The times., 1898-07-22
A STATELY SHAFT.
The S0dierS and Sailors Nonu-
memt af Indi an polls

The S0dierS and Sailors NOau-
meat at indianapolis
Indianapolis. July A.-ahe Soldiers and
Sailors Monument is to be made GEN.
ter of attraction during the biennial en-
campment of the Uniform Rank. Knights
of PythiaS, to be held here during the
week OF August e. The monament occu-
pies a circular SPOT in the exact center
OF India napols. When the city was
Originally laid out circular street was
made the center. The tract inside con-
tainS about four acres of ground and at
first was occupied as the official resi-
dence of the governor Of the State. In
time the place became a park. Ten years
ago the legislature made an appropria-
tion to erect a monument in memory OF
the Indiana soldiers who fell in the war
of the rebellion.
The monument is now near completion
All the work Is done, with the exception
of the carving of ole of the large side
groups of statuary. entitled War and
Peace" A score of artisans and ar
lists, under the supervision Of Bruce
Schmitz, of Berlin. are now engaged in
this work and expect TO have one group
completed before the encampment. Mr.
Schmitz is the artist who designed the
monument and who made the models
for the side groups. The shaft Is pro-
nounced by artists 10 be one of the most
beautiful and most artistic in the world.
II is 2S5 feet high and surmounted with
bronze figure of woman of heroic size.
christened Miss Indiana" On the north
and south sides are broad stairs and
plazas leading up to the entrance. where
there is an electric elevator to carry pas
sengers to the top. On the east and west
sides, extending out to the street are
cascades. flowing with millions OF gallons
OF water an hour, pumped from deep
wells of pure water drilled under the
base of the monument. 1t required over
ten years to build the monument and
an expenditure of a million dollars was
| made.
Beautiful as the monument is, it is
to be made far more slightly during the
! Knights of PythiaS encampment. 1t is 70
| be Illuminated and decorated by eiec-
| tricity. at cost of 81. 900 a night. About
| 10000 incandescent lights will be used
! Over the north and south portals of the
| base are to be placed waving American
| flags. Surrounding these and outlining
| the pediment are 10 be hundreds of small
| white incandescent lamps. On the north
and south sides of the army astragai
| will be placed a large shield made of red,
| white and blue lights. and from the
| eagles beak on either side Will be feS-
| tooned strings Of miniature lamps OF the
national oolors. extending to the four
| corners of the aStragal. This work is
| of bronze encircling the shaft al the top
| of the base Forty feet above it is the
! navy astragal Ii is made TO represent
! gunboats OF the ssyie used in the Civil
! War. and in the middle OF each side are
! medallion heads Of heroes OF the war
! The boats and heads are 10 be outlined
! with lights. Each Of the small windows
| in the shaft, tho shaft itself, the base
I and the cornice and turret will be studded
! with miniature incandescent lamps. On
| the top OF the monument are to be placed
| four -. 5.010-candIe-power seerchlightS. SO
| arranged that they can be thrown upon
| Miss Indiana" or out over the city
| But the illumination of the monument
| proper is but a small part OF the work
| and the least beautiful. II u in the cas-
| cades that the artist will display his skill.
! There are three of them. The first is
| supplied by f0-inch pipe through which
/ water p0urs out upon q semi Circular ba-
| sin twenty feet in diameter. Over the
| sides Of this basin the water flows in a
! solid sheet into a similar basin of twice
| the dimensions, which in turn eElptieS
| into a larger basin from which the water
| flows in still another solid sheet into a
! large pool. Behind these sheets of water
| are TO be placed the latest novel devices
| known to the electrician. Under the first
cascade there Will be emblems of the or
! der and revolving var-colored lights
| Through the water the latter will give a
| Kaleidoscope effect. Under each of the
! other cascades there will be placed l.209
| red. white and green lights. In the OPP
Grafton of the lights under the cascades
water rheestat will be used for dim
| ming and Frightening them. The lights
| Will be operated from switchboards
| placed under the monument AS there
| are cascades on both the east and west
SIDES the water decorations will be in
| duplicate.
The work of decorating the shaft of
| the emonumalt will be extraordinarily haz-
| ardous, as il can be reached only by
| means of swings and ropes The work
! men will have to be suspended in midair
| a distance of from seventy y-five TO $50 feet.
| The only permanent feature OF the decora-
| ton will be a 1-inch copper wire which
| viii be run up inside the shaft This will
| be left for use at such time as it Is deem
| ed expedient to place twenty-five are
| lights on the turret. All the other work
IS merely for the pleasure of the guests
| of the city during encampment week and
| will be torn away in1me,iiat tplv after