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(WATERBUIIY EVENING DEMOCR AT. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEU 25, 1C03.
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., SIIERIDAtl
HONORED TODAY
Washington Sees Unveiling
5 of Bis Statue. r
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
' Mr. . Roosevelt Eulogises Career of
t "Fighting Phil" In Civil War Bat
tlaa and In Fighta 'With Indiana.
' Monumtnt 6howa Central at Clou
" of Famous Rida to Cedar .Creek From
, Wlncheiter, "Twenty Milaa Away."
' Washington, Nov. 25. In one of the
most beautiful parts of the national
capital be helped to save, the magnifi
cent equestrian statue of General Pbll
lp H. Sheridan was unveiled today.
Among the throng of notable persons
who gathered to do honor to tho mem
ory of the great soldier were the presi
dent of the United States, who deliv
ered an address; the army and navy of
ficers resident or stationed In and near
Washington, the heads of the executive
SHERIDAN'S RIDE
By Thomas Buchanan Rea.d
IP from the South at break ot
day, '
Bringing to Winchester fresh
dismay, '
The affrighted air with a shud-
der bore,
Like a herald in haste, to the chief
tain's door,
The terrible (rumble and rumble and
roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
And wider still those billows of war
Thundered along the horizon's bar;
And louder yet Into Winchester rolled
The roar of that red aea uncontrolled,
Making the blood of the listener cold
As he thought of the stake in that
- fiery fray,
. With Bherldan twenty miles away.
But there Is a road from Winchester
town, '
A good, broad highway, leading down;
And there, through the flash of the
morning light,
A steed as black aa the steeds of night.
Was seen to pass as with eagle flight.
As If he knew the terrible need,
He stretched away with the utmost ,
speed;
Hills rose and fell, but his heart was
gay,
With Sheridan fifteen miles are?.
Still sprung from those swift hoofs,
thundering South,
The dust, like smoke from the can
non's mouth;
Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster
and faster,
' Foreboding to traitors the doom of dls-
aster.
The heart of the steed, and the heart
of the master.
Were beating, like prisoners assault-
- lng their walls,
Impatient to be where the battle-field
calls;
Every nerve of the charger was strain-
I ed to full play,
With Sheridan only ten miles away.
branches of the government, diplomatic
representatives of foreign countries and
others of note.
The statue stands In Sheridan circle,
named after the general, at the junc
tion of Massachusetts avenue and
Twenty-third street It is the heart of
' One of the best residence sections of
the national capital. . '
The universal opinion of those who
witnessed the unveiling today Is that
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OUTZON BORQLUM'8
the statue of the famous cavalry lead
er is a worthy memorial of his fame.
It represents the general at the close
of his famous ride when, com'ns; from
Winchester, "twenty mfies. away," he
rallied hi men at the tettlt of Cedar
Creek and tamed their rout by the Con
federate General Jubal A. Early Into a
Fadera! ylctory. i ' -
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etatua True to Ufa.
; Tbe bronssa. general alta, his bronse
teed like a centaur, hat In hand, urg
ing bis men to greater exertion, Tho
effigy of tho man is a true representa
tion of "Flgbtlng'' Phi!" aa be-was In
the flesh, and the metal horse shows
to the life his famous charger, Hlenll,
sometimes known as Winchester, who
bore the general from Winchester on
the storied ride. The sculptor of the
statue,' Cution Borglum of New York,
has caught to tho life the expression
of the general' face, according to
Mrs. Sheridan and her son, Lieutenant
Pblllp H. Sheridan. The horse Is a
correct facsimile of Rienil, according
to careful measurements of bis skin,
preserved at the army post on Gov
ernors Island, New York, and photo
graphs. The clothlue and accoutermeuts of
General Sheridan shown In the statue
are modeled after garments actually
worn by him. He Is depicted wearing
a service uuiforuv with sword and
spurs.'. ,
The statue is fourteen feet hlgb and
stands on a plinth of granite. The
unner -part of the statue's base is
rough, Indicating the earth torn np by
Sheridan's horse as be is reined up by
his rider. : ,
Record Bronze Cast" ,
The horse Is the largest piece of
bronze ever, cast in a single piece in
this country and perhaps In the world.
More than fi.000 pounds of ' liquid
Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind,
Like an ocean flying before the wind;
And the steed, like a bark fed with
furnace ire,
Swept on, with his wild eyes full of
tire;
But, lo! he is nearlng his heart's de
sire, '
He is snuffing the smoke of the roar
ing fray, . .-
With Sheridan, only five miles away.. ,
The first that the General saw were -V :
the groups
Of stragglers, and then the retreating
troops; - .
