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THE GALLAUDET MEMORIAL.

he may have answered when tempted
by larger salaries. I cannot afford to
waste my time in making money.
Prof. Simon Newcomb, who endeared
himself to a large proportion of the in
tellectual people of Washington, as
well as to thousands of those with hum
bier minds, is quoted as having said OF
Prof Henry: He never engaged in an
investigation or an enterprise which
was to put dollar into his own pock-
ct. but aimed only al the general good
of the world" These sentiments will
light the readers way to an under
standing and appreciation of the
true character of the man whose bronze
effigy stands on granite pedestal on
the north side of the main drive lead
ing east and west through the Smith
sonian grounds and off the northwest
corner of the Gothic structure. The
name of the man is cut in the south
face of the granite pedestal and the
only other inscription on the monu-
ment is this in an fnconspicuous place:
wv. W. Story, Rome, 1881"
Joseph Henry was born in Albany, N
Y. His family was Scotch. which had
been AmericaniZed two generations be-
fore him, and the household in which he
grew up was stanchly Presbyterian. In
his early youth he was clerk in a gen.
eral store, was later apprenticed to a
matchmaker and silversmith, and was an
enthusiastic and. no doubt, talented par
ticipant in amateur eatricals. But he be-
came interested in science from the read
ing Oh a DOCK which tOuCneQ tfe genius
spring of his nature. 1t Is recorded Of
him that while prosecuting studies and
experiments in chemistry he was a pri-
waite tutor in the family of Gen. Stephen
Van Rensselaer,. and later was an engi-
neer on the survey of one of the early
New York railroads 1t was while hold
ing position as professor of mathematics
in the Albany Academy that, according to
his bfographer. ''he began the series of
brilliant experiments in electricity which
have linked his name with that of Frank
lin one of the two most original in
vestigators in that branch Of science that
this country ever produced"
~
The Rambler meant only to point out
the statue Of Prof. Henry and not to
write long biographical account of him,
but he cannot let these lines pass from
under his hand without noting that Prof.
Henry discovered the property Of the cleo
tro-magnet, which led. in 1880, to what
was called the intensity magnet" which
made the electric telegraph a possibility.
In 1881, in an article which he wrote for
the American Journal of Science, he sug-
gested the use of the magnet for the
transmission of intelligence and in the
year last mentioned installed the first
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back to comparative fitness. Eventu-
ally he returned to London. where his
drawings soon came to the notice of the
high commissioner of New Zealand.
The historic sketches, some seventy
in number, for the most part in water
color or in water color and pencil, defy
INSTALLATION in words. For the writer's
enlightenment the painter dealt with
one after the other of them, almost in
detail. exactly. he declared. as he had
done few days before with the king
and queen and their children as audi
ence. and as he proceeded, in his in
tense. graphic language, there came
home for the first time to at least one
mind what Gallipoli really meant. Here
at last we discover how they really
looked-Anzac cove, Suvla bay. Gaba
tepee. Plugges plateau, the posts of
Quinn, Pope and Courtenay. and, last of
all. the Sphinx, that rocky projection
from whose brow the Turks let down
by ropes "sniper." supplied with am
munition and food to last many days.,
whose deadly fire sent so many to their
graves before he himself was at last
accounted for. man of dauntless
courage he must have been, whose
comrades Aither forgot or deserted
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country both for ourselves and the
fleet.
The gunners on our warships were
hampered in assisting US by lombard
ment by the same lack of reliable maps
and the fact that they were practically
without targets. Even at best the re-
suits of their fire was practically nil,
owing to this enforced inaccuracy. You
can realize this when I tell you that
when we charged a position with the
bayonet even after hot and prolonged
bombardment we found the Turk shell
tered between great wooden beams
that had to be literally priced apart
while we all the time were exposed to
constant fire from below. No wonder
the corpses were piled about"
In his eight months on the peninsula
Moore-Jones got only one wound which
he esteems worth mentioning (this was
in the right hand and put an end to his
sketching for a while), and it was gen.
eral i'll health, the effects of prolonged
privation. undertaking and strain on
man no longer in the prime of life, that
resulted in his being. to his disgust, in
valided home in December last. He
finally wound up at military hospital
in Birmingham. where they nursed him
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deaf in America. 1917. Died at Hartford. Sep
TENDER 10. 1851.
