Have Patience

Eighteen years ago J. Henry Ferguson, Baltimore banker and sportsman, died and left $100,000 for the erection of a heroic bronze statue to Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, whom – he greatly admired.

In 1939 the foundation-pedestal arrangement for the monument was completed at a cost of $50,000. Ac

However, which was promised “soon” at various intervals during the eighteen-year period, hasn’t been completed yet.

Patient Baltimoreans are still waiting and wondering if the empty pedestal standing diagonally across from the Museum of Art will always be that way.

To refresh the memory of the scores of Baltimoreans who have forgotten what the statue is to look like, it will be 13 feet from the top of the base to the heads of the two men. The group shows General Jackson about to pull away on his mount with his head thrust forward slightly as if calling some last remark to his commander in chief.

General Lee is depicted astride his favorite charger, Traveler, his head at an angle that indicates he is attentive to the remark that Jackson is making.