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Show -f BART HOLD!, THE SCULPTOR, DEAD. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the statue of Liberty in Xew York harbor, died .at Paris, Oct.'L ' - " Bartholdi's big statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World,"' familiarly knowu to Xew. Yorkers- as "Aliss Liberty," made him best known in this country. coun-try. The statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United Suites, was set up on Bedlow'sjsland in LvSO, the pedestal being paid for. by popular subscription in this country. Bartholdi was a man of big projects. He once proposed to light Alomnartre's great' plain by means of a tall pillar, but the plan was not carried out. Another of his designs Avas a great monument in honor of the services of aeronauts and telegraph and mail workers in the siege of Paris, lie conceived con-ceived a pedestal of marble, carved in representations representa-tions of carrier pigeons, telegraph poles and bundles of letters, supporting a bronze figure, of a woman with her "children about her the city of Paris in allegory the bronze group surmounted by a number of mica balloons ready for ascension, wi th a pigeon jus arrived alighting on one of tbcrii. Bartholdi said that the deeds of heroes in those services, some of whom were carried to Norway and Spain and some shot by the Germans, should be commemorated. Subscriptions to carry .out this scheme have been taken up in France for some time. Another idea of big proportions launched by Bartholdi was' that Bedlow's Island should be turned into a sort of A'erican Pantheon, the remains re-mains of the great presidents being transported there, and national monuments' being erected all about the island to the illustrious dead.' - ' ' ' " |