FAVORS GREENWAY SITE FOR MONUMENT

Committee On Lee-Jackson Memorial Also Considers Two Other Places

LAND PRICE IS FACTOR

City Tract At St. Paul Street Intersection Thought Too Small For Purpose

St. Paul street and Greenway is favored as the site for the statue commemorating the last meeting of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, as provided in the will of the late J. Harry Ferguson, it was indicated yesterday by Charles Morris Howard, chairman of the committee named in the will to arrange for the memorial.

Although the location opposite the Pro-Cathedral is favored at present, Mr. Howard said that two others are under consideration and still more may be acceptable.

Wyman Park Considered

The other locations considered favorably are the southeast corner of University Parkway and Wyman Park road, and in Bedford Place, the intersection of St. Paul and Charles streets.

Mr. Ferguson left $100,000 for erecting a memorial having as its subject the meeting of the Confederate generals at Chancellorsville, Va., just before Jackson was mortally. wounded. One of the stipulations was that the memorial statue be erected within ten miles of City Hall.

The site at St. Paul street and Greenway is on a small island belonging 10 the city. As the island now exists, Mr. Howard said, the committee considers it too small for the heroic proportions of the memorial. However, a plot of vacant land, owned by a private corporation, lies behind the city property. The erection of the statue at that point may depend on whether the added land can be obtained at what the committee considers a suitable figure.

When the statue has been erected it will be presented to the city. Mr. Howard said that the upkeep will be little or nothing, as the memorial will be largely of bronze or marble.

The chairman of the committee provided by Mr. Ferguson in. his will said further that R. J. McKinney, director of the Municipal Art Museum, has consented to act as consultant and adviser to the committee on the memorial.

The horses and men to be contained in the statue will probably be fifty per cent. above life size, Mr. Howard added.

Plans Limited Competition

When the site has been fixed definitely, possibly within two or three weeks, the next step will be the selection of an artist. A limited competition for this purpose will probably be held, Mr. Howard said yesterday.

The model to be used for the memorial will be left to the artist’s judgment. The Julio engraving, showing Lee on Traveler and Jackson on Little Sorrel, has been mentioned as a possible model for the statue. Mr. Howard pointed out, however, that the purpose of the committee is to obtain the best possible sculptor and to let him work out his idea unhampered.

The committee plans to obtain, if possible, a jury of eminent sculptors outside those competing to judge the models submitted by the competing artists.

Says Sculptors Are Interested

Mr. Howard said that the project has commanded the interest of eminent sculptors from all over the country, at least one of whom has been in Baltimore to confer with the committee.

The committee has been meeting from time to time, and while the progress necessarily has been slow, many difficulties have arisen, and details have had to be worked out. Once the matter of the site has been cleared up, Mr. Howard said, the work will go forward more rapidly.