The Tulsa Chief. (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 27, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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ments for the com-
pletion this year of
a $250,000 statue to
Gen. U. S. Grant and
the unveiling of a
statue to Gen. Phil.
Sheridan, the dash-
ing cavalry leader
of the Civil war,
following close upon
the dedication of
similar bronze fig-
ures of Generals
Sherman and McClellan, betokens the
intention of the American people to
provide, through their representatives
in congress, a most notable testimo-
nial in sculpture to the leaders of the
war lor the Union. Xo other country
in the world can boast so pretentious
a tribute to the heroes of any conflict
In Its history.
To honor by counterfeit present-
ments in marble and bronze the sa-
viors of the republic will cost the na-
tion. ultimately, millions of dollars,
but unquestionably it will be worth all it costs
as a lesson in patriotism for coming genera-
This labor of gratitude has been in
tions.
progress for some years past, and already a
dozen or more of the foremost warriors in the
Union army have been thus honored. Of late
years, however, the importance has been em-
phasized by the increasingly elaborate charac-
ter of the monuments erected. The climax
will come a year (or less) hence, with the
completion of that splendid memorial to Gen-
eral Grant for which the congress of the
United States has appropriated a quarter of a
million dollars, and lor the foundation of which
ground has been set aside In the shadow of
the United States capitol.
The scene of this shrine to military
fame is, appropriately enough, the na-
tional capital—the pity' of Washing- =====
ton, which is coming year by year to ~~“
take on more and more the character
of a beautiful creation in architecture
and sculpture and landscape garden-
ing that is the property of the whole
people. The statues to the victors in
the struggle between the north and
south occupy conspicuous positions in
the most advantageously located of
the parks and circles with which the
aeat of government abounds—verdure-
clad breathing spaces which seem as
though they might have been special-
ly provided as sites for just such he-
roic or life-size figures. Some of the
statues are under the shadow of the
capitol, others cluster about, the White
House, and yet others are placed
where they will kindle Inspiration in
the patriotic pilgrim to the capital.
Much of the Impressiveness of the
statues to the military heroes of the
Federal armies is doubtless duo to the
fact that almost all oi them are eques-
trian. I1 is customary in all countries
to portray as “men on horseback"
only the so-called royal personages, or
men who were actual commanders of
troops, or enjoyed the title of com-
mander. The first equestrian statue
ever erected In the Western Hem-
isphere, was the one ol' George III. of
England, which stood In ltowling
Green at the foot of Hroadway, New
(York city, and which during the war
for independence was melted up and
cast into bullets by patriotic daugh-
ters of Miss Columbia.
rles In this country.
Next came the erection of a statue to Gen.
James B. McPherson. This was erected through
the efforts of the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, and it was Intended that the mon-
ument should constitute McPherson’s tomb.
Beneath the statue Is a vault designed to re-
ceive the body of the gallant officer killed’ near
Atlanta, but such Interment was never made.
The statue represents McPherson as he led In
battle. In his right hand he holds field glasses
and Is portrayed as gazing deliberately over
a field of battle.
Surpassingly Inspiring and magnificent Is the
statue erected to Gen. George H. Thomas by
his comrades of the Army of the Cumberland
in 1S74. The “Hock of Chicltamauga” is rep-
resented reining In his horse In order that he
may obtain a better view of a field of battle.
J. Q. A. Ward Is the sculptor of this master-
piece, and every person who has seen It will
readily agree with the art critics that there is
not in the whole range of the world’s sculp-
ture so splendid a representation of a horse
as the charger on which the Virginian Is
seated.
A fine equestrian statue of General Hancock
was unveiled In 1S9C. Alike to the Thomas
statue, the pose is one of action, the hero of
Gettysburg being portrayed as a commander
watchful and alert In the center of activities.
The statue of General Logan, the first of tho
memorials to be unveiled during the present
century. Is unique in many respects. Gen-
eral I.ogan Is represented as riding
along the line of battle his sword
drawn and carried low In his right
hand. The horse is represented In
the attitude of moving at a slow trot.
On one face of the pedestal of thw
monument is a group representing
General Logan with other leading offi-
cers of the Army of the Tennesson,
while opposite is a group representing
General Logan taking the oath of of-
fice as Untied States senator, ndmin-
I Istered by Vice-President Arthur,
j All of these oquestrlnn statues have
cost considerable sums. The General
Scott statue cost $20,000, and the ped-
estal $25,000 more. Tho bronze figure
of McPherson cost $23,000, and the
pedestal $25,000. The sum of $40,000
was paid for Ward's matchless statue
of Thomas, and $25,000 for tho ped-
estal. The statue of Genernl Hancock
Involved the expenditure of $40,000 nil
told, nnd tho Logan statue cost $05,-
000, of which sum congress appropri-
ated $50,000. As has been said, the
maximum expenditure will be made In
the case of the great memorial to
General Grunt, upon which at least
$250,000 will be expended.
Heeause no definite program was
followed it> honoring the heroes of the Civil
war, it catne about that some of the lesser
leaders were commemorated in bronzo ere the
greatest Union loaders received homage In
this form. However, tho past few years has
witnessed tho beginning of compensation in
this direction. The first step was the provi-
sion of a heroic equestrian statue, with an
attendant group of symbolic figures of Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman.
Next after tho Sherman statue came the
statue to McClellan, which shows “Little Mac”
seated upon a splendid charger, and portrays
the great organizer of the Union array wearing
the service cap which became familiar to all
the boys in blue who followed him. Now the
nation has added to Its open-air gallery of
fame a statue of Gen. Phil Sheridan.
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BACK TO THE WORLD.