What was done, what to do, a glance
told him both,
And, striking his spurs with a terrible
oath.
He dashed down the line mid a storm
of huzzas.
And the wave of retreat checked Its
course there, because
The sight of the master compelled It to
pause.
With foam and with dust the black
charger was gray;
By the flash of his eye, and his nos-
, tril's play, ; ;
He seemed to the whole great army to
say,
"I have brought you Sheridan all the
way
From Winchester down, to save the
day!"
Hurrah, hurrah for SherldanT
Hurrah, hurrah for horse and man! "
And when their statues are placed on
high, . '
Under the dome of the Union sky,
The American soldier's Temple of
Fame,
There with the glorious General's name
' Be It said In letters both bold and
bright: '
''Here Is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From Winchester, twenty mllea -.
away!" , ,
bronze were poured Into the mold to
form the horse.; The casting was done
at a foundry near Providence, R. I.
Preceding the unveiling of the statuo
there was a military parade in which
all the regular troops, sailors and ma
rines stationed In and near Washing
ton as well as the national guard of
the District of Columbia took part.
In addition to President Roosevelt's
speech an address was delivered by
General Horace Porter, who was chief
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of staff to General Tlrant and 18 presi
dent of the Grant Monument associa
tion. The principal address was de
livered by President Roosevelt, who
eulogized General Sheridan's army ca
reer both In the civil war and In the
Bunting on the western plains with
the Indians. The president's address
wag as follpT:
The President's Addreee.
It is eminently fltttag that tn Bu
tton's illustrious men, the men who
loom heroes before tl eye of our
people, should be fittingly cOmmem
orated here at the national capital, and
I am glad IndeaVl to take part in
unveiling of this statue to General
Sheridan. Ills name will always stand
high on the list of American worthies.
Not only waa he a great general, but
bo showed his greatness wltb that
touch of originality which we call
genius. Indeed, this quality of bril
liance Las been in one sense a dlsaa
vantage to bis reputation, for it has
tended to overshadow bis solid ability.
We tend to think of him only aa tho
dashing cavalry leader, whereas to
was in reality not only that, but also a
great commauder. Of course the fact
In bis career most readily recognized
was bis mastery in the necessarily
modern art - of handling masses ot
modern cavalry so as to give them the
fullest possible effect not only in the
ordinary operations of cavalry which
precede and follow a battle, but in the
battle Itself. But In addition be show
ed in the civil war that be was a first
class army commander both as a sub
ordinate of Grant and when in hide
pendent command. - His record in the
Valley campaign and again from Five
Forks to Appomattox is one difficult to
parallel in military history. After the
close of the great war, in a field where
there was scant glory to be won by the
general In chief, he rendered a signal
service which bas gone almost unno
ticed, for in the tedious, weary Indian
wars on the great plains It was be whe
developed in thoroughgoing fashion
the system of campaigning in winter
which, at the cost of bitter hardship
and peril, finally broke down the band
ed strength of those formidable war
riors, the horse Indians.
General's Career Eulogized.
His career was typically American,
for from plain beginnings bo rose tc
the highest military position In our
land. ! We honor his memory itself,
and, moreover, as in the case of the
other great commanders of his day,
his career symbolizes the careers of
all those men who in the years of the
nation's direst need sprang to the
front to risk everything, including life
itself, and to spend the days of their
strongest young manhood in valorous
conflict for an ideal. Often we Amer
icans are taunted with having only a
material ideal. The empty folly of the
taunt is sufficiently shown by - tho
presence here today of you men of the
Grand Army, you the comrades of the
dead general, the men who served
with and under him. In all history
we have no greater Instance of subor
dination of self, of the exalting of a
lofty ideal over merely material well
being among the people of a great na
tion, than was shown by our own peo
ple in the civil war.
And you, the men who wore the
blue, would be the first to say that
this same lofty indifference to the
things, of the body, when compared to
the things of the soul, was shown by
your brothers who wore tho gray.
Dreadful was the suffering, dreadful
the loss, of the civil war. Yet, it
stands alone among wars in this, that,
now that the wounds are healed, the
memory of the mighty deeds of valor
performed on one side no less than on
the other has become the common
heritage of all our people In every
quarter of this country. The com
pleteness with which this is true is
shown by what is occurring here tor
day. We meet together to raise a
monument toa great Union genera.1
in the presence of many of the sur
vivors of the Union army, and the sec
retary of war, the man at the head of
the army, who, by virtue of his of
fice, occupies a special relation to the
celebration, is himself a man who
fought in the Confederate service.
