Show sa alj R ral U af ahe M 41 pw F J 0 4 0 zt M IT ag wa IU brer 4 A to 4 A ON 5 11 4 TA aument A IN t wi george T 1 statue V 1 in wall street newyork 0 ity J by ELMO SCOTT WATSON considering ONSIDE RING his importance in our g history it la Is not remar remarkable kible that i americans americana should honor tho the name alft j of george washington but it Is 13 remark remarkable tible the number of ways in which his hin memory la Is preserved for it Is doubtful if the name or likeness of any other roan man in all history has been kept before the attention of a people in their everyday life os as btuch ua as to Is the case with this first president of the united states ilia hig portrait appears upon tile the postage ecamp which carries caralea the bulk of the letters Jetters written by americans and upon several denominations denomination of our currency it will be even more familiar on the latter after july I 1 of this year when the new emiller sized cair currency rency goes into circulation and the washington portrait appears upon the oce dollar bills not a day passes that his name does not appear in our newspapers many times for the capital of the nation worn from which so eo much important news comes bears tits ills name and there is not a state in the union which does not have either cither a county township city town or village or a street or avenue in one of the latter three bearing the name of washington one of of the forty eight states elates bears tits ills name and he Is the only president who lias has that thai distl distinction nation the annual celebration of ills his birthday Is one of the holidays in the Amer american fean calen calendar daf which are legal holidays throughout the nation and only one other president shares that distinction with him thousands of americans americana bear lila ills name as their two given ghen names in fact so common was this practice in the early days of the republic that it called forth a quaint and vigorous protest from the editor of one of the first newspapers published west of the mississippi writing in the missouri at franklin mo in the issue of april 29 1823 the editor said thle Is t the christian name of one eighth of 0 the masculine inhabitants of the united states ahlis name was waa dear to every american when atcon it conveyed the idea of 0 the tather father of freemen but now it serves no other purpose than that of tits df oe part of mankind from the other it to la universally made a very packhorse pack horae borso every stupid blockhead thinks it the greatest tribute of respect ho he can possibly pay to the memory of the hero bero to call a son cedro or a grogshop grog shop chop by the same earne namo name it to la s practice scandalously common for public publican publicans ans to paint the likeness of the hiro hero on a board hang it up to the vulgar to gaze gaie g aie at as 68 at a monkey and to beguile silly billy travelers tra velera to become their bests who judge of what to la in the houtte homire by the sign what has the father of liberty done that his hi name enild should thus be b con signed bened to infamy and hla his likeness to contempt aside from the ever everyday aday reminders of the name and fame of george washington there tire are many other ways in which ills his memory Is pr pre iter ved while there may be more mor 6 statues of lincoln erected in various places alli throughout r the untied states washington has hag been honored thus more inore in foreign conn countries tiles the latin american republics have not only memorialized memorialised ed him in brauze and stone but simon bolivar Is known quite as aa much as the washington of america us as he be Is the liberator and mexico had a benito juarez whom history calls the washington of mexico so bo there la Is a special element of appropriateness in the fact that in the colonga juarez in the capital of mexico there should stand a statue of george washington in this country the outstanding memorial to washington Is the famous obelisk which dom injates tile the skylin of our national capital the washington monument originally was intended its as ft tomb for the first president the proposal to erect the th monument as aa a tomb was made by a congressional committee which launched the project immediately after deaths death permission to demov the body from its burial place at mount vernon was refused by the gen gen brals brother brot lier charles custas a leader in the movements movement proposed an earthen pyramid as a memorial ilia plan was to have all soldiers who had served under washington fas hington go to tile the CO capital PItal each depositing a of eurth curth in a designated t pot pol the appeal proved popular and was seriously considered until it was pointed out mathematically that thai before tile the memorial could be near completed the veter veterans 11 na would I 1 be dead an ila te as 1830 after co neresa ess KUI ani f J A r P XV t A M q at 22 ly V washington statue in mexico city thad had quibbled and argued lo for fifty years without any action the plan for a series of p pyramided pyra yra temples was proposed it was tills this plan that had been agreed upon when jolin john marshall then eighty years old headed a natio national nill society members contributing til butIng 1 each toward the monument but not until july 4 1843 was the cornerstone actually laid by that time the plans had been revised until the present shaft was agreed upon although a grecian temple to io be erected around the base was still a part of he be builders conception after the shaft had been raised to feet the civil war came and construction was halted and was not resumed until ISSO under the auspices of congress the capstone weighing pounds ond and pointed with aluminum feet from the ground finally was set in place mince in 1884 yet with all its majestic feet of height the washington monument Is not yet finished it has a noble head but no pro proper per feet the fine shaft lacks a base to match architects have pointed out that sound proper eions cull call for not a mound of greensward but a massive and stately marble terrace the monument itself cost and a sum eum at least tills this large would be required to provide provida a baso base such as architects recommend with the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of birth approaching a movement ta is now under way to have a suitable base constructed ted in time to make its completion a part of tile the celebration A site was given by congress several years ago to the george washington memorial association for the specific purpose of 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 th site Is at seventh and D B streets where once stood the old pennsylvania railroad station