Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — FREDERICK THE GREAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FREDERICK THE GREAT.

Statue of the Famous Monarch Unveiled in Washington. Amid the.booming of cannon and bands playing the German national air and the cheers of the great throng gathered on the grounds, the war college statue of Frederick the Great, gift of the German Emperor to the people of the United States, was unveiled in Washington by the Baroness Speck von Sternburg, the

handsome American wife of the German ambassador. The event wnR as impressive as it was significant, marking as it did, in the opinion of many, tl*e beginning of better feeling and closer relationship between the American republic and the German empire. Addresses were mnde by the German ambassador. President Roosevelt, the United States ambassador to Germany and the adjutant general to Emperor William. Each speech was overflowing'i«wtli expressions of amity and good will. The statue, which is the work of the Berlin sculptor Uphues, is a bronze replica of the marble statue of the great King which adorns the Avenue of Victories in Berlin. The figure is seven feet high, only n little larger than the proportions of Frederick, who was over six feet tall. It stands upon a marble pedestal erected by Congress, the appropriation for the purpose being SIO,OOO.

STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.