The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-09
They Will Long Remember
BIZ J. T. Williams, Jr.

" DUNG America will get his first view of two of the
beautiful and instructive American muras painted
when American Boy Scouts by the thousands meet in the
Federal City the last day of the present month for their
long planned Jamboree.
These murals adorn the Exhibition Hall of the National
Archives Budng-the hall which Congress has provided to
be the home of the originals of the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
and of the earliest copies of that immortal vaedcoy
the Farewell Address of "The Father of His Country
The subject of the mural the Northwest wall the
Declaration of independence
It represents Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and his
mttee-Benjamn Franklin of Pennsylvania, John Adams Of
Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R.
Livingston Of New York-presentng the great Declaration
to John Hancock of Massachusetts, presiding officer of the
Continental Congress.
The subject of the mural the Northeast wall is the
Constitution of the United States.
It porrays James Madison of Virginia "The Father of
the Constitution" submitting the charter of American
liberty to George Washington and the Constitutional Con-
venton which began its sessions IN Independence Hall in
Philadelphia hundred and fifty years last month.
For the information of the Boy Scouts North East South
and West who will be packing their knapsacks for the
trek to the tented city, building along the banks of the
Potomac, the Archvist Of the United States, Dr. R. D. W.
Conner of North Carolina, has this to say:
The portraure these murals has been faithfully based
authentic pictures and bus The members the major
committee-such those of the Continental Congress for
Declaration of Independence and to draft Articles Of Confed
Grafton and those of the Constitutional Convention on Com
promise for the First Draft Of the Constitution and the
Final Draft-have been grouped together
First painted and then affixed the walls each
of these muras with the frame thirteen feet ten inches high
and thirty-four feet ten inches long
will be of pride to the veterans of the Great War;
and the descendants of the veterans of all the fought
make keep America Free to know that these are
the work of the Great War; Barry Faulkner
artist.
He born in Keene New Hampshire in 1881 and studied
with Abbot H. Thayer and the American Academy Rome
He received the medal for painting the Architectural League
of New York in 1914 In 1918 he served First Lieutenant
in the United States Engineers
Mr. Faulkner who member of the National Academy of
Design the Mural Painters and the National Institute of Arts
Letters commissioned to paint these mura in 1884
He given years in which to complete his work
this he did with diligence and distinction which the Commits
sion of Fine Arts the first to attest
Upon their arrival at the Archives Building the Fourth
of July the visiting Scouts from the four the
try of the world will be welcomed by guides The guides
will escort them through the Exhibition Hall and give them
keys the muras by which they identify the gnes
Great Declaration and the Trainers of the Great Charter
of American Liberty
It will be for each and every American Boy Scout Fourth
of July he will never forget