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Show PROPOSE A SHAFT TO DANTE I i tallan Citizens of New York Sub- I scribing for Memorial Which They Will Give to City. j New York New Yoi k's Italian ( HI j ens, who have already presmted the Ity with monuments to Columbus, larlbi.ldl. Verdl and Veil aano, me , ow subscribing to a fund with which ii Meet a monument to Dante, author I f the "Divine Comedy." The figure 1 f the poet, of heroic sl.e. will bo acked by a shaft of granite (',:, fe. t rorn base to summit Life size pguicH f Literature and Iteligion and Hie l.e groups represi tiling Dante's Isions of lull, purgatory and lumen, 111 decorate the base. At the very iot. In has relief. Is the (toman wolf tickling Komulus and !ti tiius. Above ie poet's Ik ad Is an American carle, earing a laurel crown 'I be monument i ' f m i y i '! ii- mti n i. i " ' ' . Y ' ' J I. r. . ... r..' ' ' .. ' . itU. . j ,' . . !.' :. i ;,t ' ' I ' .' ' "- ' - ' ; 1 - . , I ' ' - ! I . . -. , ..!'. ... ;.. - . 1 Cant Memorial. ttppid with a ssn'ie ,i,,r .yu bol!C the hope of Hinder!, ',,j 1, its . i ippriml by th.- city au iritlcs. the liicii,,,. i., villi be ha le .1 M place II, Ole nl t !.. pal k |