The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-12
ORATORS To HONOR
FRANCES WILLARD
dwelling Ceremonies Fri
day in Congress.
STATUE EXPECTED TUESDAY
School Children of District to Visit
Statuary Hall on Saturday.
Medals to Be Distributed.
STATUE EXPECTED TUESDAY


The House and Senate viii accept next
Friday afternoon with appropriate cere
mony and addresses the statue of |
Frances E. Willard. presented to the
United States by the State of Illinois for
q place in Statuary Hall.
The statue is expected to arrive in this
city tomorrow morning. and it will prob
ably be placed in Statuary Hall Tuesday
OF Wednesday.
Miss Willard is the first woman to be
honored with a niche in the National |
Hall of Fame.
Exercises in Congress.
The Senate exercises in accepting the |
statue are In charge of Senator Shelby |
NJ, Culfom of IIlionois, who will be the |
first speaker, followed by Senators AL |
bert j. Beveridge of Indiana, j. p. Do1li |
VET of Iowa, and Albert j. Hopkins of
Illinois In the House Representative
George z. Foss of Illinois has arrange
ments in charge. and Representative
Charles E. Littlefield of Maine and
Representative Henry S. Boutell of Hi
nois will also make addresses.
Pedestal Inscription.
The pedestal is of Vermont marble and
bEdTS the lDliOMlitS IiSCiip(iOil-
All, ii is women who have given the
c0StlieSt hostages to fortune. Out. into
the battle of life they have sent their
best beloved. with fearful ODDS against
them. Oh, by the dangers they have
dared; by The hours of patient watching
over beds where helpless children lay;
by the incense of 10000 prayers waited
from their gentle lips to heaven. l
charge YOU to give them power to pro-
tect along life's treacherouS highway
those whom they have so loved. =
Frances E Willard.
Presented by the State of Illinois,
February XVII, MCMY.
Helen F. Mears, Sculptor.
The statue was executed by Helen
Earnsworth Mears. a native Of Wis
consin. Illinois appropriated from its
treasury s., 600 to defray the expenses of
securing the statue.
The sculptor was born in Oshkosh
Wis. While only little child she be
gan to model in putty and coal tar Be
fore the age of nine years she modelled
an original head OF Apollo which was
exhibited In the county fair. The prize
Of $500 offered by the Milwaukee Wo-
mans Club tor the best work of art
by a Wisconsin woman that should be
exhibited at the Chicago Exposition was
won by Miss Mears with a symbolic fig
ure of Wisconsin which later was put in
marble and placed in the rotunda OF the
capital in Madison.
Up 10 this point the only professional
instruction Miss MeaTs had received was
confined TO about six weeks a the Art
institute in Chicago, but she now came
to New York where she studied for 3
year and u half under Augustus St.
Gaudens at the Art Students League,
before going abroad. Miss Aears ha!
been a pupil of many of the best sculp-
tors, St Gaudens, dorado TAFT. Puesch
Dampt, Charpentier, Collin and Merson
but possesses a distinct artistic 1ndlVld
uality. After two years of study witt
Augustus st. Gaudens she was called Il
assist him in serious work II his New
York ana Paris studios.
Excellent Portrait Work.
The refined womanliness and strength
of character which characterized Fran
ces E. Willard as educator, philan
thropist and friend were marvelousl!
brought out in Miss Mears' preiiminaT,
model which. as a. portrait; exeelied eX
pectations.
Miss Anna A Gordon is having a me
mortal medal made fer distribution
among children and young people il
cornrnenoration of this historic event
The medal was designed by the sculpto
OF the statue and bears upon its face
reproduction t.f the statue in miniatur
and upon the reverse side in artist
lettering the words. t'Placed in Statuar.
Hall. Capitol Building. Washington, l.
C, February IL, 1905.
The school children of Washingto
will be given opportunity TO Fisi
Statuary Hall on Saturday, Februar
49, Arrange ments are being made 70
them TO march under protective escor
to the Capitol Building and through Sta
tuary Hail, where each child will plac
a flower near the statue. The flower
will be generously contributed by tn
District of Columbia ". c. T. L. Mis-
Gordon Will give a medal to each DO
and girl in the procession.
W. C. T. T. Officers Coming.
The National Won1an's Christian Ten
perance Union, many OF whose Ieadin
officers and members plan to be i
Washington to attend the exercises i
Congress, Will in the evening OF F'et
ruary II hold q national commemora
tive meeting in the metropolitan NJ.
Church, with varied and interestin
program Mrs. Lillian NJ y. Stevens
national president. and the one VIII
succeeded Frances Z. Willard in TIL
Office. will preside.
But few statues OF women exist
America. Chief among these is II
statue of Margaret Haughery. MAJ
earet." of New Orleans. the woman {
the people. who labored and save
money and then spent it in assistin
others. who In turn raised this statl
TO her
The statue of Emma Willard, the pi'
neer IN women's higher education, ha
been erected at Troy. n. Y, her HON
and both Massachusetts and New Haml
shire have honored Hannah Dustin, Il
f.FN md ioso
cnMcuEcc MAY MOL GEAMT