Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1896, Page 23

——— COLONIAL RELICS The Invaluable Exhibits at the Na- tional Museum. THE NEW COPP COLLECTION A Family Accumulation of Over Two Hundred Years. WASHING BELONGINGS PERSONAL of General ston and the colonial days i re on exhibi tion in the National Museum form a most interesting collection at all times, but es- pecially just now, when the Danghters of the Amerivaa Revolution, the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of the ‘American Revolution are celebrating Wash- Ington’s birthday, and the holiday is being uy observed ail over the United States. Whe continental congress of the daughters has brought many ors to the city, and the majority of these have made the pil- -primage to the um and inspected the historic relics with every evidence of gen- nine interest. The museum has night ce@me into po within the last fort- session of a most unique and valuable collection of colonial relics that is certain to prove of the greatest Interest to sightseers and students. It is the gift of Mr. John Brent Copp of Massa- phusetts, and is to be known as the Copp tollection. Collected for Over Two Centuries. The Copp family has been identified the history of the bay state for more than | wo centuries, and the present collection rep- | fesonts the accumulation of the family 1683. The a are for the most part punch, or which is more likely, preferred it extremely strong. Decanters and cruets, mantel ornaments, cups and saucers are ali in the collection, together with the hundreds of other articles such as a family which lived in one fine old homestead might collect in the course of a half dozen generations. As showing how carefully the habit of “saving things” was developed in the Copp family, it is an interesting fact that In the collec- tion there is a bunch of goose-quill pens which had been used until they could be sented by Gen. Lafayette to Mrs. Wash- ington, consisting of a sugar bowl and coyer, a broken saucer, a couple of dish tops and a plate.. The articles have the names of the sev- eral states of the Union inscribed in the links of a chain which extends around each piece and the Washington monogram is suitably placed on each. Other articles are an oval gilt frame cheval glass, a large square iron frame hall lantern, a surveyor’s compass, a volume of corre- whittled down no more, but were “put _up in the garr rather than destroyed. Evi- dently it was thought they might come in handy for something if they were only kept ere are a number of pleces linen, such as made up so chine stuff look flimsy and ephemeral by ccmparison, There would seem to be al- ost no break in the historic continuity of collection, and it would be hard to mate the interest and value which ches to it. The Washington Collection. The Washington collection is much bet- ter known to tie public, of course, but even its importance is not as generally under- stood as one would naturally expect, for it is the largest collection in the United States of articles which are known beyond a doubt 4 personal character, but are extremely | teresting for the iight they throw on the life to have belonged to the immortal father of our count VALUABLE d during all that y of the co customs in New Engia eheld goods out of style. things in ca- 3 that must | or research ished days. Such y ball it we on fills sever: i, decided to turn it all over to the National Museum as a permanent fixture. Complete and Varied. The most remarkable features of the col- lection are its completeness and variety. There are a number of ladies’ costumes so long out of date now that the ave! man of fashion would hardly r: her sisters, or rather her great er ers, could ever have wi Shoes and slippers of a kc and bo jrapher of the museuin. COLONIAL RELICS. ‘The major part of this collection was ip the patent office building until 1888, when, in accordance with an aet of Con . it was turned over to the National Museum. To it was added the Lewis which was purchased by the national government at a cost of $12,000. The arti atre Gis- played in four or tive large cases just to the lef ‘s the main door of the building, and it is here that the visitor al- inyariably stops first_to learn some- thing of the character and habits of the frst President of the United States, as shown by his personal belongings. In_the collection is a complete camp equipage, which comprises in part several canvas tents in as good condition as they Were when used as a shelter by the com- mander-in-chief of the continental forces. Seme time ago Mr. A. Howard Clark, who is the custodian of the colonial relics at the museum, thought-it would be a good scheme to place these tents somewhere in the open air so that photcgraphs of them might be taken by Mr. Smillie, the photog- So one morning Mr. Clark had