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ELABORATE CEREMONIESWILL MARK DEDICATIONImposing Street Parade. Will Precede Exercises at Grant Memorial, April 27—Civil War Veterans Will Particiite.Elaborate ceremonies, in which surviving members of the armies of the Blue and the Gray of the great civil conflict of the 80s will take a leading part, will mark the formal dedication of the Grant memorial In Botanic Garden on the afternoon of April 27, the oentenary of the birth of the great Union soldier and President.Two great-granddaughters of the civil, war hero will unveil the memorial. They aro Miss Edith Grant and Princess Ida Cantacuzene. granddaughters of the late MaJ. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant. Secretary of War Weeks, who is a member of the Grant memorial commission, will present the memorial to the government on behalf of the commission, and it will bo accepted by Vice President Coo-lidge on behalf of President Harding, who will be unable to be present byward Pierce Casey, architect, both of New York. A contract was subsequently made with those artists for the construction of the memorial On accordance with their design. At' the same time, ihe commission, after consultation ,wlth Messrs. McKim and Olmsted. Interested in the artistic development of the parks of Washington, selected the Botanic Garden qite.In compliance with law. the commission reported Its action to both houses of Congress. June 30. 1908. Congress appropriated $40,000 for continulng'work on the memorial and provided that It might be located In the unoccupied portion of the Botanic Garden, between let and 2d streets, as recommended by the Grant Memorial Commission. Various duises have contributed to the delay in the completion of the memorial. Chief of these wsa the strong opposition to Its erection In Botanlo Garden. One of the reasons given by the commission for Its action was that the site selected was on the axis between the Capitol, the Washington Monumentreason of a previous engagement at Rnlt;j tjjC then projected Lincoln Memo-Point Pleasant. Olilo. on the same date. Vice President Coolldge will make the principal address.Right Rev. Fallows to Preside.Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and chairman of the Grant memorial commission, will preside and make a few Introductory rcraarkB, following an Invocation by Rev. William E. Huntington, president emeritus of Boston University, who served under Grant as*first lieutenant, 49th Wls6onsln Volunteer Infantry. Judge Wendell P. Stafford, associate justice of the District Supreme Court, will read an original poem, following which the memorial will bo dedicated to the nation by Union and Confederate veterans of the civil war. These ceremonies will be conducted by Gen. Lewis L. Pitcher, commander-ln-chlef of the Grand Army of the Republic; Secretary of the Navy Denby. Col. John McElroy. commander-ln-ehief of the Department of the Potomac. G-. A. TU and Gen. Julian S. Carr, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans. The benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Washington Gardener, past commander-ln-ehief of the Grand Army of the Republic.1The program will be interspersed with appropriate music rendered by three noted military banae. the Army Music School Band from Washington barracks, the Military Academy Band from West Point and the Naval Academy Band from Annapolis.Imposing Street Parade.Participating In the street parade pieceding the dedicatory exercises will be all the Regular Army. Navy and Marino Corps forces in this vicinity, the corps of cadets from the Military Academy, the battalion of midshipmen! from the Naval Academy. posls of Grand Army of the Republic. the United Confederate Veterans and various othei* veteran and patriotic organizations. Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles will be grand marshal of the parade.Twenty-due years ago—February 21. 1901—Congress authorized the erection In this city of a memorial to Gen. Ulysses 3. Grant, the Union hero of the civil war. at a cost not to exceed $250,000, and designated the president’ of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the chairman of the joint’ committee on the library and the Secretary of War a commission to select a site and arrange for the erection of the memorial. The act provided that the memorial might be erected in any unoccupied square or reservation belonging to the government. except the grounds of the Capitol or the Library of Congress. June 28. 1903, Congress appropriated $f0.-000 to enable the commission to commence the work, and authorized it to enter into a contract for the necessary construction. That act limited the total cost of the memorial to $240,000.Twenty-Sevea Designs -Submitted.In accordance with these enactments. Gen. G. M. Dodge. Senator George Peabody and Secretary Ellhu Root, then composing the commission, invited competitive designs by American architects and sculptors for the memorial. Twenty-seven designs were submitted, and the award was given Co the design submitted by the lateHenry W. Shrady. sculptor, and Ed-rlalExcavations Begun In 1907.In October, 1907, the contractors began making excavations for the foundations for the memorial. Two days later these operations were stopped by an order from the Supreme Court of the district requiring the contractors to show cause why they should not be enjoined from, cutting down certain historic trees In clearing the site. Subsequently the Crittenden peace oak and two other historic trees were taken up and transplanted In other parts of the reservation. It was not until May, 1998. that the contractors were able to resume work on the foundation. The original contract called for the completion of the memorial within a period of five ea re, but It become necessary tu extend that limit several times.The Grant Memorial Is probably the largest group of statuary In the world and has 'been approved as a splendid work of art by Augustus Saint Gaurf-ens. Charles F. McKlm. Daniel C. French and other prominent American artists. The marble superstructure on which the various groups stand is 282 feet long. £9 feet deep and 5 feet above the ground. An equestrian statue of Grant stands on a high central pedestal at the west side facing the Washington Monument and Llnooln Memorial at the other end of the Mall. Lower pedestals at the north and south ends support massive groups of cavalry and artillery, respectively. The infantry arm will be represented by bronze bas-reliefs to be placed on the sides Of the main pedestal. Theentire work le complete except for the placing of these infantry plaques.Aetfea ail Rep—e.In the finished work there is a line Intermingling of action and repose. At each end, upon the flanked exe-dras, are colossal groups of struggling men and horses in all t£«'para-phernalla and trappings of war. The group at the north end represents cavalry, and the group at the south end artillery. They face Inward and picture a .mad rush toward the center, across the wide stretch of marble that separates them from the mounted figure of the great commander in the center. The statue of Grant on horseback Is of heroic proportions. He wears the familiar aloqeh hat and military cloak of civil war days, and they lend themselves artistically to the group. His pose Is that of a reviewing officer, and Is said to be a fine conception of that quiet keeness and resolution thatmarked the man.The horse partakes something of the life and action that rages In the artillery and cavalry groups, and seems to emphasize the calmness and intrepidity of the rider. That Impression Is heightened by the bas-rejlefs of Infantry designed for. the sides of the pedestal- on which he stands. One of these shows the foot troops in heavy marching order, trudging along doggedly on one of the forced marches that were part of their daily lives in the sixties, and the other bas-relief shows the Infantry in battle.('•nrage «z4 Htrezglh.At the four comers, near the base of the pedestal, are large bronze lions, cou-chant. emblematic of Courage and strength. Each Is protecting the American standard held In his outstretched paw. Around the superstructure are eight ornamental bronze candelabra.The cavalry and artillery groups have been in position for several months and have been the subject of considerable Interest to artists, tourists and the people generally. An idea of their size is conveyed by the statement that the cavalry group alone weighs fifteen tons and the artillery group eighteen tons Special artillery and cavalry drills were given at tue West Point Military Academy and other posts to akf Sculptor Shrady In the development of his designs for those arms. Tlie finished products are regarded as highly realistic and complete in detail.ORDERED TO INDIANA.Sergt. William B. Latchford. medical department, at the Army Medical School, this city, has been ordered to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., for duty. ^■ — - • . i -ORDERED TO THIS CITY.Sergt. William A. Sowers.- Signal Corps, at the Army Balloon School, l^ee Hall, Va.. has been ordered to this city for duty in the office of the chief signal officer. 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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Sun, Apr 16, 1922
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