Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-07-23
ANNAPOLIS. Nd FRIDAY evenings JULY %. 1886.
PORTRAITS OF LINCOLN.
Statues and Pictures In Washington-Rel.
les OF the Martyred President.

Here at Washington there is num-
Der of representations Of Abraham Lin
coin. says Carp. in the Cleveland Lead
er. In the national gallery of statues
there is bust of Lincoln in marble,
made in 1858 by Mrs. Sarah Fisher
Ames, which represents the great presi-
dent looking as though he had a sheet
wrapped around his neck. Il cost the
government about $1,000, and would
have been dear. il seems to me, at that
many cents. Winnie Ream's statue of
Lincoln stands in front of the city hall
on a pedestal which is far too high for
the statue. For it the government paid
$4,000. A little TO the right of the
bust of Lincoln in statuary hall, and
Immediately above it, there is mosaic
portrait of the martyred president 1t
is made of thousands of little bits Of
stones, and is, l should say. two or
three feet square. 1t represents the
president as full-bearded, and it looks
very much as though it were made by
some newspaper artists of the day.
Frank B. Carpenters picture of the
proclamation of the emancipation con.
tains a very fair portrait of the presi-
dent 1t hangs on the walls Of the cap
itol staircase leading to the house gall
lerv, and looks down at Powers's statue
of Jefferson, which stands in the niche
below.
A mile east of the capitol, in the GEN.
ter of Lincoln square, which is beau
tiful park, the bronze group entitled
Emancipation is to be seen. 1t rep
resents Abraham Lincoln holding in
his right hand the proclamation of free
dom. A slave kneels at his feet with
manacles broken and about to rise. On
his left is the brazen trunk of a tree,
with lash and chains about it, and the
expression on the face of the freedman
and that of the great Lincoln are very
good indeed. This monument was paid
for by subscriptions of the colored peo-
pie Of the United States. It weighs
5000 pounds, is twelve feet high, and
cost $17, 900.
A man named Petersen, who was a
son of the man who owned the house in
which Lincoln died, has the pillow-case
and quilt upon which he breathed his
last breath. They are clotted and
stained with blood. but Petersen con-
siders them worth great deal and he
would hardly sell them for their weight
in silver.
There is tall, thin messenger at the
white house named Pendle who has
been there for nearly thirty years and
who was on duty on the night that the
president was shot. He will tell you
how he was affected by little Tad Lin
coin, sobbing and crying. 'Oh! they
have killed my papa! My poor papa!
Let me 60 to my papap' Pendle wor-
ships the memory of little Tad and his
father. In tiny gold locket he has
little band of the presidents hair, and
in camphor-scented box he keeps a
fine, black broadcloth coat, one sleeve
of which is badly cut. 1t was in this
coat that the president died, and Pendle
treasures it as though it was veritable
cloth of gold. A man named Forbes,
who lives in Washington. has the
shawl and black-silk stock worn by
Lincoln when he was shot, and he is
also the owner of beautifully carved
cane given to the president by a Penn
sylvania regiment, as well as the pock-
et-knife of the president.