Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-14
STANTON MONUMENT
Movement to Erect One at
SteubenviI|e, Ohio.
ASSOCIATIONS OFFICERS
Sculptor Doyle Offers to Do the Work
Gratis.
LIBERAL GIFT OF GEN. ECKERT
Sends His Check for $5OO-No Pub
lie Memorial Erected to the Great
War Secretary.
ASSOCIATIONS OFFICERS
LIBERAL GIFT OF GEN. ECKERT


| officers of the Stanton Monument Associa-
ton, organized here and Incorporated under
the laws of the state of Ohio for the pur-
pose of promoting the erection Of a bronze
statue of heroic size to the memory of the
late Edwin M Stanton, Attorney General
| in the cabinet of James Buchanan and Sec
| rotary of War under Abraham Lincoln and
Andrew johnson, are rejoicing today over
| the receipt of a check for $500 from Gen.
Thomas T. Eckert of New York, who was
assistant secretary of war under Stanton,
and for many years head of the Western
| Union Telegraph Company.
| This is the most liberal contribution that
| has been received in response to the asso-
| citation circulars which, in February last,
| We're sent to selected number of persons
The proposed memorial will consist of
heroic bronze portrait of the great Secre
| tary, standing on high pedestal of gran
| lite, located on the court house lawn in
| this, Stantons native city.
| The modelling and sculpture work will
| be done gratis by Alexander Doyle of New
| York also native of Steubenville, and al
| together the most national of the noted
| American sculptors. Among Doyle's works
are the statue of John Howard Payne in
| Oak Hill cemetery at Washington D. c.;
| the statues of Thomas H. Benton, John
E. kenna and Francis P. Blair in the
Capitol at Washington; Albert Sidney
| Johnston and Robert E. Lee at New Or
| leans; Sergeant Jasper and Gen. r. H.
| Anderson at Savannah; Gen. Philip Schuy-
| Ter at Saratoga; Gen. Steedman at Toledo;
| Admiral Semmes at Mobile; Francis Scott
Key at Frederick. Md; Bishop Pinckney,
| Gen. Garfield, Gen G. H Ward, and others,
| in various parts of the country.
| The foundry work and pedestal will cost
| something over $4,000, and will be paid
| for by popular subscription.
| Officers of the Association.
| The officers of the association having the
matter in charge are: President, George
| w. McCook. Steubenville; vice presidents
| Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, New York; Col
| Aug. 8. Worthington, Washington, D. c.;
Col. John ]. McCook, New York Horatio
G. Dohrman, Steubenville; John NJ Cook,
Steubenville; secretary, Joseph B. Doyle
Steubenville; treasurer Robert MCGOWAN,
Steubenville; trustees, Paul Dana New
York; Judge Frank H. Kerr Steubenvile;
Judge William Mcdonald Miller. Steuben-
vile: Josiah c. Ault, Steubenville; David
| w. Matlack, Steubenvile; Capt John F.
Oliver, SteubenvilIe; B. Frank Ridgely,
Steubenville; Robert NJ. Francy, Toronto;
committee on subscriptions, Andrew Car
negie. New York; Gen. Arson G. McCook
New York; David Homer Bates, New York;
Gen. Thomas NJ. Vincent, Washington,
D. c.; Gen Thomas T. Eckert, New York
Alex, X. Mcclure, Philadelphia; Major A.
f, H. johnson, Washington, D. C; Robert
I. Lincoln. Chicago; Eliphalet F. Andrews.
Alexandra, Va; George d. McCook, Steu-
! benville.
As yet no concerted action has been
taken, merely some circulars sent out
through the mails; but about 5000 has
been collected.
1t was Stanton'S request that he he hurled
| in his native soil of Steubenville by the side
of the ashes of his kindred, and he marked
the spot on the cemetery plat in the hands
of John McCracken where he wished his
| hoe
ried out. He is buried in Oak HILL WASH
ington, d. c., where a square tombstone
erected by Mrs. Stanton marks his resting
place and that of his young son lanes
Hutchinson Stanton, who died while Gen
Marcy was in Washington telling the Sec
rotary that his son-in-law, Gen. Mcclellan.
would surrender the army of the Potomac
| unless he could be freed from orders from
Washington.
No Public Memorial Erected.
No public memorial ever has been erected
to Stanton. About ten years ago the sur
vivOrs of the United States Military Tele-
graph Corps appointed a committee to raise
funds for a suitable monument to their
former commander-in-chief," but no eff
fective action taken by its members
About year ago Senator Charles Dick
! of Ohio introduced a resolution for a me-
mortal TO Stanton, to be erected in Wash
| ington at a cost not to exceed $500 600, but
| ii was pigeon-holed, as was also a bill in
| troduced by Representative Cooper of Wis
| consin seeking to appropriate 100000 for
| the same purpose; but fine statue of Nc
| Clellan is being put up on Connecticut ave
nue. in Washington, out of an appropriation
| provided by act of Congress.
| Last spring Eliphalet F. Andrews a ma
| tive of Steubenville and for many years
| head of the Corcoran School of Art at
| Washington, painted and gave to the bar
| association of Jefferson county a life-size
portrait in oil of Stanton, which now
| hangs in the court house in this city. Soon
| after this Charles Filson, the noted artist
| of this city, presented portrait of Stanton
| TO Kenyon College, at Gambler, Ohio cat
| which both Stanton and his son Edwin L.
| were students) which was unveiled on the
| occasion of Andrew Carnegies great lee
| ture on Stanton to the students faculty
| and alumni of that ancient institution.
| The officers of the monument association
| are expecting considerable donation from
| Andrew Carnegie, who as telegraph mes
senger in Pittsburg as well as later knew
| Secretary Stanton well. He already has
| shown his appreciation of his early patron
| and friend by giving $4,000 to endow the
| Stanton chair of economics at Kenyon Col
| lege.
| After the officers of the association have
| heard from d few more of those to whom
| circulars have been sent and who are ex-
| pected to make liberal donations, the COM
mission for the statue will be given. Plans
are being made to make the unwilling as
much as possible a national event.
Judge Frank II. Kerr. to whose energy
| the activity of the association is largely
due. says that practically all of the recent
movements to honor and perpetuate the
name of Secretary Stanton are directly
! traceable to Flowers Life of Edwin NJ
Stanton.
| Senator Dicks Iill.
! He also stated that the association homes
to see the Dick bill acted on by Congress
because il embodies the first official at
tempt to have public works of art selected
by distinguished authorities in that line, as
follows:
Provided. That the selection of the design
for such memorial shall be by the award of
n board or jury of five sculptors or other
| competent persons not competitors, to be
chosen for that purpose, one by the Society
of American Artists, one by the Society of
American Sculptors, one by the National
Sculpture Society one by the Secretary OF
War and one by the joint committee on the
library: Provided further, That the author
of the winning or accepted design shall re-
ceive no special prize for such design, but
the author of the second best design shall
| be paid $4,000 the third best So, CO., the
fourth best $1,000 and the fifth best 81, 600