{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3813", "width": "2449", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "o. *;7, ^0 ,To\\n.V\\nV-\\nc2\u00c2\u00bb\\nv:*\\n\\\\^5P.- .j^^.\\n*o; o\u00c2\u00ab* o,\\n,/X A\\n*-t. ^-^^A .**\\\\c:^.V GO*. ^i.. ^\u00c2\u00b0a\\nu^ p\\nl t-, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0t\\noV\\n-^^o^ r\\noV\\n5\\no\\no\\nz\\nV\\nA o", "height": "3717", "width": "2363", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "o v*", "height": "3696", "width": "2399", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3652", "width": "2278", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "^L\\nC^\\nTHE\\nUNVEILING\\nOF THE\\nBronze Memorial Group\\nOF THE\\nCHICAGO MASSACRE\\nOF 1812.", "height": "3727", "width": "2313", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CEREMONIES\\nAT\\nTHE UNVEILING\\nOF THE\\nBronze Memorial Group\\nOF THE\\nCHICAGO MASSACRE\\nOF 1812.\\n/CHICAGO:\\nPRINTED FOR THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY.\\n1893.", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "d^^\\nc^ i\\n01\\nBlakely Rogers\\nChicago.", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CEREMONIES.\\nTHE ceremonies at the unveiling of the Bronze\\nMemorial Group of the Chicago Massacre of\\n1812, were held near the Massacre Tree, at the\\neastern end of Eighteenth Street, in the City of\\nChicago, on June 22nd, 1893, in pursuance of the\\nfollowing invitation, addressed by the Chicago His-\\ntorical Society to its members and friends, to the\\nnumber of fifteen hundred or more\\nTHE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE\\nOF THE\\nChicago Historical Society\\nrequest the honor\\nOF\\nYOUR ATTENDANCE AT THE UNVEILING OF CARL ROHL-SMITH s\\nBRONZE MEMORIAL GROUP OF THE CHICAGO MASSACRE\\nOF 1812, AND THE PRESENTATION OF THE\\nWORK TO THE SOCIETY\\nBY\\nGeorge M. Pullman,\\nthe ceremony will take place near the massacre tree,\\nAT THE EASTERN END OF EIGHTEENTH STREET, AT FOUR O CLOCK ON\\nTHE AFTERNOON OF THURSDAY, JUNE 22d, 1893.\\nAt the hour and place appointed a large audience\\nassembled. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs.", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "George M. Pullman, Ex-President Benjamin Harrison\\nand his daughter, Mrs. McKee Chief Justice Melville\\nW. Fuller, Hon. Lambert Tree, Dr. N. S. Davis,\\nHon. Thomas W. Palmer, Hon. Robert T. Lincoln,\\nPrince Isenberg, General and Mrs. Nelson A. Miles,\\nMarshall Field, Mrs. H. O. Stone, Rev. Dr. Clinton\\nLocke, Miss Kate Field, E. S. Willard, Mr. and Mrs.\\nJohn M. Clark, Mrs. Wirt Dexter, Mr. and Mrs.\\nArthur Caton, Mrs. Sanger, Miss Pullman, Norman\\nWilHams, W. G. Hibbard, Mr. and Mrs. Frank\\nCarolan, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Mr. and Mrs.\\nGeorge L. Dunlap, Hon. Darius Heald, General\\nHorace Porter, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Doane, O. S.\\nA. Sprague, Franklin H. Head, H. N. Higinbotham,\\nGeneral John Corson Smith, E. L. Brewster, Judge\\nand Mrs. Grosscup, Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull, Mr.\\nand Mrs. E. B. McCagg, E. W. Blatchford, A. B.\\nPullman, Mrs. Edmund Norton, Mrs. R. L. Henry,\\nMiss Reuling, Mrs. Charles P. Kellogg, Miss Emma\\nKellogg, Mrs. L. M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. G. B.\\nMarsh, Miss Clark, Miss Gretchen Isham, Miss Lucy\\nIsham, Mrs. James A. Mulligan, Thomas Dent, Mr.\\nand Mrs. W. K. Nixon, Mrs. Wilmerding, District-\\nAttorney Milchrist, Miss Laura Williams, Mr. and\\nMrs. William E. Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Murry Nelson,\\nCharles H. Mulliken, Gen. and Mrs. A. L. Chedain,\\nMr. and Mrs. T. W. Wadsworth, James Wadsworth,\\nJohn D. Adair, Paul Selby, Miss Nina Smith, William", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "D. Kerfoot, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Kerfoot, Mr.\\nand Mrs. T. W. Harvey, H. N. May, Mr. and Mrs.\\nN. K. Fairbank, Col. and Mrs. John M. Loomis, John\\nG. Shortall, C. Gunther, William G. Beale, A. F.\\nStevenson, H. B. Mason, Miss Kimball, A. T.\\nAndreas, James W. Scott, John B. Drake, William W.\\nStewart, Augustus Jacobson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W.\\nKing, Orson Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kirkland, J.\\nIrving Pearce, Joseph E. Otis.\\nConspicuous among the guests were a number of\\nold residents of Chicago, including Judge John D.\\nCaton and S. B. Cobb (1833), Fernando Jones,\\nCharles C. P. Holden and George M. Gray (1835),\\nA. G. Burley, A. H. Burley and Charles E. Peck\\n(1836), Robert Fergus, Peter L. Yoe, Eugene C.\\nLong and John C. Long (1840).\\nThe President of the Chicago Historical Society\\nannounced that the Society had received a letter from\\nGeorge M. Pullman, Esq., which read as follows:\\nChicago, June 19th, 1893.\\nE. G. Mason, Esq., President Chicago Historical\\nSociety, Chicago, III.