Show PR E k- k N G h e eME h I I Ir it f fh ME MEMon r Mon ih 1 y If 0 I f r VA x i 0 ii y if J j I 7 PJ G v 14 I 1 z ph ii N z I i I Ri a r. r Ira rt I Y o IH t i. i i x r d. d w t. t N j gyp 4 r Ir t rT iS r to f 4 4 y ash t J I 9 i T i C A r M r 1 a P r T The Washington ht Monument y Y Y RS Washington Statue in in Wall WallStreet street treet New Newark NewYork York Ci City ty ip i i h p- p By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ONSIDE cING his bis importance in our history it Is not remarkable able that Americans should honor the name of George Washington but it Is remarkable the nu number of ways In which his memory Is preserved For ForIt Forit It is doubtful if the name or likeness likeness like like- likeness ness of any other man In nIl all history has been kept before the attention of a people In their eYer everyday d y life as ns much as ns is the case with this first President of the United States His p portrait appears upon the postage stamp wh which h carries the bulk of the letters letters' written by Americans and upon several denominations of or our currency It will be even more familiar on the latter after July 1 of this year when the new smaller sized currency goes Into ch circulation and the Washington portrait appears upon the one- one d dollar bills Not a day passes that his name does not appear in our newspapers many times limes for the capital of the nation from which so much Important news comes bears his name And there Is not hot a n state In the he Union which does not have either a co county nty township city town or village or 01 a a street street avenue or avenue In one of the latter three be ri 1 the pe name of Washington One One of the forty eight slates bears his name and he Is the only President who has that distinction The annual celebration of his birthday Is one of the holidays in the American calendar wh which ch are legal legal- lJ holidays l days throughout the nation and only one other President shar shares shares- s. s that distinction with him Thousands pf Americans bear his name name as their two given gh-en In fact faa so common was this practice in the early days of the Republic that it II called forth a quaint and vigorous protest from the editor of one of the first filet r t newspapers ne published west of the Mississippi Writing in the Missouri at Franklin Mo In the Issue of April 29 23 1823 the editor said This Is the Christian CrIstian name of ot one eighth of ot the thu masculine inhabitants of ot the thA United States This name was dear to every American when it conveyed conveyed con con- the Idea of ot the father tather of ot freemen but now It serves no other purpose than that of ot dis die distinguishing distinguishing one part of ot mankind from the other It Is universally made a very packhorse Every stupid blockhead thinks it the greatest tribute of respect he can possibly pay to the memory of ot the hero to call a son a s negro or a shop grog-shop by th the same name It is a n practice scandalously com corn cornman common common mon man for tor publicans to paint the likeness of ot the hero on a board hang it up to the vulgar to gaze gue at as at a monkey and to beguile silly travelers to become their guests who judge of ot what is in inthe tho the houie houe by the sign What has the father tather of liberty done that his name should thus be consigned consigned con con- signed to infamy and his likeness to contempt Aside from the everyday reminders of the I name and fame of ot George Washington there art are many other other- ways in which his memory Is pre pre- served ser While there may be more statues of Lincoln erected in various arlous places throughout the United States Washington has bas been honored thus more In foreign countries The Latin American republics republics' have not only memorialized him In InI I bronze and stone but Simon n Bolivar Is known quite as much as the Washington of South America as he Is The Liberator and Mexico I had a n Benito Juarez whom history calls tails the Washington of ot Mexico So there Is a n special element of ot appropriateness In the fact that In the I Colonia Juarez in the capital capitol of Mexico there should stand a n statue of George Washington ton In this country the outstanding memorial to Washington Is the famous obelisk which dominates dom dorn dominates s the skyline of ot our national capital The Washl Washington monument originally was Intended asa as asa asa a a tomb tomb- for tor the first President The proposal to erect the monument as a tomb was made by n congressional committee which launched the project immediately immediately- after Washington's death Permission to the body from Its burial bural place at Mount Vernon was refused by the generals gen eral's brother Charles a leader In the movement proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed an earthen pyramid as a memorial