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Roth, the well known animal sculptor, will give us a group of grizzly bears in combat, and a corresponding group of sea lions. Mr. C. E. Potter will treat the other side a similar way.

To the right and the left of the Purchase Monument extends the main traverse avenue, at which the principal entrance to the Exposition palaces are located. In front of these entrances I contemplate erecting appropriate statues of such men whose careers have had particular bearing upon the purposes to which the palaces are devoted. Among the sculptors who are to these statues i might nebtion Mr H. K. Bush Brown, Mr. J. Boyle, Mr. M. Nauch, of Chicago, Mr. A. Jaegers and others. In order, however, to carry out the sequence of the historic and poetic meaning which I expect to give to the sculpture. I have arranged for several fountains in this avenue which should refer to the legends and folk-lore of which the Indians have many charmins examples -such as, for instance, Hiawatha, made so popular by Lonefellow's epic. Mr. Lorand Teft of Chicago, and Mr. Adolph Weimann are the sculptors chosen for these subjects.

In further connection with this part of the Exposition, I wish to enumerate the two features forming the principal attraction of the easy and the west courts of the Exposition. In both of these courts I intend to erect, upon an Indian mound located at the upper end of the main axis, representatives of the two principal tribes with which the white man had to battle for the possession of the land .The one personification is to be a Sioux chief, and Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin, who won fame by his "Indian Medicine Man" (purchased by the City of Philadelphia and the Austrian Government) is to be the sculptor; while Mr. Frazer, a pupil of St. Gaudens -of whose reputation it is needless to speak- will represent the other, a Cherokee chief. These courts, in their continuation, form the approaches to the cascades and consist of a broad stairway flanked by portrait statues of such men as have figured prominently in the history of the actual civilization of the lands of the purchase, in its development and in the purchase itself. Most prominent among these will be a portrait statue of Jefferson, by J. Q. A. Ward, with a corresponding statue of Napoleon, by Daniel Chester French. In order to make proper selections of the subjects for