The sun., 1919-04-13
Campaign to Centre i'm Park
Avenue From 45th to
50th Street.
WAR TROPHIES EXHIBIT
Two Huge Pyramids, Each of
5000. German Helmets, to
Rise In Centre.

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great patriotic occasion. but the direc-
tors of the Victory Liberty Loan be-
lieve they have surpassed Il with the
Victory Way, the first announcement
OF which was made yesterday.
"A slittering thoroughfare of tri-
umph" is the subtitle of the Vic
tory Way. Because Fifth avenue is
decorated for returning soldiers and In
order to have "a spectacle IMPLYING
solely the spirit OF victory the Liberty
Loan Committee will stage its big show
In Park avenue, between Forty-fifth
ana Fiftieth streets. This five block
plaza day and night will be the centre
OF the campaign in this district from
April 81 to May 10.
War Trophies to Ne shown.
The first public exhibition of a mass
or trophies captured by American
soldiers will be one Of the attractions
From the middle Of Park avenue, at
Forty-sixth and Forty-ninth streets,
will rise two great pyramids, each con-
sisting OF 5000 German helmets sent
to New. York by Gen. Pershing. A
winged victory. designed by Herbert
Adams of the advisory art committee.
will surmount each pyramid.
At the bases of the piles of helmets
will be arrayed eixty-thres German TIA
seventy-five gun carriages and hundreds
of rifles. machine guns. trench mortars
and gun platforms.
The space from T0rty-sixth to Forty
seventh street and from Forty-eighth
20 Forty-ninth street on both sides of
tht Park avenue plaza, will be called
the Colonnade of the States. Fifty-two
columns, each fifty-six feet high. with
an eagle at the top. will form the
colonnade. Between the columns will
hang the flags of all the States and
Territories OF the Union. with trim
mings' Of laurel and electric lights.
Tho background of the speakers
stand, between Forty-seventh and Forty
eighth streets. will be a frieze OF mural
paintings 100 feet long and ten feet
high. The centre panel will contain
vice-president of the Architectural
League of New York Six other paint
ings will depict Continents OF the
Earth Contributing to Victory" ]. NJ.
Hewlett is painting Australia and New
Zealand" Charles S. Chapman South
America" Frederick J. Waugh North
America" W. T. Benda Europe"
Arthur S. Convey Africa" and Edith NJ.
Magonigle ASIA Opposite the speak
ers' stand a military band will play.
North OF the Colonnade OF States. be-
tween Forty-ninth and Ffftierh streets.
pageants and ceremonies will be staged
in a Forum of the Allies. defined by
tall obelisks, and fiagpoes bearing the
banners OF all opr allies.
Each block of Fifth avenue from Madi-
son Square to Forty-ninth street will
ha hnL lnfn h,s Ii,,A
OF banners swung from cross bars be-
tween fiagpoles. The same decorative
gchenne will guide the visitor through
the cross streets from Fifth avenue to
Park avenue. The new viaduct from
Fortieth street to and around the Grand
Central Terminal will be decorated.
Airpianes to Fly Above.
Navy airplanes and dirigibles will
soar over Victory Way day and night
and shower loan literature. One OF these
viii be a dirigibl- from the naval air
station at Rockaway Point equipped
with the new wireless telephone.
Twenty feet above the ground will be
placed loud speaking telephone trans
mitters contributed by the New York
Telephone Company. so that the crowds
m hear messages from Washington
and other distant points. These trans
mitters also will pick up and convey
10 the people the Victory Loan appeals
OF the navy aviators up above.
Veterans of all the New York mill
tary units, and OF other States, too, will
speak in The Forum Each day a ma
tionally known speaker will deliver the
principal address. At night the way
will be illuminated not only by it's own
thousands OF lights but also by search
lights trained from the Grand Central
IT, L.
Y. NJ. c. A. building at Forty-nfth street.
the Avignon apartment house, the Bit
more and the Yale Club.
The architect OF Victory Way is II.
Van Buren, Magonigle, president of the
Architectural League of New York and
chairman OF the advisory art commit
tee of the Liberty Loan Committee. His
associates are Herbert Adams. Paul
Bartlett, Edwin H. Bashfeld. Charles
Dana Gibson, ]. Monroe Hewlett. Au-
Gustus Vincent Tack. Paul Dougherty
and Lieut.. L. S. Dunbar. Mr.. Magonigle
said yesterday:
THE space chosen affords every OPP
portunity for an impressive spectacle
and the creation Of a frame in which the
daily picture of the Victory Liberty Loan
drive may be presented. The decora-
lions do not attempt to simulate or
initiate actual architecture. Their tenn
pOrary nature must De DOrno IN NINA IN
the design. For this reason painted dec
Grafton rather than nodded or modelled
forms has been used, as well as flags.
The effect at night has also been taken
into consideration. and elaborate plans
have been made for powell methods OF
illumination"
Posters prepared for the new loan
drlve-1o,000,0O of them--will appear
all over the United States tomorrow.
One of them. visualizing the idea Of the
Victory Loan, Finish the job" is con-
sldered by most critics to be the best of
all the Liberty Loan series. 1t shows n
workingman in flannel shirt and over
slls. with sleeves rolled up. digging into
his pocket for money 10 lend to Uncle
Sam lie wears the buttons of the four
previous loans. lie is saying, Sure
well finish the job" The picture was
painted by Gerrit Beneker.
Other posters are by Alfred Everitt
Orr. Howard Chandler Ciristy. Clyde
Forsythe, l.. A. Shafer. ]. NJ. Hewlett
and Others. There will be a special
poster four feet high and 20 feet long
with the words, They have given their
all forever. You are asked to lend for
a while"
Robert Lansing, Henry White, Il. NJ.
House and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss. Ameri-
can delegates to the Peace Conference.
have sent this message to the American
people:
I'VE have had the opportunity here
in France to see and realize the mag
nitude of the accomplishment OF our
country in this war and the magnificent