Few Indeed have been the countries
where such a conjunction would have
been possible, and blessed indeed are
we that in our own beloved land it Is
not only possible, but seems so entire
ly natural as to ejeite no comment
whatever.
. : Americanism Defined.
There is another point in General
Sheridan's career which It Is good for
all f us to remember. Whereas
Grant, Sherman and Thomas were of
the old native American stock, the
parents of Sheridan, like the parents
of Farragut, were born on the other
side of the water. Any one of the five
was Just as much a type of the real
American, of what Is best in America,
as the other four. We should keep
steadily before our minds the fact
that Americanism is a question of
principle, of purpose, of Idealism, of
character; that it is not a matter of
birthplace or creed or line of descent.
Here in this country the . representa
tives of many old world races are
being fused together Into a new type,
a type the main features of which are
already determined and were deter
mined at the time of the Revolutionary
war, for the crucible in which all the
new types are melted into one was
shaped from 1776 to 1780, and our na
tionality ws definitely fixed in all its
essentials by the men of Washington's
day. The strains will not continue to
exist separately In this country as in
the old world. They will be combined
in one, and of this new type those men
will best represent what is loftiest in
the nation's past, what is finest in her
Ibope for the future, who stand each
solely on bis worth as a man, who
scorn to do evil to others and who
refuse to submit to wrongdoing them
selves, who have in them no taint of
weakness, who never fear to fight
when fighting is demanded by a sound
and high morality, but who hope by
their lives to bring ever nearer the
day when justice and peace shall pre
vail within our own borders and in
our relations wltb all foreign powers.
Much of the usefulness of any career
must He in the impress that It makes
upon and the lessons that it teaches to
the generations that come after, i We
of this generation have bur own prob
lems to solve, and the condition of our
solving them is that we shall all work
together aa American citizens without
regard to differences of section or
creed or birthplace, copying not the di
visions which so lamentably sundered
ur fathers one from, another, but the
HOUSEHOLD
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spirit of' burning' devotion" todufy
which drove them forward, each to do
the right as it -was given him to see
the right. In the great years when
Grant, Farragut, Sherman, Thomas
and Sheridan, when Lee and Jackson
and the Johnstons, the valiant men of
the north and the valiant men of the
south, fought to a finish the great civil
war. They did not "themselves realize
in the bitterness of the struggle that
the blood and the grim suffering mark
ed the death throes of what was worn
out and the birth pangs of a new
and more glorious national life. Might
Is the heritage which we have received
from the men of the mighty days. We
in our turn must gird up our loins to
meet the new issues with the same'
stern courage and resolute adherence
to an ideal which marked our fathers
who belonged bo the generation of the
man in whose honor we commemorate
this monument today.
QUICK WIT SAVED HIM. 1
Ths Way a Criminal Fooled
Parla
Police Chief.
In the "Memories" of M. Claude,
chief of police during the reign of Na
poleon III., there Is much that la fas
cinating to lovers of detective stories.
One ot M. Claude's experiences was
that in which be was outwitted by a
clever criminal wbo saw In the police
chiefs resemblance to Beranger .when
the poet was at the height of his pop
ularity a means of escape from cap
ture. The criminal bad returned to
Parts and was living as a rich student
in the Latin quarter, then In the height
of its bobemlan splendor.
Claude thought to make an easy
capture of bis man by attending a cer
tain famous ballroom at the hour when
dancing was at its height He tells
the story:
I bad no difficulty, in discovering
him seated among a swarm of pretty
girls and bewitching danseuses.
"Convinced there were but two ways
of getting the better of a cunning ene
mysurprise and audacity I walked
straight up to where my rascal was
seated. I walked slowly, wltb steady
steps; my eyes on the eyes of my man.
He was a dark skinned, handsome fel
low, wltb a face as brazen as it waa
cynical, I saw by an impreceptible
sign that he recognized me. He turn
ed pale he was mlnel
"I was almost near enough, to cap
ture him when I saw him bend to the
ear of one of his companions. Instant
ly all the girls surrounded me and
stood in a feverish, excited, ardent
phalanx before me. They formed an
impenetrable barrier, behind which my
rascal escaped, while the women press
ed eagerly upon me, crying out:
" 'Beranger! It is Beranger!'