them taken out from the cese and erected on a smooth stretch of sward in front of the building. They had not been in place very long when the carriage of Col. John M. Wilson, who is in charge of public buildings and grounds, hove into sight. Now, Col. Wil- sen keeps a watch like a hawk on the the mammoth bonnet on a frame that can be pulled up over the fa of the way, for @ modern bugg: smaller, either. the collection. the world | and not s Huge pok very much nets are in er, but none old gown of fhe time of the first empt out of place others, sav of the pe thought it quite hoop skirts as big 1 not seem t some of n women ie proper caper to wear modern circus tent, would attract a good deal of attention to the weurers if they should be seen promenading the avenue or trying to enter the narrow door of a cable car. If any one were infer- ested in studying the history and develop- ; Smithsonian grounds, e or pushed back out | the top of | row who had taken advantage of his ab- and when he saw a couple of tents spread out on the grass he Was surprised, to say the very least. He jumped out of hfs carriage and wanted to sence to erect a couple of lemonade booths on the beautiful green grass of a national preserve. When he was told that the ve booths for the sa Pontes Uae y le of circus lemonade, bu tents which had kept the rain off the tat mortal fathér of his country, Col. Wilson was somewhat mollified, though he re- marked, in parting, that it would be in good form, thereafter, to at least let him know when such performances were to be gone through with. In Gen. Washington's famous camp chest many of the articles are left just as they were when he got throvgh with them for the Jast time. ‘There is pepper in the pep- per boxes and salt in the salt box, that will always remain as famous pepper and salt hy reason of the fact that what is not there was used to season the food of the Sreat commander. Uniform and Household Goods. Washington’s uniform worn at the time he resigned his commissoin as commander- in-chief at Annapolis consisted of a coat | of dark blue cloth, with buft facings, a | buif cloth vest, with small buttons of | plain gilt metal, and breeches of buff cloth. His dress suit comprised a buff woolen vest, spangled and embroidered along the edges of the collar and the front with loth-covered buttons, and a pair of woolen is," with cloth-covered buttons. The Lull breeches for overwear were of silk, adorned with large buttons. The household goods include a couple of cotton embroidered bed curtains, made by Martha Washington; a heavy,white woolen blanket; an oval-top mahogany table, in- laid at the sides and down the legs; a carved walnut chair; a mahogany wash- stand, with a looking glass at the back, made to slide vertically in a recess, and adorned with brass handles; two veneered and Inlaid knife cases; a large inlaid tea board, imported from France for Wash- ington’s use; a glass candelabrum; a stately dressing case, with mirror; a chest of six drawers for spices, a silk lambre- quin and a calico bed canopy. There are nine pisces of curtain looping, represent- ing foliage made on wire of cotton and plastic material and gold-finished. Table Service. ment of styles during the last two hundred ears he would fi his material ready to nd in these few cases. Table Adornments, But the collection is by no means con- fined to articles of wearing apparel. There are some fine old specimens of table ware, glass and china, that are calculated to make the modern collector green with en- vy, handsome silver candlesticks, candel- abras, and a china punch bowl and ladle, the former of which would not hold much ver a quart and would seem to show that There fs also a dinner set, said to have been presented by the Society of the Cin- cinnati, which now consists of thirty-two dinner plates, eight soup plates, one small plate, six side dishes, two sauce dishes and covers and a spare cover, four gravy boats, one cream pitcher, four tureens, three fish strainers, three salad bowls, one fish dish, one meat dish, six tops for custard cups, two cups, one saucer and one pickle dish. Besides the Cinner set there was a large blue porcelain meat dish, three blue glass finger bowls, one brown earthen- ‘pur forefathera were not so very fond of | ware teapot and part of a set of china pre- spondence in relation to the compass, by David Rittenhouse of Philadelphja; ‘two eastiron andirons, a large fire bellows, a traveling secretary, having a leather-coV- ered receptacle for pen3, ink, ete., a paint- ed parel, representing cherubs, an oak din- ing room chair. His camp equipage con- sisted of the appurtenances of camp life, together with the regulation mess chesz. A small studded iron treasure chest, four saucepans, a punch bowl, an oak frame lithcgraph, giving the pedigree of the Washington family, an claborately orna- mented table, a card naving the Washing- ton arms upon it, two vases, one large and cne small, ornamented in blue and gol, and a miniature of Col. William Washington, 1810, are also among the col- lection. These two collections, although the larg- est, do not by any means comprise all the colonial relics at the museum, and what there is there is being added’ to all the time. Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Wm. Vv. Cox, the chief clerk of the National Mu- Seum, ere active members of the Sons of the American Revolution, and take a lively interest in the Standing on a_pedes cases which contain the Washington relies Is a replica of the statue of Washington which was unveiled at Newburgh, on the Hudson. It is said to be the most’ lifelike present. ment of him that has ever been made, a3 y Houdon, the best of ex- its, and known physical meas- s ed in designing it. The statue does not give one the idea of Wash- of heroic mold, as he is usually cousidered. The head is, of course, Well shaped,’ while broad shoulders and hips and a rather tapering waist with feet of substantial size give him the appearance of a man‘comely to look upon, and with well developed capacities of endurance, Fond of Bathing. From Chambers’ Journal. near the In these mountains of Japan, wherever hot springs occurred, the natives resorted to them, either on account of their sup- posed curative properties, or simply to kill time. This taste for bathing seems almost to amount to a vice, and > known to the lecturer a man womd stecig the water for practically a month at a time, taking ition to place a heay to keep him from floating, or turning over in his sleep. ‘The caretaker of the same bath, an old man of seventy, stayed the water the whoi winter through. 3 Why He Was Avoided. From the Chicago Evening Post. As the young man entered the reading room of the club there was a sudden ex- odus in the direction of the billiard room, “Wilbur seems to have become suddenly unpopular,” said one of the men in the far corner, as he noticed it. “Weil, the boys do rather avoid him,” re- turned the other. “For what reason?” “Why, his first baby has just reached the age where it says bright things.” — ae: “Applejack” With a History. On Laurel Hill, in Bridgeton, N. J., there stands a house between whose walls is hid- den a quart of the nurest applejack. The bottle has rested there for thirty-nine years, and has, according to the story told, eleven years more to stay. When the house was built, thirty-nine years ago, a quart bottle was filled with “jack” and tightly seaied and plastered in the wall by the man who had the house built. The botile is not to be taken from its dark recess until the son of the man who placed it there for him be- comes fifty years of age. The “boy” is now thirty-nine years of age, and in all these years has kept true to the promise made in the days of his youth to his father not to touch the bottle of applejack until he reaches the half-century mark in life's journey. Some people in Bridgeton would like to sample that bottle. ———_-e-+. Insulted Over the Wire. From the Syracuse Post. A telegraph operator on one of the morn- ing papers recently told me a good story of how he got rid of a too frequent visitor, whose nightly calis during business hours had come to be a nuisance. ‘The intruder was also an operator, but was temporarily out of a job. One evening he came in as usual and planted himself in a chair. Re- ceiving no answers to his Guestions he lapsed into silence and listened to the steady click of the instrument. Suddenly a look of disgust crossed his face. He arose, glared at the operator, who kept on writing, turned on his heel ‘and walked out. This happened a week ago, and he has not called since. What was the cause of his sudden departure? That ts easily answered. In response to a previous re- juest the operator at the other end of the line sent this message: “Is that idiot with you again tonight?” ———— ee. Conclusive. From the Toronto (Can.) Christian Guardian. An Irishman and a Frenchman were one day having a dispute over the nationality of a friend of theirs. “I say,” sald the Frenchman, “that if he was born in France he is a Frenchman.” “Begorra,” said Pat, “if a_cat should have kittens in the oven would you call them biscuits?” ——+e<e—____ In the Bald-Headed Row. From the Woonsocket (R. I.) Reporter. “What the dickens do you know about misery?” asked the bald-headed man of the younger one. “Wait till you get married and come home late, and have your wife lecture you for three hours in a. whisper for fear of waking the baby, and then you will have some idea of what misery is!” se The Entailed Cocktail. From Truth. Nipper—“So poor old Soaksby is gone?” Proprietor Blue Light Saloon—“Yes, he's gone, but not forgotten. For more’n a