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Show DESIGNER OF STATUE OF LIBERTY DIES AT PARIS V J - ' ' - f - ' n I m. "j.mt V TiPWwf BBUftuPv ii i Hi nl iKEDBDrCAUGUSrBBRTHOLDI. jf Frederic Augusto Hartholdl died In Paris Oct. 1 of consumption, aged 70 years. Ho was best known In the United Stntes ns the designer of the stniut) of Liberty Enlightening tho World, which stnnds In Now York hnr-bor, hnr-bor, nnd wns a gift from the people of Franco. Tho statuo ls tho most colossal known to history, tho legen- dary colossus of Rhodes having been but 105 feet high, ns compared with tho 138 feet of the figure of Liberty. Another of his famous works Is tho Lion of llelfort. Another work of somo magnitude ho left uncompleted but the design for his own tomb was finished a day or two before ho was taken with his last Illness. |