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Recent Monumental News. 
The monument illustrated on this page was erected 
to the memory of the late President iNIcKinley at Mus- 
kegon, Mich., and was unveiled with impressive cere- 
monies on Memorial Day, May 30. It consists of a 
finely modeled bronze statue of ]\Ir. McKinley sur- 
mounting a granite pedestal, placed in a quadrangular 
court approached by wide sweeping steps. The center 
of the court, shown bare in the illustration, is to be 
improved by suitable planting. The statue was mod- 
eled by Charles H. Niehaus, and represents the mar- 
tyred president delivering his last speech at the Pan- 
American Exposition, just before he was assassinated. 
The pedestal is of Barre granite, and was executed and 
ber of votes were selected, and are to be described and 
criticised by the sculptors selecting them. The six that 
have been chosen are as follows : St. Gaudens’ Farra- 
gut in Madison Square ; Macmonnies’ Xathan Hale, 
City Hall Park; Ward's Washington, Sub-Treasury 
Building: Brown’s ecpiestrian Washington, in Union 
Square; French’s Hunt IMemorial, Fifth avenue and 
Seventieth street ; and Bissell’s De Puyster, Bowling 
Green. The following sculptors composed the jury: 
J. Q. A. Ward, George Grey Barnard, Frank Edwin 
Ehvell, Charles H. Niehaus, Karl Bitter, Hermon A. 
MacNeil, Paul W. Bartlett, Whlliam Couper, and 
Charles A. Lopez. 
MCKINLEY MONUMENT, MUSKEGON, MICH., CHARLES H. NIEHAUS, SC. 
erected by Joseph Carabelli, Cleveland, Ohio, and the 
bronze was cast by the Gorham Co. The inscription, 
running around the top of the seats, is the last sentence 
of Mr. McKinley’s speech at Bufifalo, and reads as 
follows : 
“Let us remember that our interest is in concord, 
not conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the vic- 
tories of peace, not those of war.” 
The monument is a gift of Mr. Charles H. Hackley 
to the public schools of Muskegon, and was erected 
at a cost of $20,000. 
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The New York Daily Nezt^s has selected a jury of 
nine well-known sculptors to choose what they believe 
to be the six finest public statues in that city. Each 
juror selected six statues, and from the works thus 
individually chosen, the six receiving the highest num- 
The soldiers’ and sailors’ monument unveiled on 
Riverside Drive, New York, Decoration Day, is in the 
form of a temple of composite Greek and Roman 
architecture, standing on a broad, curved base, ap- 
proached on two sides by flights of steps. It is 100 
feet high, and cost over $250,000. The structure, in- 
cluding the roof, was built of white Vermont marble, 
and the base is of Connecticut and Massachusetts 
granite. 
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Bills carrying appropriations aggregating about 
$2,500,000 have been introduced into Congress during 
the past session. The sums asked for vary from $800 
to $300,000, and few of them are less than $10,000. 
A number of them have been favorably reiwrted and 
passed, and others have been favorably received and 
are likely to be passed at the next session. 