year I've given him a free drink every mornin’, an’ now he’s left a will bequeath- in’ his mornin’ drink to his brother.”” tee Itnlinn Princesses on Bicycles. From the London Daily News. In cycling for ladies, sunny Italy is now waxing enthusiastic. A few months ago, when a club was started in Rome for loy- ers of the wheel, adequate support was not forthcoming, and the idea was abandoned. Now, however, a reaction has set in, and society, as in London, is vigorously taking up the exercise. Among the ladies who cyele are the Princesses Bonaparte-Wyse, Golanni and Orsini and the Duchess Gal- lesse-Belmont. FOR INDIGESTION Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. -D. Phill Va., says: “I have it for ae 4 in cases of indiges- teu and it is almnly invainshla.” Fiy AYRE EVENING ST WR-SATURD AY. FEBRUARY. collecting of colonial relics. | 122, 1896 WEAN TRAROU RA PARES. 223 gratulation on the event caused George H. Personal friends were the best appeal to ALL TRERE WAS IN IT. PEN A SWORD] Sea cet See ees Gee | ee é : = to write: The successful newspaper publishers,! He Demonstrated That Education Monument to Army Correspondents at Gapland, ee WAR WRITERS 10 BE HONORED ee a Money Already Gollected to Erect : the Memorial. PLAN OF THE STRUCTURE > Enough money has Weén collected to as- sure the erection of tlie army correspond- ents’ memorial at Gapland, or Crampton’s Gap, South Mountain, fifty-eight miles from Washinzion city and less than two hours away by rail. The quality of the monument will be im- proved according to the help it will continue to receive. About #3,060 have been collect- ed, which will build of the undressed, hard sandstone of which South Mountain is composed a battlemented screer or gate, according to the design. ‘The desire is to use dressed stone of some other kind for the coigns, belts, battle- ments, ete., and to expend more money in the shields, insignia, sculpture and tablets. ‘The money in hand will just execute the gate, and allow plain tabulation of the correspondents’ names. If the subscription can be doubled the menument can be also made a memorializa- tion of the art of recording wars, and a trophy to letters amidst arms. 4 This is a worthy subject of a monument, “By pondering over plans ang maps; Great General George has got the gaps; But we who watched his sleepy war, We got the gaps long, long befor Boker is dead, but his autograph of these lines is in the den at Gapland. President Lincoln, however, was so much encouraged by the ardent attack and suc- cess of his army at South Mountain that, despite the indeterminate result of Antie- tam, three days after, he issued his proc- lamation of emancipation, having first vis- ited both battlefields. This memorial is the first attempt to illustrate the mountain country of the emarcipator. A railroad to Hagerstown was opened in 1868, through Pleasant Valley, and skirts South Mountain a mile from the memorial, to which is a good turnpike road from Gapland@station. Six miles up the rail- road is edysville, half way between An- tietam cemetery and the gap where Gen. Reno was killed. Keedysville is in plain sight of Gapland. ; “Gath’s” Home. In 1884 Mr. G. A. Townsend, 6ne of the army “correspondents, visited Crampton’s Gap while making studies for “Katy of Catoctin,” and, struck with the mountain views, bought the ground in the gap, in which he has since built six houses and above a dozen structures and put up @ mile of stone walls. The crops of Catoctin valley are hauled out through the gap, which has omnibus mail stage four times a day, and Burketts- ville and Gapland villages a mile on either side. After expending $21,000 in their salaries out of $30,000 voted by Congress to open roads through Antietam battlefield, the two former commissioners forgot to do a stroke of work. Their successors last year opened four and a half miles of road at an expense of only $15,000, and this year rec- ommend connecting the South mountain battle gaps by a road on the lofty ridge, which will haye no parallel as a battle park in this country. The ridge at the Meraorial Gap is 1,000 feet above tide, but rises in two miles to 1,700 feet elevation. The army unique, and its execution uence upon the and altogether would perhaps have an in! civilization of future Wars i he press in its warlike relation has best illustrated {ts representative character. Yo the journal of Marat were due the worst excerses of the French revolution, while the American Continental Conerens zn nducted its seven yea Armes oteeise, eee from Philadelphia to Lancaster, to York, Pa., and {altimore, and after the war it went to Trenton and Annapolis, but everywhere had its printer with it. . Mr G A. Townsend has in his library at Gapland a copy of the printed and bound Journal of Congress, printed at York, in 1778, where Congress spent