New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-27
THE STATUE OF CHESTER A. ARTHCR.
IT WAS ON VIEW YESTERDAY AT THE PLACE

IT WAS ON VIEW YESTERDAY AT THE PLACE
WHERE 1T WAS CAST.
The newly completed brass statue Of President
Chester A. Arthur was exhibition yesterday after
at the Henry -BOnnard Bronze Company, No Az
West sixtcenth-st where It cast. II represents
President Arthur az meeting OF his Cabinet lie
stands erect lie has Just read TO his Cabinet officers
an important document which he holds In his left
hand his side. lie has just taken of his glasses
and holds them In his right hand before him as he
speaks Of the measure be has read. The statue Is
nine feet two inches high and weighs $40 pounds.
II was cast in piece with the exception OF the
plinth. The sculptor is F. Keyser. who also designed
the memorial over cX-PTesldent Arthur's grave in
Rural Cemetery. Albany.
The statue is TO be given TO the city by the men
who have subscribed for IT, and II IS to b. placed In
one OF the public parks; in which has not yet
been decided Mr.. Keyser has also prepared model
for the accessories TO the statue II gives plain
granite pedestal to The statue. with bronze hlet Of
oak leaves about 1t, semicrcular seat forty feet
In diameter. with pedcstals four feet high at the ends
upon each of which is female figure. five feet high
holding an electric light. The model Is only suS
gestion and has not been accepted BY the committee
in charge OF the work Tie accessories viii depend
largely upon the site selected. The Executive Com
mittee which has had charge OF the work is as fol-
lows: Cornelius y. Bliss, chairman; Elihu Root,
Daniel C. Rollins. John IL. starn, John a. stewart
and james c. Reed
The Arthur Statue Committee consisted OF the follow
ing men, who also subscribers TO the fund John A.
stewart, chairman james c. Reed secretary @. d.
baldwin. treasurer: Cornelius V. Bliss. william W.
As:pT. Daniel F. Appleton Herman O. Armour. Thomas
c. Acton, August Belmont S. /. NJ. Barlow. james
". Brown. Christopher c. Baldwin, ALERT Bicfstadt
Benjamin III. BriStow George Bliss Samuel ID. Bah
cock Frederick billings, BirNlseye Brakeman. samuci
W. BOocock Andrew Carnegie. john l.. Cadwaladcr,
Samuel :. Cox Ire Grand b. Cannon Joseph II. thoat.
Marvclie W. Cooper Hugh y. Camp : V. II. Crugcr
George Cecil, Allan Campbell Edward Cooper, George
" CotternI Howard Carroll. John l.. Devclln. Charles
A. Dana Robert c. Dun, William Dowd. Cha'lnceS
NJ Depew. Franklin Edison. Wiliiam ". EvaTts, JOEL
b. Erhardt Richard A. Elmer. Roswell p. FoweG
Seth Barton French William VI. Flies. stephen
b. French Frederick D. Grant. AhIHm 5. Hewitt.
Henry Hilton Hiram Hitchcock. John H. Hail.
GrGnvne p. Hawcs. Walter Howe. lI"Gry
T. Rowland John H. Inman. George Jones
Lawrence H. Jerome. John J. Knox. sherman W.
Knevals Charles c. Landon. George W. Lyon. Charles
Lanler. Pierre Lcrlllard. Levi p. Norton Arson &.
McCook. Darius O. Mills Martin r. Mcmahon H. W.
r. Mall, George Montague, Abraham G. Mills J..
Pcrpont Morgan. Charles F.. Miller. Thomas Nas,
Alexander T. Orr, John +. Plummer, Edward II.
Perkins r.. Whiielaw Reid. Daniel G.. Rollins. rlilu
Root. Horace Russell, Theodore Roosevelt Rastus
:. Ransom, John II. Sar1n. Jesse Selgman. william
T.. Strong, William T. ShaGcr. Samuel Sloan. Charles
s. Smith. James ID. Smith, George II. Sharpe, Fred.
erick d. Happen. Charles L. Tiffany. William VI.
Taylor. William Turnbull. Cornelius Vanderbilt
william c. Whitney. Salem II. Wales. stephen Y.
Nhite Alfred Il. whitney Dewitt e. Wheeler. William
J. Wallace and Locke ". Winchester.
About a hundred people called 70 see Inc statue.
Among them Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius y. Biss
John L. Pummer and John H. ttarin.