On the north face of the pedestal are
the three words:
Friend. teacher benefactor.
Gallaudet is represented as seated in
a big armchair with little girl stand
ing beside him. to whom he is teaching
the sign language.
The establishment of the Gallaudet
school at Hartford figured in the de-
bates of Congress. and after some dis
cussion. and largely through the zeal
and effort of Henry Clay, Congress
made a grant of land to aid in its sup
port. The man to whom this beautiful
memorial stands graduated from Yale
in 1905. studied theology at Andover
and was licensed to preach. but be-
coming interested in the work of edu-
eating deaf mutes he abandoned the
ministry and went to Europe, there
studying the methods of the French
Able Sicard in Paris and of Thomas
Braidwood and his successor, Joseph
Watson. in England. In the work of
establishing the school at Hartford. the
first of its kind in America, Gallaudet
had the assistance of Laurent Clerc, an
assistant to Able Sicard at Paris.
Edward Miner Gallaudet, whom all
Washingtonians knew. was son of
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet He came
with his mother. Sophia Fowler Gal
laudet. to Washington in 1857. TO or
ganize the Columbia Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb. He came at the re-
quest of Amos Kendall of Washington.
the founder of that institution. He res
manned in Washington and became
president of that school. which was the
first to furnish a collegiate education
to deaf mutes. When the National Deaf
Mute College was founded in 1864. DR..
Gallaudet was also called to the princi-
pal office. and it was the National Deaf
Mute College which in 1893 was
changed in name to Gallaudet College
in honor of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
In thinking of the monuments in
Washington to men who did not carve
out a career with the sword. one calls
to mind the statues of Alexander Shep-
herd. in front of the District building:
John Witherspoon. one of the fifty-six
signers of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, which stands on Connecticut ave-
nue. at the intersection of y and 18th
streets; of Longfellow, in the reserva-
ton at the intersection of Connecticut
and Rhode Island avenues and 18th and
NJ streets, and Hahnemann, at the in
tersection of Rhode Island avenue and
Massachusetts avenue.
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q oEMORIALS in Washington to
lN\MI soldiers, sailors and states
UNII men far outnumber those that
w. stand to the memory of men
of science and of letters. yet the sculp-
tors have not altogether forgotten the
men whose genius urged them on to en-
deavor and achievement in quieter
channels than war and statescraft
Memorials to such men are quite con-
spicuous in the grounds of the Smith
sonian Institution, an appropriate sit
uation for these monuments.
Perhaps among these monuments
that which the largest number of per-
sons glance at or pause before is the
fine bronze statue of Prof. Joseph
Henry, who was of the eminent Ameri-
can physicists. the first secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution and who died
In Washington, May IS. 1875. mourned
by host of friends in this city, and by
men of science throughout the world.
Time flies and memories grow dim
and to a very large percentage of the
people who pause to look at the splen-
did features cast in bronze, that nne
statue means nothing more than an
image. Perhaps many of the onlookers
feel sense or reverence and compre-
bend that the statue was raised to some
great man, but they have very foggy
apprehension, if anw at all. as to who
Joseph Henry was, or of what he dld
in this world that men should raise to
him a statue. There was a Memorial
to Joseph Henry" published by order OF
Congress in 1850. and in this work
any one desiring to pursue the subject
at length may read the narrative OF the
achievements of this remarkable man.
Prof Henry came to Washington city
with his family in December. 1876. aft
or having been elected the first secre-
tary and director of the Smithsonian,
and his biographer says: The organ
ixation. equipment and development OF
this great scientific establishment.
thenceforth until his death. occupied
his principal attention" His biograph-
er also says: He was nominated 70
the chair of natural philosophy in the
University of Pennsylvania with a sal
ary twice as large as that which he
was receiving in Washington. and ef-
forts were made to induce him to re-
turn to Princeton as it's president in
1858 and also in 1867. but these offers
were steadily refused. Like Agassiz,
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Of these attracted the notice of one of
his officers. who was much impressed
with their value. He reported his dis
covery to his superiors and almost i'm
mediately Moore-Jones got orders to
present himself at general headquar-
ters, where he submitted his rough
drawings to Gen. Birdwood-"the soul
Of Anzac." That soldier at once as
signed him to the work of making
drawings of the enemy's positions, a
dangerous task. needless to say, as he
was nearly always a target for snipers.
