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statues- fourteen in number- I will consult with prominent historians, and will state these selections at a later date. I may now say, however, that among the sculptors who are expected to carry them out are Mr. Charles Lopez, Mr. A. Lukeman, Mr Herbert Adams, Miss Bracken, of Chicago, Mr. J. Scott Hartley, Mr. C. J. Barnhorn of Cincinnati, Mr. J. Flannagan, Miss J. Scudder, Mr. Louis Potter, Mr. Herring and other. 

All this, I may say, forms only subsidiary decorations in comparison with what the visitor will behold upon viewing the climax of the Exposition on the hill crowned by the Art Building, the Collonade and the Festival Hall. 

While so far a good deal of importance has been given to history and local color. the subjects which remain are of an allegorical nature only. I would refer here to my earlier report, in which I said that the sculptures of the rounds shall find "a jubilant termination in the cascades, the decorations of which shall give expression to the idea that the sway of liberty was extended by the purchase from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean." 

The central cascade, of which Mr. H. A. McNeil is to be the sculptor, may this be known as the "Fountain of Liberty". Twelve collossal [[colossal]] groups surround its waters, which will spring from a niche surmounted by a heroic composition in which the statues of Liberty, Justice and Truth shall figure prominently. The groups shall refer to the human qualities which spring from and are fostered by liberty. The side cascades, in referring to the Atlantic and the Pacific, will speak (as the name of the one indicates) of the tranquil and the turbulent waters, of the animal life found in their bosoms and on their shores, and on the rivers that find their way to them. Mr. Isidore Konti is to be the sculptor of these. I sincerely hope that these sculptors will prove equal to the occasion, which is of such grandeur and colossal proportion and offers such tremendous possibilities that we can hardly conceive the reoccurrence of another such opportunity. 

Encircling the upper sources of these cascades and forming a screen closing in the view south of the Exposition grounds, will be the Collonade, and in the arches of this colonade [[colonnade]] are seated