"The magic name presented upon
the youthful spirits there the effect
of an electric spark. All the dancers
of the establishment stopped dancing
and surrounded me wltb acclamations.
The students and young girls rushed
up to me, some bearing bouquets, oth
ers glass in band. I was literally cov
ered wltb flowers, while the whole
place rang wltb shouts, a hundred
timea repeated, of 'Vive Beranger!
Vive Beranger!'
I was aghast, and yet I understood
the trick. On tbe point of being col
lared by me, the man I had marked
down had recourse to this shrewd
game, which must have succeeded even
better than be expected. I certainly
bad some points of resemblance to the
illustrious song maker or. the whole
world of students and grisettea in tbe
Latin Quarter would not have fallen
so readily Into his trap. I was as bald
as the poet at that time, and at ail
times I have bad a certain good na
tared, sympathetic benevolence In my
appearance such as the portraits of
Beranger show to this day.
"Well, if the youth of Paris counter
signed tbe Intentional error of my clev
er scamp I owed It to my resemblance
to the poet Though I was tricked. I
waa well tricked. It waa not for me
to own to these glddypates that I was
not Beranger. but Claude, tbe police
man, the agent of all the prosecutors.
Judges and lawyers wbo under tbe
restoration bad done so much barm
to their IdoL I escaped from the ova
tion, which was becoming delirious
nder an avalanche of flowers."
the Had to Mend Them.
Benham 1 believe In putting my
best foot forward.
Mrs. Benham I have noticed that
yosr toe always goes right threugb
roar stocking. Town Topics.
For a Few Days
To prove the quick baking quali
ties of these ranges I will give free
with every household range an
eight day, half hour strike, alarm
clock, like cut. Household Ranges
have no equal.
T7 A TYT T7
SURFEIT OF ADVICE.
I've had a cold
And can't endure
(The folks to know
A certain cure.
I'v. been advised
Just what to do
To make a thing
Look good aa new.
Suggestions I
Have bad my share,
Just what to eat
And what to wear,
' But since my baby
Came. I swear,
I set advice
From everywhere.
Some tell us that
We mustn't teed
Her more than such
A child should need.
Two hours apart,
And soma say three,
And some whene'er
She cries tell me. :
Don't walk the floor,
I have been told.
In time she'll be as
Good as gold.
Don't rock her nights,
And, if she cries,
To leave ber quite ,
Alone ia wise.
If hiccoughs come
"Twere best, some say,
To let them wear
Themselves away.
While others swear k
Warm water will
Relieve her quick
And keep her still.
I never knew
Till baby smiled
How many folks
Can raise a child.
Detroit Free Press.
A Country Seat.
There Ware Others.
"And is there no hope for me?' de
jectedly asked the rejected suitor.
"Oh, of course there is hope for
your' replied the fair girl. "There
are surely lots of girls In the world
who are not as particular as I am."
Minneapolis Journal.
I V?
Proper Enough.
Tom Here! You've started your
note to Burroughs "Dr. Sir." Don't
you know that sort of abbreviation is
very slovenly?
Dick-No. sir. "Dr." is aU right in
this case. He owes me money. Phila
delphia Press.
He'd Been Up.
She Then you've been up in the
air?
He Oh, yes.
"Balloon or airship?"
"Neither. I was struck by an ant
mobile." Tonkers Statesman.
His Turn Coming.
Ton know Sharpe, the attorney, got
rich breaking wills."
"Yes."
"And now keeps worrying about how
his heirs will fight over his money."
Kansas City Times.
Discovered.
"We have been hearing a great deal
about the superman, but Is there any
such thing as a superwoman?"
"Yes. 8he is tbe lady who doeant
get off the car backward." Chicago
Heeord-Herald.
Bunkoed Again.
Farmer Ryetop Say. Hiram, when
you were in Noo York last what was
tbe worst quarter you took In?
Farmer Hardapple-Why, a Cana
dian quarter with a bole In, by gosh!
ihicago News.
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PAINTING.
1. In the fall, the surface is thoroughly dry. During the spring si '
surface which needs repainting is sure to contain moisture and damp
ness or frost, and it cannot be successfully painted until it has thoroughly
dried out. V
2. When the wood is dry, it absorbs more of the paint. The paint
penetrates deeper into the wood, therefore) gets a firmer hold on it, giv
ing the paint coating greater tenacity or holding qualities.
8. Paint cannot be applied as successfully in damp, clondy or un
settled weather as in warm, sunny weather, to the fall the weather is
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months than at any other time. A housn in need of repainting should
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