Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-09

MI. ClIiCOIl Is dlSO the sculptor VI d
large bronze group which surmounts the
Equitable Life Insurance building in Bos-
ton, said to be the largest group in the
country. The center figure is eighteen
nine feet in a sitting posture on either
side. The group Is representative Of Com
merce, Protection and Mechanism.
Other notable works of Mr.. Ellicotts in
erected to the memory Of the philanthropist,
representing in heroic size the recording
angel and costing in the neighborhood of
S4O,OOO; the statue of Col Cameron, killed
during the first battle of Bull Rum an eques-
trian statue of President Dominguez of the
Haytian republic; the equestrian statue of
Gen. McClelland, erected in Philadelphia,
and two soldiers monuments, erected on the
Gettysburg battlefield by the first and Sec
ond pennsylvania cavalry.
Realizing early in his career that his forte
lay in such work, Mr.. Ellicott has devoted
himself principally to equestrian and mill
tary figures He models in a composition
called composite modelling clay the base of
which is tallow and sulphur which requires
no wetting and is always pliable and con-
Venient to handle.
Description of the Statue.
In preparing the Hancock statue, Mr.. FL
Hcott was six months in preparing his
model, while three months more were occu-
pied in making the casti plaster ready for
the founder. At the foundry it required six
months to make the bronze cast finished
it stands today
The statue stands IA feet inches from
plynth to the top of the hat and the height
of the pedestal from the ground to the
plynth is 10 feet inches, making the entire
height of the pedestal and statue 33 feet 8
inches. The proportions of the rider are
such that if standing erect he would meas
ure 10 feet in height.
A noticeable feature of the work is the
style or hat worn by Gen. Hancock, broad
Drlmmed, square-topped soft felt 1t was Of
this style that Gen. Hancock was particu-
larly fond, as he regarded it as distinctively
American, derived from the early New Eng
land settlers.
A souvenir medal has been struck off at
the mint commemorative of the Hancock
unwilling. On the diverse is stamped the
head of Hancock, while on the reverse is a
representation of the statue in relief. The
medallion is made from the refuse bronze
used in casting the statue.
Hancock's Personality.
The history of Gen. Winfield Scott Han
cock is a proud portion of the heritage of
his countrymen, hut his personality Is
treasured alone in the memories of those
who knew him well and loved him. Han
cocks nature was of the heroic. In him
was blended the softness of the cavalier,
the daring of the knight errant and the
calm determinatio of the best type Of the
modern soldier. His aims were ever high
and his motives always pure. He was gen.
erous to faults in others, but a severe men,
tor of those he might commit himself. In
his intercourse with others, whether on the
field of battle or in the common inter-
course of daily life. Hancock was amidble
even in the face of opinions Numerically
opposed to his own.
Power made him no blusterer, and COM
mand never found fairer master Thus
1t was that his associates loved him and
his followers adored him. The merest sub
aitern found an attentive ear under Han
cocks hat brim, whether his words carried
suggestions, or warnings, or sought adj
vice, and ready reply heartily frank and
entirely manly. 1t this predominant
trait of Hancocks-his splendid manliness
that drew to him more closely than al
most any other general officer he men
who wore the badge of the second corps
There were none SO humble in rank who
did not feel with confidence that he had a
friend in his general to whom he could
turn in perplexity or supplicate if neces
sary, in need. He had hatred but for one
thing in the world, and that was a cow
ara, so there were no towards in the sec
ond corps.
influence on the Corps.
That splendid army was inspired by the
spirit Of the mastery man who led it. His
occult influence insensibly infected the
divisions, regiments, battalicrs and COM
panies ana pervaded it with a high resolve
that creates what is called corps d'esprit
His career after the rebellion closed was
as admirable as it had been when the war
cloud was hanging over the land and he
was where the storm was thickest He
felt that the handshake of Grant and Lee
at Appomattox closed the rebellion He
said onoe when the opposition to recon-
struction was at it's height that when
Grant fed Lees army on the 18th of April,
1865, at Appomattox Court House IL made
him feel that there was a CLEAN of light
from the Last Supper in the glow of the
campiires when the hungry hordes were
preparing their meal, and he hoped some of
IT would get into some peoples hearts
mat unconscious poetry showed the char
lily there was in Hancock's breast and the
Christianity that Influenced his thought.
Hancock and the South.
He felt firmly confident that the south
mad learned its lesson thoroughly, AMI
reallzlnS that homogeneity of the Union
could best be recovered and strengthened
by receiving the rebellious states into full
comradeship as soon as possible, he favored
kind treatment of them in every direc-
ton. Thus was his manliness shown in
another light than that of the soldier.
!ndeeu, there are many students ia
mlllar with Hancock's nature and ability
VINO believe he would have been even a
greater statesman than he was a soldier
had his early training led him to the coun
eli chamber instead of the camp. He was
iNhIh ~ grasp Tie meaning or affairs in
the full sense and to comprehend where
they would eventually lead. This was due
TO that seemingly prophetic trait which
men call foresight, and which he possessed
IN remarkable degree.
His ideals on subjects of state were high
and lofty, as were all his purposes and
one of his greatest regrets was that the
honest and intelligent masses of the coun-
try did moi take more active personal in
terest in the direction of their own desti-
MES through the medium of politics. He
knew the ward meeting made the state
convention, and the methods of both were
hurtful to his sense of the just and proper
His Political Course.
His nomination to the presidency was
unexpected by him, and there are those
alive today who know that 1t was distaste-
full to lin. He appreciated the high honor
of the nomin ltion, but he was too wise not
to perceive that it was dictated more by
expediency than by any honest belief on
the part of the democratic party that he
was It's real leader He knew his name
vas regal ded as a powerful magnet to at
tract the soldier VOTE yet he believed that
he could serve his country in all its se.-
tons with honesty of purpose and discrt,n-
mating judgment If he should be elected
Defeat did not sour him or turn him awav
from single friend, and he showed again
his superb manliness a few months after
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