The oldest equestrian monument
*>ow standing in the New World Is a
.colossal statue of Charles IV. of Spain,
In the City of Mexico. The Initial
equestrian statue in tho United States
Is the renowned one of Gen. Andrew
Jacks-on, which stands in the park di-
rectly in front of the White House at
Washington It Is estimated that there
are 400 equestrian statues In the
world, of which number the city on
the Potomac will have, with the com-
pletion of the Grant memorial, a total
of 3 2, most of them representations of
Civil war heroes.
Tho first statue arranged for in
Jionor of a warrior identified with
the Civil war wa3 that in which Gen.
IWlniicld Scott is depicted mounted on
A charger at rest. This monument
rwa? ordered in 1807, and was erected
*evon years later. General Scott Is
In the uniform of lieutenant general.
The material lor the figures of horse
>and rider was derived from cannon
captured during the Mexican war in
which General Scott wen his greatest
fat: '■ The pedestal for this statue is
math up of lit huge pieces of granite
r.tt iti Go pa Ann quarries, and at the
time they were obtained, tho largest
- a- *.: i-f lto ever cut from quar-
HE MAKING of battle-
field monuments and
memorials has devel-
oped into an important
industry in the United
States during the past
few years. This Is due,
first of all, to the in-
crease in the number
and size of our battle
field national park3. It
Is now the policy of the
national government,
ably seconded by most of the state governments,
to convert Into national parks the tracts of land
In the southern and middle states which were
the scenes of the great battles of the Civil war.
Each year sees new reservations of this kind ac-
quired by purchase of congress or through other
means and set aside as permanent testimonials of
the nation's gratitude to the men who fought and
died there. Keeping pace with the creation of
new parks is the policy of extension being pur-
sued with reference to tho older established bat-
tlefield parks which have not included at the
outset—ns few of them have—the entire areas
embraced in the battle which they commemorate.
A second and even more direct Influence in fos-
tering the present activity in the creation of
memorials in marble and bronze is the custom
which has grown up with the development of the
battlefield park plan of suitably marking every
historic spot at tho scene of a great struggle be-
tween the Union and Confederate forces. This
explains the dozens and even hundreds of statues,
monuments and markers that ara now to be
found In the average Important battlefield park.
Some of the monuments are erected by appropri-
ation of congress or by funds set aside by the
legislatures of states that desire to tints honor
their sons who fought In defense of the flag. An
even greater number of theso enduring tributes,
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however, have been erected by organizations
made up of the survivors of companies, troops,
batteries, regiments or other minor divisions of a
contesting army and who tike this means of tes-
tifying to their regard for their fallen comrades.
Perhaps the best evidence of the extent to
which modern sculpture is being relied upon to
commemorate tho deeds and the heroes of the
greatest of civil .wars is afforded by a tour of
the Gettysburg National park. Here, lining more
than 10J miles of carefully prepared roadway and
marking every significant. point in the three days'
battle, are a total of more than 400 monuments,
memorial shafts and tablets and more than 1,000
markers. Many of these testimonials lu marble,
granite and bronze uru elaborate and costly and
the aggregate cost amounts to several million
dollars. And yet on this battlefield as elsewhere
the labor of love is only partially completed. Nu-
merous other monuments are definitely projected
and yet others arc in contemplation.
Tho provision of monuments in ever-increasing
numbers lor the battlefields (of which Gettysburg
is only one) would indeed be an appalling task
were it necessary to laboriously chisel out of j
marble by hand nil tho statues and carved fig- '
ures. However, modern Ingenuity has provided
unveil a monument within a few months
eft' ]- the money for it has been appro-
priated. Many of the present-day bat-
tlefield memorials arc in bronze and
in the cast of such a monument it is
only necessary to model the figure in
plaster. Molds arc taken from this and
v.hcn forwarded to the foundry enable
the casting of the figure in bronze—a
replica or exact duplicate of the origi-
nal design which the sculptor fashioned
in the clay or plaster.
The correspondingly rapid creation of
granite or marble statues ] resented for a long time
more of a problem, but it has been solved and
largely by the invention of some wonderful new
tools and appliances which make the long-dreamed-
of “sculpture by machinery" a reality. The ma-
chines. or rather tools, which now perform in min-
utes what the old-time hand chiseler required hours
to accomplish, are all operated by means of com-
pressed air, utilized in much tho same way that
At c aeli eric of these modern monument making
institutions the air Is compressed at a central
power plant and is led by means of pipes and hose
to the various localities where the mechanical chis-
eling Is to be done. The designs for a statue or
monument are first prepared by draftsmen and
are thot outlined on the t -,ones to be‘but. With
these markings a3 a guide; a workman manipula-
ting one of the portable pneumatic tools can capvo
out quleklv and with great accuracy tho Intended
design. The principlo of the superiority of the
mechanical carver is that it rains hundreds of
blows a minute, whereas the artisan with nialiut
and chisel would not deliver mere than one or two
blown. It can be appreciated that the surface to
bo cut Is covered much moro rapidly by the ma-
chine method, and moreover tho air-driven chisel
will cut more accurately and with greater uniform-
Editor—We've lost another poet.
Assistant—What was tho troublo,
:dead?
Editor—No, he got hack his old job
In the department store.
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with a small basketful of red peppers,
: of which she was culing one. His fa-
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j she is very smart," as the son called
j his attention to it. The boy spoke up
: quit -Uy, knowing what was to be said:
, "Fa, would those red peppers make
you smart if you eat all of them?” Ilia
| father replied: “Yes, son."
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working hands; and there is knowl-
edge that is not power.—Emerson
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