The New York herald., 1871-01-21
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A~O HE~V0s00 MemumouS 20 Mr. XWcou-
Tho sDlesdid Idea Of Now York
Walhalla.
IT'S strange there should such difference be
Iwixt tweedledum and tweededee.
But the difference exists, and it is just the
difference that we find between
Here go up. up. up.
And here 60 down. down, down.
And 1t was made manifest at that famous
gathering at Tammany Hall year ago, at
which ''the Young Democracy" were squelched.
Tweed, with six hundred policemen, more or
less, took possession Of the Wigwam, and the
door was shut. That was tweedledum.
O'Brien and his posse were left out In the cold,
and that was tweedledee. And so now the
faithful followers Of the "Boss" are going to
build him = monument Committees, we un-
derstand, have been appointed in the several
wards to raise the money, and, modest
enough, fifty thousand, they say, is the figure.
The site selected is the new Tweed plaza, at
the junction Of East Broadway and Grand
street, generous recognition Of the claims
of the east side Of the town. And the design
adopted for the monument, as we are kindly
informed, is the happy conceit Of colossal
hollow figure in brass Of the ''Boss" as the
big Indian, seated in an arm chair. holding in
bis right hand the scroll Of our new city Char
ter, and in his left the pipe of peace.
Exquisite design, this. Couldn't be better.
Mark how harmoniously 1t blends the majesty
of the Grand Sachem with his starting point
to grandeur and glory-that ''old arm chair"
bearing the inscription
Iloye IT, ! love it. and who shall dare
To chlde me for loving this old arm chair.
This is tho design selected. Among others
| submitted there was one intended to repre-
sent the "Boss" inspecting a group of fast
horses in front of his splendid stable; but it
was rejected as trenching upon the superior
| claims of Bonner's Dexter and 10 Elliott.
Another plan, representing our hero in
standing position, holding up his new tax levy,
was declined because it too nearly resembled
the melancholy statue of ''Honest Old Abe" at
Union square. Lastly, very elaborate
design-intended to perpetuate in railway
train, under full head Of steam, that famous
night trip of the Grand Sachem, from the
squelching of O'Brien at Tammany Hall to the
snufing out Of Genet at Albany on the Char
ter-was rejected, because the general idea,
and more, too, is embodied in the Vanderbilt
bronze on the top of the railway depot in Hud-
son street. II there anything in the world to
compare with that Vanderbilt bronze? No.
We approve the design adopted for the
''Boss" if Mr.. Tweed, Of all the big Indians, is
alone to have the honor Of contemporaneous
monument. But we have q much grander
idea to propose, an idea which embraces all
our City Fathers under the new dispensation
The brown stone figure Of General Cass, which
was for years puzzle to the bummers of the
City Hall Park, suggested this idea, to wit
Have all our city officials done in that style in
brown stone, and have them arranged in the
form Of grand circle or ''ring" around the
sheep walk of the Central Park, with the
"Boss" in the centre, on a pedestal five hun
| dred feet high, and in his unrivalled act of
opening bottle of champagne. But still
better plan would be that of the Pantheon of
Rome or that of the Walhalla of Bavaria.
Let it be the Walhalla; and if it must be on
the east side of the town let it be in Tompkins
square. Let it not be plan that 1t will take
as long to complete as the Cathedral of Co.
logne or our new Court House, but something
| which can be carried out rignt of, and which
| our reigning city authorities can see for them
selves in its perfection before 1t is too late for
them. Life is short aud power is feeting, and
| we have no time to lose in monuments
intended to curry favor with living men or
reigning potentates. To have this New York
| Walhalla, then, finished within few months,
| let 1t be made Of wood, iron and glass, and
painted in all the colors Of the rainbow; and
let the lower floor be appropriated to sculp-
lures in wood of all our city officials; for have
we not among our unemployed ship sculptors
| the artists who can do the work and are not
their tobacco signs equal to anything we have
in marble? Secondly, let the second floor be
devoted to paintings of the triumphs of ''the
Boss" and ''the ring" over all their enemies,
including the presentation of those ten tons of
silver plate to ''Hank Smith" and the upsetting
| of ssJimmy O'Brien's" coal cart in the Seventh
ward. Let the third floor be reserved for the
storage Of the torches, transparencies and
properties of democratic professions, and let
the building be crowned with dome like a
balloon, and 'sBig Six" as in the act of 'sgong
up in the balloon" while waving his ''Stars
and Stripes to the admiring crowd below.
| If we were quite sure of an admiring
posterity for Tweed monument we
would 20 in his behalf for pyramid
of Cheops OF Pompey's Pillar. But,
remembering the bad luck of the mighty
monument Of Louis XIV, in 1892, and the
shabby treatment, in 1870, in Paris, of the
trademark Of Napoleon, we go for monu-
ment for Mr.. Tweed which he and his living
hosts Of admirers can enjoy. We 60 for it
now because now is the time to strike, while