PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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dish granite, partly hammered and partly 
polished, and is the work of A. Rupp. 
The “Ferdinand Hapf’ memorial shown 
is another one of those beautifully deco- 
rated German monumental tablets. It was 
designed by Hans Kreuzer in a competi- 
tion of the German Society of Artists and 
Architects and is executed in black Swe- 
dish granite, all polished. It is to be com- 
mended for its simple dignity and fine 
lines. 
COMBINED PUBLIC 
MONUMENT FOUN- 
TAIN AND FORUM 
Decatur, Ind., in its newly dedicated sol- 
diers’ monument has one of the most origi- 
nal, artistic and useful memorials of any 
city of its size in the country. Charles J 
Mulligan, of Chicago, who designed the 
Decatur memorial, planned that it should 
be a symbolic memorial to the soldier dead, 
and something more, and it is this some- 
thing more that makes it a new form of 
soldier monument 
The work takes the form of a combined 
monument, public forum for outdoor ex- 
ercises, and public fountain. 
The customary memorial attributes are 
provided in a stately symbolic figure of 
Peace, standing before a massive wall or 
exedra, bearing in bronze tablets the names 
of 1,276 soldiers of Adams County. In 
front of the wall is a seat for speakers 
and a platform or forum, with vases at 
either corner. The ulterior purpose of the 
memorial is thus to stimulate the holding 
of patriotic exercises and public speaking 
here where the associations aroused by the 
memorial may be the inspiration to patri- 
otic action. The people will thus be brought 
into closer contemplation of their soldier 
monument, and the structure itself will 
serve an actual utilitarian function. The 
rear face of the wall emphasizes again the 
useful character of the work. It is a sculp- 
tured representation of the part the women 
played in the war, executed as the central 
motif of a fountain. 
The entire structure, with the exception 
of the bronze tablets, is executed in Blue 
Bedford stone The sculptures were carved 
by Mr. Mulligan and C. M. Dodd, of Bed- 
ford. Mr. Mulligan himself did the final 
work on the figure of Peace, on the me- 
morial itself after the work was erected in 
Decatur. The view of the sculptor work- 
ing with his model posing in the public 
square was a novel sight and emphasizes 
the care with which the work as a whole 
was adapted to its site and its use. 
George E. Wemhoff, of the Wemhoff 
Monumental Works, of Decatur, was the 
local contractor for the erection of the 
work. 
The central feature of the front face of 
the memorial is the statue of “Peace,” rep- 
resented by a stately female figure of 
heroic size, facing the right. Her left hand 
rests on the American shield. On the 
shield are the thirteen stars and thirteen 
stripes. Back of the shield, at the side of 
the figure of Peace, hangs the scabbard and 
the sword, sheathed and at rest. Her right 
arm is extended and rests along the top 
of the monument, on the implements of 
war, now at rest — the gun, the cartridge 
box, the canteen, and the flags which are 
draped or looped around a now unused 
bier. In her hand she holds a laurel 
branch, symbolic of glory. Her figure is 
draped in an ample flowing gown, falling 
from her breastplate, which is formed of 
the spreading wings of the American 
eagle. On either side of the central figure 
of Peace extend the two wings of the 
main shaft of the monument, in open-book 
form. On each of the wings is a bronze 
tablet bearing the names of -the soldiers of 
the county, 1,276 in all. At the four cor- 
ners of this shaft are conventionalized 
American eagles. At the base of the shaft 
is a seat-like projection for the accommoda 
