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THE BANNER, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1911.
ms 10 THE COAST
IW Of GTOHfiH 0. R.
Local Stockholders of Georgia R. R. and Business
Men of Athens Generally Have a Fine Suggest! an
Offered Them By a Traveling Man Who
Knows iWhat He’s Talking About.
VIDALIA DEPOT TO BE
READY FOR NEXT FALL.
Vidalla, Ga., Feb. 28.—Superinten
dent II. B. Grlmahaw of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad, J. T. Wright, gen
eral manager of the Macon, Dublin
and Savannah Railroad, and J. M.
Turner, general manager of the Geor
gia and Florida Railroad, were here
today to make the final plana and lay
oft the land for the new union pas
senger station which the roads enter
ing Vadllla are to build.
The building will be at the intersec.
tion of the three roads on Depot av
enue and It is understood that each
road will have an equal Interest in
the finished building. Should plans for
the extension of the Wrlghtsvlile, Ad
rian and Lyons road to this place be
carried out this road may be sold
stock in the new terminal property
and the buildings will be in a posi
tion to care for the passengers of the
Waycross, Baxley and Vidalla line
when it is completed, a charter for
which already has been granted. It
Is the understanding of the people
lu re that the station will be finished
lor the fall business.
Trainmaster Tucker of the M„ D,
and S. accompanied Vice President
Wright. . --
Augusta, Ga., Feb 24, 1911.
Editor Athens Banner,
Athens, Ga.
My Dear Sir:—The enclosed clip
ping explains Itself. With the Lyons
and Wrlghtsvlile Railroad completed
and the Waycross, Baxley, Lyons and
Vadilia road completed there will only
be be a gap of 60 miles to build be
tween Wrlghtsvlile and White Plains
In give Athens a direct rail route to
South Coast and Southwest Georgia,
Waycross, Jacksonville, Fla., and
Key west and Havana, Cuba; the
country between Wrlghtsvlile and
White Plains Is very level and easy
to btilld a railroad through at a very
small cost for grading. Now, I wish
to make two suggestions: No. 1, la
for the newspapers of Athens to start
an educational campaign by getting
our people to study the map of Geor
gia and learn Just where Athens Is
located. I find Athens Is at least
seventy-five miles nearer Havana,
Jacksonville, Southwest, South Coast,
Georgia, Savannah, Brunswick,
Charleston, than Atlanta.
Suggestion So. 2 is for the Athens
Chamber of Commerce assisted by
the Athens directors of the Georgia
Railroad take this matter up with the
Georgia Railroad, and Milton
Smith, President of the I-ouisville and
Nashville Railroad, and see If ar
rangements can be made to fill In th
sap between White Plaints and
Wrlghtsvlile and run trains out
Athens to Wrlghtsvlile Instead of to
I'nlon Point, the Georgia Railroad al
ready has a line from Union Point
to the Plains, twenty-five miles of
the distance between White Plains
and Wrlghtsvlile is graded ami has
been for twenty years.
Athens business men have had to
work for everything she now 1i.ib and
will have to continue to work. If Ath
ens Is to be the large city we would
have her to be we must reach out for
, new territory, our manufacturing and
Jobbing trade must have additional
territory if wo are to go forward and
grow and the sooner our people find
this out the belter, for we have now-
slept to long, while others worked
and took territory which by right of
location belonged to Athens. Our lo
cal directors of the Georgia Railroad
If Interested might give this move
ment a big boost at their annual meet'
Ing In May, the business men of Ath
ens have as much means and brains,
to promote as any set of men I know
of and if they enn be made to see the
advantage of this extension as I do I
am confident thnt they will take hold
of the project and put It through
When the Georgia Railroad built
from Augusta, Oa., to Athens the first
president and nil the directors but
one were Athens men. Athens bus!
ness men built the road from Athens
to Lula and pushed It on to Tallulah
Falls and made It possible for the peo
ple of Clayton, Ga., and Franklin, N
C„ to get the road later.
Push and pluck of the Athens peo-
pleple brought the railroad from Ma
con to Athens when It was headed to
another city; they also in like man
ner secured the extension of the
Gainesville and Jefferson to Athens.