\\nDear Sir: The proximity to my home of the old\\nCottonwood tree, which marks the spot in the vicinity\\nof which occurred the massacre of the major portion\\nof the earrison and residents at and near Fort Dear-\\nborn, on August 15th, 181 2, suggested the thought of", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6\\ncontributing an addition to the many valuable relics\\nbelonging to your Society by the erection of an en-\\nduring monument, which should serve not only to\\nperpetuate and honor the memory of the brave men\\nand women and innocent children the pioneer settlers\\nwho suffered here but should also stimulate a desire\\namong us and those who are to come after us to know\\nmore of the struggles and sacrifices of those who laid\\nthe foundation of the greatness of this City and State.\\nI have been fortunate in securing the services of the\\neminent sculptor, Mr. Carl Rohl-Smith, who, after\\nextended and careful research and investigation of\\nthe subject, has succeeded in producing a group of\\nstatuary and designs in basrelief which embody the\\nprominent incidents and culminating scenes of the\\nmassacre. The monument is finished, and located\\njust loo feet due east from the Massacre Tree,\\nand I have now the pleasure of presenting it, with\\nappropriate deed of gift, to your Society in trust for\\nthe City of Chicago and for posterity. With great\\nrespect,\\nYours sincerely,\\nGeorge M. Pullman.\\nAt the conclusion of the reading of the letter the\\nMemorial Group, which had been draped with our\\nNational flag, was unveiled by Miss Pullman and\\nGeorge M. Pullman, Junior. It was greeted by those", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "present with great enthusiasm, and with appropriate\\nmusic by the Royal Hungarian Band.\\nMr. Edward G. Mason, President of the Chicago\\nHistorical Society, then spoke as follows\\nMR. MASON S ADDRESS.\\nThe Chicago Historical Society accepts this noble gift\\nin trust for our city and for posterity with high appreciation\\nof the generosity, the public spirit, and the regard for his-\\ntory of the donor. It realizes that this monument so wisely\\nplanned and so superbly executed is to be preserved not\\nsimply as a splendid ornament of our city but also as a\\nmost impressive record of its history. This group, repre-\\nsenting to the life the thrilling scene enacted perchance on\\nthe very spot on which it stands, barely eighty years ago,\\nand its present surroundings, make most vivid the tre-\\nmendous contrast between the Chicago of 1812 and the\\nChicago of 1893. It teaches thus the marvelous growth of\\nour city, and it commemorates as well the trials and the\\nsorrows of those who suffered here in the cause of civiliza-\\ntion. The tragedy which it recalls, though it seemed to\\nextinguish the infant settlement in blood, was in reality\\none which nerved men s arms and fired their hearts to the\\nefforts which rescued this region from the invader and the\\nbarbarian The story which it tells is therefore of deeper\\nsignificance than many that have to do with\\nBattles, and the breath\\nOf stormy war and violent death,\\nand it is one which should never be forgotten.\\nWith its suggestions before us how readily we can picture\\nto ourselves the events of that 15th day of August in the\\nyear of grace 1812. Hardly a week before there had come\\nthrough the forest and across the prairie to the lonely Fort\\nDearborn an Indian runner, like a clansman with the fiery", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8\\ncross, bearing the news of the battle and disaster. War with\\nGreat Britain had been declared in June, Mackinac had\\nfallen into the hands of the enemy in July, and with these\\nalarming tidings the red messenger brought an order from\\nthe commanding General at Detroit, contemplating the\\nabandonment ot this frontier post. Concerning the terms\\nof his order authorities have differed. Capt. Heald, who\\nreceived it, speaks of it as a peremptory command to evacu-\\nate the fort. Others with good means of knowledge say\\nthat the dispatch directed him to vacate the fort if practi-\\ncable. But Gen. Hull, who sent the order, settles thiy^,\\nquestion in a report to the War Department, which has\\nrecently come to light Writing under date of July 29th,\\n18 12, he says:\\nI shall immediately send an express to Fort Dearborn\\nwith orders to evacuate that post and retreat to this place\\n(Detroit) or Fort Wayne, provided it can be effected with a\\ngreater prospect of safety than to remain. Capt. Heald is a\\njudicious officer and I shall confide much to his discretion.\\nThe decision whether to go or stay rested therefore with\\nCapt. Nathan Heald, and truly the responsibility was a\\nheavy one. Signs of Indian hostility had not been wanting.