Congress also turned over to Baltimore at that time the Fort McHenry Reservation to be used as a waterfront park until the Government might again need it. No one at that time thought the Government would ever require it. but it was only a short time when the Great War broke out between the nations of the earth and Fort McHenry became a Great War hospital reservation. and now acts as such under the Public Health Service. In one corner of the fort gikounds there is also erected. by appropriations made about that time. the model immigration station of the country. for which Congress appropriated $550.000. Its plans and construction have been so approved by the immigration officers that Mr. Caminetti. Immigration Commissioner. said on one occasion that those to be built on the Pacific coast would most likely be built according to the same design. I say. therefore. that to have the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Monument and not to have present a committee of Congress would not be very agreeable to the people of my city. This monument now to be dedicated by the National Government to that immortal poet is but a fitting tribute from the Government to my native State of Maryland for the heroism. generosity. and support of its people during the troublous times of 1812.
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