The Column of Progress_The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

The Column of Progress, suggested by Calder and planned in outline by

Symmes Richardson, besides being beautiful symbol and remarkably

successful in outline, was perhaps the most poetic and original of all

the achievements of the sculptors here. It represented something new in

being the first great column erected to express a purely imaginative and

idealistic conception. Most columns of its kind had celebrated some

great figure or historic feat, usually related to war. But this column

stood for those sturdy virtues that were developed, not through the

hazards and the excitements and the fevers of conquest, but through the

persistent and homely tests of peace, through the cultivation of those

qualities that laid the foundations of civilized living. Isidore Konti

designed the frieze typifying the swarming generations, by Matthew

Arnold called "the teeming millions of men," and to Hermon A. MacNeil

fell the task of developing the circular frieze of toilers, sustaining

the group at the top, three strong figures, the dominating male, ready

to shoot his arrow straight alit to its mark, a male supporter, and the

devoted woman, eager to follow in the path of advance.

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