\\nBut the evening before Black Partridge, a chief of the\\nPottawatomie tribe, long a friend of the whites, had entered\\nthe quarters of the commanding officer and handed to him\\nthe medal which the warrior wore in token of services to the\\nAmerican cause in the Indian campaigns of Mad Anthony\\nWayne. With dignity and with sadness the native orator said:\\nFather, I come to deliver up to you the medal I wear.\\nIt was given me by the Americans, and I have long worn\\nit in token of our mutual friendship. But our young men\\nare resolved to imbue their hands in the blood of the\\nwhites. I cannot restrain them and I will not wear a token\\nof peace while I am compelled to act as an enemy.\\nThis striking incident has been fitly chosen as the subject\\nof one of the reliefs on the pedestal of the monument. It", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "typifies the relations between the hapless whites and their\\nred neighbors at the moment and the causes which had\\nchanged friendship into hatred, and it sounds the note of\\ncoming doom.\\nOn that dreary day one gleam of light fell across the\\npath of the perplexed commander, Capt. William Wells\\narrived from Fort Wayne with a small party of friendly\\nMiami Indians to share the fortunes of the imperiled garri-\\nson. This gallant man, destined to be the chief hero and\\nvictim of the Chicago massacre, had had a most remarkable\\ncareer. Of a good Kentucky family, he was stolen when a\\nboy of 12 by the Miami Indians and adopted by their great\\nchief, Me-che-kau-nah-qua, or Little Turtle, whose daughter\\nbecame his wife. He fought on the side of the red men in\\ntheir defeats of Gen. Harmar in 1790 and Gen. St. Clair in\\n1791. Discovered by his Kentucky kindred when he had\\nreached years of manhood, he was persuaded to ally himself\\nwith his own race, and took formal leave of his Indian\\ncomrades, avowing henceforth his enmity to them. Joining\\nWayne s army, he was made Captain of a company of scouts,\\nand was a most faithful and valuable officer. When peace\\ncame with the treaty of Greenville in 1795, he devoted him-\\nself to obtaining an education, and succeeded so well that\\nhe was appointed Indian agent and served in that capacity\\nat Chicago as early as 1803, and later at Fort Wayne, where\\nhe was also the government interpreter and a Justice of the\\nPeace. Here he heard of the probable evacuation of the\\npost at Chicago, and knowing the temper of the Indians, he\\ngathered such force as he could and made a rapid march\\nacross the country to save or die with his friends at Fort\\nDearborn, among whom the wife of Capt. Heald was his own\\nfavorite niece, whose gentle influence had been most potent\\nin winning him back from barbarism years before. It\\nseemed almost as if he had resolved to atone for the period\\nin which he had ignorantly antagonized his own people by\\na supreme effort in their behalf against the race which had\\nso nearly made him a savage.", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "lO\\nHe came too late to effect any change in Capt. Heald s\\nplans. The abandonment was resolved upon, and the stores\\nand ammunition were in part destroyed and in part divided\\namong the Indians, who were soon to make so base a return\\nfor these gifts. At 9 o clock on that fatal summer morning\\nthe march began from the little fort, which stood where\\nMichigan avenue and River street now join, on a slight\\neminence around which the river wound to find its way to\\nthe lake near the present terminus of Madison street. The\\ngarrison bade farewell to the rude stockade and the log\\nbarracks and magazine and two corner block-houses which\\ncomposed the first Fort Dearborn. When this only place of\\nsafety was left behind, the straggling line stretched out\\nalong the shore of the lake, Capt. Wells and a part of his\\nMiamis in the van, half a company of regulars and a dozen\\nmilitiamen, and the wagons with the women and children\\nfollowing, and the remainder of the Miamis bringing up the\\nrear. You may see it all on the panel on the monument,\\nwhich recalls from the past and makes very real this\\nmournful march to death. The escort of Pottawatomies,\\nwhich that treacherous tribe had glibly promised to Capt.\\nHeald, kept abreast of the troops until they reached the\\nsand hills intervening between the prairie and the lake, and\\nhere the Indians disappeared behind the ridge. The whites\\nkept on near the water to a point a mile and a half from the\\nfort and about where Fourteenth street now ends, when\\nWells in the advance was seen to turn and ride back, swing-\\ning his hat around his head in a circle, which meant in the\\nsign language of the frontier: We are surrounded by\\nIndians.\\nAs soon as he came within hearing he shouted: We are\\nsurrounded; march up on the sand ridges. And all at\\nonce, in the graphic language of Mrs. Heald, they saw the\\nIndians heads sticking up and down again, here and there,\\nlike turtles out of the water.