Show RM P P LA ff STATUE WILL BE SYMBOLIC OP OF friendship FELT BY UNITED STATES committee formed to enlist nation wide support for memorial in behalf of Ame american Pe people orile in brazil washington lins hns just been formed fertile to enlist nationwide tup P port jort for a plan to present brazil with a memorial on in behalf of the american people in connection with tit the celebrun lion to be ba heed in ili RIO illo do janeiro next year to commemorate the one I 1 hundredth ilia anniversary of brazils ind pond enca the movement originated with tile american colony in brazil and so highly was it regarded that it was at once adopted by the lie american chamber of commerce for brazil lit in RIO illo de Jan janeiro elro it Is to so operate with tills this chamber that the committee for the united states has haa been originated once tile plan was revealed it c commanded tile the ready sympathy of men inen prominent lit in international affairs many ally of whom offered to serve on in the american committee the officers or of which are john L Merrl I errill ll president Ident of all america cables inc ebal chairman 0 A richards vice chairman jeleti aclin 11 II allen alien treasurer and ic leslie L 11 freeman secretary other in members embers of tile committee include such well known nien men as audgo 1 ibert elbert 11 gary chairman of the board of directors united states steel corporation ker ailt roosevelt vice president of the karr steamship company Law lawernce ernee armour vice president armour and company dr john bassett Ilar sett moore Nl president of the ilan american society carlton president of the patera estern union telegraph company find and samuel L Vatic kiln president of the baltimore locomotive works announcement of tile the inauguration of the movement liere here was made by john L Ill merrall Merrl errill ll tha chairman of the newly formed committee in ili view of the great nna and growing crowing importance of our commercial relations our traditional friendship lind future frood will said mr ir Al Merrl errill ll it seems s only fitting that upon the occasion of Braal lB centennial the people of the united states should mako make a substantial and suitable acknowledgment of their appreciation of the bond existing between the tie two countries by offering to the brazilian nation a worthy token of our friendship diaries charles keck of new york whose sincere and brilliant woric wonc has earned idin hlin widespread reputation as a sculptor lias has been commissioned to create the memorial the selected design of which consists of it figure in bronze symbolic of friendship holding in her right hand a sprig 6 oT laurel and supporting with her left liand hand the hags flags of brazil and the united states bound together by undrel and palm tile the main figure la Is supported en ell a lofty end anil imposing pedestal of slone enriched with baa ba rollers and near the base tire are four standi standing tig figures george eorge lilington n ani abraham lincoln rot representing the united states and jose and illo branco represent lit 11 brazil beneath those figures are arc three lias bas relief one depleting depicting tile alio signing of the declaration of independent independence pen dence i another doin pedro I 1 at the alic iranga river declaring brazils independence of portugal nud the I a scone symbolic of tile lasting friendship of brazil und and america inscribed tit nt the base Is ii tile simple statement that tha memorial Is the gift of the alie american people to britzki Britz li |