Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-10
SELECTION OF THE SITE
Members Of the Association to Visit
the Grounds October IL,
CARE IN GATHERING THE DATA
Bronze Figure Mounted on Ped ,stal.
With Tablet on Each Of
Four Sides.

Almost all the arrangements have - IN
made for the erection of the memorial to
Pocahontas, the Indian princess. al James,
town. There was a meeting of the Poca-
hontas Memorial Association In the Ebbtt
House yesterday at which plans were conn
pleted for the trip of the association and
its friends to jamestown October II next,
to select the site for the statue. The Viz
gina Association for the Preservation of
Historic Objects has given the association
permission to select its own site for the
statue on jamestown Island. and the MEM
bers will be accompanied by the sculptor.
Mr.. Ordway Partridge, who is to design
the statue.
The memorial association is well pleased
with the prospect of the work. the COM
pletion of which is now In sight. II has
been very careful in sitting the data avail
able and feels that the accuracy of Its
work is beyond dispute. There have been
questions raised at different times as TO
the part that Pocahontas really played in
saving the life of Capt. John Smith, and
In her help to the early colonists.
The suggestion has been made that much
of the credit given her has been the fruit
OF romantic fancy and that cold, scientific
research would reduce her achievements to
about the proportionate level OF the glories
OF Montezuma, which fall SO far short OF
the glowing picture of them drawn by Ber-
nal Diaz. But after going over all of the
authentic records the association has es-
tablished the fact that the women of the
Algonquin tribe did have not only a voice
in the tribal councils, like the modern
Pueblos. but that they had the right OF
saving life by adoption. They have estab-
lished the fact that not only did Poea-
hentas save the life OF Capt Smith. but
that by furnishing supplies she saved the
lives OF the early colonists for two years.
1t is held that in view of the important
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tory, she is entitled to the most enduring
of memorials on the scene of her exploits
OF Heroic Size.
The statue which Mr.. Partridge will de-
sign is to be of heroic size and in golden
bronze as most closely approximatng the
hue of the subject. 1t will be full length
figure, though the exact pose has not yet
been determined. Mr., Partridge has two
figures in mind and a finished model will
be submitted TO the association next month.
The statue will be mounted on a pedestal
on four sides Of which will be four tablets.
Three of them will be of low relief scenes
from the life OF Pocahontas. One will be
her baptism, from the Chapman painting
now in the rotunda of the Capitol. The
second will be the marriage of Pocahontas.
from the famous Brueckner painting, and
the third will be an original design by one ;
Of the members of the association showing
Pocahontas and her attendants bringing
supplies to the starving coonists. On the
fourth tablet will be a partial copy of the
old parish register at Gravesend. England.
where she died. 1t read, "Rebecca Wrolfe,
wyff of Thos. Wrolfe, gent, Virginia lady
borne"
The original entry in the register ends
with the statement: Here is buried in We
chancelle," but that will, of course. not ap-
pear the monumental inscription. 1t
will be recollected that Pocahontas was
about to return to Virginia and had already
taken ship at Gravesend. The sailing was
delayed by adverse winds, and she was
stricken with her fatal illness and was
taken ashore to die.
Cost Of the Memorial
The cost of the memorial will como
within the funds of the association
$4,000. This will be a small
amount considering the magnitude of the
project, but the expense has been reduced
by the courtesy of the Vir-
ginia Society in donating the site and the
fact that Mr.. Partridge has contributed
very largely of his own services in help
association to jamestown will be made to
help swell the fund. 1t will occupy two
nights and a day and will include a stop
at the exposition grounds. The whole costs,
1t was decided, would be $50 ticket The
date of October IL was selected because 1t
was the anniversary of the landing OF
Columbus in the New World.
The members of the association have ex-
pressed themselves as under the deepest
obligations to Mr.. Partridge for the interest
he has taken in the work. Much of the
detail as to the selection of the statue and
the site has been left to him because of
the confidence of the association in his per.
feet artistic judgment.
Personal Sketch.
Mr. Partridge though an American. was
born in Paris in 1851. He was educated at
Columbia University in New York city and
studied modelling under CALI in Florence
and Welonski in Rome. He first became
known by his portrait busts.- which include
an old woman in the Corceran Gallery,
and pas-reliefs of Sir Henry
Irving qS92) and Edward Everett Hale (sa-
Ion 1888.
One of his first large works, the bronze
statue of Hamilton in front of the Hamilton
Club, Brooklyn, n. Y, is striking conccp-
ton of the great statesman in a moment of
interest. 1t exhibits, In marked
degree the restraint that characterizes all
his productions. Another notable work is
the shakespeare unveiled at Lincoln
Park Chicago, in 1894. His bronze eques-
trian statue of Gen. Grant, 1895, in Brook
lyn, is regarded a model of unity and
ability. ''
His largest ideal work is the memorial to
Mr.. s. H. Kaufman in Rock Creek
cemetery Other busts include a noble Ma
donna QS97), Whitman, Lincoln, Whittier,
Dreams" and Midsummer Nights Dream:
Mr. Partridge also became well known as
q lecturer and writer on art and letters and
municipal improvements. For a time he
was professor of fine arts at Columbian
University in this city.