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Show IT IS A GREAT WORK Dederichsen's Statue "The Straggle for Liberty" Shown to the World's Fair Directors. METHODISTS OF HEW ENGLAHD The Oentennial'of the Church Begins in Boston Today Bob Ingersoll will Lecture Tonight. Chicago, Oot. 2l.-Special.-A private pri-vate view ot Dederlchsen's statue "The Struggle for Liberty," was afforded the World's fair directors today. The statue which weighs 4000 pounds was a nniAnn! 1 . J 1 M appropriately mounted on a base of solid granite. The work in marble represents re-presents five years of constant application applica-tion on the part of the designer and sculptor, Julius Dederiohsen of Copenhagen, Copen-hagen, and his daughter who designed the female figure in the group representing repre-senting the goddess of liberty. Its value is placed at $100,000. The sculptor intended it for the World's fair, and the directors will consider a proposition for its sale. The central figure of the group is a mau of magnificent mag-nificent form and face, struggling to free himself from the cords that bind him. Every muscle and sinew brought into play is represented in the marble, tho detail work forming one of the chief points of excellence. This central figure fig-ure represents America, struggling to free herself from kingdom and slavery. Kneeling at the tide is the Goddess of T i I.... 1 t 1 . Liberty, her face beaming admiration for her companion, at whom she is looking. At their feet is the figure of an infant child, representing the United States, wheu it first heralded to the world its beginning as a free nition. |