But we must not depart from these precincts until we have examined the monumental group in the New City Hall Square on the south side or front.

The monument is circular in form and is crowned with a figure of a woman, representing California, in bronze.

She wears a chaplet made of olive leaves, and holds a wand in her right hand, and in her left a large disk bordered with stars, while a bear is seen standing on her right side.

No doubt Bruin has reference to the famous bear flag which had been raised on the Plaza in 1846, when California declared herself independent of Mexico, and which in the same year gave place to the Stars and Stripes.

Around the monumental figure of California are subjects in bronze.