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Show STATUE ERECTED WHILE MAN LIVES Louisville, July 2S Gen. John B. Castleman, veteran of the Confederacy Confeder-acy and of tho Spanish-American war. If he lives fifteen months, probably will be the first Kentuckian who ever saw an equestrian statue of himself erected. Of the estimated cost $1,5.000 a fund of $9,000 has alreadv been subscribed sub-scribed by local admirers of tho general. gen-eral. Seven or more sculptors submitted sub-mitted models, auJ it was announced last night by tho committee that it H. Perrv ot Now York has been select-, ed to direct the work. The. statue, which Is expected -to be ready for mounting by October, 1912, is designed to honor General Castleman for his service as park commissioner of Louisville. Louis-ville. . . ' J |