LAS everybody knows now" the sap
per said. 1.-THE maps we had when we
landed were practically useless. and
it was not until we found one on the
body of a dead Turk that we were
able to construct anything like an ac-
curate one. Consequently every man
who was capable of doing SO was set
to surveying work and thus. and by
means Of sketching, we did the best
we could to improvise charts OF the
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MEMORIAL TO DAGUERRE.

OF all the landscape underneath
find no place that does not breathe
Some gracious memory of my friend.
IT'S held that sorrow makes wise.
Yet how much wisdom sleeps with thee
Which not alone had guided me-
But served the seasons that may rise.
And doubtless unto thee is given
life that bears immortal fruit
In such great Offices suit
The full grown energies of heaven.
And love will last as pure and whole
AS when he found me here in time
And at the spiritual prime
Reawakeu with the dawning soul.
There is another poem which occupies
the east face of the pedestal, but the
Rambler did not copy it.
OF the south side of the main east
and-west drive of the Smithsonian
grounds, between the old National Mu-
scum building and the Army Medical
Museum. and only a few yards from
the Daguerre memorial, is fine bronze
statue, and on it's pedestal, wreathed in
a scroll of leaves. is the name Samuel
D. Cross" The inscription reads:
American physicians have erected this statue
to commemorate the great deeds of man who
made such impress upon American surgery
that he has served to dignity American medicine.
After the inscription comes the date of
the erection of the monument. 1887"
In the grounds of Kendall Green
stands one of the effective pieces of
bronze of the National Capital. 1t is a
statue of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
and the inscription reads:
The deaf people of the United States. in CRATE
full remembrance Of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
mark the centennial of his birth with this
morial-1SS1.
On another face of the pedestal is this
inscription
Erected by contributions from every state. ter
ritory and district of the United States. Edwin
A. Hodgson. president of the association; Theo
dore A. Froehlich chairman of the executive
committee; Amos C. Draper, treasurer of the
fund.
An inscription on the east face of the
pedestal gives these facts about Thomas
Hopkins Gallaudet:
Born at Philadelphia. December 10. 1887.
Founded at Hartford the first school for the
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Special Correspondence OF ne stdr.
LONDON, June %, 1916.
a LII England is paying tribute to
M the genius of a soldier-artist
~ from New Zealand who consid-
q q cred that, by enlisting to nght
for king and country soon after the
outbreak of the war, he had made
mincemeat of schemes which he had
been laying for years with the one aim
of gaining a recognition for his art
here similar to that which it has al
ready received in his own land. Thus
topsy-turviIy has fame come to Sapper
Horace Moore-Jones. The Artist of
Gallipoli," as he has come to be called,
and uron whom honors now lie thick.
The apotheosis of Sapper Moore
Jones' known familiarly to his friends
as Spider" came the other day when
the king received the New Zealander
at Buckingham Palace and the artist
the queen and Prince Albert and Prin-
cess Mary the wonderful series of
sketches which he made under fire in
the Gallipoli peninsula.
Many of the sketches. which were
made at the request OF the general
headquarters staff at Anzac. were used
originally to illustrate the official dis
patches, and the whole series. repre-
sent:ng, as they do. the work OF one of
the most distinguished artists bred in
the antipodes, give a more definite idea
Of the difficulties OF the gigantic job
which the famous Anzacs and the i'm
perial forces just missed bringing on
successfully than any photographs of
~ ~ = q 4
from the pens of experienced corre-
spondents and that of the soldier poet.
Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton. have awaited in
doing.
