Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-22
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| C. GaShfHHfI. secretary G1 3le Ms i sissipDi Nicksbura Military Park com mssion. is receipt daily of letters from eminent sculptors and design CTS in all parts of the country asking for information relative to the $43,ooe monument that is to be erectead in the park here t0 commemorate the Mississippi soldiers who part.e1pa ei in the siege of 1863.
 The commission is to meet on the Sth of November, when had been eX- pected that a des gn would be accept ed. Many of the sculptors in thef letters. declare that the time i5 not sufficient i'll whicah good Work may De done. and Captain CaShman fay0fs eX- tending the time fully two months. lf this is done a number of prominent sculptors will enter the competition and submit designs. While he does not believe in de1ap, Captain Cash man also declares there is no need that the work of selection be rushed, and he believes that by waiting some months longer the designs submitted vii represent the work of the laad- ing artists of America
 A letter was received this morning from Architect Albert Raandolph Ross of New York. T have given the mat ter of a conception of an appropriate memorial considerable thought, and regret to say that it will be lmpos= sible for me to prepare and submit q model of my design which will prop ersx. express it by the Sth of November. It seems 10 me that in such ana im- portant undertaking ampe time should be given to competitors to properly eelaborate their ideas for presenta- tion, and the time given, barely d month and a half, is totally insuf= ficient'
 MT. Ross is the designer of the Pennsylvania monument in the park here, one of the most striking yet erected, a which was selected by jury composed of the most prominent artists in the country out of a total of seventy that were submitted
 Captain W. R. Hodges, noted arch. itect of St. Louis. who designed the the St. Louis staatue unveiled in the Missouri metropolis last week, writes that he is impressed with the im- poltance of aa splendd monument at the batatle field park here to conn memorate the valOr, suffering and for titude of the Confederate soldier He desires to submit the best possible de sign but declares the time is not suf- ficient Captain Hodges is q Union veteran, and such a work, he says, would carry his complete sympathy, He has submitted a rough design of a group of Confederate soldiers serv ing q cannon. which should b. made of bronze eof heroic size and placed on a great pedestal
 Henry Kitson. the noted sculptor of Boston, writes that he is desirous of etering design, but says the time is not sufficient. Some panels, repre- sentin9 stirring battle scenes. the work of NIr kitson, will be on the Iowa monument in tha park here. His Wife designed the rugged Massachu- setts soldier which memorializes the soldiers from that state in the park here.
 Guy Lowell Of Boston, architect of the Iowa monument, is desirousa of submitting a design. Gulzon Borglum. thea noted sculptor of New York, has written for information and signifed his intentio of eterne the compet- to-
 The Van Amrdge company of Bos ton. which will build the Minnesota monument is to enter design in the competitio.
 E. NJ. Viquesney of the Clark Monu. ment work of Amerieus. Ga, has talk on a great interest in the matter, and declares he is putting his best efforts into a design.
 Other concerns and people that VII enter designs are: John D. Stnson. Columbus Miss; Maldoon Monument works, Eouisv;ltea Ky; Morriss Mar hle works. emphis; R H, Potter, At laata, Ga. Rosebroagh onument com panN, St Louis, and others
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