FINDS CHILDREN AFTER LONG HUNT Father's 22-Year Search Is Ended by a Chance Meeting With Old Friend. MAN IS HAPPY AT LAST For Score of Years He Wandered Over Country Looking for Children From Whom He Parted When Wife Died. Corcoran is the Chicago—John happiest man in the United States. He has fourni his folks. For 22 years the United he has wandered over States and Canada looking for his children, from whom he parted when their mother died and they were little. Now he has met them again and they He found them were glad to see him. grown to be fine young people, such as any father would be proud of, and John Is all smiles. It was this way: Twenty-two years ago John Corco then a young man, packed his ran, traveling bag and shook from his feet the dust of Dunnvllle, Ont., where he He could no longer had been happy, he happy there. Dunnvllle had become him because in Dunnvllle hateful t Ills young w T ife had died, and with her gone life meant little to him. Told Favorite Child Was Dead. The children, Ella Loretta, a tod dler of 2; Mury, aged 0, and John Frederick, 4, were to he eared for by Mr. Corcoran's stepsister, with whom he had some legal difficulties over the settlement of his father's will, cording to his story, after he had been away some months this stepsis ter died and when he received the a friend told him his youngest Ac news daughter had also died. "I don't mind telling you she was my favorite," lie said, "and when I heard site was dead it kind of upset me. I lost track of the others then, although I knew that they were being cared for up in Canada somewhere by another sister. Sin* moved away, and when I went to look for her she was gone. So for nearly twenty-two years 1 heard nothing from them. "The other day I was up in Buf falo—motored up there from Chicago Went into a hank to ;. Just ns I came away I saw a stranger looking at me pretty on husine cash I LI l!| !T Ill I Sir S' I a T Æ \i J Rushed Up to the Girl's Desk. I thinks to myself, 'That's one of those friendly guys. He saw me get my roll and he wants to help liant. *p< ml it .' A Friend From Dunnviiie. "So when he came up and slapped tue on the hack and says, 'Hello, John Corcoran : come and have a drink,' I said. 'Nothing doing, stranger.' Then he tells me who he is—an old friend from Dnnnville that I hadn't seen He says, • Spose you're since 1 left, down here to see your children.' " The friend then told the excited Cor daughters were liv ing right there in town. The favorite daughter hadn't died, had only been corau that his twi dnngeroiiKiy ill. "She thought It was kind of funny," Corcoran said in telling of the reunion. "I broke right into the place, rushed tip to the girl's desk and said, 'Hello, Ella, I'm your daddy.' " This daughter is Mrs. J. H. Bieden The other daughter, whom the weg. father next discovered, is Miss Mary nurse in the general hos :ara Falls. He also found Corcoran, a pltal at Nil! his son, John Corcoran, grown to man hood. "It took a long time to find them, and IM just about given it up," the fntlier seid, "hut luck came iny way at Inst, and now I'm never going to lose them again. It's a pretty small ■world, after all." Yelled for Soap One Hour. Cleveland, O.—Cleanliness may be next to gislllriess. hut the city does rot pny firemen to he godly. Director Spresty of the fire department, de clares. He has fined Richard Benja min ten days' vacation because Ben jamin. lie says, sat in a bathtub in the station am! yelled for soup for a wle.Ie hour one night He doesn't say whether Benjamin got the soap or had to be content with a latherless scrub. T 61 / y. MEMORIAL EAJ1U3INC % 7$ Rupert Htiqhes 0 4 \ ,... -VO'.-- «WS? m Is « li i ? fl U 5 • 4 : '£ m tz f f*. 3S&Î ' .jfcv.....: , Ü m > j . ■ * -j «SiiSSsS If . ,4 n * '■ ; ' > V . . w T T r TOBe Erected atthe * NationalCapital and Dedicated to Our Bous Who Have Fought, Suf fered and Given Their Lives for the Freedom of the World. J ■v 4 The men of 1917 lutve maintained the legacy left by the. men of 177(1, and have paid the The odd coincidence EN of T7 and '7t'> ! M debt Incurred, in numbers stands us tbe symbol of a real bond. Washington born men and the money that saved the day for the Wilson sent hack to France the men and the money that saved the »lay for the freedom of the nations. ed of France the freedom of the colonies. We repaid La fuyette with Pershing. There is n universal eagerness to build a fitting