\\nInstantly a volley was showered down from the sand hills,\\nthe troops were brought into line, and charged up the", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "II\\nbank, one man, a veteran of seventy years, falling as they\\nascended. Wells shouted to Heald, Charge them! and\\nthen led on and broke the line of the Indians, who scattered\\nright and left. Another charge was made, in which Wells\\ndid deadly execution upon the perfidious barbarians, load-\\ning and firing two pistols and a gun in rapid succession.\\nBut the Pottawatomies, beaten in front, closed in on the\\nflanks. The cowardly Miamis rendered no assistance, and\\nin fifteen minutes time the savages had possession of the\\nbaggage train and were slaying the women and children.\\nHeald and the remnant of his command were isolated on\\na mound in the prairie. He had lost all his officers and half\\nhis men, was himself sorely wounded, and there was no\\nchoice but to surrender.\\nSuch, in merest outline, was the battle, and one of its\\nsaddest incidents was the death of Capt. Wells. As he rode\\nback from the fray, desperately wounded, he met his niece\\nand bade her farewell, saying: Tell my wife, if you live to\\nsee her but I think it doubtful if a single one escapes tell\\nher I died at my post, doing the best I could. There are\\nseven red devils over there that I have killed. As he\\nspoke his horse fell, pinning him to the ground. A group\\nof Indians approached; he took deliberate aim and fired,\\nkilling one of them. As the others drew near, with a last\\neffort he proudly lifted his head, saying: Shoot away,\\nand the fatal shot was fired.\\nSo died Chicago s hero, whose tragic fate and the hot\\nfight in which he fell are aptly selected as the subjects of\\nthe other basreliefs of this monument. The bronze group\\nwhich crowns it is an epitome of the whole struggle, reveal-\\ning its desperate character, the kind of foemen whom our\\nsoldiers had to meet, and their mode of warfare, their mer-\\nciless treatment of women and children, and setting forth\\nthe one touch of romance in the grim record of the Chicago\\nmassacre. It illustrates the moment when the young wife\\nof Lieut. Helm, second in command of the fort, was", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12\\nattacked by an Indian lad, who struck her on the shoulder\\nwith a tomahawk. To prevent him from using his weapons\\nshe seized him around the neck and strove to get possession\\nof the scalping-knife which hung in a scabbard over his\\nbreast. In the midst of the struggle she was dragged from\\nthe grasp of her assailant by an older Indian. He bore her\\nto the lake and plunged her into the waves; but she quickly\\nperceived that his object was not to drown her, as he held\\nher head above water. Gazing intently at him she soon\\nrecognized, in spite of the paint with which he was dis-\\nguised, the whilom friend of the whites, Black Partridge,\\nwho saved her from further harm and restored her to her\\nfriends. For this good deed, and others, too, this noble\\nchief should be held in kindly remembrance.\\nIt is difficult to realize that such scenes could have taken\\nplace where we meet to-day; but history and tradition alike\\nbear witness that we are assembled near the center of that\\nbloody battlefield. From the place on the lake shore a few\\nblocks to the north, where Wells signal halted the column\\nover the parallel sand ridges stretching southwesterly along\\nthe prairie and through the bushy ravines between, the run-\\nning fight continued probably as far as the present inter-\\nsection of Twenty-first street and Indiana avenue, where one\\nof our soldiers was slain and scalped, and still lies buried.\\nJust over on Michigan avenue must have been the little\\neminence on the prairie on which Heald made his last rally,\\nand right before us the skulking savages, who had given way\\nat the advance of our men, gathered in their rear around the\\nfew wagons which had vainly sought to keep under the\\ncover of our line.\\nIf this gaunt old cottonwood, long known as the Mas-\\nsacre Tree, could speak, what a tale of horror it would tell.\\nFor tradition, strong as Holy Writ, affirms that between this\\ntree and its neighbor, the roots of which still remain beneath\\nthe pavement, the baggage wagon containing twelve children\\nof the white families of the fort, halted and one young sav-", "height": "3566", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "13\\nage climbing into it, tomahawked the entire group. A little\\nwhile and this sole witness of that deed of woe must pass\\naway. But the duty of preserving the name and the locality\\nof the Chicago massacre, which has been its charge for so\\nmany years, is now transferred to this stately monument,\\nwhich will faithfully perform it long after the fall of the\\nMassacre Tree.\\nCapt. Heald s whole party, not including the Miami\\ndetachment, when they marched out of Fort Dearborn com-\\nprised fifty-four regulars, twelve militiamen, nine women\\nand eighteen children ninety-three white persons in all.