Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-13

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glory and their honor into it,"
AS interpreted in design and color
you see the tremendous figure of a |
| woman kneeling at the foot of the |
throne In the most vivid shade OF
| ultramarine blue. The figure is ma
1estc and her uphfted hands are |
stretched out toward the groups 10 |
the right and left, which represent |
the nations and the people paying |
homage and Offering up their tribute |
On the right the kings, IN crimson and
| goId and embroidered cloaks are |
4oldlng up their crowns, while a |
Dante-lfke figure offers to the people |
| the Irult of the tree of life, who, black |
ana white, are represented as being
removed of all their snackles; while a |
woman IN white as Wisdom holds open |
10 them the book of enlightenment
| On the other side the learned of the |
earth, the scholars in their black |
ropes or the law and the professions,
the scholars in red, the surgeons, |
Trained nurses are all making the su- |
preme sacrlfce to the idea OF Unity; |
WhlIe at the extreme LETT the weapons |
I are being visiDly beaten into pruning |
hooks and plowshares in a giant forge |
Architectural details in the way OF !
arches give delightful, indefinite, and |
the croWding figures, with lifted hands |
all actuated by the same impulse
nave sort of orchestral unison, the |
whole panel being extremely dlgnitied |
and impressive and rich in gold and
| contrasting colors.
Washington and Lincoln
Ihls panel OF Unity, while it domi- |
mates the scheme. will not perhaps be |
as popular as the two arched panels,
! numbered 4 and 6, which are i'm |
mediately below it and to the right
and left of the Presidents seat in the
senate Chamber, since these panels |
deal in the case of No. 4 with Wash
| lnRtOn and In the Of q
Lincoln. Here the treatment of the
historic episode Will enhance Miss
! Oakieys reputation, since a finer
washington and a nobler Lincoln
would be hard to find. The legend for
the Washington group represents the
! scene when Washington said: Let us
raise the standard to which the wise
ana honest can repair. The event is
IN the hand of God" at the opening
or the Constitutional Convention in
May 1887, while the line for the Lin
coin group is from the Gettysburg
address OF November, 1868: 1T is for
us, the HVtng, rather to be dedicated
to the unfinished work"
In the Lincoln group the President
is represented as standing with folded
arms, looking down from a platform
upon those who have crowded to hear
him. Except Lincoln, none of the
! groups on the rostrum or on the
ground are Ikenesses. They are typi-
cal in character and costume of the
people or the period, the most human
accent IN the group aside from Lincoln
| being widow in black with her fair
haired son, while soldiers life-size. in
front, with the colors of the flag. carry
the eye by spiral line back into the |
vista of panoramic landscape in
Whlch troops innumerable seem to be |
| part All the accessories are, how
ever quite secondary to the slightly
bowed head of Lincoln, which is full |
Oh mummy and great sorrow, while |
an expression OF rupture and exalta-
tion lightens those before him.
AS contrast to this solemn and
somber Lincoln panel that represent !
ing washington may be said to be |
almost gay. Everything about n |
breathes confidence in the future and
hope for the consummation of the
Union. At the foot of the speakers
stand, which details the familiar
background of the interior of Inde-
pendence Hall, Franklin, in a gorge
Gus bronze-green coat, James Wilson
! in dull red and Madison in vivid blue
are seen seated at q table, while on
the steps in a vigorous right-to-left
swift are Patterson, of New Jersey i'm
golden buff; Hamilton, nearest to the
PRESIDENT, in red and the two Nor
rises, Gouverneur and Robert; while
to the left Dickinson is seated, also in
a gorgeous green coat, and Randolph.
III biuSt IHS iltn VINO QlQn [ sign. is
| represented sitting with bowed head
Washington stands with the left hand
| uplifted as If he had lifted it from his
heart, and is supposed to be uttering
the sentences which rim the arch.
In these pictorial panels mural dec
Grafton in America reaches it's high
est level, and their popularity is like
ly to be very enduring, especially when
the ingenuity with which the painter
has introduced colored boy, q SER
want, in rich brown-gold suit, at the
root OF Franklin, who is there osten-
slDly TO hand him pile of books, but
is really meant to indicate the fatal
element that the race brought into our
national history. Curiously enough
having other purposes in view, there
is not a colored person in the Lincoln |
panel, as more conventional treat
ment might have suggested would in
dubitably be the case.
Armies and Slaves
| when one turns from these three to
the spandrel, the semilunettes on
either side of the great central panel
of Unity, one comes again to the
symbolism of the painter, since No 7
Is devoted to the idea Of the armies
of the earth. who foolishly struggle
to secure peace through war, and the
legends that illuminate this panel are:
Ihe Kingdom OF unity suffers violence
and the violent will take 1t by storm.
with this from Isaiah: "As a dream Of
a night vision, so shall the multitu6a q
of all nations be that fight =
that fight against her and her mu-
nitions." They shall look upon me
whom they have pierced"
This is a gorgeous panel in color !
showing the various armies of the ma
tions. with bayonets fixed, pressing
forward, great battleships with their
military masts, the smoke of guns and
burning places rising high in the skv
with the standards of the PRINCIPAL
nations adding color to the scheme,