Evening star., 1912-11-11

tails of the monument adds consider
able interest to the prospective unvei-
ing. There is no drawing or photograph
of the monument or Of any of the details
available to the public. t,r even to mem
brs OF the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy. Only members. of the executive
committee have been privileged to view
photographs taken by the sculptor.
The sculptor is responsible for this
mystery. Sir Ezekiel Moses. from his
studio in Rome, has reserved the right
to change any part of His design during
the progress of the work. and, choosing
that the monument shalt be judged as
completed work from his hands, has i'm
posed secrecy regarding all the details
until the finished monument is delivered
to the purchasers.
The description of the memorial, how.
ever, suggests an adequate testimonial
of the regard of the wosnen of the south
for those who died in the lost cause.
Surmounting a cylindrical base is to be
a heroic-size bronze figure of a woman.
symbolic of the south. Her right hand.
extended. holds a laurel wreath with
which she is croWning the dead in the
graves at her feet. The left hand rests
upon the stock of a piow. The base is
to be encircled with twelve or fourteen
allegorical figures, some Of them grouped
| to represent scenes typical Of conditions
existing in the south at wartime
War Scenes to Be Depicted.
Four of these figures will represent SOL
diers or sailors in the uniforms of the
four branches of the military service.
The parting of a soldier with his wife
and children on his way to the war; the
| separation of sweethearts; women nurs-
| ing wounded soldiers will form three OF
| the groups. Underneath, cut into the
| base. will be the legend. quoted from the
Co., ;,1tr, ho fIIr or hni r
! swords into plowshares and their spears
| into pruning hooks"
The monument is to be erected on a
mound in the center of the Confederate
section of the cemetery left vacant OF
graves for this purpose COL Hilary A.
Herbert, Secretary of the Navy in the
cabinet of President Grover Cleveland
who is chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the Arlington Confederate
| Monument Association will be master OF
ceremonies. He will lay the corner stone
| and will make an address. William Jen-
nings Bryan will be the orator of the
day.
| The War Department is lending every
aid possible to the project The monument
! is regarded in administrative circles as
crowning the peace and forsetfu.ness and
forgiveness of north and south
Monument to Cost $50, 200.
| The monument. set in place, will cost
$40, 900, the entire amount raised through
| the efforts of the United Daughters Oi
the Confederacy. All but $1,000. applied
to expenses of transportation and setting
I in place, goes to the sculptor. He has
| already received So OUO on account.
The work was placed in the hands OF
SIR Ezekiel Moses in November, 1910. with
| the stipulation that II be completed with
n three years II is already well under
way and there seems no reason 10 doubt
| that it Will be completed in time for the
| proposed unveiling in June of next year,
| five months earlier than promised.
The heroic figure which Is to represent
| the south has been completed In p.aster
| The committee regards it as beautiful
categorical figure. The full relief figures,
| to encircle the base, are now in course OF
creation.
The stone to be used in the monument
| is a volcanic production which the sculp-
tor regards as better suited for his pur-
pose than any other in the world.
| The monument. when completed, Is tC
be memorial to all the soldiers who died
for the cause of the south Two hundred
and sixty-four bodies are in the ground
at Arlington.
ALI States Represented.
| The marble headstones that now mark
! their resting places show, wherever
known, the states from which these SOL
diers came. These are Alabama, Florida
Georgia. Louisiana. Maryland, Mississip.
pi, Virginia, Tennessee, South and NORTH
ICarolina. In addition to these there are
thirty-odd dead whose identity is no,
known, and 1t may be taken for granted