\\nOf these twenty-six regulars and the twelve militiamen were\\nslain in action, two women and twelve children were mur-\\ndered on the field, and five regulars were barbarously put to\\ndeath, after the surrender. There remained then but thirty-\\nsix of the whole party of ninety-three, and of the sixty-six\\nfighting men who met their red foemen here that day only\\ntwenty-three survived. These, with seven women and six\\nchildren, were prisoners in the hands of the savages. We\\nknow of the romantic escape, by the aid of friendly Indians,\\nof Capt. and Mrs. Heald and Lieut, and Mrs. Helm; and\\nthree of the soldiers, one of whom was Orderly Sergeant\\nWilliam Griffith, in less than two months after the massacre\\nfound their way to Michigan, bringing the sad news from\\nFort Dearborn. Hull s surrender had placed Detroit in the\\nhands of the enemy; but the Territorial Chief Justice, Wood-\\nward, the highest United States authority there, in a ringing\\nletter to the British Commandant, Col. Proctor, under date\\nof Oct. 8, 1812, demanded in the name of humanity that\\ninstant means should be taken for the preservation of these\\nunhappy captives by sending special messengers among the\\nIndians to collect the prisoners and bring them to the near-\\nest army post, and that orders to cooperate should be issued\\nto the British officers on the lakes. Col. Proctor one month\\nbefore had been informed by his own people of the bloody\\nwork at Chicago, and had reported the same to his superior", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14\\nofficer, Maj. Gen. Brock, but had contented himself with\\nremarking- that he had no knowledge of any attack having\\nbeen intended by the Indians on Chicago, nor could they\\nindeed be said to be within the influence of the British.\\nNow, spurred to action by Judge Woodward s clear and\\nforcible presentation of the case, Proctor promised to use\\nthe most effective means in his power for the speedy release\\nfrom slavery of these unfortunate individuals. He com-\\nmitted the matter to Robert Dickson, British agent to the\\nIndians of the Western Nations, who proceeded about it\\nleisurely enough. March, i6, 1813, he wrote from St.\\nJoseph s Lake, Mich., that there remained of the ill-fated\\ngarrison of Chicago, captives among the Indians, seventeen\\nsoldiers, four women, and some children, and that he had\\ntaken the necessary steps for their redemption and had the\\nfullest confidence that he should succeed in getting the\\nwhole. Six days later he came to Chicago and inspected\\nthe ruined fort, where, as he says, there remained only two\\npieces of brass ordnance, three-pounders one in the river,\\nwith wheels, and the other dismounted a powder magazine,\\nwell preserved, and a few houses on the outside of the fort,\\nin good condition. This desolation apparently was not\\nrelieved by the presence of a single inhabitant. Such was the\\nappearance of Chicago in the spring following the massacre.\\nOf these seventeen soldiers, the nine who survived their long\\nimprisonment were ransomed by a French trader and sent\\nto Quebec, and ultimately reached Plattsburg, N. Y., in the\\nsummer of 1814. Of the women two were rescued from\\nslavery, one by the kindness of Black Partridge; and the\\nothers doubtless perished in captivity. Of the children we\\nonly hear again of one. In a letter written to Maj. Gen.\\nProctor by Capt. Bullock, the British commander at Mack-\\ninac, Sept. 25, 1813, he says: There is also here a boy\\n(Peter Bell) 5 or 6 years of age, whose father and mother\\nwere killed at Chicago. The boy was purchased from the\\nIndians by a trader and brought here last July by direction", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "15\\nof Mr. Dickson. Of the six little people who fell into the\\nhands of the Indians this one small waif alone seems to have\\nfloated to the shore of freedom.\\nThe Pottawatomies, after the battle and the burning of\\nthe fort, divided their booty and prisoners and scattered,\\nsome to their villages, some to join their brethren in the\\nsiege of Fort Wayne. Here they were foiled by the timely\\narrival of William Henry Harrison, then Governor of the\\nIndiana Territory, with a force of Kentucky and Ohio\\ntroops, and condign punishment was inflicted upon a part at\\nleast of the Chicago murderers. A detachment which Gen,\\nHarrison assigned to this work was commanded by Col.