New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-11

the arrangements" nankInS this central niche Thar
tho right or southern and devoted to the Marine sda
OF vanderbts life the left, northern, TO his feats
and experiences land We see Heterogeneous compO
stiOn setting forth the huge steamship which bears the
Commodores name the North Star. his wellknown
yacht, andthe historic "perauger" with which he eI
temporzed the earliest Staten Island errage there
bales OF merchandise, major and minor locomotive
with sequeut trains attached, rural land
scape with fearful villa therein, sundry 70
illogical compositions, such as dimiDutiye cows,
bulldogs the whole topped of by sundry
pathological curiosIties and pastering Of what. We
fancy, are intended for Clouds but which nearer
congregation Of oystersh sapacks than any GIRO
cumulo-strata experienced eyes have yet en-
countered And these various items intended to present
vanderbts career synoptcally wrought out Ia low
relief with conscenousness OF detail painful In It's sim
and defiance OF the laws OF composition and OF per
absolutely amazing It would be peasanter could
we cite one line OF this monstrous
any way credabe to the true American art 1t
adds but another to the many instances In midst that
life devoted TO the acquisition OF sefmade wealth does
not bring with 1t the culture, the education to indicate
and direct how that wealth should be spent. We were
told this abortion has cost the OF $500 OO sum sun
Gent give the City Of NewYork gallery Of reprodue
tons Of all the celebrated statues Of the worlda BY no
means nconsiderable collection OF PicturesaDd. In ad
dtion to erect furnish observatory the nucleus
Of a museum our Central Park!
In our columns OF yesterday did but common justice
the aud organization OF the man whose life and
deeds the brazen presentment that day unVaed Is de-
signed to commemorate. We fully recognize and pay
tribute 10 his broad foresight patient Judgment and re-
sistless energy OF will; and In honoring him we
honor the commercial enterprise, commercial saga
city, and commercial success, which mako him
the "realzed ideal" Of more people than
almost any other living American But the
tendency OF that exhibition Of yesterday s toward
the neglect Of the weigher matters OF law culture
Intellect art education. refinement all Of which, as
people. need more than any nation living In honor
ing Vanderbilt but honor the highest expression OF
sharp pecuniary success Nowhere else the globe Ia
q race Of highly cultivated and disnterested men OF
wealth 80 much needed Would that here too We
could nscribe the of Vanderbilt. But do we find
Quincy Adams Ward, Launt Thompson, Henry X.
Browne or Emma Stebbns called upon say nothing OF
other greater Names the PhidD or the Praxtees or
these degenerate days WITTY this idea with the immor
tally Of genusi We the whole conduct aud design
of work that would task and test to the utmost all tho
OF experienced scuptors undertaken by
friendly and most ellmeaning Steamboat Captain
1t seems one popularity Of the average uneducsted
American that he will stick at nothing there s no crime
so base not to know" and man who has spent the
major part OF his life in summoning his eges to como
mp TO the Captains ofce-AND settle" suddenly turns
architect sculptor modeer, tr1d jca with as
little conjunction az Lord Fnaty John would have had
in handling the channel feet Worse than ALL 1t Is the
tendency OF the American people 10 exalt this Kind OF
thing, to pin their utmost solid faith on it.
Owing inherent baseness of the metallic compound,
and CONSTITUTIONAL incOmpetency We can comfort our
selves with crumb of consolation. Time will ultimately
resolve this brsssy waste Of wealth into the harmless
coa-scuttle door knobs The brODzes hooked to
thebrc wall by iron anchors, which they have been 80
thoughess to galvanze The rust OF thirty years
will be sufficient TO leave them insecure.
We can recall two previous instances lat extreme
poles of derencel Of such honoTs before death the
dedication at the hands OF British snobocracy
Of Hudson. king OF Railway swindlerst and tho
quite recent Inauguration in London of tho statue
of that greatest Of recent American losses, George
Peabody, this very morning receiving within the
gray old Abbey the highest honors widowed Queen
and her people left to besow II has been reserved
for the American Democracy Of to-day to raise monu.
ment to Money Success such as not even Rothschild
would desire lin ietme 10 Is this We ask TO be
the solitary tribute Art TO Humanity OF the millions
accumulated by the IL seeks to honorf In passing
the glorious egy OF Peabody will therefrom learn
how money gained wisely may be wisely spent
This unhappy effort In 81. Johns Park shorn OF all title
to consideration in the category OF Art may but show
how nwisey It can be Squandered.