Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-04
MONUMENTS EVERYWHERE.
Washington Has Many to Honor
 Naval and Military Heroes.

Washington, D. C., March A. Washington, the capital of the na- tion, has become a city of monu- ments. Scattered throughout the city are statues of military and naval heroes. some good. some indifferent. some positively bad. from an artistic standpoint It remains yet to erect a monument to a man great in Amer ican literature. That gap shortly will be filled by the erection of memo- rial statue to the eminent poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
 After careful consideration. the Longfellow statue commission, or which Secretary of War Taft is chair man, has selected site for the statue. It will be erected in the tri- angular space at the intersection ot Eighteenth and NJ streets and Con- necticut avenue, in the heart of the fashionable residential part of the city, about midway between the White House and Dupont Circle. where the statue of that naval hero is located. The Longfellow memorial will be located within stones throw of important embassies and legations and in sight of the residences ot many notable people.
 The personnel of the commission includes not only Secretary Taft, but also Chief Justice Fuller Of the United States supreme court. and Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island and Representative James T. Me- Cleary of Minnesota, respectively the chairmen of the committees on H. brary of the senate and the house ot representatives. Congress, through the influence of the commission and others, has authorized the erection of the Longfellow statue and has made available $4,000 for the pedestal. Funds for the memorial will be raised by popular subscription throughout the country, under the direction or the commission. Already committees have been formed in various parts or the country to assist the commission in raising the necessary amount. Massachusetts, naturally, has taken I the foremost steps in this work. be- cause Longfellow was an honored son of that state.
 Thus far no sculptor has been en- gagged to design the memorial. it | is desired by the commission to have the work done by one of the foremost | American sculptors and 1t is now in
 correspondence with several. one ot
 whom doubtless will be selected. t is intended that the statue shall De not only faithful to its distinguished
 subject, but artistic to the highest possible degree.
 Several statues of famous Ameri- cans are to be erected in Washing ! ton in the near future. That to Gen. ! eral Mcclellan. which is to stand on | Connecticut avenue near Twenty-first street. probably will be unveiled this spring. 1t was designed and exc cuted by MacMonnies in Paris and si- ready has been shipped to America. f The Grant memorial. which Is being done by the American sculptor.
 Shrady. will not be ready for some
 time. No site for 1t yet has been
 chosen, but it is not unlikely 1t may
 he located on the White lot. south of the White House. On Lafayette square, directly in front of the White House. statues of yon Steuben and
 Kosciusko will be located and the
 equestrian statue of General Count
 Casimir Pulaski is to be erected op
 Penusylvania avenue. in front of the
 National theater. A memorial to
 Commodore John Barry is to be erect
 ed. but no site has been selected.
 Irish societies throughout the coun-
 try now are engaged in raising funds
 for the statue of the Irish-Americsn
 who was among the first of eminent American naval commanders.