Show proper recognition of meades great services se orvices five yean years after the death of gen geri george gordon meade there was erected in the botanical garden 1 A at t 11 washington lashington a memorial fountain desI designed gued by lie the eminent french sculptor tor Barthol dl fifty year years later the fountain was taken down to be bt stored until the new Lot botanical anical carden garden hall shall be arc ito 1 to the site sith si s th 1 of 1 e capitol mere here the bartholdt Birt n holdt buntain oun tain stood there haa hits been erected a it statue and memorial to general meade who corpman commanded ded the army of the Ilo tomae at gettysburg the stat statue ile Is the work of charlea orally and was the first example of that sculptors art to be erected in washington the of the memorial was borne by the state of pennsylvania for although george meade was born in spain the key stone state has chimed clil med him as her own fifty eight years after he passed from earth general meade waa was honored 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 at 03 t under the dome of the capitol |