People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — IOWA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT AT DES MOINES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IOWA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT AT DES MOINES.

This fee worx of art is now being made at Chicago. It will be a tribute to the soldiers and *abors who enlisted during the civil war from the Hawlceye state. It will stand 133 feet high mod will be placed opposite the capitol in lies Moines. On top of the shaft will stand a fljrure representing Victor}-, t. feet high, 'ihe nussive column will rise from a base whi h will be 2J - wa '> ■" another and about SO feet high. On rounded pedestals, which will spring trotn eaca corner of the base, will stand bronze ilpures typical of the infantry, cavalry, artillery , QC *‘ ,jt ’■ figures will be 8 feet high. On top of the base, around the foot of the SSIy 22 *’.?’* i equestrian statues of Gen. Crocker, Gen. Curtis, Gen. Dodge and Gen Corse. In * our Peoimeats. will be placed a medallion 3 feet in diameter. In the medallion which wid lace the capitol and which will, therefore, be in front of the monument, will be the coat-of-thrift,„ “ ow ? ..‘Others will contain the portraits of Gen. lielknap. Gen. \V inslow and Gen. Hatch. • -m.iiter metautons to the number of :;2 will iorrn a series of portraits around the base below the XT- ajments. The state of lowa has appropriated $160,000 for the monument.