The Evening Sun · Mar 3, 1939
GROUP PUSHING WORK ON NEW MONUMENT
Materials Delay Completion Of Lee-Jackson Statue At Wyman Park
The committee in charge of the erection of the Lee-Jackson equestrian monument in Wyman Park opposite the Baltimore Museum of Art is still active and is carrying on its work. This information was obtained from Charles Morris Howard, chairman of the committee in charge of the memorial, when he was asked about the matter.
In a letter to The Evening Sun Forum, a correspondent who signed herself “L. Alma Dubbelde’ asked what had happened to the committee. She stated that “over a year ago huge poles and cables were erected over the main thoroughfare of Wyman Park Drive. I notice that the cables are beginning to break, which is indeed dangerous. The large block of unfinished concrete is an eyesore to the beautiful surroundings of the Art Museum and Wyman Park.”
Hints Of Statement
William J. Casey, treasurer of the Municipal Art Society, who has charge of the financial end of the arrangements for obtaining the statue, now being made in New York by Mrs.
Laura Gardin Frazier at a cost of $100,000, when his attention was called to the letter and he was asked about it, said:
“I have nothing I want to say at the present time about the matter.”
He intimated, however, that some definite information might be forthcoming concerning the progress being made on the statute within the next two weeks.
Funds for the memorial to Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson were provided in the will of the late J. Henry Ferguson, who described the Confederate heroes as “my boyish heroes.”
Materials Delay Job
The selected model shows them parting on the eve of the battle of Chancellorsville.
The cables referred to are attached to fixed objects across Wyman Park Drive and are used as supports for a large derrick beside the concrete pedestal. A large part of the pedestal work was completed sometime ago.
Mr. Howard said that he understood there was some delay about materials being used for the statue and that it probably would not be completed this year.