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Some JVeto War Monuments. . **Ntw YOKtO • wo. ooo aoLOItHS MOKOnCNT"* *K*9 U>t drmotra Co-ijer^tooe (»* pec. u.ifca 4 •|*DIAN*P0LI* ,SOLOtt*!> MONU^teNT,' CO>T *700.000'-* Of the nation's four great monu ments to the northern soldiers of the civil war, New York has two—or, rather. It will have upon the comple tion of the Temple of Fame on River side Drive, the corner stone of which was laid the other day in that city. The other memorial is the beautiful arch at the Plaza entrance to Prospect Park In Brooklyn. This cost the old city of Brooklyn $250,000, while New York's monument will cost $190,000. Cleveland has a soldiers’ monument, the actual cost of which was $240.00o! though legal flghtR over the site, etc., brought the total cost up $40,000 more! And finest and most costly of all is the towering shaft which Indiana has just completed in her capital city of In dianapolis, and which cost the state $700,000. The present site of New York's monument is the fourth which has been agreed upon. Cleveland Monument. Cleveland passed through a longer and hitter fight before Cuyahoga coun ty's monument was erected and dedi cated. The project was broached first in 1879, and the site suggested was the center of the Public Square or Monu mental Park. For eight years the idea of a civil war monument languished and in 1887 the project was revived by the choice of the southeast section of the square, which necessitated the re moval of Commodore Perry’s monu ment. The men of the G. A. R. and the county commissioners who had control of the public parks couldn’t agree on the site or upon the designs for the monument and its erection. The controversy was taken into the courts, and the various decisions sometimes favored one side and sometimes the other, but the final victory was won by the G. A, R. In the spring of 1891 the monument commission took pos session of the site, and then began a year's fight, sometimes hand to hand, in which the police several times took part. Actual work on the site was be gun in August. 1892, and on the tenth of the next month came the anniver sary of Perry's victory. Now it was dis covered suddenly that Perry's statue had been neglected shamefully for 30 years, and the opponents of the site for the soldiers' monument made a fine outcry over the coming removal of the Perry monument, and Cleveland awoke on the morning of Sept. 10 to find that for the first time in 32 years the Perry monument was decorated with flowers. After every one had a good laugh over this and it was thought that peace had been restored W. D. Hoyt of Man chester, N. H„ who owned property on the square, sought to enjoin the com mission from putting up the monu ment on the ground, as in the recent New York case, that it would cut ofT his light and air, and he was defeated speedily, and in the spring of 1893 work was resumed and carried on so expeditiously that on July 4, 1894, the monument was dedicated. The legal fight had cost the city $40,000. Indianapolis Has the Finest. The first appropriation for the mon ument in Indianapolis was made in 1887. Early in the following year the commissioners selected from among 70 designs fcr the monument that sub mitted by Bruno Schmidt of Berlin. Work began that year, and in August, 1889, the corner stone was laid. The ,♦ itajQQo aomott *«cn- j monument stands in Governor’s Circle, two squares east of the Capitol. It rises to the height of 268 feet, and at 220 feet there is a lookout which af fords a fine view of the city. The monument has its own electric plant, which furnishes the power to run the elevators and for the lights. The monument takes the form of a shaft, surmounted by a bronze figure of “Miss Indiana.” twenty-eight feet higlfc On the east and west sides of the base of the shaft are the groups of statuary representing War and Peace, and which are the largest groups of figures cut from the rough stone in the world. About these groups are figures cast in bronze, emblematic of the army and navy. On the plazas surrounding the monument are bronze statues of George Rogers Clark, the explorer, and Governors William Henry Harrison, Oliver P. Morton and James Whitcomb. The “BrooKtyn A rch The designer of the Hrooklyn Arch was John H. Duncan, the man from New Orleans who designed also the magnificent Grant monument, on River side Drive, New York. Work was be gun on the arch in 1889. and it was dedicated in October, 1892, the cere monies aiding in the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery. The material is granite, and the arch stands eighty feet high, the total width being the same, and the archway fifty feet high and thirty-five feet wide. The arch is crowned by a group of statuary by Macmonnies representing the navy. On either abutment of the side of the arch that faces the park will be a group of Macmonnies’ statu ary. One of these groups is in place, but is not completed. ^/l So'REJVG&H MACHINE. Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent, director of | the gymnasium at Harvard university, has just brought before the scientific world a strength machine which cm- 1 bodies in an intricate and wonderful manner all the forms of exercise which go to the highest development of man. The machine is called an inomotor. It has as yet been seen by only a few physical experts, but by them it is pro nounced a wonderful machine. Dr. Sargent worked on his invention four years, and he feels that in it he has a plan of exercise and develop ment which will revolutionize gymnas ium work. The machine is described best as a pair of levers connected by four adjustable rods with a sliding seat aud a sliding footrest, which are in turn connected by a power applying crank to crank on a gear or sprocket wheel. It aims not only to strengthen tlie principal muscles of the body in the best and most natural way. but also to bring them into action at one time, so that the heart and lungs will get plenty of work to do without fear of overexertion or strain. Every move ment of the feet, arms, trunk and legs add to the propelling force; the exer cise is pleasant and enjoyable, and the muscles of the operator may be used simultaneously or relaxed at will. In addition to these qualities the machine acts especially on the back, waist and abifcminal regions, which boom the weak points of the American people, and does away with round shoulder* "Boston in the Cup "Race. The announcement that Boston will he represented in the trial races for the honor of defending the America Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht has created something like a Panic in the New York Yacht club. At first there was most decided opposi tion manifested among the members to any contestant not sailing under the auspices of that club, and it was ar gued it was