most poetic and the most individualistic victory in warfare Its thrill will never die and its story never grow old.

It took Lincoln, the son of an illiterate backwoodsman; Grant, the son of a tanner; Sherman, the poor orphan boy; and Sheridan, the son of an Irish immigrant laborer, to lead the hosts of the people to victory and the abolition of slavery.

Lincoln is honored everywhere throughout the land.

Grant has a mausoleum in New York.

Sherman has a statue at the entrance to Central Park.
Let us erect a statue to Sheridan here in the city of his birth!

Governor Glynn's speech was received with enthusiasm, and upon motion of J. Harris Loucks, a member of the Camp, a committee was appointed to take the necessary steps toward carrying out the plan. A committee of 'well-known Albany citizens was named, with Governor Glynn as honorary chair

Another committee, known as the "Officers, Joint Citizens and Philip H. Sheridan Camp No. 200, Sons of Veterans, Sheridan Monument Committee," was formed, of which Mayor Joseph W. Stevens, of Albany, was chairman. These committees acted in unison. Mayor Stevens was one of "Sheridan's boys" and served with "Little Phil" throughout the Shenandoah Valley campaign, the conduct of which covered the name of Sheridan with glory.

At the Lincoln dinner above mentioned Governor Glynn, in discussing the subject with Edward B. Cantine, commander of the Philip H. Sheridan Camp, said that if the committees raised $10,000 toward the erection of the statue he would do what he could to induce the legislature to pass a bill appropriating $20,000 for the purpose. The $10,000 was speedily

raised from the generous people of Albany, and the State added the $20,000, the act of the legislature also providing for a commission of seven to carry out its provisions.

That commission consisted of Hon. Martin H. Glynn, Governor; Hon. Robert F. Wagner, acting Lieutenant-Governor; Hon. Thaddeus C. Sweet, speaker of the assembly (these three officers constituting the trustees of public buildings); Hon. Thomas Carmody, Attorney-General; Edward B. Cantine, Charles M. Winchester and John Farnsworth. The three latter were appointed by the Governor as members of the Sheridan Camp, Sons of Veterans.

The committees named at the Lincoln dinner appointed a subcommittee of five members to inquire into the subject of erecting the monument. The names of these members were: J. Harris Loucks, chairman; Rollin B. Sanford, Edgar A. Vander Veer, M.D., Ben V. Smith and John Farnsworth.

The report of this subcommittee, made April 4, 1914, less than two months from the date of launching the movement, is an interesting document and admirably sums up the work of the members. The committee during its investigation had the good fortune to hear of a plaster model statue of General Sheridan by the late John Quincy Adams Ward, an intimate friend of Sheridan, which could be procured and erected in Albany, under the direction of Daniel C. French, the eminent sculptor. This statue in bronze was finally contracted for at a cost of $25,000, set up in Albany.

The committee's report was:

REPORT OF COMMITTEE

TO PHILIP H. SHERIDAN CAMP No. 200, SONS OF VETERANS, AND THE CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF GENERAL PHILIP H. SHERIDAN, IN CAPITOL PARK, IN THE CITY OF ALBANY: GENTLEMEN.— Your committee as a subcommittee charged with the duty of making due inquiry and reporting to the joint committee in the matter of the erection of a monument to the memory of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, in Capitol Park, in the city of Albany, respectfully report as follows:

It was determined in view of the military record of General Sheridan, one of the three great soldiers produced by the North in the Civil War, that no monument to his memory would be sufficient or worthy of the place of his birth and the capital of the Empire State, other than a bronze equestrian statue of heroic size.

That led your committee to an inquiry as to the expense of an equestrian statue such as the situation demanded, and into the possibility of its procuring, at a fair and reasonable cost, the services of some distinguished American sculptor whose known public work would mark him as capable of executing such an important commission. We found that there were but few equestrian statues in the United States, and that while many sculptors were willing to try their 'prentice hand on the problem at our expense, and would endeavor to erect an equestrian statue which might or might not be a

great work of art, that those whose equestrian statue work was known and acceptable from an art standpoint were very limited, and that such by reason of their standing were either engaged for years ahead or did not seek the responsibilities of equestrian art work unless their compensation was such as to warrant their foregoing all other commissions while they were engaged thereon.

Your committee next considered the question of the cost of a heroic bronze equestrian statue, and we learned that they were very costly and that, unless something fortuitous came to pass, it was not at all probable that one of great and sufficient merit could be erected within the appropriation and private subscription therefor contemplated by the legislative act providing for its erection.

The equestrian statue of General Sheridan in Washington cost the government $54,000; the McClellan statue, $65,000; the General Draper statue, by Daniel C. French, $50,000; the Sherman statue in New York, by St. Gaudens, we are informed, cost $100,000.

The cost of single-figure standing statues was not less. Mr. French was paid $50,000 for a bronze Lincoln, erected in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the standing Lincoln in Chicago, we are told, cost $100,000. Good art is expensive, but the best is none too good to memorialize our dead hero.

We then became aware of the existence in plaster and ready for enlargement of a completed model of an equestrian statue of General Sheridan by John Quincy Adams Ward, which had been made upon the order of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, for erection in Washington, and which could be procured and erected in the city of Albany under the direction and supervision of Daniel C. French, America's most

eminent sculptor, at the mere cost of its erection, plus a small honorarium to the widow of Mr. Ward.

We then inquired concerning the statue, the art history of the sculptor and the artistic merit of the work itself. Concerning the sculptor and the statue we learned the following: John Quincy Adams Ward was born in Urbana, Ohio, on June 29, 1830. He studied under and assisted H. K. Brown in the making of the bronze equestrian statue of Washington, in Union Square, New York city, in the early fifties, and his career as a sculptor from that time until his death in 1910, covering a period of over sixty years, was one of most pronounced success. He was recognized as one of America's greatest sculptors, and his many works scattered throughout the Union testify to the appreciation in which he was held by the public and by his associates.

He was the president of the National Sculptors Society, a National Academician and a trustee of many art societies and institutions, where his advice and ripened experience were greatly sought and always followed. Among his public statues may be mentioned the colossal Washington on the steps of the Subtreasury in New York city; Henry Ward Beecher in the City Hall Park, Brooklyn; Commodore Perry, Newport; Israel Putnam, Hartford; Gen. George H. Thomas, Washington; Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, Philadelphia, and the figures in the pediment in the Stock Exchange, New York city.

John Quincy Adams Ward and Gen. Philip H. Sheridan were great friends, and the general upon various occasions expressed to Mr. Ward his desire that when it came to pass that a statue would be erected to him that Ward, if he were alive at the time, should do the work. He said to Ward, "Be sure and give me a horse." When the general died,