden fellows, and they can better 
              appreciate a cheap boarding-house than a cold marble slab. That 
              is why I now want such a memorial.“I say that I am a revolutionist. 
              You ask me if I am an Anarchist or a Socialist. I do not care what 
              you call me, but I would upturn modern society. My great-grandfather 
              was Brigadier General Hand of the revolutionary war, and my grandfather 
              was Enoch Hand of the war of 1812. I am an American. Though my forefathers 
              fought for the republic I do not love it. I was born in La Grange 
              County, Ind., and have lived here since the World’s Fair. In this 
              plan I would like to have men of the proletariat help along, and 
              for this reason I used the daily papers to get their names.”
 Apologizes to Czolgosz.       Over the signature of Abraham Isaak 
              Jr. there appears in the last issue of Free Society, the Anarchist 
              publication, the following apology to Czolgosz:“In the issue of Sept. 1 of Free Society 
              there appears a note of warning against a person as a spy. It is 
              now practically certain that the person alluded to was Leon F. Czolgosz. 
              Although at the time the warning seemed justified, it was an error. 
              No matter what opinion one may have of Czolgosz, it will be admitted 
              that he was not a spy. For that note I offer to Leon F. Czolgosz, 
              hated and despised as he is by all the world, an apology.”
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