Logansport Gates Dedication and Address - A. G. Jenkines

The man by the pole in the boat, is Albert Gallatin Jenkines, chairman logansport relief committee, Lawyer.

CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY IN PRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF LOGANSPORT A MEMORIAL GATE IN APPRECIATION OF THE RESCUE SERVICES RENDERED BY THE ACADEMY CADETS TO THE CITIZENS OF LOGANSFORT DURING THE FLOOD OF MARCH, 1913.

"AND EVERYTHING SHALL LIVE WITHER THE RIVER COMETH" cried the prophet Ezekiel in his vision of waters as they issued forth from beieath the altar of the sanctuary, flowing towards the East country through the desert into the sea. For a thousand cubits the waters were to the ankles, then to the knees, then to the loins and a thousand cubits more and it was a river that he could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

This is a vision of the river of life with rees upon either side, the leaves of which were for the healing of the nation. The world joins in acclaim,'AND EVERYTHING SHALL LIVE WHITHER THE RIVER COMETH.

Nestling in the valley of the Wabash and Eel, where the two rivers unite, is the beautiful, unpretentious Indiana City of Logansport. Here live a happy and contented people of more than twenty thousand. On Monday night, March twenty-fourth, nineteen thirteen, this people fell asleep with the same feeling of security felt since the disappearance of the Red Man and the close of the war between the States. With Tuesday's early dawn the Wabash had swollen to a mighty river, spreading to the foot-hills far beyond its banks, and before that day's close four of the five banking institutions of the City were forced to suspend, all hotels were flooded and nine out of every ten engaged in mercantile pursuits were driven from their business houses, and what was more appalling still fully twelve hundred hones were overflowed to depths that endangered the lives of the occupants.

A mass meeting of citizens was hurriedly called at the Court House, and an Executive Flood Relief Committee appointed. The paramount thought was the rescue of the imperilled. Every available agency was pressed into service and by night-fall hundreds of residents in the business section were rescued. With the approach of darkness the waters had, swollen to such magnitude that grave apprehension was felt for the safety of the families of twelve hundred homes. Appeals for help came from everywhere. Our people were helpless. In our extremity we appealed to this Institution, and early Wednesday morning boats manned by Cadets were sent to our relief. Throughout Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, in rain and snow these Cadets patrolled the flooded district and rescued and carried to safety the frightened and suffering inmates. Deeds of heroism filled with pathos, were everrihere enacted. In instances mothers, babes of two and three days were tenderly lowered, from second story windows into boats and carried to safety. The aged and infirm received the tenderness a mother shows her babe. The kindred terrors of pestilence and famine, of cyclone, earthquake and avalanche were present. Who is it that would say that the One who watches over the sparrow's fall, did not watch over the Cadets in their great work?

The broad humanity manifested by the constituted authority of this Institution and the Cadets here trained is unexcelled in civil life. Your Cadets from the States of this and other Republics, without kith or kin or blood tie of any degree with our people, without a tremor faced trying exposure and possible death that the menaced might live. This gracious conduct can only be accounted for by accepting the wonderful analysis adopted by the Chief Executive of this nation in his address at the funeral of the seventeen American lads who fell at Vera Cruz when he said:-

"Notice that these men were of our blood - men of our American blood, which is not drawn from any one country, which is not drawn from any one stock, which is not drawn from any one language of the modern world; but free men every where have sent their sons and their brothers and their daughters to this Country in order to make that great compounded nation which consists of all the sturdy elements and all the best elements of the whole globe."

The treatment accorded these lads upon the return of their bodies to these shores by the people ofthis nation emphasizes the greatness of the great heartof the great people of this Republic, and is an absolute guarantee of a ready and willing response by the Amenican boy to the call of his country and flag.

Acts of heroism never go unrewarded. If public applause fails to respond, conscience is its reward. The nation and State never fail to applaud. The military is swift in its acknowledgment and recognition. In all the history of the world the genius and gold of man has been liberally employed in the building of monuments, and to the triumphant warrior in all lands, shafts of enduring bronze have been reared. The Statesmen of the proudest Republics of the earth are kept fresh in the memory of coming generations by placing in the Capitols of the world their life images, carved from indissoluble stone. The Captains of industry are thus represented in the important centers of the globe. All down the line those who have achieved fame in the arts and sciences as well as the poet who has feelingly touched the human heart, occupy prominent pedestals to be observed and admired of men. It is therefore in keeping with the age and compatible with the throbbings of hearts full to overflowing with gratitude that the appreciation of this municipality should be publicly expressed in a form that will live to perpetuate the acts of chivalry and deeds of heroism of the Cadets and Officers of this Institution.

Logansport in her simplicity and gratitude presents to this Institution this gate as a memorial to perpetuate in the hearts and memory of the present and future generations the acts of heroism that brought rescue and life to thousands of her people. And imbued Pith the sane purpose presents these medals to the individual Cadets who played so important a part in this great work of rescue and humanity. To the Cadets who took no part in this great work and to all of the patrons of this Institution, present and past, we extend our heartiest congratulations for their good fortune in being identified with an Institution bearing the great love for humanity that is cherished by the officers and members of Culver Military Academy, which Institution is not only the pride of Indiana, but of the nation as well. And with feelings of just pride in this presence, we rejoice that it is the distinction of this Institution to have trained here Lt. Jonas Ingram, now of the battleship Arkansas, who holds the World's record in Open Sea Target Shooting, having during the cruise of the Meditrranean Fleet in October last in mid-Atlantic scored six hits - six shots - four miles. The exercises of this hour are the product of human love and appreciation. The law of love - God knows no bounds. A great law writer speaking of the source and, nature of jurisprudence asserts:-

"Law is the offspring of God.; and, like Him is everywhere. Deep in the nature of things lie her fountains, and their over-flowings gladden all existence. From her is the music of the universe. Before all, above all, subject only to the Infinite One she reigns over matter and mind alike."

And love, the handmaiden of law, is vouchsafed by a woman who has challenged, the aumiration of the world in her advanced religious thought to possess this manifold quality and wonderful power:-

"It is Love which paints the petal with myriad hues, glances in the warm sunbeam, arches the cloud with the bow of beauty, blazens the night with starry gems, and covers earth with loveliness."

Finally, magnimity the world over is due to the fact that good fellowship is the great cable of priceless gold by which men and communities are linked together. This cable between Culver Military Academy - located upon the shores of this magnificent lake, and the municipality of Logansport on the banks of the Wabash, We historic by song and story, is as strong and enduring as human love.

NOTE: He was the grandfather of Ann (Raub) Snyder daughter of Raub, Malcolm J. Sr., who were lake residents for many years first leasing the Bay View House - had cottage at 1614 E. Shore . Ann provided this copy of the speach.