The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-07
LITTLE STORIES OF NOTABLE PERSONS Interesting Work of Sculptor
 L. AmateiS CONFEDERATE GIRLS JOB Mrs. Van Daniel Boone of Pueblo Is Wife of Daniel Boone's Grand
 son and Has an Interest
 ing Family.
CONFEDERATE GIRLS JOB
BY FREDERICK J. HAskIN.

teis, of the sculptor, l.. Amateis who
 is executing the great bronze doors for
 the western front of the capitol at Wash
 ington, is a pupil in a Washington pub
 lie school. The text book on rhetoric used
 in the school contains an engraving of
 the statue At Fl Caney' which won
 the Buffalo exposition. The study of the
 statue, one soldier standing over the body
 of his dead brother, is told In the text
 The teacher asked the class What was
 the sculptor thinking about when he
 gave the expression he did to the face
 of the living soldier?" Young Amateis
 thought he had inside information, and i he spoke up: He was thinking about
 the money he would get for the work"
 The bronze doors at the eastern door
 of the capitol have been admired by
 visitors to Washington ever since they
 were sent over from Italy by the sculp-
 tor, Rogers, before the civil war Those
 doors represent scenes in the life of | Columbus, who was an Italian, and were executed in Italy by an American sculptor.
 The new doors represent the intellectual
 and physical development of the United l States, and are being done by an Ital- | ian in America. MT. Amateis has been | in this country since 1883, has an Ameri-
 can wife and now accounts himself l full-hedged American.
 | The doors which he has been working 1 on for more than a year combine alie- l gory, history and portraiture under the
 general title of the apostheoss of Amer ] ica The idea is that of Elliot Woods i superintendent of the capitol who de- | clared that the general conception ex- | pressed in the eastern door and the small | CT bronze doors of the Senate and House wings, should be rounded out. The Ana | teis doors are made up of a transom
 and eight panels. The transom Is ale
 gorieal and represents Columbia in a
 chariot drawn by two lions, which are
 guided by a child, emblematic of the su- | periority of intelligence over brute force | She Is giving a palm to the educator
 behind whom stand figures representing
 the intellectual powers. At the left are l figures representing the conquefers of tine l physical forces the iron worker, the aSri-
 culturist, the miner and the sailor. On
 the frame of the transom are status of
 Jefferson and Franklin and medallions of l Peabody, Mann, Hopkins and Emerson,
 men who gave impulse to the iptellectual
 development of the country. r
 On the panels are represented jurispru- |
 culture, iron and electricity engineering
 and naval architecture and commerce. The
 panel representing Jurisprudence shows in | bas-relief a sesison of the United States
 supreme court presided over by John Mar
 shal, at the time of the decision of the
 famous case of Marbury against Madi-
 son, when for the first time in any coun-
 try the judiciary became the supreme and 1 final expression of power. Around the | Of Wab
 ster and medallions of Tawney, Jay and | Rufus Choate The other panels are car
 ried out in similar good taste, neither
 art nor history suffering in the exact l ness of detail or in the conventions of
 sculpture.
 MT. Amateis has done much historical and patriotic work, including several sol
 diers' monuments. Because of his repu- 1 tation in this line of work he is enabled 1 to tell good story. A party of promi- l nent citizens from western state wel
 walking through national cemetery near | Washington. They noticed that many
 states had erected monuments to the l heroic dead and were pained to find no
 stone to the memory of the soldiers of
 their own state. At once they inaugu-
 rated a movement to build a monument l Funds were raised, the government gra- l ciously granted a most favorable site | in the cemetery, and Mir Amateis was
 asked to submit design for the memo
 rial. He did so, the model was accepted
 and approved and all was ready to be-
 gin work. On the model MT. Anna tets
 had left panels upon which to inscribe | the names of the heroes to be honored. | Then the senators and representatives
 composing the committee went to work
 to get the list of names. They found
 but one man from their state was buried
 in the cemetery and he had died of h.
 A .fs | the memory of two months work and a i hearty laugh, but there Is no monument | Miss Amelia Jackson a clerk In tho ! general patent office at Washington, is
 daughter of the proprietor of the Mar | shall house in Alexandria, Va. who shot
 and killed Colonel Ellsworth as the lat | ter was coming from the roof of the ho- l tel with Confederate flag, and who was himself killed instantly by Frank F. l Brownell, one of Ellsworths zouaves. The l daughter of the man who was the first southerner to give up his life for the | Confederacy admires General U. S. Grant
 above all other statesmen and soldiers
 And well she may.
 | Early in the seventies, when she was
 but very young girl, Miss Jackson ob- tained a position in one of the govern
 ment offices, the family fortunes having been ruined by the war One day she
 was discharged for some trivial reason. She walked away from the building cry 1 ing bitterly. A gentleman met her and
 asked her why she was crying? T have lost my place in the department" she replied, and then told the circumstances.
 Very well, my child the man said, don't cry any more and you may go back to work in the morning." But
 they have discharged me- wept the girl | "I know, but l am President of the United States and I will tell them to give you
 your place and let you keep it Sure enough her friend in need, found in such
 an accidental way was Gen. Ulysses S. l Grant, and he kept his word
 Miss Jackson and her sister, Mrs. C.
 J. Helen, live together in Washington. | For a time Mrs. Casey, sister of Mrs. IT. 1 S. Grant lived in the same house with | them. One day Mrs. Brownell, wife of 1 the man who killed Jackson at AleXan- | dria, came to call on Mrs. Casey. Mrs i Brownell, without knowing whose home | it was. asked if there were any other | apartments to let Mrs. Casey told her l that she thought not. When Mrs. Brown
 ell left Mrs. Helen told Mrs Casey that | she was surprised to hear her say there
 were no vacant apartments. Mrs. Casey
 was then compelled to tell her as diplo-
 matieally as she could that the caller was the wife of the man who had killed her father.
 Hon. w. J. McConnell twice governor | of Idaho and One of the first United | States senators from that state, gives l this account of the happy termination of | a hard luck story: Several years ago