Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-17
VIRGINIA UNVEILS
BUST OF WILSON
Widow to 0fficiate at Cera-
monies Attended by War
Time Cabinet Members.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch 10 Inc SLar.
RICHMOND, Va, November IT.
With Mrs. Wilson drawing the cord
which will disclose the marble image
of Woodrow Wilson and seven of the
members of his cabinet witnessing the
ceremonies. bust of the last of the
line of Virginia-bor Presidents will be
unveiled this afternoon in the new hall
of the House of Delegates.
The exercises in memory of the
seven other VirginianS who were the
Nations Chief Executive were held in
the historic hall of the House of Dele
gates, but the new hall was chosen
for the ceremonies for the war Presi-
dent because he addressed the General
Assembly of Virginia there in 1912
John Barton Payne, former Secretary
of the Interior in Wilson's cabinet, will
deliver the address and other cabinet
members will pay one-minute tributes
to Wilson'S memory. Gov John Gar
land Pollard will preside at the cere-
monies and will introduce the speaker
and distinguished guests. Rev. George
c. Bellingrath of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church of Richmond will
pronounce the invocation.
FORMER CaDInct members 10 Attenu.
The former cabinet members who will
witness the ceremonies, besides Judge
Payne, are Senator Carter Glass of
Lynchburg, former Secretary Of the
Treasury; Josephus Daniels of Raleigh,
former Secretary of the Navy; A.
Mitchell Palmer of Washington, former
Attorney General; William c. Redfield
of Brooklyn, former Secretary of Com
merce; William B. Wilson of Bloss-
burg, Pa, former Secretary of Labor,
and j. G. Nc. Reynolds of Wash
ington, former Attorney General.
It is a source of keen disappoint-
ment to State officials that Newton D.
Baker, Wilson'S Secretary of War, and
other members of the War Presidents
cabinet, were not able to attend. The
presence of the seven members here
today is the nearest approach to a re-
union of President Wilson's advisers
that ever has been held.
The Wilson bust was executed by
Miss Harriet Frishmuth, New York
sculptor. and is the gift to the State
from Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pennington of
Washington.
Bust to Occupy Niche.
Following the exercises, the bust will
be placed in a niche in the rotunda of
the Capitol, in the center of which
stands Houdon's famous statue of
George Washington, while in other re-
cessed spaces are busts of Thomas JEFF
ferson, James Madison, James Monroe,
William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
and Zachary Taylor, constituting what
is now called "Virginia's Gallery of the
Presidents"
Motion picture news reels are to be
taken on the portico of the Capitol and
the exercises are to be broadcast over
National Broadcasting Co. network.
Functions in connection with the
event include a luncheon to the cabi-
net members at hotel here and re-
ception in the Capitol rotunda follow
ing the exercises. Mrs. Wilson will be
entertained at lunch by Gov. and Mrs.
Pollard at the Executive Mansion. She
has been the guest OF friends in Rich
mond for several days.
The exercises today, the final event
of the series, will eclipse In interest
any that have preceded 1t. The over
flow will be admitted to the Senate
chamber in which a loud speaker has
been installed, but it is not expected
this will prove adequate fer the throng
which is expected to be the largest
gathering at the Capitol in several
years.
Col. John w. williams, clerk of the
House of Delegates, who is in charge
of arrangements, has been besieged
with requests for cards of admission,
which will be required for the lower
floor Of the hall, although the gallery
will be open to the public. Cards for
all of the available space have been is
sued, and Col. williams for the last "a
hours has been occupied with explain
ing his inability to accommodate more
in the limited space.