CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1901-02-21
STRANGE STATUES.
ONE DEDICATED TO oOM PAUL
IN SCOTLAND.
statues Adoraed with "Toppers' In
Great Britain Goddess Of Wilma in
Japan-cadIIIac Statue at Detroit
One Mans Body, Another's Head.

Japan-Cadillac Statue at Detroit
One Man. Body, Anothers Head.
1t is not generally known that
statue of Dom Paul was quite recent
ly completed in Aberdeen. Scotland. Its
cost was over $500.000, and 1t was at
first intended that the statue should
be delivered in Pretoria on Oct. 10
last-Oom Pauls birthday. Unfortu-
nately it did not arrive there in time.
and is now waiting at the Cape pend
ing the end of the war before it can
be delivered to its consignees, and just
now the chances of its ever being de-
Hvered or erected do not seem very
propitious from a Boer point of view.
But the curious thing, in connection
with this statue is that. in Difference
to Mrs. Kruger's wishes. the chimney
pot hat on the Presidents head has
been left roofiess. SO that rain water
might collect, and afford solace to
thirsty BIRDS Even in Great Brit
ain statues adorned with "toppers"
are not quite SO uncommon as many
people imagine. and at least one Is
further ornamented by an umbrella.
This is to be seen at Reading, Eng
land, and represents the late Mr..
George Palmer. of biscuit fame, who.
besides wearing a bronze topper. car
ries in one hand an unfolded umbrel-
la. One of the most curious statues
In Scotland is that erected in Glas-
gov to Mr.. James Oswald. NJ. p. who
holds, upside down in his hand, an
enormous bronze hat. which success
siye generations of Glasgow gamins
for the past forty-six years have never
tired of endeayoring to fill with stones.
A very remarkable statue is to be seen
in Venice, representing Saint Theodore
standing on crocodile on the top of
granite column. Both the figures
are beautifully carved in the finest
Greek marble. but are Joined togetn-
er in a rather curious manner with
bronze-coated iron Saint Theodore
stands sixteen feet in height. while
the crocodile beneath him is just
fourteen feet long. Few statues in the
far east are more striking than the
huge image OF a woman. dedicated to
Haekman, the Goddess of War, in the
capital of Japan II is made OF wood
and plaster, and is 81 feet high. The
interior of the figure is partly hollow,
and the head, which is large enough TO
hold twenty people comfortably, is
reached by a winding staircase. In
one hand the figure grasps a huge
wooden sword, and in the other a ball,
twelve feet in diameter. A somewhat
similar statue to the one Just men
tfo,ad ge that - radlfian tho founder
OF Detroit, and 1t is erected on the
Belle Isle. a small island In the lake
just outside the city The figure is
$50 feet high, and is IN reality great
building In the shape of man.
clothed in the style of dress usually
worn by the Puritans. Elevators run
from the base OF the structure through
the legs to the various floors in the
interior of the monument. which are
fitted up as art galleries, museums,
restaurants. etc. A very remarkable
monument has been erected over the
grave OF Lucas Douglas. at Westfeld
Cemetery. in the United States. He
was rather an eccentric man. and. IL
stead of bequeathing his property to
his relatives. he arranged that prac-
tically all his estate. after paying his
debts. should be expended on an orna-
men, to be placed over his grave.
Four cars. each drawn by twenty
seven horses. drew the statue to the
cemetery. and as a safe precaution all
the bridges were strengthened over
which the load had to pass. The statue
itself takes the form of sort Of glori-
fed representation of the late Lucas
Douglas. all OF which and the coping
and ornamentations are made OF mar
BILE The base of the statue alone
weighs over sixtheen tons. In the
parish church OF Yarmouth, Isle of
Wight. is statue with a head that
does not belong to IL. The statue in
question is that OF Richard Holmes,
who fought under Prince Rupert, and
was governor of the island from 1867
to 1892. The body of the figure was
really intended to represent Louis
XIV. but during the war which was
being waged against him at that time
Holmes seized the statue from a ship
on its way to France, and compelled
the sculptor, who was on board. TO re-
place the head of the great Louis by
nne NJ hfs own