Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-07-19

engineer arcn1rocC, ARTIST, interior
and. exterior decorator, landscape gardener tree
doctor, florist game keeper, fashion dictator, d-
rector of outdoor sports and censor of beauty,
morals and safety.
He co-operates In selecting sites for monuments,
makes plans for their dedication and memorial
and keeps them cleaned and decorated. He causes
public squares to bloom, fountains and bands to
play, and sandpiles to grow for the kddies. He
arranges patriotic parades and celebrations, IS
sues permits and invitations, makes traffic regula
tons, erects pavilions receives boy scouts,
views high school cadets and serves on the floor
committees of charity balls.
WE'LL last spring some of Colonel Sherrills
perts i'll metallurgy discovered that the bronze
used in Mills statue Of Washington in Washing
ton circle, Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty-sec
ond street, being badly corroded by the ele
ments; that the equestrian statue must come down
and have the moth holes plugged up, the horse be-
ing positively mangey.
So derricks and tackle were employed in an at
tempt to get the general off his perch. George
Wash ington was extrene "sot' in his ways. The
statue refused to bulge. So for days high-power
flares and torches, mallet and chisels, blazed and
hacked away without result But at last the first
president and his steed were slowly swung from
their granite base and ANONYMOUSLY rolled through
the streets On a motor truck to a gondola freight
car, bound for a repair shop in Brooklyn
OF course all this watched by curious
crowds And no sooner had the statue been
moved than this word went all over Washington
and the United States:
ANDREW Jacksons statue is to be removed from
Lafayette square and replaced by that of George
Washington in Washington cirele!"
A roar Of nationwide protest followed from
Democrats.
"Swap statuesi Remove Andrew Jackson from
his seventy-year-old place of honor in Lafayette
square overlooking the White House and replace
him with George Washington! Never, sir! Never!
It's an outrage. nothing but the rankest sort Of
partisan politics."
The storm broke when a story was printed that,
in accordance with expressed wish of the Pres
ident, the office of public buildings and grounds,
WIS seriously considering the change.
zone gloriously bright morning late last
mer" ran the story of how the proposed idea
born, "the President and two very high officials
of the government were standing looking out of
north window in the east room. During pause
in the conversation the President is reported to
have said, There is the finest view in Washing
ton
"The fact that the statue of Jackson has for
many years been the brunt of criticism and abuse
by visitors, and even some of the old-time resi-
dents principally because of its hobby-horse eff
feet was called to his attention." continued this
recital "He was asked If he did not think the
view he admired so greatly could not be improved
by the removal of the Jackson statue and the
erection In the center of the park Of pleas
ing work Of art.
"When the suggestion made to replace the
Jackson statue with the greatly admired Washing
ton statue which is so little known by the resi-
dents of the city and is seen by only few Of the
visitors because of it's rather remote location, the
President is said to have agreed most enthusias-
tically He was familiar with the Washington
statue More than once he had paused to view It.
1.-THE office of public buildings and grounds was