\\nSamuel Wells, who must have remembered his brother s\\ndeath when he destroyed the village of Five Medals, a lead-\\ning Pottawatomie chief. To one of the ruthless demons who\\nslew women and children under the branches of this tree,\\nsuch an appropriate vengeance came that it seems fitting to\\ntell the story here. He was older than most of the band, a\\nparticipant in many battles, and a deadly enemy of the\\nwhites. His scanty hair was drawn tightly upward and tied\\nwith a string, making a tuft on top of his head, and from this\\npeculiarity he was known as Chief Shavehead. Years after\\nthe Chicago massacre he was a hunter in Western Michigan\\nand when in liquor was fond of boasting of his achievements\\non the warpath. On one of these occasions in the streets\\nof a little village he told the fearful tale of his doings on\\nthis field with all its horrors; but among his hearers there\\nchanced to be a soldier of the garrison of Fort Dearborn, one\\nof the few survivors of that fatal day. As he listened he\\nsaw that frightful scene again, and was maddened by its re-\\ncall. At sundown the old brave left the settlement, and\\nsilently on his trail the soldier came, with his gun, says the\\naccount, resting in the hollow of his left arm and the right\\nhand clasped around the lock, with forefinger carelessly toy-\\ning with the trigger. The red man and the white passed\\ninto the shade of the forest; the soldier returned alone;\\nChief Shavehead was never seen again. He had paid the", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "i6\\npenalty of his crime to one who could, with some fitness,\\nexact it. Such was the fate of a chief actor in the dark\\nscene enacted here.\\nMany others of the Pottawatomie tribe joined the British\\nforces in the field, and at the battle of the Thames, Oct. 5,\\n1813, they were confronted again by Harrison and his rifle-\\nmen, who then avenged the slaughter at Chicago upon some\\nof its perpetrators. Victor and victim alike have passed\\naway. The story of their struggle remains, and this master-\\npiece will be an object-lesson teaching it to after generations.\\nMr. Pullman s liberal and thoughtful action is a needed\\nrecognition of the importance and interest of our early\\nhistory, an inspiration to its study, and an example which\\nmay well be followed. The event which this monument\\ncommemorates, its principal incidents, and the after fortunes\\nof those concerned in it, have been briefly sketched and\\nmuch has necessarily been left unsaid. But we should not\\nomit a grateful recognition of the services of the able civilian\\nsoldier, William Henry Harrison, who stayed the tide of\\nbarbarism which flowed from the Chicago massacre, and\\nhumbled the tribe which was responsible for that lurid\\ntragedy. The name of Harrison is intimately and honorably\\nassociated with the early days in the Northwest, with the\\nwar of 181 2, and with the highest office in the gift of the\\nAmerican people half a century ago. It is likewise inti-\\nmately and honorably associated with the later days of the\\nNorthwest, with the great Civil War, and again with the\\nhighest office in the gift of the American people in our own\\ntimes. It is fitting that the distinguished descendant of\\nWilliam Henry Harrison should be here to-day. It is a high\\nhonor that the eminent ex-President of the United States\\nshould grace this occasion with his presence, which makes\\nthese exercises complete. I have the great pleasure of\\nintroducing to you ex-President Benjamin Harrison.", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "17\\nEX-PRESIDENT HARRISON S ADDRESS.\\nChicago is exalted to-day, lifted up to a pinnacle that\\nbrings upon her the vision of the world. The nations, great\\nand small, all races and tongues, have sent hither their\\nofficial representatives with the choicest product of their art\\nand of their handicraft. She has builded for the reception\\nof the Nation s guests and for the display of their treasures\\npalaces which in extent, in adaptation, and in classic grace\\nand beauty far excel the best efforts of the cities that have\\nbefore opened their gates to receive the representatives of\\nthe world.\\nDoubts, difificulties, jealousies, and petty criticisms have\\nbeen swept away and the clear sunlight of a magnificent\\nsuccess shines upon the great enterprise. All other States\\nand cities of this proud, united, and happy land share with\\nyou in the joy of this success, for it is an American success.\\nBut we are not at the White City to-day. Here, at this\\nquiet corner by the lakeside, we come to be instructed by\\nrecalling an incident of the year 1812. These exercises are\\nnot out of time. They are not inharmonious. The starting\\npost as well as the finish must be taken account of in the\\nrace. We get a better view of the oak if we hold the acorn\\nin our hands while we look at the buttressed trunk, the\\ntowering crown, and the spreading branches of the magnif-\\nicent tree. The first rude structure that moved by steam\\nupon the tramway sets off the 90-miles-an-hour locomotive\\nmore than its paint and brasses. So the picture Mr. Mason\\nhas given us of Chicago in 1812 makes the city of 1893 more\\nwonderful, more a thing of magic, than the White City.