Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . fund for theEverett statue, left after the completion of thatwork. The Everett statue was modelled in Romeand cast in Munich. Placed near the Beacon-street path and facing the east, the orator is repre-sented as standing with his head thrown back, hisright arm extended and raised, and the hand out-spread, in the act, we are told, of making a favoritegesture ; but the scoffers declare it the attitude moreof a base-ball catcher, or, as Wendell Phill
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . fund for theEverett statue, left after the completion of thatwork. The Everett statue was modelled in Romeand cast in Munich. Placed near the Beacon-street path and facing the east, the orator is repre-sented as standing with his head thrown back, hisright arm extended and raised, and the hand out-spread, in the act, we are told, of making a favoritegesture ; but the scoffers declare it the attitude moreof a base-ball catcher, or, as Wendell Phillips hasput it, of pointing to the centre of beef and theraces, as if he were exclaiming, That is the roadto Brighton . Good critics, however, have pro-nounced it to be a thoroughly studied work but badlyexecuted. The popular subscription to the Everettstatue fund was so generous that of the surplus notonly were §5,000 transferred to the Washingtonstatue fund, but Si0,000 were given to that for theGovernor Andrew statue (in the State House), anda goodly sum for the portrait of Everett in FaneuilHall. The Sumner statue, also raised by popular. 90 BOSTON OF IO-DAY. subscription, is a disappointment, and in sliarp con-trast to the Washington from the same hand ; andof the Cass statue the least said the better. It is alittle figure on a big pedestal. Carved of granite,it represents the soldier bareheaded, clad in the fulldress coat of a colonel of infantry, and high top-boots. A sword dangles from the side arms are folded across the breast; the face isexjiressionless; the legs are bent at the knee,giving the figure an air of affected jauntiness. Itrecalls the crude, conventional photograi)h of thewar period. A storm of disapproval and derisiongreeted the work when it was exposed to view, andunsuccessful efforts were made to have it declined,with thanks, by the city government. It was set upby the Society of the Ninth Regiment. The so-called Ether monument, which stands
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