The Great Peace Celebration.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 10, 1913:
    Plans are nearly completed for the international celebration of the completion of 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain. In the latter part of 1914, a peace which is likely to endure, as Mr. Carnegie puts it, "through all the centuries to come." For the mind of reasoning man cannot conceive a cause for a future war between the two great English-speaking nations. Two monuments, identical in design and description, are to be erected in Washington and London, and the cornerstones are to be laid at the same moment by the King and the President of the United States, with a brief cessation of all business simultaneously in both countries.
    Many other lesser plans are contemplated, such as the institution of traveling scholarships, the compilation of an authoritative history of the 100 years, the erection of many tablets commemorating events of the War of 1812, a great celebration at Ghent, in Belgium, where the treaty of peace was signed, and various monuments along the American Canadian frontier. One of these much favored is a new and splendid memorial bridge across the Niagara River, and another is a bridge between Detroit and Windsor. Lincoln County, Ontario, and Niagara County, New York, are already connected by several bridges across the Niagara, but a new one of imposing design would be an appropriate memorial. Perhaps the popular imagination would be more strongly appealed to by the erection of a new bridge spanning the St. Lawrence River. All the other details of this most interesting historical celebration seem to adjust themselves easily, but the project of a huge memorial bridge is one that demands careful consideration from many points of view, and a site should not be hurriedly settled upon.