The same kind of push and pluck
can secure an all-rail short line from
Athena to Havana, Cuba. Keep this
proposition before our people as you
did the hotel movement and wc will
secure this much needed out let and
fill the hotel Georgian every night.
Yours very truly,
C. J. O'FARRELL.
He Bought His Wife a Pair of
Curling Irons— r ust Like a Man
The baby lost her mother’s curling
Irons—as babieB will lose them—put
them where she knew where they
were nil right but didn't think to tell
mother where she had put them. The
weather wag bad and mother naked
father to get her a new pair. Of
course he forgot them. Then the
weather was good for a day and moth
er Journeyed down town looked at the
department atores, the hardware
store, the drug atorei and the
hook atores and finally found a tiny
pair at the ten cent store. She
bought them—because *he could not
find a larger slie.
That Is not quite accurate, either:
She found at a hardware atore a pair
curling irons. Carrying them home
amused but he thought It was the
amused expression caused by his cus
tomer's own brightness. He was
shown a pair of rusty ones pretty
large and according to his usually-
manlike superiority Just the right
thing. He bought them getting what
was said to be a good reduction on
account of the rust—which the clerk
said would come off with the applica
tion of a piece of fine sandpaper. He
bought them and the clerk amlled an
other smile that was about three
times the sire of the attempt at wit
which the curler-purchaser parried
the embarrassment he felt at buying
curling irons. Carrying them home
he displayed them with all the "II
of the old fashioned kind fully five. told-you-U-could-flnd-thew"
or six times larger than the little
ones she got at the ten cent store
hut as much too large as the little
ones were too small. She showed
i hem to father and with his confi
dence of being able to find a larger
pair and a aly self-satisfaction of do
ing a neat little thing for mother by
getting them and making up for for
getting them, he (lipped out to the
hardware store and naked for curling
air of
superior man. The good wife simply
couuldn't help it—she laughed a rip
pling, merry, hearty laugh. They
were the same tremendous Irons the
same clerk had showed her and she
had turned down. The man still be
lieves that the clerk knew he was
the husband of the wife whom he
could not fool Into buying the old-
fashioned, nearly-a-yard-long, blg-
as-a-walklng-stlck "hair tongs.
American Stale Bank with
$100,000 Cipital to
Commence Business
onApiil First.
Yesterday afternoon at a meeting
of the directors or the .University
Savings Bank, It was decided
change the name of that hank and
after April the first It will be know
as the American State Bank. The
capital stock will be increased from
forty thousand to one hundred thous
and dollars with a surplus of thirty
thousand dollars.
A general commercial and saving:
business will be conducted by the
new Institution, and the Increase In
the capital stock will be quite an ad
ditlon In banking circles.
The building which Is now occupied
by the University Savings bank will
he remodeled and a handsome stone
trout erected.
The University Savings Bank is of
fleered by some of the best business
men In the city and the success of
this institution as well as the remark
able success of the Georgia National
Bank Is due to ther able nnd conser
vative management. The new bank
will start out with most flattering
prospects and every Inducement In
keeping with sound banking business
will be offered.the public for their pa
tronage.
A Fierce Night Alarm.
Is the hoarse, startling cough of a
child, suddenly attacked by croup. Of
ten it aroused Lewis Chamlln of Man
chrstcr, O., (R. F. D. No. 2) for their
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ho wrote "we were afraid they would
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COMPLETE FREEDOM
GIVEN PAROLED MEN.
Governor Brown has discharged
from parole the following peraons,
who were paroled by Governor Smith
In April nnd June, 1909:
George Gardner, Cobb county, at
tempted murder, ten years.
Wallace Moore,' Meriwether, arson,
seven years.
Paul Lawson, Burke, murder, life.
Will Tinsley, Terrell, attempted
murder, three year*.
Herbert Long, Fulton, burglary, the
reformatory.
Allen Sykes, Telfair, murder, life.
J. L. Staenaker, Taylor, voluntary
manslaughter, twenty years.
There Is a general impression that
a prisoner must be discharged from
parole after twelve months If his con
duct has been correct. This Is not
true, however, the law stating that
the discharge may be approved any
time after the expiration of twelve
months. It is discretionary with
governor as to the length of time a
parole is operative.
