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Show NEW DOORS FOR THE NATIONAL CAPITOL Washington, August 2. New bronze doors to complete the series of entrance en-trance doors to the capllol have arrived ar-rived here and will be placed in tho main entrance of the building. Tbe doors were designed by Professor Louis AniC'llcs of Washington. The design consists of a transom and two doors with an ornamental frame. The doors nro nearly eight feet wide and thirteen feet In height. In the design the transom figures represent America in a chariot drawn by li;ns and led by n child, sicnltl-cant sicnltl-cant of superiority of Intellectual over brute force. Beside the chariot are figures representing the scholar, architecture, arch-itecture, literature, painting, music, sculpture, mining, commerce and industry. in-dustry. On one s-Jde of the transom panels. Is a figure of Thomas Jefferseui and on the other side a figure of Benjamin Ben-jamin Franklin. Medallions at the four corners represent Poabody. founder of educational Institutions; Emerson, philosopher; Horace Mann, educator, and Hopkins, merchant and philanthropist. In the eight panels, four on each of the heavy doors, are scenes symbolic sym-bolic of jurisprudence, science, art, mining, agriculture, electricity, com-merce com-merce and engineering and on the side of these panels are statuettes of famous Americaus. |