Show literary Statues N X nd Memorials 44 s I t Y J re tee v w 2 a vI I re res reM 4 s 1 M w was l as s r M ELMO SCOTT WATSON r C ALL started when Lewis Gannett literary critic or of the hew l lorI lork Herald Tribune In reviewing a re recent recent cent book The Private Life ot of Sherlock Holmes said hen W hen I ond t gets around to honoring I Cl nl nl al Mo 10 tl tI I a home lionte to town n or of Finn and lug Ius statue w II 11 lose loe Its proud lm to being the only statue lr eter I to a fiction In the world Carolyn arolyn Marx arx literary critic ot of the i orld orid Telegram reprinted fir Ir Can an Canent ent and ad added How about Tramp an statue In Kensington Gardens ue ot of Le Lewis Is Carroll s s1 hitI 1 hite Rabbit last month In Vales as only a starter for as Mr Ir Gan Gand Gand d In his column a day dllY or two later lateral lateral al Mo Io boast a flood ot of corre ray ny Its claim to the only statue ot of n a raster lost Yost ot of tl em recall only In London Loudon s Gardens I e department ot of romance says there Is n a statue ot of D Artagnan ance Carol Carolyn n Marx In the orld tl I a W S bite hitI nab Rab unveiled In Wales and cr s he recalls a Little hell ell In Sir Walter Scott s Rob Roy som some some- But ut they don t count It If they e homes thy they must be public Hannibal s Huck Finn and Tom Are there more more lore o eral Tribune re re lewer printed this Ions to tI e a lists ot of literary statues Anderson s I ittle Mermaid yal Yacht club In Copenhagen Virginia In the Jardin des Plantes s t Evangeline lu la Grand Pro Nova In les I es Saintes Merles Maries In In the Tuileries Paris ng Camp group on the Bret ret Harte Harten n Breton reton from Cha ChaLes ChaLes Les Martyrs near 1 Gate ot of the Luxembourg Gardens th and Rima In London 3 Rabbit In inS S ales and Tam o 0 In Philadelphia eking In Cooperstown It Rider In Salem Ore oot Boy Doy In Ashburnham than a dozen to Hannibal and Tom the the only monument In Ini i a fictional character that list might be extended Over Ofer In InIn inIn In four years ago there was unveiled de I near the royal palace a arial rial consisting ot of two 1 monuments I e monuments standing GO CO feet high Ize ze bronze group or of Don Quixote on his man IDan Sancho Panza on a donkey I e main column was the tJ figure Ure ot of Cerman Cerman man who gave t to literature the ter ot of windmills an and at the base ot of nt at was an allegorical representation ot of the Tongue Although al 11 was as primarily to honor the genius s at the same time It preserves y r those two famous fictitious charac and Sancho Panza urn to America America-a little Investigation the fact that the list ot of statues and to fictitious characters Is not limned Dilation of the tho New York columnist that the genius ot of Daniel the dean ot of American sculptors reduced among others ot of his great orL ork a bust ot of Washington IrvIng but Ie n a full figure statue ot of the famous which Irving created Rip Van lip pc Hebert a 8 statue ot of Evangeline re is II not the out one which recalls s Immortal heroine Hebert s I statue 1 moro more than a decade ago but It was three years ago ngo that there thero was un t t La another statue ot of off f Grand Pre This was al done In the several thousand Louisiana Acadian o hundred from Moncton od ad Grand Pre who made a iu u state for the ceremonies connect connected ell ot of the statue which stands rue rave ot of Lat Lat-Iche who was wasI I 1 ot of Evangeline o Denver Colo and visit Washington e In the center ot of a pool Is n a fountain can see immortalised to In stone tulene and od l Or go to tork rk In Chicago and look upon them as t J a w S 4 r tY f c 5 t 2 J 1 The Tho Lewis Carroll memorial at Llandudno Wales which futures features the White Rabbit of Alice ce In Wonderland BeSide It stands stand David Lloyd George former British premier who un unveiled unveiled veiled the statue 2 Statue of Evangeline which stands In St La over the grave of Emmeline Labiche the original of Longfellow s I heroine 3 The Captains Captain's Well In Amesbury Mass made famous by the ballad by John Greenleaf Whittier 4 Memorial to Eve erected In Fountain Inn S C by Robert Quillen noted newspaper para grapher and editor who stands beside It 5 Statue of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Saw Sawyer Sawyer yer which stands In Hannibal Mo Mark Twain boyhood home town i presented to the city ot of Hannibal by 1 Mr Ir and Mrs George A Mahan It stands at the toot foot of Cardiff hill hili where foregathered Tom and Huck and Tom s Immortal gang Closely akin aUn to the practice ot of immortalizing In stone characters In fiction has been man mans s practice ot of doing the same samo for mythical and legendary figures Some ot of the greatest sculptors sculptors tors ot of ancient Greece and Rome nome found their Inspiration In the gods and goddesses whom hom the Greeks Grees and Romans honored Similarly In mod modern modern ern da s names In the Bible