San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-26
Unwilling the Ericsson Statue.

New YORK, April 26.-Impres-
SiVe exercises will mark the I'M
yelling Of Jonathan Scott Hartley's
bronze statue of John Ericsson in
Battery Park today. This
statue is 8 feet ) inches high and
stands on a well proportional Pc
destal Of granite s feet 9 inches
high. 1t is erected by the munich
palitX of New York at a cost of
$4,000. 1t presents, heroic figure
of the great inventor.
On each of the four faces of che
pedestal, which is, about seven feet
square at the base, there will be a
bronze panel 81 by II inches, pre-
senting in low relief, views of the
engagement between the Monitor
and the Merrimac, the first screw
steamship, the Princeton, and va
riOuS other inventions of Ericsson.
The monument will stand Just
north of the Whitehall boat basin,
and about fifty feet west of the
United States barge office.
The erection of this imposing
tribute to the memory of the great
inventor was authorized by an act
of the Legislature of 1891. That
act created a special commission of
fourteen persons, with authority to
erect the monument, subject to the
approval of the Park Department.
The members of the commission
are Col. w. c. Church, chairman /;
w. c. Whitney, c. S. Bushnell, Val
demar F. Lassoe, j. O. Sargent, Y.
w. Rowland, Geo. lines, j. ID. Grim
Minis, ID. 7. WOrden, William II.
shelton, William III. Webb, Samuel
w. Taylor, Ashley w. Cole and
George III. Robinson. After eX-
aminlng several designs for a
statue, the commission decided in
favor of a design submitted by
Jonathan Scott Hartley. That
sculptor made number of full
sized models of Ericsson before he
produced one that suited his own
artistic taSte-and that one was
promptly accepted by the commits
sion.
Mr.. Hartley was born in Albany
in 2S46, and developed taste for
art at an early age. He studied
with Palmer, the sculptor, in Paris,
for the greatest part of the period
between 1873 and 1873. He took a
gold medal of the first class at the
National Academy, in England,
and subsequently won the special
prize of the Salmagundi Club here
III a competitive trial, in which
"The Wind" was the subject.
Hartley's "Satan Nanquished" is
regarded as remarkable cOnCGD-
ton. He was the sculptor of the
heroic figure of the Pilgrim in
Springfield, Mass.
The ceremonies attending the
unwilling of the statue will be I'M
der the combined direction of the
Ericsson Monument Commission,
the Park commissioners, and a
special committee appointed by
the mayor. The special committee
is composed of Gen. Mcmahon, Ma
pOleOn lie Brun, John II. Starin,
Paul Dana, and q. u. MOrOSini.
\ chorus of between 200 and 300
voices will be furnished by the
different Swedish societies of this
city and Brooklyn. The statue
will be yelled by American and
Swedish flags, and the unwilling
will occur about the time the great
procession of warships passes up
the North river. \ national sa-
lutte of twenty-One guns will be
fired by the monitor MiantOnO-
mob just off the Battery.
After the unwilling of the statue
Col. Church will formally turn it
over to the custody of the park de-
partment. President Dana will
receive it with a few appropriate
remarks, and Swedish choir will
sing. Then an ode written for the
occasion will be read and an ora
ton delivered. An interesting fea-
turo of these exercises will be the
assembling Of nearly all of the sur
ViVOrs of the crew of the Monitor
at the time of the fight with the
Merrimac.