TO BE SHIPPED NEXT MONTH

Group Of Bronze Figures For Confederate Monument Ready.

The bronze group designed by the sculptor, F. W. Ruckstuhl and ordered by the Maryland Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy for presentation to the city of Baltimore, says a special dispatch to Tat Sun from New York, is to be shipped here some time in February. As previously an-nounced, it is completed and ready for pack-ing. The execution of the design required about six months, the group, which weighs 5,200 pounds and is nine feet high, being made by the artisans employed by the Henry Bonnard Bronze Company. Sculptors and artists have greatly admired the figures, which will grace a pedestal in the promenade of Mount Royal avenue, leading to Druid Hill Park.

The group is designed as an apotheosis of the Confederacy, typifying valor, suffering and patience and suggesting the heroic role played by the Southern women. Mr. Ruckstuhl thus describes it:

“The soldier went into the fight with a simple sense of duty. After four years’ struggle, under the most discouraging conditions and sore privations, and with an expenditure of valor that sheds an ever-in-creasing luster on the American people, he succumbs. He is dying. No rancor or hate fills his heart; simply a touch of mortal pain and a suggestion of sadness on his face. Before he falls and expires history sends Fame to support him tenderly and to silence his detractors, and with charitable firmness holds aloft to the world the crown she will soon place on his head.”