Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS' MONUMENT.

rreparatlonn Now Making to Holst “Indiana'’ to Her Resting Place. The scaffolding now being erected at the top of the Soldiers’ Monument to raise the crowning figure to its final resting place is dianapolis. We present a cut showing the appearance of the top of the shaft. The

workmen are now employed at a height of 280 feet. Mr. Baker, of Terre Haute, has the contract of hoisting “Indiana” to the top, and he is to receive <1,500 for the job. which Brewster, the artist, has to pay. It is said now thatevery contractor employed in the construction of the monument has lost money.

THE SCAFFOLDING ON THE MONUMENT.