Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-29
MONUMENT TO TYLER,
THE TENTH PRESIDENT
Statue to Be Erected in Richmond
Cemetery at Cost of
$4,000.

Secretary Garrison in a few days will
announce the result of the competition
among a number of we'll known Ameri-
can sculptors for the contract for the
erection of a monument over the grave
of John Tyler of Virginia, tenth Presi-
dent of the United States. in the Holly
wood cemetery. in Richmond. Va. He is
charged with that duty by an act of Con-
gress approved August "A, 1912, which
appropriated $1,000 for the memorial.
All the preliminary steps toward the eN-
ecution of the statute have been taken
by Col. W. W. Harris. superintendent of
public buildings and grounds. and Lieut.
Col E. f. Winslow, the engineer officer
in charge of the public works in the
Virginia district.
Twenty-siX designs for the monument
were submitted in competition by twelve
different firms and individuals. These
designs, in the form of models, drawings
or blue prints, have been on exhibition
in one of the upper corridors OF the
War Department for more than Week
They have been inspected and studied by
members of the national commission of
fine arts whose conclusions as to the
respective merits OF each have been re
ported to the Secretary of War. That
| official will be guided by their views III
deciding the competition. 1t Is provided
that the winner of the competition shall
have the contract for the construction
of the monument in accordance with the
approved design, and that an honorarium
of 500 shall be given to the person or
firm submitting the design adjudged sec
ond best.
Sculptors Who Submitted Designs.
Designs were submitted by L. S. j.
Dunbar of this city Uwo>. Edward l..
Perkins G. Co. of Richmond, Va: Pompeo
| Coppni of San Antonio. Tex; Mcdonnell
& Sons of Buffalo, n Y. (six), the Henry
| Bonard Bronze Company of New YORK,
| the Leland Company, south of New York
| (three,. the Harrison Granite Company of
| New York two, T. F. McGann & Sons of
Boston, Charles G. Blake eco. of Chi
cago two, r. Irving Dodge of New York,
the Van Amringe Company of Boston
| (three, and the Mcneil Marble Company
| of Marietta, Ga. two.
Richard E. Brooks and L. S. ]. Dunbar
| of this city each prepared one OF the de-
signs submitted by Mcdonnell 4 sons,
I Pompeo Coppini made the design submit
| ted by E. L. Perkins. as well as that SUD
| mitted in his own name. Among tne
| sculptors who made designs for the other
| bidders are John Boyle of New York, j.
Otto Schweizer of Philadelphia, George
T Brewster of New York, Mrs. Sally j.
| Farnham of New York, Max Bachmann
| of New York, +. W. Sievers of Rfch-
| mond and Raymond Averfll. Gilbert Rls-
void and Harriet w. Frismuth Of New
York.
Sculptor Dunbar's principal design calls
| for a fiuted granite monolithic shaft
twenty-six feet high, surmounted with an
| ornamental bronze cap and having a
| bronze portrait bust of President Tyler
on a special pedestal in front of the shaft.
! The design of Sculptor Brooks calls
| for a massive granite doric column,
thirty-six feet nine inches high, with
| the front of the base and bronze in
| scription panels on other faces of the
| base All the other designs are of the
| same general character, with the eX-
ception of one calling for a low sar-
| cophagus, another having a bust on a
| pedestal with a granite background, an
| other showing bronze bust on large
block of granite. and a fourth showing
| a bronze statue on a granite pedestal
Protection to the Graves.
| quired to give full and complete pro-
lection to the graves of President Tyler
| and his wife, which are in the same
| lot in the Richmond cemetery. These
graves are built of brick, laid in NOR
| tar, arched over and filled in with brick
| nearly to the surface of the ground
| 1t is planned to remove the brick work
aDov, the incloSing walls of the graves
without cndangering the walls and to
cover them with heavy flag stones. The
| concrete foundation for the monument
Will he built around the graves in such
a manner that no additional weight
| shall be placed on the graves or the old