mt-le have been trans translated translated Into stone 1 Two 10 0 ot of the finest pieces ot of or work by the great sculptor RodIn are his figures ot of Adam and r e and In AmerIca we have such statues ns as R Henry nIne fine bart harts 8 Rebecca with her pitcher at the w ell Down to In Fountain Inn S C Is an unusual not memorIal a statue but a simple white shaft erected to the memory ot of Lie L because Robert nobert Quillen editor ot of the Fountain Inn Tribune and anda a 11 famous thought that Insufficient honor has been paid to the mother ot of the human race Do you remember that ballad by John Green Greenleaf Greenleaf leaf Whittier which tells ot of the shipwrecked New England sailor who was cast away on the rut fast Arabian coast conot and as he tolled toiled across the hot desert sands hungry and thirsty cursed the day ot of his birth and then suddenly overcome by n a finer emotion prayed as he never before beCore had prayed 7 Pity me God Godl I For I 1 die ot of thirst Take me out of this land And It if ever I reach my home again Where earth has springs and the sly sky has rain I will III dig a 1 well for tor the passers passersby by And none Done shall suffer from thIrst lIS as I IThen Then do you how bow the shipwrecked mariner came back safely at last to his home home- homeland homeland land and When morning came he called for tor his spade I must pay my debt to the J i ord be said So ho tolled diy after atter day out In the yard J f fa a aI I I i iv v W A- A At t 1 f j 6 f ty w ww w 7 wlee lee Y w n nY nh nY h Y Cf M poem made the legend of captain sWell a Well familiar to all Americans It Is a legend that had hada a very substantial basis ot of tact fact Go to Amesbury Mass and see for tor yourself The The Captain s a ell dl there as It has been ro re restored stored by former State Senator and Mrs lame James II Walker ot of Amesbury and presented to the Town lown society You cnn can drink from Its pure waters and as you do so you will be reminded not only or of the hero of V hittler s a bat bal ballad lad but of all the adventurous hew l England sea seamen seamen men who once carried the American flag to all corners ot of the globe For the restored Cap Captai tai s a ell ts is a memorial to them The hero ot of the tho ballad was Valentine Dagley Bagley a nath a 0 of Amesbury who at the age ot of eight eighteen een went down to the sea In ships late In the EIghteenth century and the story ot of his adventures adventures tures can be found Cound In an old book published In Salem In 1791 The Journal ot of the Travels and Sufferings ot of Daniel Saunders n a MarIner on onboard board Loard the Ship Commerce ot of Boston oston Sam 1 John Johnson Johnson son Commander Which was Cast A Away ay Near Cape on the Coast ot of Arabia July 10 1792 Bagley agley was n a carpenter s 8 mate on the Com Coin Commerce merco merce when that ship sailed from the Isle ot of France on January 27 1792 bound for tor Madras There she exchanged her Boston Doston master John Leach for tor a Rhode Islander Samuel Johnson and on April 28 set sail for tor Bombay Dombay However the new captain being unacquainted with the coast steered too tar far to the west est and the ship foundered oil olt Cape July 10 The crew thirty four souls In number twenty whites thirteen Lascar sailors and one African black took to the boats and for tor three days dars made their way along the Ule shore Then they were driven ashore by a storm which drowned three ot of them Starting up the coast the 17 white men tor tortured tuned with thirst hunted everY every here for water Becoming separated they wandered about In small parties and one by one they laid their weakened companions under bushes and left lett them there to die On and on they plodded across the burning sands and Dagler Bagley thinking no doubt of the damp tog fog swept town of his nativity forced his parched throat to utter the promise to his hll God that u It uever ever he got hack back to that town he would dig a awell awell well where all who passed might drink At last the castaways fell In wIth a party of Arab traders traveling on camels camell toward Muscat who took them along On August 12 12 air alx ot of the seventeen arrived at Muscat where mot most of them took ship for tor home But ut Valentine Bag Bagley ag agley ley evidently was In no such hurry Still seeking adventure he shipped on an Arabian easel essel and followed the sea sen for three more years before going back to Massachusetts Two years later Dagley Bagley kept his vow by dig gang the well ell and for ears from Its cool depths bubbled the precious water oater which he had craned ed so much on the hot sands ot of Arabia But ut after atter his hI death the well tell Into disrepair and its Ita waters were ere drained away by excavations for tor a adeep adeep deep pipe line IIno In 1912 nut But the restoration tour four years ago ot of the well and the erection ot of the memorial designed by I eonard conard Craske an rag |