that year, and it only then reached the official printing of the Declaration of Independence, which had been voted two years before. The book is Froperly annotated thus: “Their method you shall see, The pains thelr printer took; Such men must needs be free | Who governed by The Book." In the library at Gapland is also a copy, perhaps the only one In the United States, of the London Gazette Extraordinary, 1s- sued as an extra upon the receipt of the news of the capture of Quebec by General Wolfe, in October, 1759. Tt cost £3 in Lon- don, and has been inelosed between glass frames, so as to read both sides. Its tone Is unexciting, while it gives particulars of the arms, etc., captured, and four times the name of George Townshend, the ranking officer not disabled, is signed to the dis- patches. This battle settled the fate of North America. Among Mr. Townsend’s books, quite con- veniently placed to this memorial of the re- corders of war, are Stedman's History of the American Revolution, the author of which served with Gage at Boston and Clinton on Long Islaid, and wrote and drew well in 1784; Tarlton’s account of his cavalry opera- tions, as the predecessor of Stuart and Sheri- dan; Major Smythe’s journal from the tory or loyalist side of his attempt to revolu- tionize Maryland by bringing the western Indians over the very site of this memorial, the book published in Dublin, 1784, when Ireland pirated English copyrights and was a publishers’ town; Sargent’s diaries of otiicers in Braddock’s campaign; Wilkin- son’s and Harry Lee’s revolutionary me- moirs by the actors therein; Secretary of War John Armstrong’s notes on the cam- paigns of 1814, in which Washington city was burnt, and a long line of army chron- iclers and biographers preceding regular army correspondents. The Last of an Evolution. Indeed, the correspondents’ memorial 1s the last of an evolution growing onward since the civil war, and the large stone library, den or “factory” within two or three hundred feet of the monument will be open to the surviving correspondents when they visit the spot. Among the last of its ornaments fs a paint- ing of Meade’s headquarters at Gettysburg by Mr. Young, the native artist there, and one of the first is a John Brown's pike. Brown’s raid was conyened only a few miles from the monument, and those of his men who escaped to Pennsylvania passed where this memorial is to stand. Gen. James Wilkinson, who was the best reporter of the battles of, the revolution, en- listed in the Georgetown, (now D. C.) drill .ccmpany, riding to the drills from the mouth of Monocacy river, sixtepn miles from the army correspondentg’ memorial. He was on Gates’ staff. aes Two miles from this monument ts the old mansion of Governor Stm Lee of the revo- lution, friend of Washington; sixteen miles from the memorial is Charlestown, the home of General Daniel Morgan, and the shrine of John Brown, whose going to the gallows was sung by Whittier and painted and etched by Hovenden. Both Charles Lee and Horatio Gates, as well as Gen. John Shelby, lived in the gen- eral vicinity of the correspondents’ mon- ument. : ‘ee Harper's Ferry is eight miles away; Mc- Clellan’s lookout aver, Antietam four miles, the other half of ihe battle of South Mountain five miles fram the memorial, around which the Sixth corps of General Franklin ran over Howell Cobb's legion September 14, 1862, and caused McLaws to descend from Maryland Heights and form.a line of battle under this gap. Where the memorial’ is to stand the pa- thetic echo in the gap of Franklin’s in- quiring guns.was the only response from Harper's Ferry, where Miles had surren- dered the morning of the battle of South Mountain. General Franklin is a contribu- tor to the army correspondents’ memor- ial, and writes: “I congratulate you on having such a constant joy in scenery.” Gapland in War Times. Gapland in the war was a mountain top cross roads, 800 feet above the two val- leys, Catoctin and Pleasant, which it in- terviews; it had no houses, and was seven miles from the Potomac river and railroad. it was one of the three gaps in South Mountain carried by McClellan, whose correspondents’ memorial was a conse- quence of this recommendation. TW Idea of the Design. Passing through Hagerstown, after in- specting the new road at Antietam, Mr. ‘Towncend observed the fine horseshoe arch, in Hagerstown Mmestone, at tha new Bal- timore and Ohio station there. Right op- posite was a new tower of the same quarry- dressed stone upon an engine house. He drew the tower into a sketch beside the arch and It gave tho suggestion of a bat- tlemented gateway, such as survives in the towns at the passes of the Appenines, notably Pontassieve, under Vallambrosa, where W. W. Siory, the sculptor, lately died. In 1862, while taking his correspondent's vacation, after the