Show proper recognition of meades great services five years after the death of gen george gordon meade there mas v as erect ed in n the botanical garden at washing ton a memorial fountain designed bv the eminent E rench sculptor bartholdt Barthol dl fifty years later the fountain was talen down donn to be stored until the new botanical garden shall be transformed to the site south of tl e capitol wl WI ere the bartholdt Barthol dl fountain stood there has been erected a statue and memorial of general meade who corn coin banded the army of the potomac at gettysburg the statue Is the work of charles grafly and was the first ex ample of tl at sculptor sculptors s art to be erected tn in washington the cost of the memorial was borne by the state of pennsylvania for although george meade was bom boin in spain the keystone state has claimed him as her own fifty eight years after he passed from earth general meade was hon ored by the state he helped to save it Is fitting that the memorial should be within a few hundred feet of the memorial to general grant and almost under the dome of the capitol |