Last week was a fecund week for those who work in bronze, in marble. Two monuments and two tablets were unveiled; four new memorial projects were announced.
In Manhattan, Miss Marina Hoffman finished an heroic group, two figures, representing England and the U. S., to adorn the facade of Bush House* in London. The statues, when erected in stone, will be twelve feet high. Each figure rests his arms on a shield bearing the coat-of-arms of his country. England’s attitude is one of authority and experience, America’s is that of a young athlete, keen, ready.
To Captain John Ericsson, Swedish inventor of the Monitor, a tablet was unveiled in Franklin Street, on the site of the house in which he lived.
In London, a bronze tablet in honor of Sir Christopher Wren, presented by the Architectural League of New York, was unveiled in St. Paul’s Cathedral by the Earl of Crawford.
At Hull, England, a monument was unveiled in memory of the pilgrims who, in 1620, left that city to settle in Massachusetts.
Some incompleted or newly-begun projects are: 1) A monument to poet Longfellow in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia, scene of Evangeline; 2) a monument to Commodore Perry, near Erie, Pa., scene of the Battle of Lake Erie; 3) a movement to turn into a National Museum the Sub-Treasury Building, Wall Street, where Washington took oath of office; 4) a scheme for building a paved highway from New York to San Francisco, flanked all the way by monuments, as a memorial to the Americans who died in the War.
*Office building at the head of King’s Row erected by Irving T, Bush Brooklyn merchant.
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