Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — A Sculptor’s Puzzle. [ARTICLE]

A Sculptor’s Puzzle.

The Brooklyn Soldier’s and Sailor sMeraorial Arch,which has already cost the City of Churches at least $850,000, will be further adorned at a cost of $50,000 more. Life size has relief figures of Lincoln and Grant will soon be in position upon the inner sides of the pediments of the arch. The sculptor, McMonnies, is at work upon a bronze quadriga to be placed upon the top of the arqh surmounting the structure, and bronze groups will be placed upon the pedestals erected for the purpose, on oither side of the pediments. A puzzle which the sculptor has to solve is to place a group of eight feet in depth upon a pedestal which is only four feet deep. Howto enlarge it, or to reduce the groups to fit the places for them seems impossible, and the solution of the problem has not yet been reached.