The morning times., 1897-02-28

IDENTITY submitted, to show that he did not
knowingly present to Mr.. Smithmeye er and
Mr. Pelz his own hOno1s and those or
his sui ordinate.
MI Green's becoming mOdeSty and dis
creton with Gen. Casey is not surprising
Mr. Green is an en- EineeT, as before stated,
ana had, until the death OF the general,
filled an inferior station even in that
calling. His training and experience have
been those OF a subordinate engineer.
His slumbering genius in the fine arts had
evidently been pTeservedfr rude eawaKen-
ing 10y his InIefior station, and when he
appeared before the Joint committee it
became necessary for those gentlemen
to know something OF him, and the fol
lowing interesting conversation occurred:
Representative Quigg-You had before
that been in the employ OF Gen. Casey?
MIR. Green Yes, for u large part or my
life.
Representative Quigg We're you en-
ployed in the service OF any department?
Mr. Green Not stuItly, buU always as
assistant engineer to the officers of the
Corps of Engineers of the United states
Army.
Representative Qugg Are you an Army
Officer?
Mr.. Green-I am not.
Representative Quigg-A civil engineer?
tr. Green Yes, sir
(Before the Joint Committee on Library,
November 20, 1866
1t was this impression, no doubt, of
Mr.. Green's capabilities (Which, OF course,
Mr.. Green's modest silence as 20 his latent
genius aided and abettetls together with
the knowledge that he himself was also
an engineer and could not make plans
for great national building of the ornate
monumental character and COmpleXity of
the Library of Congress. in less than sixty
days without knowing how, which con-
fused the generals understanding and
caused him TO place the names of Mr.
Smithmeyer and Mr.. Pelz on the tablet
as the architects instead OF those OF Mr..
Green and himself The general, naturally,
cherished Mr.. Green, who had hcen in his
employ for large part OF his (my) life,' -
and the injustice thus done Mr.. Green
would it is certain, have caused the general
much anguish had MIR. Green only been able
to overcome his natural diffidence and
timidity in asserting his own merits suf
ficiently to AXE clear with their brilliancy
the generals blurred mental vision.
It is with q heart turgid with bitter
emotions that the compassionate observer
contemplates the divinely inspired genius
of this sensitive. retiring soul redounding
to the credit of others, and tears of sym
pathy Will have their way, as it is realized
that the cruel blow has been inflicted by
y.
Mr.. Green must be ''divinely inspired gen.
ius" because the effort to meet the many
peculiar, sui generis requirements Of this
elaborate structure kept some of the most
distinguished architects of two hemi-
spheres, forty-one in number, and the two
houses OF Congress, and especially the
Select Committee on Additional Accom-
modations for the Libr rary, appointed in
1880 for this particular purpose, under the
craftsmanship of Senator voorhees,, pretty
busy from S73 to 1886. And because fur
ther, the architectural profession was
deeply impressed by the difficulties of the
undertaking, saying:
Nothing can be more evident to the
architectural mind than that the many
points Of accommodation are eXceptiona
in their nature and require exceptional
and in some respects unprecedented archi-
tecturaI dispositions both internally and
externally Of both plan and elevation."-
American Architect and Building News,
Boston.
Now, this supremely G fitted creature
had no education an architect, was an
engineer, and yet he saw at once that all
prior efforts were those of pygmies and
had been in vain, and, by other means
than education, learning and experience
in architectural creation, by some Inys-
terious resources evolved from his own
inner consciousness, in fifty-one days
''in the first two months, between Oc-
tober and November %, 1888" the en-
trely new and different plans which
1--WE Che and the general) made were
completed. The ordinary mind is struck
with awe at the Herculean mentality
here depicted, dormant for many years,
but suddenly rushing forth in it's native
power and purity, untrammelled by the