Evening star., 1938-11-04
Gen. Wards Service
In founding Republic
Noted al dwelling
Woodring Accepts Statue
Of One-Time Commander
OF Continental Army

While the Army Band played
America" and a Cavalry troop from
Fort Myer stood at attention, Mrs.
Lewis Wesley Feick yesterday pulled
the red, white and blue cord which
dropped the veil from the bronze
statue of Gen. ArtemaS Ward, her
great-great-great grandfather and
Continental Army.
Today the $4,000 statue, gift of
Harvard University to the Nation,
looks southeastward along Massa-
chuSetts avenue from the center of
what now is known as Ward Circle,
on the edge of the American Uni
versity campus and at the inter-
section of Nebraska avenue. Secre-
tary of War Woodring accepted the
Statue on behalf of the United States
during the ceremonies yesterday.
Mrs. Feick, who lives in Summit,
N. j., and who was one of the first
Students at American University's
College of Liberal Arts, wore for the
occasion a red and black three
eornered hat which was almost a
model of the Revolutionary hat atop
the sculptured head of the New Eng
land general. The bronze is 10 feet
high and rests on pedestal of pink
marble. 1t is the work of Leonard
Crunelle of Chicago.
Will Provided Funds.
Henry Lee Shattuck, the senior
fellow of Harvard University, made
the speech of presentation. The in
spiration for the statue came from
the will of Artemas Ward, New York
merchant and great grandson of
the general, who left the residue of
his estate to Harvard to apply the
income Ito establish his (the gen.
erals) reputation, too long neglected.
as a devoted and faithful friend of
his country"
Mr. Shattuck reminded those pres
ent that Congress passed a special
resolution in 1928 providing for the
acceptance of the statue of the Off
Ger who led the American troops
against England before George
Washington was summoned to the
command. After Washington as
sumed the post of commander-in-
chief, Ward for a while was first
major general of the Army, until
he retired because of i'll health in
1777.
Secretary Woodring, acting at the
authority of the President, said of
Gen. Ward:
THE Army of the United States
holds in peculiar honor the man
under whose command the forces
of liberty were first rallied in Mas
sachusetts.
One of Republics Founders.
Soldier. judge and legislator, he
will ever be remembered as one of
the founders of the Republic, and
his noble effiigy here in the National
Capital will bear witness for all,
time to the respect and homage of a
grateful people. On their behalf I
express their thanks to the president
and fellows of Harvard College for
the expression they have given to
the behest of the generous. bene-
factor"
Frederic A. Delano, chairman Of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, was chair
man at the ceremonies, for which
a small grandstand was erected in
the circle. The orator of the occa-
sion was Charles Warren, a member
of the board of overseers of Harvard
and a descendant of Revolutionary
Warren who was one of Gen. Wards
most captious enemies. The Goth
century Warren, however, read a
panegyric on the general, who was
named after a Macedonian Greek
once in the Bible in an
epistle of ST. Paul.
Sculptor Sees Unveiling.
Sculptor Crunelle was present to
see his work unveiled. With him
and the speakers in the front of
the stand were Maj. Gilmore D.
Clarke, chairman of the Commission
of Fine Arts, which had to approve
the statue before it's erection, and
Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray of
University, which gave
part of the land for the circle on
which the monument stands.
Behind the speakers platform
were members of the Fine Arts Com
mission, the National Capital Parks
and Planning Commission and rep
resentatives of the Harvard Club of
Washington. headed by Robert Lin
coin O'Brien. Those in the stands
faced the mounted soldiers beyond
the monument, 100 men of Troop
F., Sd Cavalry, commanded by Capt.
Leslie D. Carter.
Gen. Ward was born November
e6. 1927, in Shrewsbury, Massachus-
etts Bay Province, to 1t. Nahum
Ward and his wife, Martha. He
was fighting Indians when he was
10, and when he was % he was a
major in the Sd Regiment of the
Massachusetts, Bay Militia. He
took part in the attack of Fort I'll
conderoga in the French and In
dian War in 1853.
Elevated to Commander.
On May 20, IT'S, Gen. Ward re-
ceived from the Massachusetts, Pro-
vincial Congress his commission as
Commander in Chief "of the forces
raised by this Congress for the de-
fense of this and other American
Colonies"
He died October %, 1900. The
statue in Ward Circle shows most
of these characteristics of him cat
alogued by Mr.. Warren:
"A man of medium height, erect,
portly. stern in demeanor, Puri-
tan by nature, slow of speech, in
flexible in conviction, temperate in
Judgment, frank and understanding
with those whom he represented.
fervent in devotion to the Ameri-
can cause-such was the man whom
this monument justly, though be-
latedly, commentaries"