[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The monument was completed in that year, its cost being about $1550, which sum was entirely made up from the funds of the Ladies' Monument Association and the Monumental Dramatic Association. The monument was dedicated on Decoration Day, 1879, with imposing ceremonies. There was a procession, in which the veterans of the war, the militia com-pany, the police, the firemen and the Mt. Pleasant Cadets participated. Speeches were delivered from a grand stand, which had been erected opposite the monument, by ( filbert H. Hearing, Commander of Powell Post 51, (i. A. R., of Sing Sing and Hon. Benj. A. Willis, after which the Free-Masons took charge of the ceremonies, and M. W. Ellwood F. Thome, Past Grand Master of Masons of the State of New York, made an address. The monument was then unveiled amid great applause. The Soldiers' Monument stands in a conspicuous f position on Main Street, in the centre of the village, and forms an ornament to the place. It is built in three sections, which stand on a base of two massive blocks of granite, and are surmounted by the figure of a kneeling angel. The superstructure is cast in