Show rIACKAY ACCEPTS i Will Be n Member of the Lafayette I Monument Ctmmi ion Chicago Aug 20John W Mackay II of California New York and ParIs has telegraphed Commissioner General Gen-eral of the Paris Exposition Ferdinand W Peck his acceptance of appointment appoint-ment as a member of the Lafayette monument commission 1Ir Mackay resides in Paris a greater portion of each year and from his knowled of French ideas as well as from his wide experience as the mlliionpire head of enterprises he is regarded as a valuable valua-ble acquisition to the commission Five of the nine men whO were asked to lend their names and services to the I labor designed to draw closer the ties between the United States and France have now sent affirmative answers to the request They are John W Mack ay Senator W B Allison of Iowa Rev Dr Edward Everett Hale of Boston Bos-ton theologian philanthropist and man of letters Frank Thom > son of Philadelphia the head of the Pennsyl vania railroad and Alexander H Rev ell of Chicago Secretary Thompson or the Paris commission says that the sculptor will bs an American In a few das letters will be sent to the best known sculptors sculp-tors of the country requesting them to submit plans for the proposed monument monu-ment The commission will select the design and later will give an inscription inscrip-tion to the finished monument |