John W. Sickelamlth, Greensboro,
Pa., has three children, and like most
children they frequently take cold.
‘We have tried several kinds of
cough medicine," lie says, “but have
never found any yet that did them as
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TWO WANT TO BE
MAYOR OF HOUSTON.
WEDDED IN THE
DOMINION CAPITAL.
Houston, Texas, Feb. 28.—A spirit
ed political campaign culminated In
the city primary election in Houston’ding of Miss Claudia Bate and
today. Interest centers chiefly In the ( Frederick Peters In All Saints' ••
contest for the mayoralty in which
H. Baldwin Rice, the present Incum
bent, is opposed by Jules Ilirsch.
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Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 28.—Many guests
from out of town attended the wed-
Mr.
hurcli
today. The bride Is the daughter of-
the late Lieut. Col. H. Allan Bate and
Mrs. Bate, and granddaughter of Sir
Henry Bate. The bridegroom Is the
son of Colonel and Mrs. Peters of
Victoria, B. C.
CONTROL OF MEDICAL COLLEGES
Chicago. III., Feb. 28.—State control
of medical colleges was the principal
subject discussed here today at the
annual conventloa of the Confedera
tion of State Medical Examining and
Licenses Boards.
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CEMENT MEN HOLD CONVENTION
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 28.—The
Northwestern Cement Products Asso
ciation began its seventh annual con
dition In Minneapolis today. In coir
nectlon with the convention there is
an elaborate exhibition of cement pro
ducts and cement-making machinery.
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PARIS GAY ON MARDI GRAS.
Paris, Feb, 28.—Today was Mardt
Gras and all France celebrated it with
the usual gaiety and abandon. In
Pari:, all business was practically sus
pended while the people devoted
themselves to pleasure and merry
making. The parade of King Carni
val was unusually elaborate and was
witnessed by the tens of thousands
of enthusiastic spectators.
Games Are Worked Every
Day on the Unsuspect
ing Public. World’s
Work Shows Scheme
One of the editors of The World's
Work received the following letter,
ills comment published in the
March number is below:
Oscar Adams Turner.
42 Broadway
New York.
Confidential
January 30, 1911
Dear Sir:
I hope you will not be offended at
the liberty I take in addressing you
without a formal Introduction. I hap
pen to enjoy a confidential source of
information, from which I learn that
you are a lo3cr on your mining stock
ventures for 1910. I have been n
pretty good loser myself, but I ought
not to hare lost, because 1 should
have foreseen the decline in the price
of metallic copper. I should also have
known that the non-divldend-paylng
precious metals securities were not
going to do any stunts in a generally
sick market. I think I ought
know just how you. feel over 1910
loSSCB.
No more of either of these two
kinds of securities for me—at least
not for a season! I am going to re
turn to first principles, and unless a
return of my Investment plus several
hundred per cent, is assured by ore
in sight in the shape of constant dl
vldends, I am not going to Invest.
Maybe sou don't think this kind of
"melon” lies around promiscuously.
You arc right; It doesn’t
That's my excuse for writing you.
I have my finger on Just one—tile first
of Its kind since 1901, when I promot
ed Tonopah of Nevada at $1 a share
on an 8 per cent, preferred stock
basis, which later paid back the orig
inal subscription money plus 12 per
cent, dividends, while the common
stock -.given share-for-share as a
bonus, has paid to date 8? a share In
dividends and Is selling In the open
market at 88,25 to 88.50 per share.
It Is not my purpose to give you more
than an Inkling of the proposition in
this letter. I don’t want to address
myself to deaf ears. Just write me
and say whether you would relish an
opportunity such ns I describe to even
up your losses , of 1910. 1 am pro
foundly sure that I can be of great
aervlce to you provided you do not
delay your reply.
If I hear from you promptly I will
send you the facts by return mall
and then you can Judge^for yourself.
If, then, It doesn't appeal to you to
be certain from the information I
shall submit that your principal will
be us secure ns a government bond
and that several hundred per cent,
profit Is more than probable, I shall
Invite you to throw my communica
tions In the waste-paper basket.
