The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-16
BUSTS BY zOLNAY
McLAyys AND BARLOW BRONZEs BY
THE HUNGARIAN SCULPTOR.
DESIGNS WERE SUBMITTED.
THE MONUMENTS AND PEDEsTALs
BY ARCHITECT J. j. NEVITT.

Georgia Granite and White and Col
Ored Marble VIII Enter Into Their
COnstructiOn-Mr. hewitt Has sub
mitted Drawings of the PedestaIs
and the Scheme for the Erection
of the MOnuments-NO Fear Enter
tanned That Council VIII Refuse
Its Assent To the Location Desired
by Committee.
1t is believed that Council viii readily
yield its assent to the proposed erection
of monuments to Gen. Lafayette McLaws
and Gen. Francis S. Barlow, on either
side of the Bull and Castor streets en-
trance to Forsyth Park.
The permission of the Park and Tree
Commission to the erection of the mon
uments at the point selected will also
have to be secured, but no difficulty is
| anticipated on this score. The members
of the commission are men of refined
tastes and artistic perceptions, aud there
is no fear that they will refuse their as
sent 10 a movement that will result in
beautifying the principal entrance to Sa-
vannah's principal park with two magnif-
| cent works of art.
For the monuments when they are com
pleted, will be beautiful. The arrange
ment and the designs for the pedestals
are the work of Mr.. John ]. hewitt, and
the general result will be artistic and i'm
| posing. The pedestals will be nine feet
high, and will be surmounted by bronze
ousts of the distinguished soldiers, three
| feet in hight.
! The base stone of the pedestas will be
OF unpublished blue granite, the smaller
stone of the same granite, polished, the
column of red or green marble, and the
capital of white marble. The cap of the
capital will be of the same marble of
which the column is constructed and will
! support the bronze bust.
on the four sides of the capital of the
| McLaws monument will be carved alle-
gorical designs representing the Confed
eracy Georgia, the city of Savannah and
| the Confederate Veterans Association.
For the Barlow monument the same de-
signs will be used, with the exception of
that representing the veterans, which viii.
| be replaced by another representing the
| Oglethorpe Light Infantry. which Barlow
commanded when he left Savannah for
| the front.
The north front of each monument is
| to bear the allegorical design of the Con-
| federacy. In the center will be the Con-
! federate battle flag, surrounded by
| scroll bearing the motto of the Lost
Cause I'm Dec Vindice." Confederate
! eagles are at the angles, holding in their
claws sheafs of arrows; wreaths. of laurel
| representing military fame support the
| central design. On the red marble cap
of the capital is the monogram &C. S. A
The designs for the other faces of the
capitals are equally appropriate, that rep
resenting Georgia bearing the seal of the
| state and the motto: Wisdom, Justice.
| Moderat on" The designs drawn ty Mr..
| hewitt have not yet been acted on by the
committee. but there grace, beauty and
! appropriateness warrant the conclusion
| that the committees action will be ia
! vorable.
| AS now proposed, the bronze busts.
| which are to be of more than life size.
| are to be by Zolnay, the celebrated Hun
! garian sculptor, whose recent works have
excited the enthusiastic admiration of the
| critical world. He is the sculptor of the
Poe bust in the library of the University
of Virginia and of the Sam Davis monu-
ment both of which were received with
universal favor Mr. Zonay has agreed to
undertake the work and the families OF
Gen. Barlow and Gen. McLaws to assist
him i'm making his casts perfect likenesses
of the distinguished originals,
When completed and in position on
either side Of the entrance to Forsyth
Park the monuments, for their size and
general character, viii be as handsome as
any in the country. They will be fitting
memorials to the distinguished savannah
fans whom they are designed to honor
and potent factor in making beautiful
the park entrance, Mr.. Zolnay himself
is enthusiastic over the proposed site ami
! when in Savannah last fall expressed him
co1f icf1t ad will re