. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. FOREST PARK is the largest of the SaintLouis parks, and next to the largest in the L^nitedStates, containing one thousand three hundred andseventy-four acres. This park was established in1874 on the western border of the city. It is tra-versed by fine driveways, through grounds madebeautiful by forest trees, lakes, fiowers, shrubberyand landscape gardening. Directly in front of the ]\Iuseum of Fine Artsin the park, is a colossal Equestrian statue SaintLouis, by Charles E. Niehaus. There is also astatue of General Franz Sigel, by Robert Cauer,
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. FOREST PARK is the largest of the SaintLouis parks, and next to the largest in the L^nitedStates, containing one thousand three hundred andseventy-four acres. This park was established in1874 on the western border of the city. It is tra-versed by fine driveways, through grounds madebeautiful by forest trees, lakes, fiowers, shrubberyand landscape gardening. Directly in front of the ]\Iuseum of Fine Artsin the park, is a colossal Equestrian statue SaintLouis, by Charles E. Niehaus. There is also astatue of General Franz Sigel, by Robert Cauer,and near the main, and most attractive entrance,at Kingshighway and Lindell Boulevards, is astatue of General Frank P. Blair, and a bronze andstone fountain, the latter by Romanelli. ThisFountain Angel was presented to the citv bvDavid N. ONeil. The bronze statue of Edward Bates, eighteenfeet in height, at the southwest entrance of thispark, is a striking example of the work of the sculp-tor James Wilson Alexander MacDonald, known 88 SAINT LOUIS. as Americas old-est sculptor, andwho recently diedin Saint Louis. This statue,unveiled in 1876by Miss MinnieH o 1 1 i d a y , was-modeled in 1871,just after the ar-tist had complet-ed a colossal bustof Washington Ir-ving for ProspectPark, Brooklyn,.N. Y. The Zoo con-nected with thepark contains elk,buffalo, deer,bears of severalvarieties, andmany smaller ani-mals, a delight tachildren. Forest Park will be remembered as the sceneof the great Louisiana Purchase Exposition in1904, it being divided in half for that Louisiana Purchase Exposition Companyhave been spending the years since the close ofthe fair in restoring it to its former beauty, being^under bond to do so. It is estimated the improve-ments put in the park in the restoration could notbe duplicated for less than one and one-half milliondollars, and is now ready for acceptance by thecity. / The four new bridges over the river DesPeres have been named for the building
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