Yours very respectfully,
O. A. Turner.
Now the man to whom this was
'confidentially” addressed never
bought or owned a shnre of mining
stock, good or bad, real or fictitious,
In his life, and Is never likely to own
one. He surely, therefore never lost
a penny on "mining stock venutrea In
1910.” The "confidential source'
such Information Is the essence of
this particular game. Once a victim
always a victim—that’s the principle
that the writer of this letter proceeds
on. And the astonishing thing Is that
such an assumption Ib sound.
On the face of It, you or I would
suppose that there Is not a human
being outside a lunatic asylum, fool
ish enough to answer such a leter as
this. But the hundreds of millions
of dollars that men nnd women give
away to these shrewd "psychologists”
is, perhaps, the most discouraging
fact about the intelligence of the Ant-
erlean people.
In educational reports there are
carefully tabulated for us the num
ber of Illiterates and the percentages
of illiteracy. But Illiteracy Is as
nothing compared with the Ignorance
—the Simon-pure, hopelesa, helpless,
degraded, Imbecile, unteaehable Ig
norance—of the hundreds of thous
ands of men and women who can
write and who throw their money Into
the smiling wallets of persuasive
strangers that send them “confiden
tial” letters about mysterious chances
to get rich quickly. It would be bet
ter for them if they were illiterate
for the Illiterate arc saved from this
folly; and It would he more Instruc
tive if our educational reports gave
us the percentages of these Incompe
tents among our literate population.
Query to the school musters: Isn't
there something wrong with pur
schools that turn out hundreds 01
thousands of persons with no common
sense at all about money and its use?
POST OFFICE
Instead of Police or Park
Board or Even City
Elections Sensation
Now in Atlanta.
Do you know that of all tbe minor
ailments colds are by far tbe moat
dangerous? It la not the cold Itself
that you need to fear, but tbe serloue
dieases that It often lead* to. Most
of these are known as germ diaeues.
Pneumonia and consumption arc
among them. Why not tske Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy and cure
your cold wbllo you can? For sale
by all dealers.
CANADIAN MINING INSTITUTE.
Qubec, Feb. 28.—Many visitors have
arrived In the city for the annual
meeting of the Canadian, Mining In
stitute. The meeting will begin Its
sessions at the Chateau Frontenac
tomorrow and continue until Satur
day.
The most common rausu of insom
nia It disorders of the stomach.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablet* correct these disorders and
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dealers.
Atlanta, Feb. 28.—All the derelic
tions of the postofllce past, present
and those that may occur in the fu
ture, are being raked up by the At
lanta newspapers, and for the time at
least, the department and'its system
are being given some rather unpleas
ant notoriety.
There was recently made an unsuc
cessful effort to Indict two of the
Atlanta newspapers on the charge of
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out of postage on sample copies.
In one case the grand jury refused to
return any indictment at all and in
the other the indictment found was
thrown out of court on demurrer.
Now, it seems, according to the pa
pers, the postoffice department has
certain faults of its own which have
been ignored to a large extent in the
past, hut some of which are now be
ing extensively and conspicuously em
blazoned to the public eye.
Unnecessary delay or carelessness
In handling the mailsMs one basis
of the publicity which the postofllce
is getting, and every time a letter Is
heard of that goes astray for a week
or ten days before reaching Its desti
nation, a story is made of It.
But the chief and most interesting
foundation for the present publicity
the department Is getting, Is Its so-
called "spy system."
Inspectors have been employed
from time Immemnrtal lo ferret out
cases of theft and tampering with the
mails on the the part of employes, but
the inspector system has never been
worked so extensively as has been the
case In recent years.
Much has been made out of the
fact, that in the construction of the
new postofiice building In Atlanta,
there has been placed In the room
where the mails are handled a steel
gallery with "blind windows" from
which, without being seeh, an Inspec
tor may keep a constant eye upon any
or every employe he desires to watch.
There Is no point of the mailing, mon
ey order or stamp room but may be
closely watched from this gallery, and
the Inspector may even see his man
in the toilet room, If he desires to
watch him that far.
