Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1899 — AN EXILED MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AN EXILED MONUMENT.

Germany Would Not Permit Its Erec-tion-New York Dedicates It. In Bronx borough, New York, has been unveiled a monument with a unique and romantic history. It is a sculptured exile driven from Germany because of the bitter feeling that still exists against the man whom It commemorates. The monument is a fountain, representing the Lorelei, famous in German song and legend, and commemorating Heine, the poet, whose verses of German legend—and particularly of the Lorelei—are familiar In every German ‘household, but whose advocacy of liberty made him detestable to German royalty. Heine has been dead years, but bis memory is as much an object

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tion in the whirlpool. The work was admired by all Germans, bat when its erection was attempted at Frankfort the authorities forbade the work to go on. Then it was taivn to Dnsseldorf, Hamburg and other cities, with similar results. Finally a number of wealthy New Yorkers agreed to buy it and put It up In New York. Hese again there

was an objection. It was said that Heine was not an American and had nothing to do with this country. After a long struggle the objection was overcome and now tbe memorial Is In place in the northern end of the city. The sculptured merman and mermaids at the fountain’s base will lead to a better knowledge of tbe delightful legends of the Rhine.

BOERS DISCUSSING THE SITUATION BESIDE THE HISTORICAL HEAP OF STONES.

THE HEINE FOUNTAIN.