memorial to the heroes of the war of wars. Monu ments will spring ui> all over the United States to individual men, officers and organizations. But there Is an Insistent demand for one great national memorial. The only place for It is. of course, the capital of the country, and Washington has been and will be In a large sense the capital of the world. No memorial will be appropriate which has not a lasting value and a dignity of usefulness ns well as beauty and splendor. No statue or group of statues could he reared which would express what this memorial must express. No column of melted cannon, though it were made of steel barrels a mile high, would convey the message. An Imperial arch would imply nothing more than a gateway for con querors and would act simply as an obstruction to traffic. The right nioirmrinl must he a temple, n temple of architectural grandeur, a museum for statues, busts, tablets, archives and Interesting relics, a pince of dully resort, and a meeting place for nntlonnl gatherings. It Is an amazing fact that Washington—the seat of our national government, the center of world activity, the mecea of congresses—lias no large and dignified meeting place, no convention hall of any dimensions. The memorial described will therefore meet a to of pressing need. What Ideal should this memorial most vividly •ss? Of what religion should the temple be? expri Surely, the religion of freedom, of democracy, of equality, and of opportunity. It should express the triumph of the Ideals of Washington and the founders of this Ueputillc ns those Ideals have spread through the world and united in the recent bloody victory over the spirit _ of autocracy. By strange good fortune these ideals can he Im mediately realized. Construction can begin at once. Since tleorge Washington would nrcept no money for his services to the nation two gifts were voted to him, one consisting of n sum In cash, which he disposed of as an endowment to the university Washington and Lee; the other a now known ns number of stock certificates valued then at $25,000. The latter amount he set aside in his will to he cumulative fund for the diffusion of In the vicissitudes of time the stock used as n knowledge. he bequeathed lost Its value and the dying wish of •emed likely to rtynaln the father of his country forever unfulfilled. movement was set on foot to fulfill Recently a >rge Washington Memorial asso The G the wish. cintlon was formed und various projects *ere ad vanced, among them the foundation of a university. But the country bad now fully blossomed with «täte having Its own. Mrt universities, every Henry F. Diinnck. sister of William C. Whitney, of the navy won the title ol secretary of the New- American Navy," was elected blent of the association. With characteristic energy. Mrs. Dimock hns set the accomplishment of the Ideal. A national who as "Father pres abont committee. Including eminent men and women from ell sections of the country, has been formed and nearly half a million dollars already collected, In addition to a still larger amount pledged. The association has procured from congress the grant of an Ideal tract of land w hick was formerly occupied by the Pennsylvania station, and at pres ent covered in part by temporary buildings of the war department. Th!« 1« almost the only desirable site remaining unoccupied in Washington. A competition In designs for the building was participated in by a dozen of tbe foremost Amer ü! > UÏ'T. \ L it '• A * I ' irlu-J 4 V: V / V/ li-V d ï&à k " ** >&m% Ï N t Cl A S I ■ Ü&1 n i m ■M i [A i •V I i .* if ■ .t «2 •stt-Twl 'M i «v; 1 . * c •j 'y i : [Vi m yM h Tr&CZgls. 4'V.i ip r.r 1 B) X Nil m B i i; 7a v ■JUT» f. 1/" •-*% ■W-! i'è & if l -i ' 'Ll XT , v m o -I SS - cSj. lean architects. The committee of award selected from these n plan of such Impressive beauty us to silence criticism. This majestic structure will be spacious enough to house n multitude. Tbe main uuditorlum occu pies a floor space of 38,500 square feet, with a gal lery of 10,000 square feet, giving u seating capacity of 7,000 persons ; It will furnish room for Inaugural receptions, national and International conventions and conferences, orchestral concerts and celebra tions. Several small halls are grouped about It to accommodate meetings of smaller bodies—military, patriotic, scientific, educational, and similar con ventions. On the second floor Is a banquet