not according to the regu lations in any event, as the prospective owner of the new contestant Is not a member of the club. The liberal spirit of some of the members, however, as well as the sharp protests made in the press, lias silenced the remonstrants, and there will be no further opposition made to the boat now building by Crowninshield for Lawson. Most un questionably fear has had much to do with this opposition. The coast from Eastport to Cape Cod swarms with yachts—a hundred to one that sails in New York bay. In the sea coast towns there are not only a large number of professional yachtsmen, but almost every man, woman, boy and girl is more or less expert in the fine points of sailing. The whole atmosphere of that coast Is one of yachting, and every day in the season, fair or foul, its waters are covered with the white winged flyers. The New Yorkers, therefore, have every reason to fear Boston, much more, in fact, than they have to fear Lipton. Lady Kenmare, who has done so much for the poor people on Lord Ken j mare’s Irish estates, intends next year i to personally superintend the hotel on the lovely l>ake of Killarney, which is I their property. Killarney house, their i own residence, is exquisitely situated j on the same lake at no great distance from the hotel. THE STATE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. A fair Representation at the Meeting tleld In Lincoln. LINCOLN, Dec. 31.—The State Li brary association met here in conjunc tion with the teachers’ association. There were ten libraries represented. The first paper was read by Prof. \V. E. Jiiison, librarian of the Doane col lege library. Miss Dennis of the Lin coln city library read a paper on "Li brary Co-operation in Lincoln.’’ She urged the systematic planning of the development and management of Lin coln libraries, so that each may com plement the other. Mr. Brigham uautioned the Nebras kans against making the mistake of getting a library commission with no means of support, as has been done in Georgia. Kansas and New Jersey. He said: “No state can afford to let a popu lar demand for libraries die out for want of sustenance. No state can af ford to let the library movement with in its borders fritter away in vain attempts on the part of benevolent but financially weak organizations to per form educational functions which do not properly belong to them. The duty of the state to foster and develop free public libraries is quite as im perative as is the duty of the sate to foster and develop free public schools. The reasoning which lies at the base of our public school system also sustains the superstructure of that system—the public library. If it is worth anything to the state to have an, educated citizenship, it is worth more to have a well-bred, intelligent, happy, home-loving citizenship: and what more directly to the purpose than the free public library? The schools that cost us so much money—and are worth far more than they cost—on fortunately lose their hold upon a large majority of the children of the state before they reach the critical age of 15. A vital question for the citizen is: Should the education which makes for good citizenship cease at the very point at which the serious business of life first projects itself upon the young mind? Statistics everywhere eontirm the conclusions of the criminologists that the blossoming period of crimin ality Ts between twenty and thirty years of age and the criminal's train ing years are from the first conscious ness of manhood and womanhood, tarly in the teens, to that dangerous period of action beginning early in the twenties. The community that has nothing to offer the young but the licensed saloon and the iegularly-fined and therefore virtually licensed broth el and 'makes no move for the enrich ment of community life through the entertaining, instructing, reforming and elevating influence of good liter ature deserves its heavy expense bill for criminals and paupers and also deserves the disgraceful record and awful consequences of criminality. The state that makes no effort to Induce communities to raise the standard of citizenship by placing the incentives to high thinking ana right living within the easy reach of all is throw ing away the opportunity of the ages." Immense Crop of Wheat. M'COOL, JUNCTION, Neb.. Dec. 31. —Ten thousand bushels of first-quality winter wheat is the amount. Mr. Kilns has just stored in his granary, the yield from 300 acres just threshed. At pres ent prices these 300 acres have paid Mr. Kilns nearly $6,000—or about 60 per cent interest on his investment for one year in York county lands. iJIr. Runs has just purcnased a $12,000 residence in York, and after this his sons will run his farm and he will live in York. TnUeu to the Penitentiary. PDATTSMOUTH. Neb., Dec. 31.— Sheriff Wheeler made a trip to the state penitentiary, taking with him Charles Sheppard and Harry Hickson. Sheppard is the young colored man whom Judge .lessen sentenced to eigh teen months for stealing a money bag containing about. $51 from John Shiap pacasse's store. Hickson was convict ed and sentenced to one year for com mitting forgery. Struck by l'aHHfngpr Train. ORD, Nob., Dec. 31.—As Mr. and Mrs. Hasek were going home Saturday night they were struck by a Burlington passenger train and Mrs. Hasek very badly hurt, though it is thought she will recover. Her foot was crushed and back hurt. The accident occurred about ti:30 a mile west of Ord, where the wagon road crosses the Burlington in a deep cut. Recovers His Mol tin Stock. NORFOLK, Neb., Dec. 26.—H. K. Glissman has recovered at Pilger twelve head of his cattle that a thief had driven there to ship to Omaha. The “rustler” escaped, but the station agent gives a good description of him and Mr. Glissman has instituted a vigorous search. Gold Brick* In Soap Wrappers. NEBRASKA CITY, Dec. 31.—Several of the grocers in this city were "taken in' by a smooth young man who pre tended to he selling soap at greatly re duced prices. After the soap had been delivered and paid for and the young man had left town it was found to he a very interior article. Representative Jesse Overstreet oi Indiana has made public the fact that he has prepared a hill relating to the country's finances, which he will in troduce before the present session of congress adjourns. Hold Hired Livery Team. DAKOTA CITY. Neb.. Dec. 31.—On the 17th inst. William Temple, a farm hand employed by County Commis sioner L. Blanchard, went to Jackson and hired a livery rig from Coroner H. F. Sawyers to canvas the immediate territory for a jewelry concern. Afte.r being gone three days Mr. Sawyers started an inquiry and with Sheriff Sides found that Temple had been in Sioux City with the rig, but from there he could not be traced. 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