\\nBut there is something better than the mere sense of\\ngrowth to be had out of this brief visit to Fort Dearborn, to\\nthe Kinzie house and to the sand dunes that drank the", "height": "3651", "width": "2273", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "i8\\nblood of brave men and women and of innocent children.\\nIt is morally wholesome for a man or a community that has\\nbeen highly exalted to consider the beginning. The soldier\\nwhose banner has triumphed on every field where it has\\nbeen unfurled does well to look at the cradle in which he\\nwas rocked and the homely surroundings of his childhood,\\nfor they recall the services and the sacrifices of that gen-\\neration, and of the humble father and mother whose un-\\nselfish and unobserved heroism made his greater career pos-\\nsible. Doing this he will carry away some abatement of his\\npride and a higher sense of obligation.\\nI am glad that we are beginning to build monuments.\\nBunker Hill was, not long ago, lonesome, but now every\\ncity and nearly all counties have built in commemoration of\\nthe heroes and of the cause. The Sculptor has found the\\nuniversal language. He speaks to the schooled and to the\\nunschooled. The history of the conquest of the West is\\nfull of incidents calculated to kindle the historian and to\\nstir the imagination of the novelist, the painter and the\\nsculptor. The pioneer was as fine as he was unique in\\ncharacter. Free and unconventionally brave and self-reliant,\\nas responsive to the cry of distress as a knight-errant, he\\npushed the skirmish line of civilization from the Alleghanies\\nto the Rockies. All honor to him! He labored and forever\\nentered into his rest. We possess the lands he won from\\nthe savagery of Nature and of the natives. Have we as\\nstrong a hold upon the sturdy virtues which his life illus-\\ntrated?\\nEvery community should properly mark the scene of\\nsuch historical event as we now commemorate. The future\\nis full of imperious demands, but the historian serves the\\nfuture as effectively as the projector. We shall value our\\npossession of lands and free institutions more highly if we\\nlearn that they were bought not with corruptible things, as", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "19\\nsilver and gold, but with precious blood, the blood of\\nthe brave and of the innocent. We shall, after this lesson,\\nbe more willing to preserve by blood, if need be, that which\\nwas bought by blood.\\nThis event which this monument commemorates was not\\na great military achievement. In the light of history the\\nevacuation was a fatal mistake, but it was the occasion for\\nbringing into prominence, it gave a field of display, for some\\nof those traits of heroism, of courage in men and women,\\nwhich so marked the whole course of our pioneer experience.\\nI am glad that the generosity of your fellow-citizen Mr.\\nPullman) has marked this spot. There is a teaching and an\\ninspiring force in every such structure. Our land is not old.\\nWe cannot show to these visiting foreigners any ruins or\\nany ivied castles. There is the mark of the chisel yet upon\\nall our structures. And yet no century of the history of any\\nnation s life can be found fuller of heroic adventure, of\\nunselfish devotion to duty, of high enterprise, and of success\\nin the establishment of great institutions than this century\\nof our young existence.\\nIt is, I am sure, a pleasant thing for you who are here to\\nturn back and away for a moment from these hurrying scenes\\nthat are about you and to look with contemplative eye upon\\nthese incidents in the early history of Chicago, which, if they\\nteach any lesson, teach this: that the prosperity of commun-\\nities, the safety and honor of states, must be bedded upon a\\nvirtuous, self-respecting, law-abiding and God-fearing people.", "height": "3621", "width": "2203", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20\\nTHE MEMORIAL GROUP.\\nAt the conclusion of the address of Ex-President\\nHarrison, the audience gathered around the Memorial\\nGroup to carefully inspect this beautiful work of art.\\nThe group represents the rescue of Mrs. Helm by\\nBlack Partridge, and, in accordance with Mr. Pullman s\\nsuggestion, the moment chosen is when Mrs. Helm,\\nattacked by an Indian, who intends to brain her with\\nhis tomahawk, tries to grasp the scalping knife from\\nhis scabbard. Black Partridge, seeing her danger,\\nrushes to her aid, and claiming her as his prisoner,\\nprevents the perilous blow. The figure lying on the\\nplinth is the surgeon of Fort Dearborn, Dr. Van\\nVoorhis who had the well known conversation with\\nMrs. Helm which was interrupted by the Indians\\nassault. He was ikilled by another Indian at the\\nsame moment Black Partrido-e saved the life of Mrs.\\nHelm. The baby is one of the twelve children toma-\\nhawked by the Indian the same day.