campaigns of Pope and McClellan, Mr. Townsend walked up to Vallambrosa from Florence, and slept at Pontassieve. Its double-storied feudal gate- way gave a splendid effect of stars and mountain through the open arches. Mect- ing Jchn L, Smithmeyer, the architect of Georgetown College and of the new Library of Congress, thirty-four years after, Mr. Townsend said: “I am going to build a monument to the army correspondents on South mountain; a battlemented feudal gate with a horse- skoe arch. We ran on the horseshoe and were under feudal tenure to our papers and the state.” “I will make my contribution the design, said Mr. Smithmeyer. This conception has been developed with campaign speed. The idea was born Ni vember 28, 1895. In four days an associate advisory body was collected by letter and the Hagerstown Bank madb the depository. December 12 a circular was sent out. De- cember 17 Mr. Smithmeyer began his draft. December 26 Mr. Townsend and the archi- tect visited the site. January 26, one month later, the sum of $3,000 was assured. Some of the Contributors. William C. Whitney began it with a hardsome subscription of $200 cash, saying: “I wonder the idea was not thought of be- fore, and am glad of the opportunity.” Congressman Richard C. McCormick, who began his career by writing letters to the Evening Post, New York, from Abraham Lincoln's home at Springfield, Ill, and af- terward corresponded from the seat of war, gave $100, and guaranteed $200 more, which Mr. Elkins and Mr. Shannon have sub- scribed. Mr. Elkins’ generous partner,R. C. Kerens, gave his check for $100, and'Mr. Hush J. Jewett of Deer Creek, Md. gave $100 promptly. _ The correspondents who survive are not often rich, but Joseph B. McCullough, edl- tor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and founder of interviews, and one of the most active correspondents in the western armies, gave $100. Mr. Nathaniel Paige, who wrote for the New York Tribune and was em- ployed for that purpose by Henry Villard, gave the same. Mr. Crosby S. Noyes, who was a writer of the battles of Bull Run, and of numerous army events for The Washington Evening Star and Philadelphia Telegraph, gave $100, and his partner, Mr. S. H. Kauffmann, and their former pattrer, Governor A. H. Shep- herd, also contributed to the fund. Col. John Hay began at Springfield, ML, as Abraham Lincoln's associate secretary, and with Mr. Nicolay, grandly composed Lincoln's memoirs. He gave his name and check with hearty wishes, and Robert R. Hitt, the stenographic reporter ot Lincoln’s debates with Douglas, sent help and the words: “I saw much of their devotion to duty, their brave and untiring activity, and the incalculable service they rendered the nation in bringing to every home the fresh- est and most vivid word.” Whitelaw Reid, noted correspondent, gave $100, and Joseph Pulitzer $100. Gen. James H. Wilson, the captor of Jef- ferson Davis, gave money, and wrote of the army correspondents: “They were a most gallant and patrioti as well as enterprising, set of men, an their services are worthy of commemoration before all their countrymen, and in such manner as the whole world may be remind- ed of them.” Henry M. Stanley, the world’s greatest finder and army correspondent in Missourl, Abyssinia, Spain and Magdale,wrote: “Wel- comely use my namel- I was over Antietam battle ground recently and kodaked many interesting scenes in that locality.” It is hoped that means may be obtained to place Mr. Stanley’s bust upon the me- morial, and also McGahan’s, the pupil of our army correspondents, who made the ride to Khiva, and died the idol of the Turkish Christians as their sword of speech to Europe. ‘When the cash in hand reached $1,200 a cimpular of the subscribers was sent after other disciples, and the nature of the memorial widened from the reporters to the letters of the great civil war. ‘With the exception of Robert Hoe, how- ever, no pressmaker, publisher of books, type founder, type machine maker or paper maker has given anything. however, gave the secord impetus to the memorial, led in order by the Pittsburg Dis- patch and the Brooklyn Eagle with $100 each; the same amount was paid Ly Wm. M. Singerly, Philadelphia Record; Edwin F. Abell, Baltimore Sun; James Elverson, Philadelphia Inquirer; Victor Lawson, Chi- cago News and Record; Calvin Wells, per- sonally, owner of the Philadelphia Press, and H. H. Kohisaat of the Chicago Times- Herald. Vigorous papers, like the Kansas City Star and the New York Daily News, ave also. © Frank Thomson of the Pennsylvania rafl- road, John G. Moore, from Monte Carlo, Italy; J. Pierpont Morgan, the invincible banker and conservator of American rail- road properties, and George M. Pullman Bave $100 apiece, Gov. Levi P. Morton, Henry W. Cannon of the Chase Nationa! Bank, John W. Book- walter. Calvin