, 1884-03-02
WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET
Wards Statue of the Father of His
az Country, ana CriticIrms Thereon.
New York Cor. Inter Ocean

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New York Cor. Inter Ocean.
Well, public mems acts are bound to DO
closely and critically scanned. The dear and
dead George Washington Is not exceptional.
He recently went into Wall street, taking a
position In bronze on the steps of the United
States treasury building, and we are finding
fault with him.
He is thirteen feet tall. and yet Is so placed
as inferentially TO nave emerged from a ten
foot door to make an address to the specula-
tors. The house Is only one story high, and
the relative sizes OF it and the man carry one
in memory back to big Edwin Forrest
puny stage temple. Moreover, the new
statue Of Warrington is 30 elevated that his
face can only be looked squarely at from
below, unless a view be obtained from the
upper window of nj opposite building.
Try an experiment with the features of an
acquaintance, and you will see that they pro-
sent an almost unacceptable appearance II
you look at them either from above or be-
meath. The Likeness with which you are
familiar Is that which you ave derived from
a level view. Thus the Ward statue Of Wash
ington is facially all right whom seen favor
ably, but the Wall street men, as they gaze
up in hurrying past, are impressed by a
strange, querulous countenance, az though
ttt shhA1 "a teA' tObb<a Fab AAtatAI e1toA
ished and dispieassd by what his specializing
sons are doing.
A small, nervous, unobtrusive man stopped
at the same time that l did, to study this
efigy. He was Jay Gould. As l eyed him
covertly, and at length addressed him. a big
ger, burlier fellow edged up to us. This was
a body guard, without which the millionaire
seldom walks the street Gould was one day
struck by a Major Selover, whom he had
hurt in pocket, and he doesn't mean to be
caught defenseless again. But the guardian
oblgingly let us talk a little.
what is your opinion OF itF' I asked.
"A lrstrate statue Gould replied. at Is
the fashion to make fun of statuary; and
what you say as to the disproportion OF this
figure to the surroundings is sound enough;
but l don't SEQ how 1t could nave been diff
ferent without being worse. Would you have
Washington set UP among the Wall streeters
without being bigger than they arei OF
course not. The statue il impressive as it is
decidedly; and the pose is excellont-with
its attitude Of stepping forward, and the
right hand outstretohed, as though speaking
to the whole Of Wall and Broad street. You
think this expression is unpleasant from our
point of %scrutinyi But just soc what he is
looking at. His eyes are on the front OF the
stock exchange. 1 don't agree with you that
he seems indignant To mo he seems to be
merely puEzled-and that's natural, isn't itr'
Gould laughed at his own joke, aud it was
evident that l had quite turned his thoughts
away from stock jobbing. He is an educated
man of artistic tastes, you know, and when
among the books and art objects OF his Fifth
avenue residence II said to almost exclude
mammon from all consideration. i might
have extended his dissertation on the statue
but for an unfortunate remark.
perhaps he is wondering whether West
ern Union is going 10 absorb the Baltimore
& ohio's telegraph" said I.
Gould shut his mouth like the snap of an
oyster. Doubtless he was Disguised because
he couldn't casually discuss q statue with a
stranger without being, as he thought, piled
for speculative points.