Evening star., 1919-04-06
FIFTY YEARS AGO In THE STAR

| Freedom with the Madge Wiidnre
headdress. surmounting the DOM.
cost $25.796-that is. CRAWFORD go
$4,000 for the model in plaster: Ciark
and the remaining $10,99S-S2 went Ior
la Dor. iron work and copper.
'Brumidi got s39,500 for painting
George Washington and the CahteI
bury girls in frisky fresco on .ne
canopy of the dome. For frescoins
committee rooms and other rooms at
$40 per day Hrumidi received $ls,
4S351, and for frescoing the oen1'
post office, s4.9S9. Leutze (pronouhSeo
Lightly received 100000 for ms PIC
ture of Emigration on the wall OF ne
western stairway of the House. Walk
er (American) got $6,131-37 for ms
picture, The Storming of ChapuItepeS,
on the corresponding stairway OF u
north wing. This is cheap, conss~SC
ing the amount Of paint used IN tns
picture. The bust of kosciusko. py p
D. Saunders (American) cost sovV.
The statue of Hancock, by Horafio
Stone (American) $4,000 statue OF
Hamilton. by Stone. Sloooo; ous. ..
81. 600. This bust is very fine, mach
handsomer than the subject put mas
the drawbacks of plaster OF
ear and a mosaic cranium. made up OIL
different pieces OF marpl s,o oao
Ransom (Amcrican) was paid SlV'VVV
for the portrait of J. r. Giddings'
s~The gorgeous bronze arms 10 inc
House gallery seats we all so much
admire cost
Bronze Doors and $3.50 anu .'o
bronze gle
Pediment Group. that spreads it
self so extensively over the clock was
achieved for the modest sum OF *l"o.
The bronze ratings for stairways OF
the Senate and House. however. put
M the sum of s22,49s.12 and the
| bronze Corinthian caps for columns
| and pilastres in the main hall stair
| way $3,621-
randolph Rogers tAmerican) got
| IS, 900 for the plaster model OF tne
| Columbus bronge door in the passage
way leading from the old 10 the new
| hall of Representatives. F. Won NH
| Ter of Munich received $4,000 FOR
asting the door in bronze, total Wa
| GOO. Thomas Crawford received $6,ooV
for the models Of the bronze door Tor
the main entrance to the north wing
md James T. Ames of the Massachu-
| setts Chicopee Works got $5O,495.1l
for casting it in bronze. nearly tnee
times what the casting of the Rogers
door cost at Munich. William H.
Rhinehart received $s.s40 for the
| plaster model for the bronze door de-
signed by Crawford for the main en-
trance to the south wing. For the
statues of Justice and History over
the principal doorway OF the north
wing Crawford got $4,000 ana Tor ens
models of these in the pediment OF
! the north wing he received 100000.
| Thomas Gagliardi Utalian) was paid
| IS. 500 for cutting in marble the wheat
sheaf, anchor. group OF instruction
and youths for this pediment. Gagn-
ardi and Casoni received $7,oo0 Tor
cutting the figure of America and the
| Indian family and c. Caspero $500 for
cutting the Indian grave. q. Butt.
another Italian. was paid the follow
| ing for cutting other figures on the
same pediment: Soldier. $1,000; COM
merce, s.. 200; woodman. $3.50; hunt
er, $4,000; Indian chief. $4,000. This
big Injun is the most expensive ng-
ure in the lot, it will be seen.
He is the end man OF the
| group, and is doubled up. with his
] face on his knees in a way that might
mean collie, or grief at the decay OF
his race, but which really serves to
accommodate his anatomy to the
sharp angle of the pediment. d.
lGiampaoli Utalian, you bet) was paid
81 900 for cutting the figure of me-
| chanic in this group. The marble for
the statuary on this pediment is from
| the quarries at Lee, Mass, the same
stone furnished for the building it
! self.
by the act of Congress Of 1855 $25,-
| 900 was appropriated to enable the
President to contract with Hiram
| Powers for some work of art to deco
! rate the Capitol. out of which 100000
| has been paid Powers for the statues
| of Jefferson and Franklin. The re-
port does not embrace Winnie Ream's
statue of Lincoln. for which $10.00o is
! 10 be paid when completed"