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Show Statue of John TSrctvn. Much pleasure is expressed by colored col-ored people of Chicago over the fact that a statue of John Brown, the hero nf Hamer's Ferry is to be erected in Lincoln park. Tha matter has just been settled by the action of the Lincoln Lin-coln park commissioners commis-sioners in formally accepting the tender ten-der of the statue by the John Brown Monument association, associa-tion, and it Is expected ex-pected that the statue will be. ready for unveiling unveil-ing within a year. s The statue will be a work of such ap tistic merit as to form a fitting memorial me-morial of the gratl-made gratl-made by the colored color-ed race toward tha tude by the colored race toward the martyr abolitionist. It will be ot bronze, six feet in height, and will show John Brown holding a negro child protectingly in his bosom, while in his right hand he holds a drawn sword. The pedestal of the statue Is, to be of Vermont granite. The movement move-ment to erect the statue originated with Mrs. T. H. Lyles of St. Paul. Minn., who is president of the monument monu-ment association, and of which the Rev. G. TV. Gaines of Chicago is first vice-president. |