Previous TO the command" appear
ance of the gallant artist at Bucking-
ham Palace. an exhibition of his his
toric sketches had been held at the
palatial new Offices of the New Zealand
government in the Strand. Art critics
were unanimous in recognizing the
genius of the soldier artist. and crowds
OF distinguished folk. including Sir Ian
Hamilton. the Gallipoli commander. in
dorsed the verdict OF the critics. Com
missions have flowed in upon Sapper
Moore Jones. second show OF whose
sketches is now being held at the home
of Hugh Riviere. the likewise distin-
guished son OF Briton Riviere. the IA
nous Royal Academician. and mean
while the artist is in treaty with the
New Zealand government. which is de-
sirous OF acquiring, as permanent col
lection. the whole of his original CALI
poll sketches.
Belgravia and Mayfair are vying in
feting the sapper, who undoubtedly
would be a made man were il not for
the unfortunate fact that his period of
convalescence from a complication of
dysentery and a few other disagree
able maladies being now about up. he
il fated to return to the other. and in
hnitely less profitable. "colors" some
time within the present month, when
he probably will be sent to the west
ern front
sapper Moore-Jones is within year
or two of hfty. but he did not tell them
that at the recruiting ONCE when he
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him when at last they retreated and
left him to be killed by shell fire,
though not until he had been 'potted"
at by the hour in vain.
In these sketches at last we realize
the country-"ravine after ravine." as
Moore-Jones described it. He tells you
what 1t meant to face those rocks. to
climb the sheer ascent. to drive the
Turks from the brow. thinking to find
a plateau. and then TO be faced by
descent equally sheer, and beyond that
another precipice. and beyond that an
other Row after row they stretched,
the natural defenses of the country. ap-
parently inaccessible in themselves. and
fortified by the Turks so that shot and
shell poured upon the invaders.
$50 we'll hidden were the Turks in
these ravines," said MooreJones. that
whereas we, on the heights. could be
raked by their fire, all that we could
see was an occasional mule as it
rounded a bend or perhaps the smoke
of a traction engine. AS for our own
positions. here and there We had small
bits of bright co1ored cloth attached to
the bushes at certain turns to warn
men that it was best to get around
those corners as quickly as possible,
failure to do so meaning death.
LAS for that. however. we lived with
death all around us. You can imagine
what 1t must be like to live, day after
day, facing plateaus that are covered
with ones dead comrades, whose faces
had grown black by the time we could
reach them. and the overpowering.
sickening stencil. And what it meant
to sit. eating ones bread and jam sur
rounded by millions of flies who had
been bred on dead bodies"
But the sapper's talk is not all as
grewsome as this. Showing a sketch
which depicts line of dug outs
f1anked by several large bales, he told
Noticing the sapper making his study"
the commanding officer of the section
burst out: Hello, Sketching my
bales are you? Glad to have sketch
of those bales. Big ones. aren't they?
Know what they contain? Why, man.
those are full of shirts, thousands of
'em, that kind ladies sent out to US.
'em together. They make fine rags and
waste
Moore-Jones told a story on himself.
too Not long after he landed in CALI
poll he sent a couple of pencil sketches
illustrating the landing at Anzac Cove
to the illustrated London News. which
published them forthwith. Months
land. friend of his. another New
Zealander. told him he had seen them
and recognized them as Moore-Jones'
How did you know they were mine 2"
asked the artist.
why, Moore-Jones" said this very
candid friend. you're a blanked fool.
and you always will be one. I knew
those sketches were yours because they
weren't signed"
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successfully that the spokes in the
wheels do not show motion.
1t has been written in the history of
photography that John William Dra-
per of New York was making daguerre-
otypes in 1910. and that the first
face photographed in America was that
Of Miss Dorothy Catharine Draper. the
photographers daughter. 1t Is report
an exposure of six minutes in the
brightest sunlight. Henry Fox Talbot
is called the father of modern photog-
raphy because 1t was he who intro
duced the Photographic negative from
which an unlimited number of prints
may be made by means of sensitized
paper, a paper that was called in the
days of Talbot .fodized paper"
The man Daguerre was called by his
parents Louis Jaques Mande and he
was born at Cormeilles, France, in
1883. His biographer says that he was
a scene painter in Paris and that as
early as 1914 his attention was directed
by Niepce to the subject of photogra phic
pictures on metal. In 1929 they made
formal agreement to work out the in
vention together, but it was not until
after the death of Niepce, July 5, 1888,
that Daguerre succeeded in perfecting
the process called, after him. "daguerre
otype."
