The Wagner Monument

THE WAGNER MONUMENT. The chaste and magnificent statue of Wagner in its prominent place in the Thiergarten, Berlin, was unveiled in the spring of 1904. The white marble of the statue and wide base pavement, are intensified by the dense background of trees and trailing vines. Wagner sits as on a throne, with eyes raised heavenward, indicating whence came his inspiration of melody and song. Conspicu-

482 IMPROVEMENT ERA. ous among the corner figures (all from his operas) is that of Tannhauser; his staff, old, travel-stained, wondrously bursting into bloom as he sinks into the arms of death. The Utah people from left to right are Miss May Alder, Ray Welker, president of the Berlin branch, 1904, G. Herman Schettler, violin student, Mrs. Florence Alder Schettler and children, who were living in Berlin, where the professor was studying music; Mrs. Lydia D. Alder and Mrs. Alice Merrill Home, who had been invited as speaker to the Quinquennial Congress which convened in Berlin in June of that year J Miss Loredine Christensen, who accompanied Mrs. Home, and was going to Paris to study art; Elder John Levey, conference president; G. Howard Beard, missionary in Berlin; Miss Judith Anderson, contralto, then studying in Berlin, now Mrs. G. Howard Beard, and her mother, Mrs. C. V. Anderson. Statue of Richard Wagner, Berlin. A group of Utah people in the foreground.