Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-24

Piets and civilians who stood BY lincoln through
the war %S.er ssnon 5s,s
Salmon p, Chase stand conspicuous. The
Christian Commission will be represented by
George H. Stewart, its chairman, aud the SAM
the Eastern Commission, and j. f. Yeatmsn,
president of the Western. Bishop Simpson and
Henry Ward Beecher will stand forth 6 the
representatives Of the loyal pulpit. On the
third section there will he
THREE HISTORICAL FIGURES
one at each corner Of the monument, the first
representing the American Private Soldier the
second representing the part performed by
Woman, under the figure of America caring for
her disabled Solders, and the third the Libe-
rated Slave, Tin the persoD OF Fred Douglass J
who, under the influence of our American pro-
gress,yeism, stands forth not only freed, but
cultured. ON the fourth section there will be
THREE ALLEGoRICAL FIGURES
representing Justice, Liberty and Equality,
ministeriDg TO the GROWING figure the martyr,
Lincoln.
Also three scenes in bas.o relieve will be
given, the first representing the firing on Fort
Sumter; the second the surrender OF Lee; and
the third. the Congress abOlishing slavery and
Establishing civil rights.
AS the cost of erecting monument on this
scale cannot be less than
THREE HUNDRED TEoUsAND DOLLARS
it would seem to be . crazy enough undertak-
way that
LOOKS LIKE FUsINRss.
In fact, the Plan Of the enterprise is based upon
shrewd, Yankee, business ideas. For instance,
all the material for the bronze (rebel cannon
has been procured from government, an tie ID
OF the value OF 100000 In itself. Next
the personal friends and admirers of the
thirty or forty notxbles TO be immortal
ized in bronze have been enlisted in the
work OF raising the money for the purpose.
Each equestrian figure will cost So, 900; each
pedestrian hgurc, $4,000. Congress having ap-
propriated captured bronze for these figures the
cost to the a: sociation is reduced to that e1-
tent-about one-halt. There is therefore to be
raised for each equestrian figure the sum OF
SlO.oOo, and for each pedestrian figure the sn IN
OF S6,CcO; and enough has already been contrib
uted and Pledged for some half dozen Of the
statues.
SMOKY, PRACTICAL PITTsBURG,
oddly enough, was the first in the field with a
contributor OF So 0oO for the model, and a
pledge of "a, COO mere for the statue, for the
man Of her choice. Edwin 81. Stanton The
$4,000 Tor the rodel of the statue OF Stuart
came next from Philadelphia; 5000 for Beech
er, mostly .om Brooklyn; and 81 900 for Chase
not from Ohio, but from Boston.
WHAT MR.. LINCOLN AND MR.. SEWARD THOUGHT
OF THH MONUMENT.
Mills says that this monument was projected
before Mr. LlncOln's deaih, aud he took his
design up for Mr.. Lincoln to see. He expressed
himself much pleased with it, and asked that tie
craving he shown TO the Secretary of State.
That lac had travelled over Europe and was a
ridge OF art
After examining the plan, Mr.. Seward said:
Il bsye seen the principal monuments in
Europe, and | recolect nothing so ricr and
rSud % that would be ii carried ont I'm fact
FuroIe could rot have snch monument Tor
lie tas not such a history
THE oCTAGGEAL BrUpTNG
INTO .roi, I,aN
With large center structure.
star mar -"Mr. Mills What is the u,e Of This
great interior room ?''
Mil!s.-"To give distance, to study the e1,c.
Ut statue when placed at the height Il - =
occupy. Wien 1 modelled my ,Jack on statue I
~is obliged 10 work on 1t without G lcvatlCn
M ire con eG1ence was some defects"
MILLS As INVESTOR.
Enclosing this great central hall are a mum
Jer Of rooms used for modelling, copying. taxing
Gusis, &c. and as the ,Culpior rapidly xp!sined
10 . the different processes employed in hi
So,k it -oon appeared that as IN the case o.
Powers, Mills has brought to his all good
e AT Of mechanical IngeuUitv. With hof1 Gin
TtltiCu - the nurse OF Imagination" n in
vented fuTna, to melt tLe metal Tor the Jack
'on statue, on the principle Of the common coal
iIt. DE scientific meD said thal the draught
!eqrlslte could not be got without q chimney
ara The erection OF chImrey was beyOnd his
mears. Bat he remembered that he had geen
melted sIs" among the ashes Of a sOd-covered
eharcoal-I Pit in his native State. indicating a
FoweTiul hHat, ard, acting on that hint. he
made furnace having no chimnevs smoke
stack or bellows that served every purpose in
melting his bronze. From that time he seems
% have invented most of tie appliances 1sei in
ais work. be has, for instance IL hine for
copying busts or models on a reduced or larger
.Ca.e, by which the process il greatly simplifed
His mode OF taking bu>ts does away with the
tedious ard even dangerous process in vogue
The oiei alton is about simple as the ordi-
nary process in shaving.
The old process, says Mills waste stretch
me victim on his back, pour The mortar over
Ills race, put quilts In his nose to save him from
-uhocating. aud when the casting was removed
pulled out with II. And the process Wa - dis
igreeable that it gave a painful look to the
-asting."
PERsUADING MR.. LINCOLN To EE TOOK"
When went mp 10 the Whit House to get Mr..
Lincoln TO allow me to take a cast OF his head.
he put on a wry face, aud said:
IL you want 20 Kill me, just take knife and
cut my throat, for hear that taking = east is
Just about The same taking life 80
1 explained 70 him that be rreded only srt
pack IN has chsiT as II to be shaved and that
you'd iatheT bIm with a thin coating OF mate
rial, and n three minutes the work should be
done. without interfering with his breathing, OF
tTtahing hair. lie cCuSo uted with some mis-
t'IHSs, and when the affair was over he eX-
pressed almost chidlike delight al tire ease with
Inch lie had got through the dreaded process
OF being d" took"
DISPENSING WITH CLAY.
Mills, 10y the AID OF a quick hand and accurate
eye, models directly in plaster for sculpture.
dispensing with the tedious process OF modelling
IN clay and then moulding from clay 10 plaster
and cutting the plaster cast in sections for the
use OF the founder. THE other advantages gained
over the clay process * tn at the plaster model
neither shrinks or swclls, and does not require
NettiDg and covering with cloths TO keep 1t in
condition. But plaster sets 80 quick that only
skilful hand can deal with il.
BUsTs Ely TIE BARREL.
Mills pioneered us-tslkiDg all the wav-
through series OF rooms presenting the usual
curious medley OF artist quarters, but with q
predoniDating feature OF busts head. in pl A.
ter or metal-a golgotha of skulls. There must
have been thousands OF these. n, barrels or on
shelves, or strewn about the floors. Statesmen.
Poets, Criminals, Philsnthropists, Inventors.
Congressman, Caueassians, Mongolians. "Fn.
teenth Amendments" the Noble Red Nan,
ard all other types of humanity were
hob-nobbing on the same shelf or i'm
the same barrel, but apparently in some
system OF e:adstion, kno~n only to the sculp-