The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-04-14
In Practically All American Cities Of
Any Size, There Are Monu-
nents to Abraham
Lincoln.
SOME ARE VERY UNIQUE
The Bench In Newark, With the
Bronze Likeness Of the En-
aneipator 10 One Of
These.

In connection Win the CelopIttAon
of the semi-centennial of the death OF
Abraham Lincoln, IL Is interesting 10
call to mind some Of the memorials
which have been erected to him. The
best known and perhaps the finest IN
an artistic sense, is the Augustus 81.
tGauden's statue In Lincoln park. chi
cago. It is considered one Of the
finest pieces Of portrait sculpture IN
the world.
At Newark, N. j., Is the most unique
memorial and one which in peculiar
way symbolizes the man. It Is the
work Of Gutzen Borglum and was a
gift to the Lincoln G. A. r. post OF
Newark by bequest in the will of Amos
Ia. Van Horn and was unveiled In 1911.
1T is bronze figure Of Lincoln seated
on long bench, in a pose character
istic and life like. His hat lies on tho
bench beside him. The children play
about the statue and sit on the long
bench beside him; the old soldiers
sit there in the sun and tell again the
stories OF Bull Run and Gettysburg.
The statue seems friendly and per
lsonal in a way that it could not If 1t
were set on pedestal above the
people.
Another unique memorial Is the
emancipation statue, which stands LII
a little park near the congressional
library in Washington. This statue
was paid for by the colored freed men
OF the United States. The first i've
dollars was given by an old colored
woman, and 1t was the first money she
had earned in freedom and her gift
suggested the statue. The statue was
cast in Munich, Germany, and repre-
sents Lincoln standing with the eman-
cipation proclamation In his hand AMI
"a slave from whose ankles the
shackles have been broken, kneeling
at his feet. This statue was unveiled
on April IA, 1876, on the eleventh an
nfversary of Lincoln's assassination.
The principal address at the unwilling
was made by Frederick Douglas.
Springfield Monument
The Lincoln monument at Spring
fead Is the most pretentious and was
erected at a cost Of $4,000 BY the
Lincoln memorial association. It IL
built Of granite. marble and bronze In
sarcophagi made of marble lie the
bodies Of Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Lin.
coin, their children and one grand
child. The grandchild who was
christened Abraham Lincoln, but call.
ed Jack was also the grandson OF
Senator James Harlan OF Mt Pleasant.
Almost every city of any size has its
Lincoln memorial. In the down town
district Of New York. In Union Square
one Of the busiest corners OF the great
city is a statue of Lincoln. which Is
considered life like and artistic from
the sculptor's viewpoint. There arc
only two marble full length figures OF
Lincoln, both OF them In Washing
ton. One in the capital building IL
by Vinie Ream Hoxie-perhaps the
only well known Lincoln statue done
by a woman. The other marble figure
stands on a doric column before the
court house The United States gov
eminent after fifty years. IS nov
erecting its memorial at Washington
Those OF stone and bronze are the
visible memorials, but the finest mem
Iorial to the greatest American. IL the
alteration given him by every school
boy, and the tender cadence with
which the name Lincoln IN spoken.