Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — IN HONOR OF DEWEY. [ARTICLE]

IN HONOR OF DEWEY.

A Magnificent Arch to Be Built in New York. When Dewey reaches New York in October he will find among the many decorations in his honor a triumphal arch and colonnade at Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street. It will require the work of twenty or thirty sculptors for several weeks to complete the work and enough have volunteered to make certain the erection of the arch. They will work gratis. Were they to charge at the professional rate, the arch would cost $200,000; as it is only the material will have to be paid for—which means SIO,OOO. The material will be “staff,” like the peristyle at the Chicago World’s Fair. The arch is to be on the general lines of the Arch of Titus, but having in effect four piers instead of two, the long piers being pierced through the sides. At one end of the colonnade subsidiary sculptural groups representing the army and the navy are to be placed, and at the other end similar groups representative of the East and West Indies. These, emphasizing the colonnade, will only enhance the effect of the arch itself, at which the main sculptural adornment will be focused or concentrated. The enrichment of the arch is to symbolize America’s power as a maritime nation and New York’s importance as the country’s commercial center. The four piers, which will be formed by the piercing of the groat piers, are to

form a series of allegorical subjects: Patriotism, which will be figured as the c«ll to arms; War. which will represent tue fight; The Return, picturing the homecoming of the victors, and Peace, where the volunteer soldiers will be shown taking up again their civil occupations. The keystone of the arch will be surmounted on either side by a great eagle, above whose wings will appear the motto or greeting of the city to the welcome hero. Over the apex of the arch a quadriga of sea horses will draw a ship, at its prow Victory with wings upraised.