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Show CLEVELAND SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. A, Rare and Beautiful Structure to B Completed In 1801. The soldiers and sailors' monument, soon to be erected in Cleveland, O., will be one of the most imposing memorial structures in the country. The monument will be erected in the public square, where it can be seen for miles on all approaches. It will bo surrounded sur-rounded by a lawn studded with beautiful beauti-ful patterned flower beds, representing the Grand Army and Loyal Legion badges, flanked with the different con badges of the army. The lower esplanade espla-nade will have, bordering the terrace, a row of low posts in the form of the muz-tie muz-tie ends of cannon sticking out of the (round, on the top of which will be Si so s ; THB CLEVELAND MONUMENT. flaming cannon balls connected by a . massive chain. Leading from the lower to the upper esplanade, at tho four corners cor-ners of the monument, will be quarter circle steps, each flight twenty-eight feet wide at the base. Here the monument monu-ment proper begins. The shaft will be of black granite, twelve feet square at the base. The column, including the capital, pedestal and surmounting figure of Columbia, will be 133 feet in height. The shaft will be built up of sections or layers five feet deep, with a gradual taper to tho top. At every other bedding joint of the 1 courses will be a massive band of cast bronze, on which will be inscribed the most prominent battles of the war. The capital will also be of cast bronze, the four sides of which, below the volutes, will be detailed to represent the four branches of the service. In the lower pedestal or base of the column, where it passes up through the building, will be eight large panels of marble, representing represent-ing the "Emancipation" and other etrlk-ing etrlk-ing incidents of the war. Encircling the column will be the relic room, forty feet square and twenty feet high. The doors of the vestibules will be of bronze, with rich panels. The floor will be laid in patterns of colored marble with military emblems. The - walls are to have a wainscoting of endo-lithio endo-lithio marble, in which the inscribed names of the dead soldiers of Cuyaioga county, numbering between eight and ten thousand, will be placed. The ceiling ceil-ing will be of light colored marble, with molded ribs and plain panels. The roof is to be of massive slabs of stone, and in the whole structure there will not be one square inch of perishablo material. On each side of the monument, or relic building, will be a bold, massive pedestal 7x10 and ten feet high, surmounted by , groups of bronze statuary representing the four principal branches of the service. The infantry will be represented by , "The Color Guard" of nine figures, depicting de-picting a scene witnessed upon many a battlefield when a regiment has had the bitter experience of unsuccessfully charging charg-ing an enemy's works "too strong to be carried by direct assault." The artillery will be represented by "The Defense of the Last Gun," a full squad, with officer commanding (six figures) and all engaged en-gaged in a desperate hand to hand struggle. strug-gle. The cavalry group of six figures will have a color sergeant still astride his fallen horse valiantly defending his flag in a fierce encounter. The navy will have a group of six sailors in the - act of loading a mortar. The bronze fig-' fig-' ures are from 7 feet 0 inches to 8 feet in height. . The architect and sculptor, Mr. Levi T. Rcofield, has erected many public buildings build-ings 'and monuments throughout the country. Tho sculptors assisting him are 3eorge T. Brewster, George Wagner and August Godis. The Kmprow of Germany. ' AUQCSTA VICTORIA. Here is picture, from a recent photo graph, of Augusta Victoria, empress of Germany. She is, it will be seen, a woman wo-man of truly regal presence. The pew in old St. Michael's church, Charleston,- S." C, occupied .by' Vico President Morton a few Sundays tsince has been the property of the Vander-horst Vander-horst family for many years, and has been occupied in the past by men whose names are familiar to the readers of American history. ; The pew was once occupied by George Washington. The Duke of Newcastle, Henry Clay and Geu. Robert E. Lee have also been among its occupants, and rumor has it that Martin Van Buren was a teuan the .same pew, Cor. Chicago |