Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-18
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
What is To Be Done with tbe New
appropriation.

80 OONc Win the New
Appropriation.
Washington Post
The approval by the president las
wednesday of the act for another ap
preparation for the Washington monu
ment has infused energy among the
contractors and bosses having IL
charge its erection. AS soon as the
fund is available, proposals for bid:
VIII be issued by the engineer. In the
meantime Supt. L. II. Mclaughlin, i
busy In erecting the iron work i'm the
interior OF the shaft, force of twelve
men having been put on only two days
ago. In about ten days the mas0ns
will lie employed in putting the
marble blocks in position The super
intendent is confident of adding seven
ty-Gve feet tn the present height he
fore the new appropriation is expended,
and thus reaching an altitude of 325
feet. The summit of the shaft i'm its
present undTessed condition, IS forty
hv u square. the walls being seven
fee. lick. At the base the monu-
ment is ffty.fve feet square, thus de-
creasing IN its upward course at the
rate of one-quarter Of an inch per
foot.
The memorial blocks which were
stored away during the thirty years
the work was suspended. have been
frightened mp and are ready 20 be put
in position. Between forty and fifty
stones have been put in the walls. and,
In passing up and down in the elevator.
are studied to an advantage by the aid
or lantern. About ninety more are
In the lapidarium yet to be put in the
walls. Some of these have been mutt
lated by vandql hands. The most
seriously defsced stone is that
which was presented bv the Tenn
pie of Honor and Temperance.
Some of the carved emblems are
badly broken. done before Supt.
Mclaughlin took charge. Conspicuous
among the stones that will be put i'm
the shaft this year is the one from the
temple of Eucalyptus, on the island of
Paros; block from the original chap
ell of William Tell, built in 1888, on
Lake Lucerne, where he escaped from
Gessler, and large square of marble
from the Grecian archipelago. sent as
n tribute from the islands of Paros and
Naxos. A finely polished piece of
marble, which was presented by J. A.
Lehman, has also been set aside. I'm
bedded in its face is a head which was
curved two or three thousand years
ago by the ancient Egyptians for the
temple erected in honor Of Augustus.
on the banks Of the Nile. The head is
of a hard, dark brown rock, of gran
tie grain and from its irregular appear
ance was apparently broken in its re.
moval from its original resting place.
The stones from the Swiss confedera-
ton, Turkey and China, will, it is said.
take precedent of the many fine pieces
OF carved work that have been present
ed by the secret societies and other or.
CARNATIONS. The latest block sent to
the lapidarium comes from Nevada,
having been received but q short time
ago. 1t is 3x1b feet and is but from
granite. It's face, which is polished.
bears the inscription: Gall for our
country-1881," in gilt letters. The
line "Nevada" extends across the mid
die in plain six.inch letters of solid
silver. 1t is one Of the most attractive
stones in the collection and the only
one that has been received for a mum.
Der of years.