hall with serv ing rooms, seating «00 people. Here also are rooms set apart ns the permanent national headquarters of societies of vetertins, of reserve officers and other patriotic societies. The third and fourth floors are planned to accommodate a museum and library for the care of precious relics, souvenirs, historical documents and the personal histories of A spacious chumber has been set _ our soldiers. upart for the exclusive use of each sovereign state of the Union and onr outlying possessions. The plans have received the Indorsement of the highest authorities. President Wilson writes: My Dear Mrs. Dlmock : I have noted with genuine Interest the plans of the George Wash ington Memorial association for a memorial to the boys of 1017 ns well as those of '7«. No one could withhold approval from such plans. They undoubtedly express what the heart of the whole country approves. Cordially and sincerely yours. WOODROW WILSON. Committees of prominent men und women rep resenting patriotic societies are collaborating. Collective amUlndivldual subscriptions In large and small amounts are being .received. Every child who contributes ten cents receives a button carry ing the legend: "This pin meanr, « brick In the memorial building." The name of each donor will he entered on the records. Such a building is very much needed, and If •cteil would contribute very materially toward tbe process of conference, consultation, discussion, keiilng of public Interest and conscience, recon ciliation of views, recognition of abuses—the through which a great self-governing peo en awn process pie works out Its problems and reaches its result*. No better tribute to the memory of Washington, who led the men of '76, anil to our hoys of '17. bo maintained the freedom which he established, could be devised than such a national memorial. The number of association* and organization*, per manent end occasional, which seeks to bring peo ple together for worthy objecta In this country Is - enormous. One of the most urgent needs Is a suitable meet ing place for national and international societies and conventions in Washington. Under existing conditions we are Justified In inviting large socie ties and congresses, especially those of an iuterna ing lie nue Ami tlomil character, to meet In this country; for the natural place Is Washington. The control und administration of this building, when erected, will he the board of regents of the SmitliMontun Institution, of which tho president of the United States Is the presiding officer, ex-olllclo, and the chief Justice the chancellor. Such a building will aid In advancing t lit» cause of education, put riot Ism, science and the urts, as well as providing h lasting evidence of our loyul devotion to the memory of our hoys who emulated the example and noble character of our greatest commander and first president. at a by ORGANIZATION PLAN OF GEORGE WASHING TON MEMORIAL A 88 OCIATION. President—Mrs. Henry K. Ifitnock, Washington, D. 0. Treasurer—Mrs. Frank Northrop, New York. Trustee of Permanent Fund—Chariot J. Bell, Washington, O. C. The National CounolL The president. The vice president. The cabinet members. Members of the Supreme cOurt, Members of congress. Governors of states. Prominent and representative lenders from va rious fields of activities, Including the church, edu cational Institutions, cofnmerce, finance, literature, the arts and the stage. State Organization. The governor iim honorary chairman of the state council. Mayors of cities. State senators and representatives. County school officials. City and Town Organization. The mayor or nominal head as honorary chair man of council. lepnrtmental heads of the actual of Council irking organizations, locally paid by municipality. Including teachers, firemen and policemen. A general committee In each city acting In co Ith tlie above council will Include the w operation leaders in all local activities which are in contact with the mass of people. This will bring In labor unions, commercial clubs, civic and other organiza tions, and churches, fraternal organizations and clubs, as well as organizations having national connections. will engage In this work of honoring our first pres ident, our Illustrious soldiers of the past and our victorious soldiers of world redemption, who will be the bulwarks of our future economic position. Tlie children will be locally organized under the an