in a public meeting chief justice taft urged vint the whole nation should contribute to the project which he described as one of great natto nati utility the main feature of the building will be a vast auditorium with a seating capacity of from to people besides this it will have several smaller auditoriums of varying capacity for conferences lectures and reunion each state la in the union and each territory or colony would have a room in the building which will belong to it in perpetuity when comi completed d the memorial will be under tile the government of the institution one of the features of the great auditorium will be the finest organ that con lie be built concerts free to the public will be given on sunday afternoons and also on other occasions in a word the memorial will be a peoples building although there aro are many statues of washington in various cities of the united states the latest addition to the number being the beautiful equestrian statue which was unveiled in recent months end and now stands before headquarters at morristown N are perhaps the best known of them nil all ona stands on tile the steps of the sui treasury building to in wall street in new york city and aad the other stands to in the rotunda of the state capitol ni at nich mond va the latter tho the work of the famous french sculptor Hour hogdon lon Is of special interest because it Is acknowledged to be the most exact likeness of washington gion in exist existence enem art place its value ut a 8 million dollars do llara 4 i bert the portraits of 0 w washington as hington are so numerous that a description of them all and the story of how they were painted would fill a volume but of all the painters who made portraits of washington there Is none to whom more interest attaches tha th antho nIthe famous rhode islander gilbert dilbert stuart whose renown Is so closely linked with 1 tho the name home of washington it was wag stuart who painted the portrait shown above litch appears on our two cent stamps and which la Is so familiar to all americans now how stuart became the most famous of all washington portrait pointers was told lit in an article which appeared in the kansas city sta star r luring during the celebration of the cene of stuarts dea death th last year as follows for many years stuart had had in the back ct cf hla his mind plans for ar painting george washington ile he know precisely how he was going to realize this ambition but he never lot let the thought of it die away so when he lanard in new mew york in 1732 1792 he benan began to malce make arrangements arrangement to have the famous revolutionary leader sit bit to for him it was not until two years later however that he succeeded succeed pd in this purpose while congress was in session tn in philadelphia stuart went there with it a letter of introduction to washington from john jay he TB met the president at a public reception and was greeted erected by wishing washington with dignified urbanity washington had heard of the pointer painter and did not require the letter of introduction he said safe he be would be pleased t to 0 put himself at the disposal of stuart at such a time as the lat tatters arrangements and his own public duties would permit A berles of sittings oon eoon was arranged and washington gion presented him elf belf with his customary punctuality the first sitting proved unsatisfactory it largely was stuart arts fault for the first time in hla bid career he be became nervous ile he who had lest jest ed with kings icings and played pranks upon his famous teacher west weft was unnerved in the presence of 0 this areat great man it always had bad been a custom with him to draw out the subjects true personality in the th course of c conversation 0 while painting but manner arnner precluded any possibility of 0 such a method resulting successfully although not austere he was calm and not communicative the hard lines of his face produced produce dby by those years of strife arife had not yet softened into a goncal ion don sufficient for Stu artIm alms alma Ilo however wever stuart went to work with nervous energy and painted a portrait showing the t side of the face afterward he be destroyed it de daring claring it but he made copies of it the th best known of which la is the giata churning portrait now in the metropolitan museum new york at the second stuart executed a full length portrait showing the left side aldo of the face this painting la in in the lansdowne Lans downa collection in london dut but the best beat of all was waa the result of a third sitting bitting it la Is said eald washington rebelled against this third portrait but yielded to hla his cifes entreaties another account la Is lint hat stuart was waa intentionally I 1 late te on the th a afternoon of this sitting in the hope of getting a show of displeasure on the coun conn te tenancy nance of the punctual president lie wanted sonic borne of the rough vigor lie be always liked jilted in n portraits of strong rone willed men he so loved to paint the tha resulting portrait known as the athe nacum head showing the he loft left side aide of the face la Is the ont now to BO widely as a fAlth faithful ful likeness of the great roan man mark twain once nee saad in facetious mood if washington should rise from the dad and not resemble th stuart portrait he would be denounced as an tin po the original hangs in alo doston alu aiu it um ot ct pine fine arto arta but stuart with an eye to foi business mado made fifty topics copies of it so today any art collection worthy of the name can boast boas ito it stuart portrait of washington this athenaeum canvas never was fini finished sed stuart it Is said had promised to 0 o present portrait to the family when it was waa completed ilu flut he was so pleased with it and found the of matting malting replicas so BO profitable that he Intent ipri ally left deft the costume unfinished although the face was perfect when mr curtis father of mrs washington made a trip to boston to remah stuart of his promise the artist merely showe him the canvas and said but you see ply my dear deal sir air that it Is not finished and it never was stuarte stuart failure to finish cont coat aboc may be b explained by the fact that h he never ruined to spend much time in n backgrounds ills ille interest a always cent cerit centra rd tred tn on the face 1 copy the works ol of god he declare de clard 4 and leave clothes clothe to tailors tailor and mantua makers stuarts lat last years year were embittered by constant fights agall against St those who roada made copies of bit bt famous portrait of washington and sold cold them an ai genuine stuarts one of thess cofty WA arwa n bart into the th whit house tor for a time y |