Approval of the statue to be erected to Haym Salomon was given by the Municipal Art Commission, and the monument will be erected in the triangle at 66th Street west of Broadway, New York, according to an announcement made by Benjamin Winter, president of the Federation of Polish Jews, which is sponsoring the memorial to the financier who supplied funds to the colonies in the American Revolution.
More than a year ago the Municipal Art Commission disapproved the erection of a statue with the suggestion that the historical facts about him were insufficient to give him such an important site as Madison Square Park. Later the commission was faced with records of 1865 telling of his services to the cause of the American Revolutin.
The memorial will have for its main figure a heroic-size statue of Haym Salomon. Stanwood S. Menken. a descendant of Salomon, will assist in the work.
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