New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
IS Designs
For Memorials
Are Submitted
Victory Arches, Monolithic
Monuments, Water Gates
and Memorial Buildings
Are Among the Groups
Artists to. Pick Prize
slower of Babel'' Would
House League of Nations
and the Worlds Court

The architectural and sculptural
gsnius Of the city has moulded into
form series of graceful and impos-
eity's permanent war memorial. The
models are now on public exhibition In
the City Hall, where they will remain
another week, before the jury Of art
lists. headed by Edwin II. Blashfeld,
finally picks from them the one that
will commemorate the city's record in
the World War.
The sixty-five designs now on view
In the City Hall can be classified gem
orally into four groups: Victory
arches, monolithic monuments, water
gates and memorial buildings.
OF the monolithic monuments, the
most imposing is that submitted by
Armstrong G. de Gelleke, architects,
124 East Twenty-ifth Street. This is
IN the form of hexagonal obelisk,
the head of the lower reservoir in Cen
tral Park. The gigantic column, which
Is to symbolic immortality, would be
nanked on either side by two Greek
like temples, wherein the trophies and
war records Of the city would be
placed.
Amphitheater Is Proposed
These two graceful buildings in turn
would be connected by a Grecian col
onade, forming an open air amphi-
theatre, and the semicrcular space in
front would be dlled with sculptural
groups. This would, according to the
phere of the sanctuary in the Sacred
Grove Of the Delphian Apollo that
was revered with extreme devotion
throughout the history Of ancient
Greece.
Another mammoth monument 1000
feet high is subIAitted by F. Yelling
ton Ruckstull, of 1880 East Fourth
Street, Brooklyn. This would be erected
vt Washington Heights. and would in
clude' soldiers memorial and club
house.
Another beautiful column was SUBJ
mitted by Paul Manship. 1t is to carry
a figure Of Victory at it's top $50 feet
above the ground in Central Park at
the axis Of the Mall.
The most pretentous idea Is that sub
mitted by Lucien Mante,l, OF 254 East
12oth Street, who. describes himself ae
the inventor. 1t is for the erection of
u circu.ar building $500 feet high OF
leo stories. In the letter accompany
ing the drawing of this building Mr..
Mantell adds that. it can be reduced to
sixty stories or under if necessary.
Would Place Building at Battery
This gigantic building, the designer
suggests, should be erected at the Bat
terry. 1t would be surmounted by
figure, of LihertWH The lofty dais on
which Miss Liberty wo1id be installed
would be constructed to revolve, SO that
it would form the anchorage for trans
atlantic airships.
The building is somewhat on the
order Of the pans for the Tower of
Babel, each group of stories being
slightly less in diameter than the group
on which it is superinposee:
The first group of stories in Mr..
Mantell's vision, nineteen in all, would
house the league of nations, the
Worlds Court, the modern Supreme
Court of New York, the modern Post
Office and the Soldiers Victory Hall.
Of course there would be others,
among them a Especially decorated de-
partment for the Mayor of New York"
Place for Hero Dead
OF the symbolic statues suggested
one or the most imposing is that sub