That this "spy system,” this species
of "Fouchelsm” as it has been called
has demoralized the postofllce force
and threatens Its disruption, Is the
almost daily assertion of the local
prosq. That the postofllce employes
herrf are demoralized as a result of
It, there Is no question. They don't
know at what minute even nn Inno
cent action may bo misinterpreted
nnd they may be called to account
as a result of it.
None of the employes will talk for
fear of losing their Jobs, hut some of
them are talking quietly and not
few are writing anonymous letters
about conditions In the office and In
the service.
One man aaserts that "If a man is
honest, be don't cure If lie Is watch
ed ;* while the man under surveill
ance declares, wherever he dares,
that he Is growing nervous under the
strain.
“Go into the postoffice, If you can
get there,” said one of the employes,
"and watch the men for a while. I'll
wager that within less than ten min
ute you will see at least a dozen look
furtively over their shoulders as If
conscious that their every movement
Is being watched.”
The fact itself and the agitation of
It, have gotten the men Into such a
stew that nothing else is talked about
among them. And along with it they
are complaining of other unsatisfac
tory treatment which la not In accord
with what they have heretofore ex
perienced. It is stated the depart
ment’s plan of economy has resulted
In a cutting down of the service here
with a further result that more work
Is being put on the individual man.
The employes of the railway mall
service are complaining particularly
on account of the fact that 30-foot
mail cars are being substltued on
some of the Important lines for tbe
more spacious 40-foot cars, because
thereby the department will save both
In transportation charges and in the
smaller salaries paid to the mail
clerks In the smaller cars.
All of this, of course, Is but an
echo of the movement on the part of
the postofllce department In Wash
ington to cut down expenses and try
to put the department on a paying
basis—a movement of which the mag
azine publishers are feeling the
weight, in anticipation, If not in ac
tual Increased postage.
Along with It comes the report that
Postmaster Hugh McKee of the At
lanta postoffiee has himself rebelled
against some of the operations of the
Inspectors’ force.
There was a report circulated that
Inspector 8. A. Clsler had been In
practical charge of the Atlanta post
ofllce for the last four months; had
Issued orders and posted pronuncla-
mentos around the office at will.
According to the story, on his re
cent trip to Washington, Postmaster
McKee put it up to the department to
abolish Clslerlsm or accept his re
signation. Postmaster McKee insists
that there Is no foundation for the
story, nevertheless it has bad general
circulation around the Atlanta office.
PJ.
Latest Mentioned Probable
Senatorial Candidate
Former Athens Man
Now of Savannah.
Atlanta, Feb. 28.—The possible
candidacy for the United States sen
ate of Col. Pleasant A. Stovall, editor
and publisher of the Savannah Press,
is arousing wide interest throughout
the state. It has always been believ
ed by bis friends that Col. Stovall
would sooner or later be prevailed
upon to enter the poltlcal field, and
they hope that this will be the’occas
ion. for they believe he would be an
ornament to the high office left va-
cant by the death of Senator Clay. It
Is said that no man in Georgia is
more closely in touch with political
affairs than Col. Stovall, and what
ever his action in this matter, it will
he watched with interest.
BO. AND IS. PEHEY
LOSE LITTLE
Ruby, Their Two Year Old Child,
Died Last Night After
Spell of Measle.
Last night about 8:30 o'clock occur
red the death of little Ruby, the two
year old daughter of Dr. and Mra. J.
L. Pendley. The little one bad Jus!
practically recovered from an attack
of measles, and it Is believed that the
after effecta of the epidemic caused
her death. The parents and four oth
er children mourn the loss of tin
bright little angel of the borne. The
funeral arrangements have not yet
been made.
Dr, Pendley and family only recent
ly moved to Athens from Toccoa but
In their short residence here they
have mado hundreds of friends who
sympathize with them deeply In the
sorrow which has come to their
homer
Attacks School Principal.
A severe attack on school principal,
('has. B. Allen, of Sylvanla, Oa., is
thus told by him. "For more than
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CONGRESSMAN McALL
CONGRATULATED
Washington, D. C„ Feb. 28.—Con
gressman Samuel W. McAU of .Massa
chusetts, who has been engineering
the fight for Canadian reciprocity in
the house, received the congratula
tions of his colleagues today on the
occasion of his sixtieth birthday an
niversary. Mr. McAll was born In
Pennsylvania, but has been a resi
dent of Massachusetts ever since he
was admitted to the bar In 1876, two
years after his graduation from Dart
mouth college. He has represented
the Eighth Massachusetts district in
congress for nearly twenty yenrs and
Is among those who will continue to
sit In the house after March 4.
