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Show THE HUDSON MONUMENT. The tthaft for the monument of Henry Hudson at Spuyten Puyvil hill is now uomplsta and ready for the statue of Hudson, which is to surmount it. The statue, by the picture, gives Hudson a Dutch face,' which is wrong, as Hudson was an Englishman. English-man. The statue is the design of Karl Ritter, is in appearance what one would expect to see were a 'harem skirt shorter. The main shaft is fluted and is with its pedestal 100 feet high, which is to be set On a hill 200 feet highj and will be symbolic of the three hundredth anniversary of the coming of Hudson t. Manhattan island. The shaft by itself will commemorate the one Imndredth anniversary anni-versary of'steam navigation on the Hudson river. It was designed by Walter Cook. Above all will be the statue, fifteen feet in height. It should be, when in place, an imposing-ami must significant monument, of two events the discovery of the Hudson and the practical application of steam to navigation.. Neither event wilL ever grow cold in thought. The first was the real opening of a new world, the second was the location of a new central station for the world's commerce and the bringing of the nations into nearer relationship. The world had grown musty and old; the two events meant the beginning of a right about face for mankind. , |