Las Vegas optic., 1913-08-28
Of PEACE
DEDICATED AT
The HAGUE
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figure Of Peace, her hands resting
on the hilt of a sheathed sword,
around which are swathed scrolls.
Just below, over the corridor stand
two lions.
The statuary however, is not con
fined to the symbolic. -Four men have
been honored by busts. These ere
Hugo Grotius, who has been called
the pioneer of international law;
King Edward the Seventh. Sir Ran
dali Cremer, and William T. Stead,
the English writer ana peace leader
who perished in the Titanic. The
bust of Cremer was the gift of the In
ternational Arbitration league.
Within all that modern art and
skill could do to symbolic the pur
pose Of the palace of peace has been
devoted to the decoration. The grand
marble staircase whicn forms the
main entrance is illuminated from a
group of stained glass windows, show
ing Peace shedding rays of light on
Art and Science, Land and Sea- Com
merce and Industry; while to the left
and right are other stained glass win
dows depicting the ancient horrors of
war, and above them are companq5fi
panels of Terror and Death
The great court is an imposing hall
about "a feet long by about 40 feet in
width and rising to the full height of
the palace. 1t will accommodate
about 300 persons. At the rear, fac
ing the bench or presiding officers
stand, is an enormous arched stained
glass window To one side of it is
draped figure of Justice bearing a
sword, and to ner other Truth sur
veying her nakedness in a mirror.
Over the throne is huge oil paint
ing. a gift of France. To the left of
the great hall are the arched galleries
for the use of the public. The walls
are paneled with oak ar{l the ceiling
lis of embossed oak in wonderful de-
signs.
In addition to the great hall of
justice and the library are numerous
apartments for the judges hung with
tapestries of the old Dutch style,
rooms for counsel and many parlors.
One of the most imposing Of all the
chambers is that assigned to the ad-
ministrative council, which is com
posed of all the foreign ministers Gre
dentialed to The Hague. This won
derful room is paneled with rosewood
and satinwood and hung with Japan
ese cartoons and embroidered silks.
There are the rooms also for the
president of the court, the secretary
general and his assistant, all adorned
with oil paintings and ornamented
with carvings in rare woods.
Apartments also have been set aside
for the press, and a complete system
of vaults and steel lockers for the
preservation Of the records of the i'm
portant congresses which win be held
in the palace.
The library, which occupies the two
stories to the west Of the quadrangle,
consists of reading room, lecture
room and central office and many
rooms for study, while upstairs are
the book compartments in steel.
Many nations have made gifts to the
palace, one of the most interesting be-
ing that of Greece. 1t is white mar
BILE copy of the famous throne found
at Knossos, in Crete, which was sup
posed to have been the throne Of King
Minos.
The building materials of the peace
palace came from many countries. The
brick, which is the chief component,
came from the famous fields near
Leyden, while the ha1d white sand
stone used for trimming is from
French quarries, and the wood used
for flooring and paneling is largely
from Austria. The granite constitut-
ing the base of the walls was present
ed by the governments Of Norway
and Sweden. The Italian government
presented the marble which decorates
the interior of the corridors, and the
grand marble staircase is a gift from
the city of The Hague. The stained
glass windows are the gifts of the
Dutch government and Great Britain,
while France has sent not only tire
great painting which is the most strlk-
ing decoration of the great hall, put
many of the tapestries and minor acc
orations. There are vases Of precious
materials from Russia, Hungary and
Austria, and groups of statuary IN
marble and bronze which ornament
the first landing Of the great staircase
are the gifts cf the United States.
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