His Ells plan was to have all soldiers who bad served under Washington go to the capital each depositIng deposit deposit- Ing a of earth in a designated spot pot The appeal proved popular and was seriously consid considered ered Bred until it was pointed out mathematically that before the mem memorial could be near completed the Revolutionary would veterans be dead As late as 1530 O after congress Mil and committees f. ow A M A d yr S-i S a lZ W I s. s i I VI rII r- r tl II It L k tJ JA r UI OU- OU L x A i Wk fin yx U r f. f tr F v. v T t 1 I mt rt t w v W I t z s rt n I Jf l i. i i wp f Mj f p f p 1 H w w 7 it t i oo l t. t i p 4 sd l Washl Washington n ton Statue in n Mexico City had quibbled and argued for fifty r years ars without any ac action loni the plan for a series of oJ pyramided temples was proposed It was this plan that had hatI been agreed upon when John Marshall then eighty years old headed a national society members contributing contributing con con- 1 each toward the monument But not until July 4 18 1848 was the cornerstone actually laid By that time the plans had been revised until the present shaft was was agreed upon although a Grecian temple to be erected around the base was still a 0 part of he builders' builders concep concep- tion After the shaft had been raised to feet the Civil il war came and construction was halted and was not not resumed until under the auspices of congress The he capstone ne weighing pounds and pointed with aluminum mm feet from the ground finally was set in place In t. Yet with all Its majestic feet of height the Washington monument Is not yet et finished It has hns hasa n a noble head but no proper feet The fine shaft lacks a base to match Architects have pointed out that sound proportions proportions Hons call for not a mound of greensward but buta a massive and ond stately marble terrace The monument Itself cost and a sum at least this large would be required to provide a base such as architects recommend With the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of ot Washington's birth approaching a n movement Is Isnow Isnow now under way to have a suitable base constructed constructed con con- In time to mal make e Its completion a n part of or orthe the celebration A site was was given given by congress several years ago age agoto to the George Washington Memorial association for the specific purpose of ot erecting the kind of a memorial it had proposed to build and endow The cornerstone was laid by President Harding since then foundations have been completed and paid for through the efforts of the association Tho Th site Is nt at t Seventh and B streets w where lere once stood the old Pennsylvania railroad station In a 8 public meeting meting Chief Justice Taft ur urged ell that the whole nation should contribute to the project which he described as one of great national utility The main feature of the building will be n vast auditorium with a n seating capacity of ot from to people Besides this It will have several se smaller auditoriums of var varying In capacity for conferences lectures and reunions Each state In the Union and each territory or colon colony would have a room In the building which will belong to It In perpetuity When completed the memorial will be under the government of the Smithsonian Institution One of ot the features of ot the great auditorium will be the finest organ that can be built hullt concerts free to the public will be given on Sunday afternoons and also on other occasions In a word the memorial will he be a peoples people's building Although there are many statues of Washington Washing Washing- ton in various cities of the United States the States the latest addition to the number ben being the beautiful equestrian statue which was unveiled In recent months and now stands before Washington's headquarters head bend quarters at MorrIstown N. 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J two J.-two two are arc perhaps the best known Imo of them all One stands s on the steps of the su building in to Wall street in New York city and aad the other stan stands s in the rotunda of the state capitol at Richmond Va The latter the work of the famous French sculptor oudon Is of special interest because It is acknowledged to be the most exact likeness of Washington In existence Art place its value at a I million dollars 1 i y m v Gilbert G rt Stuart swat The portraits of Washington are so numerous that a 0 description of them all and the story of how they were painted would fill a volume But Butof Butof of all the painters who made portraits of WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington there Is none to whom more Interest attaches attaches attaches at at- than the famous Rhode Islander Gilbert Stuart whose renown Is so closely linked with the name of Washington It was Stuart who painted the Washington portrait shown