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AN IMPRESSIVE MONUMENTAL ENTRANCE TO THE ROSE GARDEN, HUMBOLDT PARK, CHICAGO. 
Groups Typifying Indian Corn and Wheat Modeled for the Chicago World's Fair by Daniel C. French and E, C. Potter. 
Bitter representing Abundance, Patriotism, Education, Vic- 
tory, Strength, Charity, Unity, Theology, Tradition, Four Na- 
tions, Peace, Liberty, and Truth. 
Passing through the pavilion into the informal garden, the 
winding walk leads the visitor first to the noble group, Miner 
and Child, by Charles J. Mulligan, placed on a slight eleva- 
tion amid shrubbery clothed in its autumnal red and backed 
by a fine growth of trees. The strong realism of this homely 
sentiment expressed in the figure of the miner returning from 
work, stooping to embrace his little daughter, is most happily 
placed in this park frequented chiefly by working people. 
A little farther down the path Leonard Crunelle’s roguish 
little boy carrying a hen, appears on the lawn, seemingly just 
the proper place for such a frolic. 
In a little streamlet where it tumbles down to join a larger 
pool, the group Boy and Frog is naturally set in the run- 
ning water, the boy leaning over and blowing his pipe to the 
frog, poised on the other side of a small basin. On the 
grassy bank of the same stream kneels a beautifully modeled 
girl’s figure by the same sculptor, apparently just emerging 
from a dip into the waters. Following the stream to what 
appears to be its source, Mr. Crunelle’s Fisher Boy fountain 
has a setting so admirably suited to it that it is to be hoped 
the Ferguson bequest or the West Park Board will make it 
LAFAYETTE MONUMENT, 
Paul W. Bartlett’s statue of Lafayette, a gift of the 
school children of America to France, unveiled in the 
Place de Louvre in Paris, is illustrated on the cover. 
The dedication ceremonies were elaborate and impres- 
sive, including an address of presentation by Alexander H. 
Revell, of Chicago, president of the monument association, 
and acceptance by President Fallieres, of the French Re- 
public. The eminent men present pronounced the monu- 
ment one of the great equestrian statues of the world. It 
is erected within 1.50 feet of the entrance to the Louvre 
Museum, the choicest site in Paris, and our illustration 
well shows the handsome setting that has been given it. 
permanent in bronze. The plaster model has been colored 
to imitate bronze and with its running water, the tall Lom- 
bardy popular rising behind it, the Bay trees and ferns at the 
side, is ideally placed. Lying prone upon the grass near it is 
3 bronze reproduction of Edward Kemeys’ Panther and Cubs, 
blending with the lawn so realistically as to make the animals 
seem almost in their native haunts. 
Returning along another path the way leads to a rustic 
bridge, and on the other side at the junction of two walks, 
in among a thick growth of majestic trees, stands the .gaunt 
figure of Mr. Mulligan’s Lincoln, the Rail Splitter, so nat- 
ural in his proper environment that one immediately expects 
to see the historic rails or a cord of wood left by the famous 
axe. 
This with an architectural figure representing electricity, 
modeled by 1. A. Blankinship, marking the diverging point of 
two paths, some other minor architectural groups serving a 
similar purpose, and a sentinel lion of lordly mien looking 
across the stream complete the most remarkable sculpture ex- 
hibit that Chicago has seen. These groups in the informal 
exhibit have all been shown at Art Institute exhibits, 
but the present pictures are from special photographs taken in 
the admirable landscape setting that was given them on this 
occasion. 
AMERICA’S GIFT to FRANCE 
Workmen digging for the foundation of the monument dis- 
covered an old foundation which on investigation proved to 
have been built for a monument to Na|)olcon I. 
The commission was given to Mr. Bartlett in ]90n. and 
the first plaster model, whicli stood on the pedestal for a 
number of years, was radically changed by the sculptor 
into a simpler and more dignified treatment of both horse 
.and rider. The result well justifies the years of careful 
study he has .given it, and the completed work is in every 
wa}' worthy of its character as an intcnnational gift. 
The funds, amounting to about $100, 000, were r.aised by 
contributions of American school children. 
