El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-29
Carnegie Gift Dedicated
World Interest in international Peace
Evidenced by Interest Taken I'm
Peace Palace at The Hague.
-By re1erIc J. Hnslkin -
2 ASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. %.

I NV Inc 0eQlcdLlOn OF the Cdrue-
/ gle Peace Palace at The Hague
today gives worldwide interest to the
celebration of the birthday anniver-
sary Of queen Wilhelmina, always a
festive occasion for her majesty's sub
| jects in Holland. The Carnegie Peace
palace represents a gift of sL5OO,000
] bestowed by Andrew Carnegie to the
1 nations OF the world, and is a mOnu-
J ment of a wealthy Americans faith in
/ universal brotherhood.
/ Official delegates have been sent to
! the ceremony from the a civilized ma
] lions at the Second Hague conference
/ in 1907. The event is taking place
/ just after the meeting of the 10th
| Universal Peace congress and just
| before the meeting of the Inter
parliamentary Union which assembl
! early in September. The minister OF
| foreign affairs Of the Netherlands and
/ the diplomatic representatives of all
| the worlds powers at The Hague, who
compose the council of the Permanent
/ Court of Arbitration, have directed
/ the erection Of the building and have
/ put forth every endeavOr to make the
palace worthy Of the world it repre-
sent-s
The council DESTROYS Of securing ideas
| just before the meeting Of the Inter
from the foremost architects of the
! world, offered liberal prizes for plans
for the erection of the palace This
resulted in a strong competition
among 216 prominent architects. The
plans submitted by NJ L NJ Gordon
nier of Lille, France, were finally de-
cided upon, and the first prize and
contract were awarded to him In the
building operations, a G. Wander Steur
of Harlem, Holland, has been assoc
ciated with the architect as engineer
and superintendent Of construction
Site Once n Queens Garden.
The site selected for the Peace
Palace" was once a garden of a palace
beloning to queen Wilhelmina's grand
mother, where the queen spent many
happy hours of her childhood days 1t
comprises Is acres Of a shady avenue
half way between the Hague and
Scheyenengen, the famous Dutch sea-
side resort The ground was purchased
for the sum of 100000 The exterior
form of the architecture Of the palace
is purely Dutch, in keeping with the
beautiful buildings Of the country in
which II sands A picturesque garden,
with many rare plants, and a large
grove Of beautiful trees are at the back
of the building In front is a wide
terrace and the main entrance is
reached by an inclined plane rather
than by a flight of tseps.
The Great Court Room
The main floor is devoted entirely to
court rooms and consultation chambers.
The great court room. where all the
big conferences will be held, is 20 feet
long, 40 feet wide and 80 feet deep.
The other court room is about half as
large and occupies a corner of the
main floor at the base Of the tower.
This smaller room will be used for
ordinary arbitration cases A large in
ternatiOna1 library, unequaled in any
part of the world, where important
volumes and documents from every
country are of easy access, is also on
the main floor. Reading rooms and
consultation rooms connect the two
court rooms There is also a suite Of
rooms to be used as headquarters for
the secretary of the nterparliamentary
Union.
In the basement are the offices for /
the secretary of the Hague court and !
MS staff OF assistants. room for /
newspaper reporters, telegraph office,
restaurants, room for janitOrs and as
Sistants, heating and lighting plants
The building has all the latest engin- |
neer1ng devices for comfort and safety, I
and no pains have been considered too !
great to make its appointments per /
feet in every detail
United States Gift.
The United States is represented by |
a. large marble group of statuary por-
traying in aIlegOry peace through JUS
uce-" 1t viii be placed on the main |
landing Of the monumental staircase |
provided by Mexico and viii be a /
worthy token of the nation whose citi- !
zen made possible the building A /
replica Of this group to be placed in I
the national capital is much desired in ]
w washington, D. C.
Brazil sent the mahogany for finish |
ing the great court room. and Great !
Britain provided the four stained glass /
windows that furnish the lighting in /
this room. France has sent exquisite /
GObelin tapestries used to decorate the I
small court room Two ornamental 4
gates for the entrance Of the grounds |
have been furnished by Germany, 7
while Belgium has given the bronze /
doors at the front entrance of the /
palace Granite for the arcade and /
ba1ustrade was sent by Norway. /
Sweden provided the granite for the
basement Greece and Italy provided /
the marble used in the main corridor.
Switzerland has given a clock for the /
tower Denmark provided for the /
foundation IN the central court. Rus
STA IS represented by a handsome mala-
chite vase, eleven feet high which will 4
be placed in the main entrance hall /
Japan has given gold embroidered tap
eStrieS- The largest two are six yards
IN length and eight yards wide -Four
smaller ones are six yards long and
four yards wide. They are Of exquisite
workmanship, embroidered with flow
ers. fishes and birds showing the high
est Japanese art
All the other contributing nations
have sent gifts of products in which
they excel and at the same time are I
appropriate for use in the Peace pal
ace It is through these gifts that the I
Peace palace takes the significance Of
being a world monument to a move
ment that is of universal benefit.
Law Better Than Wer.
The dedication of this Peace palace,
coming as it does between two import
and peace conferences at The Hague, is
an outward sign of a universal awak-
ening to the fact that International
law is a better means of securing jus
tice than war That the world is being
in this belief is shown in the
general interest manifested by the
masses, statesmen ana the governments
themselves. The campaign to develop /
heaa B
waged since he first Hague confer
ence in 1899, is now so widespread that |
colleges, chambers of COM
merce, boards of trade, almost every |
kind Of religious, social and literary |
society in the world, are discussing | ;
practical measures for the realization ,
Of international peace Kings. emper- I
ors, and presidents CT republics are I
now delighted to place among their !
highest titles that of peace maker.
United states Leads