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The Croup iu Hi the Sculptor.The main group In the monument to the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy to be erected in the city of Raleigh during Uio coming spring.the gilt of the late Col. Ashley Horne to the State of North Carolina. Itscost was $l i,000. The sculptor of the group is Mr. Augustus I.ukeman. a native of Virginia, now living in Nev. York city. The figures will be of bronae, 7 l~2 feet iu height, resting on pedestal of Mt. Airy granite, 4 1-2 feet in height, t n each side of the pedestal will be a has relief, one representing the women of the South bidding the soldiers good-lvye and God-speed on their departure for the war. the oilier representing the women of the South welcoming them on their return home at the close of the war, cheering and sustaining them in this defeat.The woman in the . group ia narrating to the boy at her side, who found the sword of his father, who has fallen in the war, the story of the Confederacy, and inspiring him with an ambition to do .something for hs country worthy of the deeds of hi* heroic Confederate father. The monument will stand in the Capitol Square immediately in front of the new State Administration building.The Sculptor.Augustus Lukeman, sculptor of the group to the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy, soon to be erected in Kaleigh Mr. Lukeman is a native of Richmond. \ a., now a resident of New' York City. Among his best known works are the statue of William McKinley at Adams, Mass.. the Soldiers' Monument at Somerville.luring 0. the -d 100 hurchthe d 314 ership Nash-id the it: the a»cl SI ership o f St. id the it; the lt;i 20%Augustus Lukeman, the Sculptor of the Group to the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy.Mass.. an eqiifMrian statue of Ki Carson at Trinidad CaJ.. the Strau Memorial to the victims of the Ti tanie disaster, soon to be erected n New ^ ork city. He is now engage* on a statue f Franklin Fierce, to 1* erected at Concord, X. II.crease has been only 36 per cent to this cause; the per capita increase in contributions to general benevolence by this church in the South has been 255 per rent and in the North it has been only 25 per cent increased during this time. Wealth, upon the average. has grown more rapidly in the South than in the North during these years, and the percentage of increase in contributions to benevolences is decidedly larger.The plans already made and which will be carried the coming year for the sible during the coming year for the increase f interest in and the extension nf : h»* work of foreignWRECRAUK AND INJURY. Runaway Horse of AV. F. Ilct Throws (JnxJolt Las-dier and l)lt; lunlislies Wagon.A liile doing all in Ids power to stc a runaway horse which h- was dri’ ing. tTrodott I.assiter, a young ma about 17 years of age. was dashed ib- asphalt pavement and painful injured last night, when the frightei '•ti horse ran into a telephone po and completely demolished the deli cry wagon of Betts ire Cream C The accident occurred on South W; inington street almost in front «»f tl Lord garage. Mr. T^as3iter is an er
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The Farmer And Mechanic
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jan 06, 1914
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