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10 QIILTN VICTORIA
Unveiling Will&Be Held in May.
More Than Five Years Has
Been Taken to Build.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE MEETING.
New Orleans, La., Feb. 28.—Presi
dent Kavanaugh and other official!
end club owners of the Southern lea
gue arrived in town today for the
annual apring meeting which is to be
held tomorrow at the St. Charles
hotel. The adoption of the schedule
will be the principal business of the
meeting. The schedule that has been
prepared by the committee and which
doubtless will receive the approval
of the magnates, provides for a sea-
son of 180 games, opening April 15
and closing September 10.
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weeks and it will not If you take
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WILL COME THRO’ COUNTRY
FROM CLEVELAND, OHIO
Formdr Athens Boy Now With Big
Automobile Factory, Will Visit
Classic City.
In a few daya Mr. Toney Costa, bet
ter known here where he lived for
several year* as “Preacher” Costa,
will leave Cleveland, Ohio, In a two-
cylinder Winton car bound for Ath
ens. He will make the trip of nearly
a thousand' miles alone. He bas been
for some time In the experimental
department of the Winton motor car
company's big factories.
Tbla la the last day to make your
tar return! today, you.will be subject
to a double tax.
London, Feb. 28.—The middle of
May lias been selected as tbe time
tor unveiling the National Memorial
to Queen Victoria, which It bas taken
more than fire years to build In the
great circular space In front of Buck
ingham Palace created and beauti
fied by the art of Sir Aston Webb. No
more appropriate time for the unveil
ing of the memorial could have been
selected. The Impressive exercises
In honor of the memory of "Victoria
the Good" will form a fitting perlude
to the brilliant ceremonies of the
oronation of her grandson that will
follow a month later.
Many of the royalties of Europe are
to attend the unveiling. The colonial
premiers and other stateamen who
are to attend the Imperial conference
beginning at the end of May will
also have a part In the exercise*.'
The Queen Victoria bemorlal haa
been spoken of as the "Dreadnought"
of great monuments. From start to
finish the builders have kept the Idea
of the durability of the monument In
mind. Every brick In the deep foun
dations and every block of marble in
the massive suerstructure was care
fully examined and pronounced per
fect before it was put in place. The
great monument as It stands com
pleted represents more than 2,000
tons of marble, masonry and granite.
Colossal la tbe only word giving
an adequate conception of the size
and imposing appearance of tbe monu
ment. Tbe memorial as a whole con
sists of n vast artistic framework that
Includes so many works of art that
iheir conception and execution alone
might have filled half a busy man's
working lifetime. There are numer
ous statutes and low reliefs In both
marble and bronze, to say nothing of
the great flights of steps, tbe magnifi
cent fountain basts, the retaining
wall, the piers and bases.
The central figure, of course. Is the
statue of the Queen, who is presented
with characteristic dignity. Tbe
statue la of marble and is 18 1-2 feet
high. Forming tbe background tor
the Queen’s statue is a great marble
base surmounted by a bronze figure
of "Victory,” twelve feet in height.
"Courage” and "Constancy" stand as
attendant and contributory figures.
At the opposite end, looking toward
the palace which In I-ondon was tbe
Queen's official home, is the Imposing
group of "Motherhood.” To the right
and left stand the marble groups re
presenting "Justice" and "Truth.”
From the great circular platform of
granite, which ia approached by steps
of stately breadth and comfortable
shallowness, the spectator may ase
below the vast water basins fed by
fountains on the northern and south
ern sides. On pedestals flanking tbe
steps, front and back, are great
groups in bronze of “Peace,” "Prog
ress," "Manufacture*” and "Agricul
ture.” Over tbe fountain arches are
colossal figures representing "Bravery”
and "Intelligence,” symbolising tbe
army and navy and science and the
trie. The retaining wall is enriched
with many bronze panels symbolizing
; England's maritime supremacy.