Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . unded acollege for girls, and a home for women of goodcharacter, made many endowments for poor mar-ried women and for nuns, and often distributedclothing among the needy. One of his pastorals isentitled Instruccion para una vida perfecta. ESCANDON, Antonio (es-can-don), Mexicancapitalist, 1;. in the city of Mexico, 25 Aug., 1825;d. in Pari-. France, 14 Jan., 1882. He began lifeas a merchant and manufacturer, and afterwardbecame a banker. His thorough knowledge of thetrade of his country soon led him to understandthe importance of a better communica
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . unded acollege for girls, and a home for women of goodcharacter, made many endowments for poor mar-ried women and for nuns, and often distributedclothing among the needy. One of his pastorals isentitled Instruccion para una vida perfecta. ESCANDON, Antonio (es-can-don), Mexicancapitalist, 1;. in the city of Mexico, 25 Aug., 1825;d. in Pari-. France, 14 Jan., 1882. He began lifeas a merchant and manufacturer, and afterwardbecame a banker. His thorough knowledge of thetrade of his country soon led him to understandthe importance of a better communication betweenthe capital and the principal port of entry, VeraCrux, and he was active in building the railroadbet ween those points. The road was begun in 18(51,and opened by President Lerdo de Tejada, 1 Jan.,1873, and is considered one of the triumphs ofmodern engineering skill. During the empire P]s-candon accepted the decoration of the order ofGuadalupe, and frequented the imperial court, andon the eve of the downfall of Maximilian went to. Paris, where he stayed until the beginning of his residence there he ordered from thesculptor Charles Cordier a statue of ChristopherColumbus, which he gave to his native city. Themonument is nearly forty feet high; the statueitself represents Columbus with one hand out-stretched, while with the other he lifts a veil, un-covering a the four cor-ners of the pedes-tal are seated fourmonks—Diego deDieza, turning theleaves of the Bibleto see if it con-tains any text op-posed to the mari-ners idea ; JuanPerez de Marche-na, studying achart and meas-uring with com-passes the distancebetween Spain andthe New World ;Bartolome de lasCasas, preparingto write the de-fence of the In-dians whom hevainly sought toprotect against thecruelty of the con-querors ; and Ber-nardino de Saha-gun, holding aloftthe cross, beforewhich the Indiansare prostrated. The four sides of the pedestal con-tain bas-reliefs representing scenes from the
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