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HAWKINS MONUMENT, SCHENLEY PARK, PITTSBURG. WILLIAM COUPER, SC. 
MONUMENTAL NOTES. 
The illustration on this page is from a photograph of the 
accepted model for the memorial to Colonel Alexander Leroy 
Hawkins and the Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, National 
Guard in the Spanish war. The monument is to stand in 
Schenley Park, Pittsburg, and takes the general form of a 
Greek exedra with a bronze statue of the Colonel as the 
central figure. The idea is to make it an individual memorial 
to the commander, and at the same time to distinctively 
recognize each of the eight companies in the regiment. For 
this purpose eight bronze tablets are to be set into the walls, 
bearing the number of the company encircled with a laurel 
wreath and a roster of the company. The Colonel is thus 
represented as standing in front of his regiment. The design 
is the work of Willian Couper, of New York, who was recently 
awarded the commission in competition with twenty-two other 
sculptors. Mr. Couper was assisted by Architect Albert 
Randolph Ross, of New York. The memorial will be of 
granite, except the statue, tablets and palm branches, and will 
cost about $20,000, which has been appropriated by the state 
of Pennsylvania. 
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Larkin G. Mead’s heroic marble statue of “The Father of 
Waters,” is to be purchased by citizens of Minneapolis and 
erected in some public square in that city. The statue was 
ordered 18 years ago as a private gift to the city of New 
Orleans, but the donor was unable to carry out his inten- 
tions. It represents the Father of Waters as an old man in 
a half-reclining attitude, much as the Egyptians made Osiris 
appear when he was set forth as the great Nile. The river 
god is half-stretched on rocks that represent the high shores 
of the river’s upper course. A source of pure water flows 
majestically into the river bed beneath the god’s left elbow. 
His right hand holds a remarkable stalk of Indian corn, from 
underneath which an alligator peeps out, thus showing both 
the good and the evil products of the mighty stream. On the 
god’s head a wreath of tobacco leaf, intermingled with pine 
cones for eddies and whirlpools, and with water lilies for the 
quiet nooks and tranquil waves of the river, symbolizes the 
various aspects of its course. 
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Albert Weinert modeled the monument to be erected in the 
State Park at Lake George, N. Y., by the Society of Colonial 
Wars to commemorate the victory of the colonial troops under 
Gen. Johnson and the Mohawk Indian allies under King 
Hendrick over the French, Canadian and Indian forces in 
1755. The bronze group which has just been cast by the 
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co., shows Gen. Johnson and King 
Hendrick standing side by side dressed in full war regalia. 
The general wears the breastplate and the richly embroidered 
red coat, so much admired by his Indian ally. The portrait 
of King Hendrick is modelled from a colored print in School- 
craft’s Notes of the Iroquois. The chief is attired in Mohawk 
fashion, his hair cut close to the scalp, a beautiful crest made 
of the hair of the deer tail fastened to the scalp lock and 
crowned by the war eagle’s feathers. A buffalo skin richly 
ornamented is thrown over his left shoulder, falling in big 
folds between the two figures. The monument is to be un- 
veiled in September. 
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Architect Osborne J. Pierce, of Redlands, Cal., has designed 
a monument of President McKinley which is planned for 
unveiling when President Roosevelt visits that city. The 
bust is to be placed on a pedestal over which a Byzantine 
arched canopy is supported by columns and pillars ; the cen- 
tral structure is flanked by two wings terminated by pedestals 
of less height crowned with marble spheres and containing 
stone seats, slightly circular in plan. The entire structure is 
something over twenty feet in height. 
A monument was recently unveiled at Wilmington, Del., 
to mark the landing place of the first Swedish settlers in Amer- 
ica. The Swedes came to this city April 29, 1638. Dedicatory 
addresses were made by Chief Justice Lore, president of the 
Delaware Historical Society, and Mrs. Charles E. Mcllvaine, 
president of the Delaware Society of Colonial Dames, under 
whose auspices the monument was erected. 
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A memorial tablet is on exhibition in the rooms of the 
Nebraska State Historical Society at Lincoln, Neb., which is 
to be placed upon one of the big redwood trees in a park at 
Santa Cruz, Cal., in memory of the late J. Sterling Morton, 
former Secretary of Agriculture. The tablet is about two feet 
square and is cast with inscriptions standing in bold relief 
so that they may be read at a considerable distance. On the 
upper left-hand corner are the words, “Plant truths,” and 
upon the upper right-hand corner the words, “Plant trees.” 
Below these words is a design composed of four oak leaves 
and an acorn on a single twig, beneath which is set for the 
significance of the tablet as follows : “In memory of J. Ster- 
ling Morton of Nebraska, father of Arbor Day; born April 
22, 1832; died April 27, 1902. By order of Nebraska State 
Historical Society.” 
