Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — NEW WASHING TON MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW WASHING TON MONUMENT.

A Magnificent Work of Art for tlie City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia will soon have the finest monument in America. It is now twelve years since Prof. Rudolph Siemering, one of the most famous German sculptors,began work on a monument to Washington for the “city of brotherly

love,” and the work is now complete in Berlin. The base of the monument is octagonal and about thirty foot in diameter. The whole structure, including the equestrian figure on the pedestal, is fifty feet high. The statue represent! Washington in his Continental uniform arf fie marched at the head of his troops. The cloak is thrown back from his body, as thdugh blown back by the wind, and the whole statue is full of action. Tho figures about the pedestal and tho base of the monument are even more artistic than the monument itself. Ascending the first steps, you reach a second platform, around which lie great figures emblematic of American life and America. There are two of these figures at each corner of the monument. Ascending one flight of steps, you pass between reclining statues of an Indian hunter and an Indian fisher-girl mending her nets. Below them are magnificent bronze statues of buffalo and deer, and on other parts of the base are other animals emblematic

of America. At another corner Columbia, in the shape of a beautiful woman, with a horn of plenty in her hand, reclines on the pedestal of the monument, and there is a magnificent statue of America, with the famous officers of

the Revolution offering her the laurels of their victories. The statue is the largest one of Washington in existence, and the monument, when set up, will be the finest in America.

ONE OF THE FIGURES IN THE MONUMENT.

THE WASHINGTON STATUE FOR PHILADELPHIA, PA.

FIGURE OF AN INDIAN HUNTER.