Brice, John D. Archivld and A. A. Pope gave &W apiece. There have been twenty subscriptions. of $25 apiece. Some disappointment has been felt at the inattention of men and interests thought to be kindred in spirit to this monument, such as the social leaders, the magnates of the telegraph and telephone, and, in some cases, the more successful of the fraternity of cor- respondents, but the promoters of the en- terprise are perhaps impatient with their speed. This memorial requires a good sense of citizenship to discera its example and util- ity. The press hotis the destinies of our peo- ple and property in its motive. An en- couragenent of honor, sacrifice, risk and poverty in the press will raise the standard of its junior men to be a soldiery against mercenary and truckling journalism. The broad stone of honor in this embat- tled portal symbolizes the knight errantry and krighthood of the public writer as he was and may continue. In other departments the newspapers, raise their luxurious towers above the great factory of human machinery, but these army correspondents wandered’ with their eyes to see events beyond the manip- wiation of proprietors or syndicates. Their rigid gateway says to the pretender for money or power who expects to capture the intelligence of the coming age: “This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.”" The First War Correspondents. Before there was a newspaper pr'ss army correspondents wrote the books, such as Xenophon, ‘Thucydides, Josephus and Caesar, each of them a writing follower of the wars. Sir John Froissart was ordered away from the army of the Black Prince because he told too much truth, and Phillippe de Comines gives the basis of all the history of Philip of Burgundy and Louis XI, as well as recording the French invasion of Italy contemporary with Columbus. Several participants chronicled the civil wars in England. Col. John Parke of Vir- ginia bore the news of the battle of Blen- heim home to Queen Anne. Col. John Trumbull left the revolutionary army when fighting ended, so precipitate to paint the actors in the American revolution that he was arrested in Benjamin West's studio on a charge of high treason, fomented by teries in Londen. West himself, an American Quaker, first put battle scenes in trousers, and painted all the deeds of Horatio Nelson, aot omit- ting the black spot of “Lady” Hamilton. The battle of Waterloo, in 1815, was faintly deserlbed in the London Times. Not ull 1854, in the Crimean war, did “our own correspoudent” emerge, the trenchant writer, William Howard Russell, taking the lead, who is still living and editing his own army and navy publication. Mr. Russell's fame caused one or two American writers to venture near the Italian war. The next war following, 1856, Was partly reported by Townsend, Smalley, Stillson and Coffin of our army corre ‘pond- ents. About one hundred names are already reported of American writers, north ard south, in the civil war, and both Union and confederate correspondents are to be enrolled. . The list of army correspondents below is imperfect and the secretary now publishes it to Invite corrections and additiors, which can be sent to G. A. Townsend, 229 Ist street northeast, Washington, Db. C. The tablet of these names is to go low on the memorial, and information should tbe sent early. ARMY “I will be correspondent to comman And do my spriting gently.” i TEMPEST. Anderson, Finley Houston, A. Alexander, P. W. Isham, W. P. Ashley Keim, D. R. Beaman Knox, T. W. Bickham, W. McCullough, J. B, Godman, A. HL BlcGahan, J. A. ? Boweryem, G. McCormick, R. C. Browne, J. H. Medill, J. Bulkley, S. T. Me iam, W. H. Cadwallader Miller, J. Carpenter, S. M. Cash, T. M. Chapman, F. @. Noyes, Crosby 8. Osborn, B. F. Osbon, G. H. Chureh, W. C. Paige, N. Caureh, F. Painter, U. H. Clarke, G. _W. Paris, Comie de Coftin, C.C. Ray Colburn, R. Raymond, H. J. Cook, ‘J. Reid, W. Cook, T. M. Richardson, A. D, Crapsey, E. Runkle, H. Creighton Russell, HH. Crouse, A. Ie Sala, G. Cuthbert, E. Sawyer, 0. G Dana, C. A. Shanks, W. F. @ Davis Smalley, G. W De Fontaine, F. @. Stark Stanley, H. M Stedman, E. Cc. Dunn, J. PL Stillson, J. B. Eaton, D. R. M. — Stiner, W. H. Farrell, C. H. Strother, D. HL Swinton, W. en GA Glenn, S. a Sos 4 ‘uman, B. Slover, T. B. sburg, J. HH. Griff H. Villard, Halpin, C. G.? Wallazz, E. We Hannen, C. Watson, F. Harding, B. Watterson, H, Hart, G. H. Westfall, E. D. J. Whitiemore 8. Wilkison, S. Halstead, M. ? Wilkison, F. Hedge, F. M. 2 Wilson, J. G. Hend » L. A. Wilson, T. C. Howell Young, J. R. Hosmer, G. W. Young, W. Hot BE. W. ARTIST CORRESPONDENTS, Bacon, H. Nast, T. Crane Page, C. Davis, T. lor. Forbes, E. Vizitelli Jewett, J. 3. Ward, Ss, Lumley, A. Waud, A. Mosler, H. KILLER THE GREAT Family Medicine of the Age. 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