We desire to express our high appreciation of Governor Glynn's action in the premises.

Annexed to our report are photographs of the model of the Ward statue, from which we can know what we will get if Mr. French's offer is accepted.

As part of our report we offer the following resolutions:

Resolved, That we recommend to the commissioners for the erection of a monument to Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, in Capitol park, in the city of Albany, the purchase and erection of the Ward equestrian statue of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, under the direction and supervision of Mr. Daniel C. French, as per his proposal.

Resolved, That the joint committee be and it is hereby requested to raise, by private subscription, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in aid of the erection of a suitable monument to the memory of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, in Capitol park, in the city of Albany, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 100, Laws of 1914.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

J. HARRIS LOUCKS

ROLLIN B. SANFORD

EDGAR A. VANDER VEER, M. D.

BEN. V. SMITH

JOHN FARNSWORTH

Committee

Albany, N. Y., April 4, 1914.

The above report and both resolutions were unanimously adopted by the joint committees.

The report of the subcommittee was followed by an appeal to the citizens of Albany by Mayor Joseph W. Stevens, chairman of the citizens' committee. The mayor's appeal was:

APPEAL BY THE MAYOR

To the Citizens of Albany:

An opportunity has been offered to us by the State of New York to do honor to a hero of the Civil War and to one of the great soldiers of the age, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, by the erection of a monument to his memory, in our city, the place of his birth.

The opportunity is ours, for the monument is dependent upon the citizens of Albany contributing the sum of ten thousand dollars to the fund for its erection as provided in the law authorizing it.

It is needless for me to eulogize General Sheridan to the citizens of Albany, or to narrate his achievements in the war for the preservation of the Union. They are a part of our national history and enshrined in the hearts of all our loyal countrymen. In honoring the memory of the general we are honoring ourselves and our city.

We can also consider its material benefits, for heroic equestrian statues are few and if of good art they add distinction to the city in which they are erected.

What great results can be accomplished for so small a contribution is set forth in the interesting report of the subcommittee having the matter in charge, which I commend to your careful consideration.

We should be interested in the project from patriotic motives, and I urge upon our citizens to contribute freely according to their means to this fund.

JOSEPH W. STEVENS,

Mayor and Chairman.

Dated, Albany, N. Y., April 14, 1914.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD

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OHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD, sculptor of the Sheridan statue which was unveiled in Capitol Park, Albany, October 7, 1916, was born in Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 1830. His ancestors had lived in Virginia for five generations, being descended from John Ward, of Norfolk, England, who landed at Jamestown in 1621. Among his progenitors who had served their country with distinction was James Ward, who, as ensign, had been with Washington in the frontier wars, and, as colonel, was killed in battle at Point Pleasant. His son, Col. William Ward, grandfather of J. Q. A. Ward, was one of the earliest settlers of Ohio, having laid out and named the town of Urbana on land obtained from the Indians.

The subject of this sketch spent his early life on his father's farm. He began to show talent for modeling when a small boy, and in his nineteenth year he began the study of sculpture in the studio of Henry K. Brown, in Brooklyn. He remained with Mr. Brown till 1857, assisting him in many of his important works, particularly in the equestrian statue of Washington in Union Square, New York city, a replica of which was recently presented to West Point. Mr. Brown used to say: Ward has more genius than Greenough, Crawford, Powers, and all the other American sculptors combined." Mr. Ward spent the winters of 1857-59 in Washington, D. C., where he modeled the busts of Alexander H. Stephens, Joshua R. Giddings, Hannibal Hamlin and other prominent