The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-11-16

colossal brouzs crowning 6gure adds over
10000 pounds with Its supports and braces and
reaches over 90 feet higher. the deviation from
the perpendicular. due to elasticity, is no doubt
much greater. But the monument is able to
Withstand the heaviest gale that ever blew IN
the State. i" q - t''t
The monument consists of a circular terrace
on plot of ground which. with the approaches
and prospective fountains, is 1872 feet IN dame
ter. The fonndation and terrace occupy 10
feet of this space. The terrace, of massive
masonry. is ii feet high, and supports a massive
stone balustrade.
Within the terrace are apartments for en-
gines, pumps. elevator machinery, and quarters
Tor the custodian. From the center of the
terrace rises the square base and pedestal Of
the monument proper. The pedestal is 63 feet
in diameter and SO feet high. losing 2S feet
in diameter at the top. Thence arises The
shaft, the same in shape, to hight of 149 feet,
having diameter diminishing from % feet 6
inches to II feet inches at the base of the
capital. Above this capital. which is orna-
niented with carved stone eagles six feet high,
there arises lecturn or turret Of iron beams
covered with copper, which is 81 feet high aud
eight feet in diameter.
On this rests the crowning bronze figure, SO
feet in hight Indiana stands higher than
the highest point reached by the passenger in
the circuit of the Ferris wheel at Chicago.
The platform of the capital is 220 feet high.
IL is reached by winding stairway within
the hollow shaft.
The monument is not wholly of stone. The
complement, OF which but little has yet been
finished is bronze in the form of astragals
and groups. The pedestal and shaft form a
ithic plat for the story of the mon uruent. Tire
pronze groups and the astragals give the story
detail. What is technically called the $ read
ing" OF the monument is Victory Arising out
r. h. n,.xI
Of the State.
The emblems of War and Peace arc to he
embodied in colossal groups, placed on prOiec-
tions of stone-War the east side of the
pedestal and Peace on the west. The service
in the army is represented IN the first astragal.
IL has been modelled, and now is soon TO be
cast. IL represents 18th century scene of
carnage. The astragal emblematic of the navy
represents the PROV of the man of-war Hart
ford. 1t is to cost $4,000, and tho army as
tragal is to cost $2l 900, aud will be cast in
Germany.
The crowning figure which is finished and in
place, holds the American foundry records for
size. 1t is pronounced by critics to be superb
piece of work, and of enduring art fame. Ii
stands So feet high from the base of the globe
to the tip of the torch. Its pose represents
Liberty exultant.
The plaza is to be further embellished by
four subsidiary statues, placed al the four sides
Of the monument. These are TO represent four
periods in the history of the Territory, Begin
ing " with the hero OF VincenHes, George Rogers
Clark, who captured tort there from the
British and Indians in 1879. William Henry
Harrison, the first Governor of the Territory,
will be the subject of the statue for the second
period; Gen. Mahlon d. Manson, thei aged
member of the commission, for the third or
Mexican war period, and Oliver P.Morton, In
dianas great war Governor, for the period of
the rebellion. The statue Of Morton is already
standing in its plac, at the east front of the
monument. -