The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-10-29
CAPITAL STATUES.
Marble and Bronze Ornaments That
Have Cost Upward OF a Million
of DolIars-Curious Visitors.

Statues, statutes, and statures, 1t may
be said, are what Washington is most
celebrated for, writes a Washington
correspondent of The New York Herald.
The great men of the nation perpetually
live here, either in an official capacity
as Legislators or in effigy. Just now
the statues are the greatest attraction.
When the president, cabinet, and heads
OF bureaus return they will divide the
visitors attention. When congress is
in session that body and the capitol will
be the center of interest.
To make the marble and bronze or
naments interesting it will be sufficient
to say that they cost upward of 81, 0O0,-
600. That amount has been expended
in the production and mounting of the
equestrian and pedestal figures which
are scattered about the public parks,
in front of the capitol, and in Statuary
hall. More than that, there are proba-
bly, as many works of art of this class
in Washington as there are in all the
cities of the United States. It was some
years ago regarded as evidence of ge-
MUS to condemn everything in the way
of painting and sculpture about Wash
ington. 1t indicated a large experience
abroad, for where else could an Amer
lean have his taste properly cultivated?
Certainly not at home. 1t was likewise
the habit of letter-writers to belittle the
infantile effort Of a country not yet a
century old to perpetuate in enduring
brass and stone the memory of those
who deserved recognition from their
fellow-countrymen. The fippant tongue
of the ignorant no longer ways, and
gifted correspondents find the statues
of public men a more engaging theme
than criticising works of art Of which
they know nothing.
A classification of the statues will
give the reader a better idea of whom
they represent. The presidents, for in
stance, are always regarded as great
men, and are presumed to be worthy of
enduring fame, yet only Washington,
Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and Gar
field are to date deemed worthy of inn
Ial. brtal rank. Washington has four
tues, Lincoln three, Jefferson two,
q d the others one. Again, of the
OF enty : one vice presidents, George
lnton, of New York, has this field of
M hor exclusively as his own. Then
ire has been upward of two hundred
~ mbers of the cabinet since the founda-
he of the government. The first sec
dy Try of the treasury. Alexander Ham
nv ], lives here alone in marble. OF
thousand silver and gold-mouthed
"a ators Gen. K. ID. Baker, of Califor-
tn and Jacob Collamer, of Vermont,
are all that are now in session in Statu-
airy hall. The judiciary, with its long
line of eminent judges, knows only
Chief Justice John Marshall, of Vir-
ginia, and Chancellor Livingston. of
New York, who administered the oath
of office to President Washington up
on his inauguration in New York city
in 1889. Theology and religion strike
hands in the person of Martin Luther
and Roger Williams. Silence recognize
es the grand name of Prof. Henry and
genius the name of Robert Fulton. OF
the great naval heroes of the wal Adj
miraT Farragut is frequently mistaken
for a New York fireman of the olden
day, his long spyglass suggesting the
butt, while Admiral Dupont holds his
field : glasses so close to his breast as
though about to pitch a red : hot ball
across the field at Dupont circle. The
peace monument was erected by officers
| of the navy, but does not commemorate
the name Of any particular officer.
The one continental army officer in
III = EtHoc Allan far Graana
of Revolutionary fame, has his memory
brass cast in an equestrian statue n
on foot. The other generals whose
names are kept alive in Furnished
bronze are Washington, commandments
chief of the Revolutionary armies;
jackson, of the war of 1872 and 1915;
Scott. of the Mexican war. and Nc
Pherson, Thomas, and Rawlins, of the
war of the rebellion. All but Rawlins
have grand equestrian statues. His
has been on a reservation southwest OF
the state department. 1t has become
so blackened by exposure that from its
general design and appearances it is
better known as the Pirate of the
Potomac, near whose banks 1t stands;
| Congress has ordered it to be removed
to a more suitable spot and reburnished.
The old colonial congress has the
statues of Hancock. Frankiyn, Adams,
and Sherman t preserve its memory.
John Winthrop represents the old con-
tinental governors, and William King,
Of Maine, the governors of the United
States, and Muhlenberg, of Pennsyl-
yania, stands for the house OF repre-
sentatives, of which he was a member
several ..erms, besides his distinguished
service during the Revolutionary war;
The only one not assigned is Jonathan
Trumbull. of Connecticut, an eminent
patriot of the Revolution, who deserves
4 separate mention, because it was
from him the term Brother Jonathan