The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-01

| residence and business thoroughfares will
give themselves To American coiors on tHd'
day.
The monument is the work Of Paul W.
Bartlett. sculptor Of international achieNe.
ment whose execution in this instance VIII
| undoubtedly place him among the frst
artists OF the world He has been WORKING
on this statue for something like year
now and will continue on 1t for two years
more. His models. one after the otner.
have been approved by the French Jury,
and the last. which Is life size mas been
, particularly praised by NJ Rau1on. VINO -
supervising the work for the authorities or
| the Louvre The model shows Lafayette
as the Youthful son of France. extending
| his sword in voluntary Offering to Liberty.
! He is dressed in all the graceful elegance
| of the time a gided youth. in reality. or
the last century. His horse is caparssoned
likewise the gear and the dressing of the
name and tan being true in every detail L"
the style of that period The statue Is TO
! be cast by special process known as the
| last wax process with an alloy oil silver
and gold which Will make II the most beau
t;fuI equestrian figure in the world. IL will
be mounted on Il tall pedestal. Colleont
STYLE of beautiful colored marble. the de-
! sign of the pedestal. which Is by Mr.
! Thomas Hastings of New York. being such
as to throw the statue out In splendid re-
| lief against the Louvre.
The history OF the conception of the idea
! OF the monument and the promotion of the
movement is interesting. Mr.. Robert j.
| Thompson Of Chicago Is father of the
! thought He secured the cooperation or
| Commissioner General Peck. whom he
named as honorary president. and through
MIN appointed the following members OF
| the Lafayette Memorial! Commission:
The Commission.
William r. Day. Secretary of State: VIII
' liam r. Allison. United States Senator from
Iowa; Reverend Edward Everett Hale, Bos-
ton. Mass; Doctor W. T. Harris United
States Commissioner of Education: Arch
bishop ireland. St Paul. Mimi; John ".
Mackay, president Commercial Gable Com
pany: Melville F.. Stone. general manager
Associated Press; Frank Thomson rrcSi-
dent Pennsylvania Railroad. Charles y.
Collier Mayor of Atlanta; Charles G..
Dawes, United States Comptroller of the
Currency. Washington. ID. c. Honorary
president Ferdinand W. Peck. Commits
sioner General: vice president, Alexander
II. RcvelI president Union League Club.
Chicago: treasurer. e. A. Potter. president
American Trust and Savings Bank. Chi
cago; secretary. Robert j. Thompson. Chi
cago; honorary vice presidents. the Cover
nors OF the States and Territories: Homo
rary Advisory Board. superintendents OF
education of the States and Territories.
A canvass WAS begun in September. IS9s.
to raise funds for the monument by penny
collections in the schools. the intention be-
ing 70 make the monument a school chill
dren's offering 20 the memory Of Lafayette.
Something in the neigEborhoOd Of a million
letters were sent out covering every district
Of the country and addressing all manner
of public officials. from Governors To
Mayors and from State Supcrintendents ot
Educa sicn 10 cross roads school teachers.
The result was Immediately successful
over $500 We're contributed by the. chill
dren in one day. Lafayette Day, October 10.
tn. anniversary Of the fall OF Yorktown.
and the erection of the monument was
sured. To this Congress added in the name
of the children &0.Ott more i'll Lafayette
dollars. which are being sold at g each.
and which will net $i010f1 New York State
appropriated $40 coo in the name of its school
children, 1t being forbidden there 10 take
up collections in schools. This makes the
fund ample and the monument will be COM
pletcd without deiay-after the most wide
spread and successful canvass for public
funds on record. The work will be SUPER
vised by the French and American arr
juries. and the fund will he applied hy
the Executive Committee of the I.afayetts
Commission that the very highest results
will h. obtained. The completed statue will
be work of art Of which America and tina
world may be proud.
EDMUND SEBASTIAN H0CH