Michael Ruane's first-rate recapitulation of the Titanic's Washington connections ["Some Titanic stories hit closer to home," Metro, April 8] left out two memorials to that tragic event in the nation's capital.
Most familiar is Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Titanic Memorial, unveiled in 1931, which stands in Washington Channel Park at Fourth and P streets SW.
Less well-known is Daniel Chester French's Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, erected in 1913 just south of the White House at Executive Avenue and Ellipse Drive. Its bas-reliefs honor Teddy Roosevelt's military aide, Army Maj. Archibald Butt, and painter Francis (Frank) Davis Millet, who as Ruane recounts, perished on the Titanic.
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