acute, thinking, alert and wishing to be- 
friend the laboring man. He is portrayed 
with outstretched hands, and at his feet 
are a man, a woman and a child, typifying 
the family of the workingman, who are 
shown as under his protection. 
The details of the features of the sym- 
bolic group have been subordinated to the 
general effect in a rarely successful man- 
ner, so as to suggest in a general way the 
character and the attitude of the poor fam- 
ily. The sculptor realized that a clear and 
definite rendering of beautiful figures ffere 
would have detracted from the interest in 
the central figure and has most cleverly 
subordinated everything to the expression 
of the character of the man memorialized. 
The bronze group stands on a low ped- 
estal of red Westerly granite, not more 
than two feet high, and this in turn stands 
on a wide circular platform raised very 
slightly above the wide, sloping, open 
lawn on which the memorial is placed. 
The pedestal is polished and is decorated 
with a wide band of carved leaves. 
John F. Gall was the local contractor for 
the erection of the work and it was set for 
him by George Archer & Son. 
It was unveiled with much ceremony by 
state and local officials. The principal ad- 
dress was made by Governor Dunne, who 
paid high tribute to the subject of the 
statue, praising him for his stand in par- 
doning the anarchists from Joliet peniten- 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ALTGELD STATUE FROM RIGHT. 
tiary and for resenting the move of Presi- 
dent Cleveland in sending troops to 
Chicago during the strike of the American 
Railway Union. 
EXCHANGE PROFESSORSHIP IN 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
The Massachusetts Agricultural College 
and the University of Illinois have ar- 
309 
ranged an exchange of professorship in 
landscape gardening for the present year. 
Professor R. R. Root, head of the depart- 
ment in Illinois, will come to Massachu- 
setts for two weeks in December to give a 
special course of lectures in landscape gar- 
dening. During the same time Professor 
F. A. Waugh, head of the department of 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
will go to Illinois and deliver a course of 
lectures and exercises before Professor 
Root's students. 
This is a somewhat novel departure in 
college teaching, but has in it the promise 
of success. It will, of course, be a distinct 
advantage to the students in both institu- 
tions to get in touch with another teacher 
and to secure a new point of view. It is 
expected to arouse considerable interest in 
the course by this method. The Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural College and the Uni- 
versity of Illinois have two of the largest 
and strongest departments of landscape 
gardening in America, and both are en- 
deavoring to turn out practical men well 
equipped for the profession. In the past 
much of the teaching in this field has been 
of the strictly amateur variety. While the 
amateur point of view is highly important 
in gardening and should be constantly en- 
couraged, it is equally important that a 
few institutions should give thorough- 
going professional courses not only in agri- 
culture, horticulture, floriculture, forestry, 
etc., but in the highly specialized field of 
landscape gardening. 
ALTGELD MONUMENT, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. 
