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It will be thirty feet square and will be sup¬ 
ported by heavy columns. In front of it it 
is proposed to place a bronze statue of Mr. 
Green, mounted on a white granite pedestal 
twelve feet high. On top of this central 
pavilion there will be hve female figures, the 
dominant one representing the City of New 
York seated on a ship ; those at the corners, 
on a lower level, will typify the four bor¬ 
oughs comprising Greater New York. All 
of these figures will be ot bronze. 
At the Front of each peristyle will be two 
rows of columns, one behind the other, 
forming a series of niches. Back of these will 
be a third row of engaged columns against a 
solid wall of granite, affording a background 
for the nine statues of distinguished men 
of New York which are to occupy the 
niches of each peristyle. The ends of the 
side pavilions will be open so as to leave 
a passageway for pedestrians through wide 
corridors leading into the park or the street. 
On the piers of the side pavilions will be 
carved the coats-of-arms of the boroughs, 
and the names will be inscribed on car- 
touches. The bronze figures in each peri¬ 
style will be ot a uniform height of nine 
feet. No decision has yet been reached as 
to what individuals shall be commemorated 
here. Space will be left along the frieze, it 
is said, for the names of the fifty subscribers 
who may make the largest subscriptions to 
the monument fund, and on the solid wall it 
is proposed to engrave the name of every 
subscriber. It is to be hoped, however, that 
the extraordinary bad taste of this feature 
may lead to its rejection. 
Several plans for an entrance to Central 
Park, at the Plaza, Fifty-ninth Street and 
Fifth Avenue, have been designed of re¬ 
cent years by New York architects, but the 
erection of the Saint - Gaudens statue of 
Sherman imposes new conditions. For that 
reason the latest plan, which has been pre¬ 
pared by Bradford Lee Gilbert, possesses 
special interest. The proposed entrance, of 
white marble, with its series of arches, would 
form a background for the Sherman monu¬ 
ment, and at the same time would serve as a 
portal worthy of the Park surroundings both 
in point of beauty and utility. Surmounting 
it would stand a central figure representing 
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