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Show UNVEILS A WAR MONUMENT. Suth Bend Displays Its Memorial to Soldiers and Sailors. We $85,000 soldiers and sailors' raoniment, St. Joseph comity's tribute to the men who lost tholr lives In defense de-fense of tho nation, wns dedicated at South Rend, Ind., last weok. Almost the entire community Joined In honoring honor-ing tho soldier and sailor dead. Fully 20,000 visitors to the city witnessed tho dedication. Tho total height of tho monument la seventy-two foot and tho baso Is twenty twen-ty feet square. Tho shaft section, which Is In ono piece, Is twenty-three feet In height and weighs about twenty-six twenty-six tons. The cap section wolghs fit-toen fit-toen tons. Tho height of tho bronze color-bearer surmounting tho top of tho monument Is fourteen feet and each of tho four figures at tho lowor corners Is seven foot high. Tho monument Is constructed of a flno quality of medium colored barro grnnlte. It required eight months of labor to oxecute tho stouo portion of tho monument at tho quarries. Tho five bronzo statues wero mod-olod mod-olod nnd enst by Rudolph Schwarz of Indianapolis, lnd., a natlvo of Austria. Tho surmounting flguro lepresonts a color bearor, Tho other four figures represent tho cavalry, artillery, In-Xr.ntry In-Xr.ntry and navy. |