\\nThe four basreliefs on the pedestal tell some of\\nthe important incidents of the tragedy. The panel\\nfacing South-east represents Black Partridge return-\\ning to Captain Heald, Commander of Fort Dearborn,\\nthe medal presented to him by the government. This\\ntook place in the Court of the Fort on the evening\\nbefore the evacuation. The figure on Captain Heald s", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "21\\nright side is Captain Wells sent to the assistance of\\nthe Fort with a small band of friendly Miami Indians.\\nIn the background, the garrison and women making\\npreparations for the departure on the following\\nmorning.\\nThe panel facing South-west, shows the march\\nfrom the Fort along the shore of Lake Michigan,\\nCaptain Wells and his Miamis leading the train, then\\nCaptain Heald with the garrison, wagons containing\\nwomen and children, Mrs. Heald and Mrs. Helm on\\nhorseback, and a party of Indians following the train;\\nFort Dearborn is visible in the background to the\\nright.\\nThe North-east panel represents the attack of the\\ncombined Indian Tribes on the garrison.\\nThe death of Captain Wells is shown on the North-\\nwest panel. His horse shot under him and himself\\nmortally wounded, he asks Mrs. Heald, who passed\\nhim on her flight, to take a message to his wife. She\\nsees an Indian aiming at him, and he seeing her\\nterror, coolly turns his breast toward the Indian and\\nshouts: Shoot away! In the background Fort\\nDearborn and Lake Michigan.\\nAn artistic conception of this historical event\\ncould not go to any of the known styles of plastic art\\nfor an adequate expression; it would have to sacrifice\\nsomething of its character,\\nA massacre, perpetrated by savages, demands for", "height": "3621", "width": "2203", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22\\nfull expression the portrayal of the highest degree of\\nviolence, and the equipoise and dignity which are the\\nfundamental elements of all plastic art.\\nThis problem the artist has tried to solve by giving\\nto the outline of the whole group, when seen at a dis-\\ntance at which the individual motives of action and the\\ndetails of treatment are still indistinct, that careful\\nbalance between part and part, that architectural\\nsymmetry which is the severe demand of all classical\\nplastic art; while within this firm framework he has\\nlet loose that intense play of manifold forces, which is\\nthe only true messenger between reality and the\\nhuman imagination, and which, therefore, neither art\\nnor history dares to give up.\\nThe panels have been treated so as to allow of full\\nrealism in the representation both of human beings\\nand landscape, and the very low relief in which they\\nare executed contributes to give the main group a\\nmore dominant, more forcible position.\\nThe artist s work fully justifies the encomium of a\\ncompetent art critic, who says: It is one of the great-\\nest pieces of realistic sculpture that has ever been\\ngiven to plastic art in this or any other part of the\\nworld. It is the first time that the real American\\nIndian in feature, form, costume and methods of\\nwarfare has ever been given to the world in bronze;\\nand so far as my information goes, it is the only time\\nthat living models have been used for that purpose.", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "23\\nAnyone familiar with plastic art, and who has seen the\\nIndian and studied his history, cannot fail to see that\\nthe artist has been remarkably successful in reproduc-\\ning the original faithfully, that he has indeed given us\\na really great work of permanent artistic and historic\\nvalue.\\nThe group and basreliefs are bronze, cast by the\\nHenry-Bonnard Bronze Co. of New York. Height of\\ngroup 9 feet; dimensions of plinth, 7 feet 10 inches\\nby 4 feet 7 inches; size of basreliefs, 7 feet 2 inches\\nby 2 feet 5 inches, and 3 feet 1 1 inches by 2 feet 5\\ninches.\\nThe pedestal is dark polished Quincy granite,\\nexecuted by the Hallowell Granite Co. of Chicago.\\nHeight, 10 feet; base, 13 feet by 9 feet 9 inches.\\nIn a cavit} in the pedestal, directly under the\\ncentral figure, was placed a copper box containing\\nthe following:\\nChicago City Directory, 1893; official directory\\nWorld s Fair; standard guide of Chicago; Great Fire\\npictures; portraits, engravings, etc.; Story of Chicago,\\nKirkland; Story of Massacre, Kirkland; Judge Caton s\\nnarrative concerning the Massacre Tree Holden s\\nsketch concerning battlefield; cylinder of phono-\\ngraphic speech; letter of donation; daily newspapers\\nof Chicaofo.", "height": "3621", "width": "2203", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "W4@", "height": "3597", "width": "2121", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3621", "width": "2203", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "o JJ *o, .4^**\\nf^V V^%\u00c2\u00b0 V^V", "height": "3682", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "ceremoniesatunveil00chic_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00b0t. 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