Evening star., 1941-09-21
Capital SideIights
BIZ Win p. Kennedy.

The largest painting in the Capitol
The Signing of the Constitution py
Howard Chandler Christy-which was
exhibited temporarily in the rotunda
of the Capitol, now has been perma-
nently placed over the marble stairway
at the south end of the Capitol. where
it is being admired BY members OF Con-
greSs and tourists. Each figure Is
portrait, and the artist spent several
years in research to make it historically
correct. The work was painted in a sail
loft at the Washington Navy Yard. 1t
will replace The First Reading Of the
Emancipation Proclamation President
Lincoln and His Cabinet, by Francis B.
Carpenter, which is now being restored
and is to be hung in the original Senate
chamber, used for many years by the
Supreme Court. The Carpenter picture
was painted in the White House and
during its progress Mr.. Lincoln fire.
quently inspected it. After completion,
it was taken on tour to many OF the
principal cities. 1t was given to the
Government by Mrs. Elizabeth Thomp-
son in 1878. with James A. Garfield and
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, one
time Vice President of the ConfeGeracy,
making the acceptance speeches. Now
it is being touched up by Ruel P Tol-
man, director of the National Collection
of Fine Arts. native of Brookfield, Va,
who is a noted artist. specializing in
miniatures, etchings, Autographs and
meZZotints.
Thursday was Constitution Day, the
154th anniversary Of the signing of the
fundamental charter of our Government,
William Tyler Page. former clerk of the
House. recalls that % years ago, on Sep
tember IT, 1919 the A. E. F. returned
and marched down Pennsylvania avenue
to be reviewed BY the President, While
the bands were playing, he presided at
a ceremony in the House at which two
overseas veterans hung new silk flag
over the Speakers rostrum. Still there
today, it was the gift of the National
Society," Daughters of the American Rev.
olution Congress passed a resolution,
which Mr.. Page drafted, reviewing the
history of the old flag and directing
that it be presented to the D. A. r. The
following day Gen. John j. Pershing,
commander in chief of the overseas
forces, received the thanks of Congress.
David Lynn, architect of the Capitol
has Just rounded out four decades of
service in that building. His great-great-
grandfather, Judge David Lynn of Fred
erick. Md, was one of the commissioners
appointed by the State of Maryland to
lay out Georgetown. His great-grand-
father, Capt. David Lynn. after serving
in the 4th Maryland Regiment in the
Revolution, built an ancestral home,
Rose Hill, in Cumberland, in 1901, on
which estate the present David Lynn
grew up.
The Capitol architect proudly displays
portrait of his grandfather by Rem
brandt Peale, and photograph of the
house his grandfather built with himself,
as boy, in the foreground
Horace c. Carlisle, a senior meSSen-
ger at the Capitol, is the unofficial poet
laureate of Congress. He is from Troy,
Ala, and has been employed on the
Hill for 18 years. A former school
teacher and cotton farmer, he studied
at three State universities-in Alabama,
Tennessee and Virginia. Fifty-eight of
his poems have been printed in the
Congressional Record. Last Wednesdays
Record carried three of them. He spe-
cializes on memorial acrostics when a
prominent member or other person Of
prominence dies-such as Senator Will
liam E. Borah, Speaker Bankhead, Chair
man Taylor of the Appropriations Com
mittee and Mrs Sarah Delano Roosevelt.
He is working now on poetic history
Of the Roosevelt administration, of which
208 pages are completed. He has versi-
fed eleven of the Presidents speeches
and seven of them have been inserted in
the Congressional Record.
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Chairman Cochran of the House Com
mittee on Accounts. and former chair.
man Of the Committee on Expenditures
by administrative agencies, calls as*en-