Sir Sculptors To Offer Designs For Lee-Jackson Memorial

$100,000 Available For Erection Of Monument At Wyman Park Drive And University Parkway To Two Great Confederate Generals

Six sculptors, including Hans Schuler, director of the Maryland Institute, will engage in a limited competition for the privilege of doing a heroic statue commemorating the last meeting at Chancellorsville of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

This was announced yesterday by Charles Morris Howard, chairman of the committee named by the late J. Henry Ferguson who, in 1928, left $100,000 for the erection of a statue to the two Confederate generals.

Mr. Howard also announced that the committee has selected a sile for the statue on the southeast corner of Wyman Park Drive and University Parkway.

Others To Compete

The other sculptors who have accepter the committee’s invitation to compete for the privilege of doing the memorial are as follow’s:

EDWARD MCCARTAN, of New York.

F. WILLIAM SIEVERS. of Richmond, Va.

PAUL MANSHlP, of New York.

MRS. JAMES EARLE FRAZER, of Westport, Conn.

LEE LAURIE, of New York.

The committee in charge of selecting the sculptor and naming the site has planned to have the judging done by a panel of prominent sculptors who are not engaging in the competition.

Fund Available

The $100,000 left by Mr. Ferguson became available to the Municipal Art Society, to which he presented it, in October. 1934, on the death of Mrs. Ella F. Ward, sister of Mr. Ferguson.

The statue will commemorate the meeting of the two great Confederate generals shortly before Jackson was mortally wounded. Of them Mr. Ferguson wrote in his will:

His Boyhood Heroes

“They were my boyish heroes and maturer judgment has only strengthened my admiration for them. They were great generals and Christian soldiers. They waged war like gentlemen, and I feel that their example should be held up to the youth of Maryland.”

When the monument has been erected it will be presented to the city by the Municipal Art Society, It has been pointed out that the upkeep will be little or nothing, as the statue will be of bronze or marble. The figures will be about fifty per cent above life size. Mr. Howard explained.