above which appears on our two cent stamps and which Is so familiar to all Americans How Stuart became the most famous of all Washington portrait painters was told in an article which appeared in the Kansas City Star Sta-r during the celebration of the of Stuarts Stuart's death last year as follows For many years Stuart had had In the back cf his mind plans for painting George Washington He Ho didn't know precisely how he was going to realize this ambition but he never let the thought of It die away So when he landed In New Now York In 1792 he began to make arrangements to have the famous revolutionary leader sit Bit for tor him It was not until two years later however that he succeeded In this purpose While White congress was In session In Philadelphia Stuart went there with a letter of ot Introduction to Washington from John Jay He met the President at a public reception and was greeted by Washington Washing Washing- ton with dignified urbanity Washington had heard of ot the painter and did not require the letter of ot Introduction He said he would be pleased to put himself at the disposal of ot Stuart at such a n time as the latter's arrangements and his own public duties would permit A series of ot sittings soon was arranged and Washington presented himself himself himself him him- self with his customary punctuality The first sitting proved unsatisfactory It largely was Stuarts Stuart's fault Fo For the first time In his ht's career he became nervous He who had bad Jested jested Jest jest- ed with kings and played pranks upon his famous teacher West was unnerved In to the tho presence of ot this great man It always had been a custom with him to draw out the subjects subject's true personality In the tho course of conversation while painting But Washington's manner precluded any possibility of ot such a method resulting successfully Although not austere he was calm had and not communicative The hard lines of ot his face produced by those years ears of strife strite had not yet Into a genial expression sion slon sufficient for Stuarts Stuart's alms aims However Stuart went to work with nervous energy and painted a portrait showing the right side of tho face tace Afterward he destroyed It declaring declaring de de- claring It unsuccessful But he made copies of t It lt the best known of ot which Is the Gibbs Channing portrait now In the Metropolitan museum New York At the tho second sitting Stuart executed a full- full length portrait showing the left sl side o of ot the face This painting Is 18 In the Lansdowne collection in London But the best of all was waG the result of a third sitting sit sit- ting It Is said sala Washington rebelled against this third portrait but yielded to his wife's 3 entreaties Another account Is that Stuart J was Intentionally late on the afternoon f n n of f this sitting In the hope of getting a sho show of displeasure on the countenance countenance coun- coun ot of the th punctual President lIe wanted some of the rough vigor he always lilted liked In traits of por- por portraits strong willed men he so loved to paint The resulting portrait known as the Athenaeum Athe A the head showing the left lett side of the face Is 8 the on one now so eo widely accepted as a faithful faithful likeness of th the great man Mark Twain In n facetious mood once said sala It If aeo George e Washington should rise from the d dead nd and not resemble thE Stuart portrait he would be denounced as an The Tho original hangs In the Boston Mu scum seum of Fine Arts But Stuart with nn an eye roc fOl business made fifty arty copies of It So tOday any art collection worthy of tho the name can boast Its H. Stuart portrait of ot Washington This Athenaeum canvas never WitS was finished t Stuart It Is Mid eaid had promised to portrait to the family when It was present completed he was so 80 pleased Bus with It and found the ot of making replicas business ally left the costume so unfinished profitable that he Intentionally Intention Intention- although the fact face was Vas perfect When f Mr Curtis Washington i father of Mrs Irs made I a trip to Boston to Stuart of his promise the artist merely showe him the canvas and said nut But sir that It Is not finished And you It see my deal deu nev never r was Stuarts Stuarta failure to finish Washington's may be explained by the tact fact that coat he never no cared to spend much time on em bacI backgrounds Ills His Interest always centered on cn the face I copy the works God he ot of declared and and leave clothes to and mantua makers malters tailors tallon Stuarts Stuart's last years were embitter embittered K fights against those th who iby by constant famous portrait of made o copies P if o of or f hl his hlf Washington an and sold ld genuine them thera Stuarts Ono One of ot f ar fir arinto o these thesa into the White Wl esa c coplo 5 W Inoue gin etA House t fo fora r a time Um |