Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
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Daughters of Confederacy Are
Urged to Raise Funds.
HONOR MEMORY OF DEAD
Col. II. A. Herbert Tells of Plans
to Erect Monument at
Arlington.

The work of the United Daughters Of
the Confederacy for Confederate monu-
ment In Arlington is described at length
In letter from Col. Hilary A. Herbert,
chairman Of the executive committee of
the Arlington Confederate Monument As
! ISOLATION. to Mrs. Thomas W. Keitr,
q. d. c. director for South Carolina,
| made public last night. Col. Herbert
| urges the Daughters in all parts Of the
south to aid in raising the amount still
needed to make the $4,000 payment for
the monument. He says in part:
The bodies of now more than 26O
Confederate soldiers are resting in a.
beautiful plot Of ground, the Confederate
section OF the national cemetery at Ar
l1nSton. in sight Of the city Of Washing
ton. These remains represent every state
Of the Confederacy. All the expenses
Of collecting and reinterring the bodies
were paid by the federal government
When the ground for this section was
plated mound was left in the center
suitable Tor a monument, and permission
has been granted to erect it. Indeed
that was the expectation Of Congress
Order Seven Years Old.
A'oiAS oSNCA dSo Tic INe CLAP
tiers of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy, Camp III. U. C. ", and the
two camps of Sons of Veterans here,
came together and formed an associ-
alton for the purpose of erecting the
monument An executive committee
was appointed to carry on the .ork.
the personnel of which is substantially
today the same when it was first
formed. Altogether, the membership of
the Confederate organizations which
formed this association numbered, then
as now. only some 600 or 700. When we
had collected some $4,000 the i'm
portance and magnitude of the enter
price grew upon us; We began to see
that no other monument to our Con-
in significance to that which we had
undertaken. 1t was to be at Airing
ton. the home of Lee, close to the
capital of our country; visitors from
world will see it. 1t is to be mon
ument not to the dead of any par
ticular county or state, but to the heroes
of all the Confederacy-a memorial
will live forever in the brightest pages
of the worlds history. Clearly. the few
hundreds of us in Washington city
were not equal to the work we had
undertaken. We therefore appealed to
the Daughters of the Confederacy. the
only body that was equal to the task
They took it upon themselves, in their
convention at Norfolk. three years ago,
and at once formed their own Arlington
Confederate Monument Association:
a director from each state. You have
so far zealously represented South
Carolina. Under the Daughters, the
executive committee at Washington was
formed, and under them that commit
tee has continued to work.
Treasurer in This City.
'AIr. Wallace Streater, 3160 18th
street, Washington, D. c., is the treas
urer, acting on an approved bond of
SIS, 900. Altogether. we have collected
and deposited in the American Security
and Trust Company here more than $685.
600. of which $4,000 have been paid to
Sir Moses Ezekiel, the sculptor at Rome,
Italy. who now has the monument nearly
or quite half completed. under contract
made with him in November. 1910, by the
executive committee, by direction OF the
committee on design, which had been
formed for that purpose by the Daugh-
tiers.
LAS a boy Sir Moses Ezekiel was gal
liant Confederate soldier, who was twice
wounded, and won great distinction In the
battle of New Market. as one OF the
Institute. After graduating there he
achieved great honor as a sculptor. AS
such he has been twice knighted (by the
Emperor of Germany and by the Duke
of Saxe-Meiningen). In November, 1910,
he was in this country attending the ded-
ication of his statue Of Stonewal Jack
son. then being erected in West Vir-
ginia. Called before the committee on
design, he outlined to them his idea OF
fitting monument His suggestions were
heartily Endorsed, and a contract was
made with him for the erection Of the
memorial, to be completed within three
years from that date-by November, 1913.
Woman Is Central Figure.
st may say that the chief piece in the
design is the heroic figure OF a woman
to represent the south; and that figure,
which now seems to be completed and
a photo Of which is before me, bodies
forth, to my mind. all the high pur-
pose, the devotion. tenderness. firmness
and beauty of the typical southern
woman. In her right hand this figure
holds laurel wreath or crown. Her
left hand rests upon a plow stock.
Around the top of the circular base on
which this figure stands are the seals
Of the Confederacy and of the several
states, each an elaborate work Of art.
Beneath these and standing out In full
and perfect relief. are some fifteen fig
ures, men, women, children and SOL
diers, all categorical and typical, every
one designed to be in itself a perfect
work of art. AT present these are
two-thirds, and will be enlarged to full
life size: l have just received photos
Of these figures, and do not hesitate
to express my belief that we are to
have. next to the Washington Monu-
ment. the most artistic and striking
memorial that can be found in or near
this Capital city.
ut will be seen from the above state
ment that the Daughters are pledged
and in honor bound to raise the re-
mainder Of the money necessary for
the completion and installation of this
monument, some $4,000. within the
next two years. 1t will require some
thing even more than this If We in
clude the expense Of laying the corner
stone when the convention of the
Daughters is held here next Novem-
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