Published On September 30, 1941 The city Monday was asked to move the Skidmore fountain form S.W. 1st Ave. and Ankeny St. to the Battleship Oregon Marine park and "do away" with the statue now in the park. E.C. Sammons, chairman of the Battleship Oregon Memorial fund campaign committee, made the request. Theodore Roosevelt memorial stood watch over Battleship Oregon for more than two years, then disappeared.