lag cTIo ulcu III 1901, dLtei LaNiie
had many honors conferred upon him,
one Of these honors being an citizenship
in the Legion of Honor. France settled
an annuity of 5000 francs on him and
an annuity of 1000 francs on the son
Of Niepce. thus recognizing the part
which Niepce had played in the dis
covery of the Photographic process. A
biographer of Niepce says that the
process devised and applied by this
man appeared in 1924, fifteen years be-
fore the process of Daguerre came to
the knowledge of the public 1t would
probably be interesting, the next time
you pass through the Smithsonian
grounds. to stop and examine the fea-
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APPER MOOREONES onoed by English King and S-Ged
- Colonial Who Close Fifty Shaved His Mutae Had His Hair Cropped
Could AmyHow Sketches Commanding
Made Drawings Of Enemy Positions
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went to join. Though the writer was
privileged to spend several hours with
the gifted and plucky New Zealander
yesterday. not one word did he say re-
garding the circumstances. of his en-
listment. but a mutual acquaintance al
ready had told how he managed it.
When war was declared Moore-J Jones.
who stands bit more than six feet,
and. with his impassive, aquiline face.
well knit figure and iron gray hair.
makes a figure worthy of his own
brush. had been in London just under
two years. All that time he had been
working hard under masters like Frank
Brangwyn and Philip Lazlow. for. hav-
ing corraled all the artistic honors in
the power of Australia and his own
land 20 bestow. he had "chucked up
everything there and come to London,
determined to gain the recognition of
Europe as we'll. Behind him in Sydney
he left devoted wife and three chill
dren. And he had begun to make good
here Enthusiastically when Arma gedddon
suddenly burst out of an all but azure
sky.
Although participation in a war was
the last thing that his program called
for. Moore-Jones (who confesses to
what he calls the 'velvet-plush name"
of Horace) did not waste time in con-
sidering what the step of enlisting
might entail. Instead he shaved off his
mustache. had the closest hair crop
that his Chelsea barber could give him.
makeup" possible and went to the
recruiting office for New Zealanders
and calmly told them. In response to
their inquiries, that he was thirty-two.
through. and few days later he was
in uniform as a member Of probably
one of the most remarkable corps of
experts that even this world-war
has brought together. the New Zea-
land Engineering Corps.
1t was this force that accomplished
the engineering marvels Of Gallipoli,
building roads up precipices that ex-
perienced soldiers said only a fly could
negotiate. bridging chasms that looked
unbridgable. generally accomplishing
the seemingly impossible. Or. rather. 1t
was the nucleus of this force that
ing ESQ men, including expert en-
gineers from practically every part Of
the world-marine engineers, civil en-
gineers, even engineers from Germany
"a force which. 1t is declared. gained
more orders of merit than have been
awarded to any other In the British
army since the war began. and which
included the only New Zealand v. c.,
Corp. Bassett.
As it was originally intended that the
expeditionary force from New Zealand
itself would be sent to France, this one
of it's units went into training on Sails
bury plain. and Moore-Jones went with
it. Later. when the plans were changed
and the New Zealanders were ordered
to Egypt. the corps formed in London
went out to the Land of the Pharaohs
and Joined the main body; Then fol-
owed some months In which Sapper
Moore-Jones and his comrades con-
structed saps and similar earthworks
In the desert near to Cairo, and then
came the Galiipoli expeditton-"eight
months of hell" as the artist described
his own part in II, adding. however,
like every other "Anzac," that he
wouldn't have missed IL for anything in
the world.
Moore-Jones was In the historic land
ing that cost 10 dear In lives, and gave
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Moore-Jones comes from Auckland
and has sketched and painted ever
since he was a child. He married early
in life, his first wife (for he has been
married twice) having been a clever
young sculptress. a former student at
the Royal Academy. in London, and to
her help, he declares. he owes much.
Finding the art world Of New Zealand
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that at the recruiting ONCE when he
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,ecial Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, June %, 1915.
Ii England is paying tribute to
M the genius of a soldier-artist
f4\ from New Zealand who consid-
} 4 cred that, by enlisting to fight
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him when at last they retreated and
left him to be killed by shell fire.
though not until he had been 'potted"
at by the hour in vain.