The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-09

are all rubbish, any way. Why should
Miss Rehan pay $4,000 or 10 cents to be
the. model for that statue' What has
surd Anyway, don't believe those sto-
ries Lillian Russell is a good actress,
YOU know, but her figure, don't you
know That Mr.. Higbee is myth. IL
Miss Rehap had rgid any money to be
the model for that statue should have
known it. And tall you she never paid
n cent"
1t was like this" said Cora Tanner
yesterday. Last spring | met +. ID.
Higbee, who is intrusted with the model
ing OF that silver statue of Justice. He
asked me to sit for him, saying he wanted
TO submit various poses 10 the Commis-
sioners who are paying for the statue. j
consented and sent him a Photograph Of
myself posing on globe. He wrote back
saying it was an ideal figure and declar-
ing that the Commissioners were in love
with it. On July z he wrote me this
letter:
my Dear Miss Tanner
Tie statue statue question Is getting TO focus and
mp the silver ore, letter OF INTRODUCTION to you
s w vfg s9rs to e s You oa
hastily. r. d, HIGBEE.
So wrote back saying that did not
intend 70 enter into any competion wi h
another lady FOR that honor. l began to
suspect then how matters stood. Col.
Harvey finally calledAon me and told me
that the commissioners needed $4,000
very badly. They thought that the per-
son posing as the model for the statue
ought to pay for the privilege.
The Colonel told me that on the night
before he had dined with Mr. DAILY and
Miss Rehan, auu that they were not only
anxious that Miss Rehan should be the
model. but would gladly pay for the
privilege. Then he sked me plump aud
plain for $40 600. / refused, and that set
tied IL, but, oh. isn't IL funnyW
"And they came TO me, too." Marie
Tempest said, aud she went on TO tell
almost the same story Miss Tanner had
told. Col Harvey had told her, she said.
that he had bad interviews with Mr..
DAILY aud Il. Henry French, Lillian Rus
sells manager 1t may not have been
Col Harvey, for, at last accounts, when
Lillian RusselPs story was repeated to
him, he said:
Miss Russell during her recent en-
gagement in Chicago visited Sculptor
Parks studio, and as she walked admir-
ingly. around the magnificent cast she
exclaimed enthusiastically; Il would
give 5000 II my head and face were on
that statue can prove that, and will
do so If necessary"
Boston, Dec 8. - John Stetson, the
might have had the honor Of being Sc
lected for the model of Justice at the
Worlds fair IL he had been willing TO pay
$4,000 for it. Mr.. Stetson doesen't re-
gret his refusal TO pay the $4,000, but he
is curious 10 know if Miss Rehan paid as
much or anything for the honor
1t is true said Mr.. Stetson "that
my wife might have been the model The
first i heard of IL was last year when |
received "A letter from the Monta ana peo-
pie, who wrote that they wished to meet
me on matter of great importance To
myself and to them. IL happened to be
the day i was to leave New York for
Europe OH the Bourgogne. | telegraphed
the committee TO meet me in New York
on the steamer at IL o'clock.
They met me. My wife was there
And they expressed wish that should
accept the proposition that Mrs. Stetson
should be the model of this statue. |
asked then how they knew she would be
n fit subject. ana they said that they had
received "a picture from n Boston photo
grapher. They said the statue would
cos $4,000. What do you require OF
mep asked. Fifteen thousand dollars,
they replied, without hesitation
II said TO them: My wife has retired
from public life and doh't See how, as a
woman In private life. IL ,wou!d be worth
$4,000 to her. 1 therefore declined the
propositionv