The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-08-28

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tice and Law, and over the central
gable above the main entrance stands
a 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 are
Huguo Grotius, who has been called
the pioneer of International law; King
Edward the Seventh, Sir Randall
Cremef, and william II Stead. the
English writer and peace leader who
persisted in the Titanic" The bust
OF Cremer was the gift of the Inter
national Arbitration League.
within all that modern art and skill
could do to symbolic the purpose of
the palace has been devoted to the
decoration. The grand marble stair
case which forms the main entrance
is Illuminated from group of stained
glass windows, showing Peace she'd
ding rays of light on Art and Science,
Land and Sea, Commerce and Indus
try; while to the left and right are
other stained glass windows depict
ing the ancient horrors OF War, and
above them are companion panels of
Terror and Death.
The great court is an imposing hall
about seyenty-four feet long by about
forty feet in width and rising to the
full height OF the palace. 1t will ac-
commodate about 300 persons At the
rear, facingg the bench or presiding
officers stand, is nenormous arched
stained glass window To one side OF
it is a draped figure of Justice bear
ing q sword. and to the other Truth
| surveying her nakedness in mirror.
over the throne is huge oil painting
a gift of France. To the. left of the
great hall are the arched galleries for
tthe use Of the public. The walls are
paneled with oak and the ceiling Is
of embossed oak in wonderful de-
signs.
In addition to the great Hall Of JUS
tice and the Library are numerous
apartments for the judges. hung with
tapestries OF the old Dutch style,
rooms for counsel and many parlors.
4 One OF the most imposing of all the
chambers is that assigned to the adj
! ministrative council, which is COM
posed of all the foreign ministers Gre
dentialed to the Hague. This Won
derful room is paneled with rose
wood and satinwood and hung with
Japenese cartoons and embroidered
silks. There are the rooms also for
the president of the court, the secre-
tary-generaI and his assistant, and
i numerous handsome reception rooms,
all adorned with oil paintings and or
namented 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
important congresses which will be
held in the palace.
The library, which occupies the two
stories to the west OF the quadran gle.
consists of a 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
being that of Greece. 1t is a white
marble copy of the famous throne
found at Knossos, in Crete, which
was supposed 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 com
ponent, came from the famous fields
near Leyden, while the hard white
sandstone 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 pre-
scented by the government of Norway
and Sweden. The Italian government
presented the marble which decorates
the interior of the corridors, and the