Show go cla do do oo 00 Cl 0 do be do go 0 capital city has worthily honored the nations great it la Is tho iho great number numb or of federal datues and structures which strike the visitor fie ns making washington differ nt mt from any other city many of these theae ronze statues are arc of tho the heroic figures f tho the civil war union generate generals an and admirals many of them equestrian datues on comparatively small gran to bases somo some of tile the older of those these lave been criticized by artists as rather commonplace place undoubtedly the arts lc ic taste of the people has adv advanced aneed luring the lost last generation resulting bout twelve years ago in the creation y congress or of a fine arts commission barged with tile the duty of passing upon ill it statues structures and public works of art and their or erection edlon this ms ins brought about a marked improve nent ent in both tho the selection of design nd ind subjects and their appropriate placement la cement with reference to the future of washington glon which it a the hope of every one will eventual y become the most beautiful city in ho world tho the improvement Is seen la in the he removal las last year i froin Dupont dr cir clo to of a standing br bronze onze statue of adi ad i maral fral dupont of civil war fame and the be erection in its place of an exquisite memorial fountain with a bronze has baa relief atef of tho the admiral early in april a memorial was wag dedicated to general eade commander of tho army amy of the otamae and the tha hero of gettysburg the ile turning point in the civil war the kroup group of which tho the great warrior in ull full military uniform to la the central fig uro ure includes also figures representing military courage energy fame loyalty chivalry and progress the mende meade memorial Is tho the gift of tho the rf of pennsylvania general grant statue another great memorial la Is tile the heroic statue of grant which was dedicated with ith military and civic honors and a reat eat procession of soldiers and members embers of organizations in marching arching in line ne this memorial had bad been building lace 1002 at aad a oat cost of mor eithan and it ra ranka aks via as one of the greatest of f war memorials of the world the rim brim figure of the union commander n calef sits alts his horse in characteristic attitude on a lofty pedestal 40 feet in height flanked by lions and further to he right and left by two heroic groups of f subordinate statuary tho the fighting of the gr great eat army the cavalry nd ind the artillery the height of tho the ronze borde 0 o and tho the of grunt grant Is s 17 feet and its weight la Is pounds with one exception it Is tho the largest argest equestrian statue in the world yet et so perfect are the proportions of the e entire group that it appears entirely y natural one can study for hours houra the he grim grandeur grand our of the grant statue and nd tile the spirit of war as portrayed in the he plunging horses of the cavalry roup and the tremendous action depleted d 0 in tho the artillery charge and mar acl el at tile the achievement sculptors Sculptor Js great work the grant ine memorial mortal has been the lifework of the sculptor henry merwin shrady his father dr geor george g e F Sto rady had been the attending physician upon general grant during his last illness and out of this personal acquaintance young shrady had listened to vivid accounts of the tt t e achievements of the great general for some time the form which tits ills design should take greatly perplexed shrady and well it might for here was to be erected a great memorial by the congress of tile the united states to vai coat a quarter of a million dollars and in the capital rif df the united soto ftp p commemorate the victor of many battles la in the conflict for forthe the preservation ot orthe the union and who had won the battle that ended the war but inspired by tho the thought shrady conceived tile tho idea of a monumental marble platform nearly feet in length with ulysses 8 S grant on hor horseback at a height of some forty foot feet i in an tho the center two great bronze lions on either side guarding tho the flag flage and a group of cavalrymen in action on the right and a dashing artillery group on the loft with this flits conception ho he went to work nearly twelve years yeara ago shrady died after a physical breakdown from the many years of effort in completing the great memorial it was his tife timework work |