New-York tribune., 1901-01-22
THE PASSING THRONG.

1T has been stated and believe with a GER
tain degree of TRUTH said NJ H Hollingsworth. OF
Washington. D. c.. at the Fifth
EQUESTRIAN Avenue Hotel yesterday. that Of
STATUES IN all the equestrian statues in the
WASHINGTON world more than 80 per cent are
located in Washington. There is
an enormous number at the capital and there is
hardly view down street there that is not
broken, ended or has in the foreground the eques-
trian statue Of some another of our National
SSeroes- Some Of them are beautiful: some are not
stafe af IMPRESSIVE and some are queer The
directly opposite the White House represents 'Old
standing close 10 the guard rail and facing the
SastS St nGsnng san be seen nut the rearing steed
statue sans Jackson. from the front Mills's
In This case Is Is sn6ther gem The horse
nave rghtfully belonged TO a swan. Among others
found those Of General Nath9naei O Gree&e bH
63toWn; AIa1or-General Winfield Scott Hancock. by
James T. R0bisso; General Winfield Scott by H. k.
Ward and General Gs9rra WaoRmas 1y j. e a
NILS 10 these are shortly to be added equestrian
land Just south of the Treasury D partment and
one one OF General John a. Logan. to be placed in
9r Of ReeaE-AdmiTa e IA m Francis DUPONT captured
miral Deweys house might also be included in the
list, but perhaps it more aptly mi hit be called a
wealth Of equestrian statues with Which Washing ing
ton is blessed there is NJ; one OF Grant. Grant is
is no statue of him at the capital
II for one do not understand it," continued Mr..
Hollingsworth. and It also seems queer that no
statue Of Sheridan has been erected
ARLINGTON there. Another thing do not
AND ITS wholly compr.hepd is WHY Grant
HISTORY. is buried here. It doesn't seem to
me especially appropriate 1t was
his last home. it Is true, but only for a very few
years at the very end Of his life. He did not die
here, and If there any doubt as TO his last
resting place Vashinston should have been chosen
There is no more beautiful place in this country
those who died in defence of the Union what
could have been more appropriate than that Gen
place among those whom he had SO CALAMITY led
10 10 victoEy? General Sheridan is buried there The
Parke Custis, the grandson of Martha Washington,
Gusts 9ed 5 son OF s rhs Eather 2 OF s County
passed then 70 the children Of his only daughter.
Lee. of the United States Army Lee went with
his state and early in 1851 abandoned Arlington
he was given command of the Confederate Army
The Federal force Immediately took possession of
camp. The level ground OF the estate caused
Quartermas ster General NIeigs 70 utilize it a
1t became afterward the cemetery Of the Army.
Curiously enough. the first soldier ever buried
there Confederate prisoner, who had died in
hospital The property was sold in 1864 for taxes.
the the GovernTent t, being the purchaser Georgs
bought It from him for s15G CO., There Fss always
bee6 a legend tbat orr O I2Do tiI1a yy-asbinef0T
cast silver dollar from the shores OF Arlington TO
the opposite bank of the Potomac. distance
approximating a mile. The guide will show YOU the
when Secretary Of state. was showing a party OF
Englishmen Arlington. and they asked him
about this somewhat extraordinary tate. When they
the broad bosom of the Potomac 10 the far dis
tant shore they clamored for his opinion as to its
may be true, a dollar. yoI know. went a great
deal farther in those days than IT does now The
said they would never have believed it possible"