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INDIANAPOLIS NEWS March 30, 1922
RECEIVES COMMISSION FOR LAWTON MEMORIAL
(Special to the Indianapolis News) Ft. Wayne. Ind. March 29
D. N. Foster, of this city, a member of the General Henry W. Lawton Monument commission, has announced that the commission for the monument has been awarded to Mrs. Myra R. Richards, of Indianapolis, a Sculptor. Designs were considered by the commission at a meeting some time ago, but decision was reserved at that time.
General Lawton lived as a boy in this county. He became a major-general in the United States army and was killed at San Mateo, Luzon. P.I. December 1899. His grave in Arlington now is marked only with a small white stone erected by the government The last Indiana general assembly appropriated money to erect a suitable monument at his grave.
The monument will be of bronze, seven feet long, four feet three inches wide and five feet high. A simple base, formed by three steps rising toward the center, will hold an oblong block three and one-half feet long, three feet high and eighteen inches wide. The architectural outline will express in a simplified form a thatched Philippine ridge pole roof, which rises eighteen inches above this block. At each end of this oblong will be two Filipino figures, two and one-half feet high, leaning in attitudes of grief, with upraised arms apparently supporting the burden. A palm tree, delicately outlined, will rise at each corner with roots showing enough to decorate the base and leaves faintly shadowing the roof. The complete design will form a connecting frame for both the figures at the ends and the names and dates at the side.
The commission appointed by Governor McCray consisted of Mrs. Foster, Dr. T. Victor Keene, Indianapolis and Finley Nash Garrett. It is thought the monument will be put in place by August 1.
With Thanks to Jean Lawton Reagan for finding and sending this article
The General Lawton, Spanish-American War Photo Album
