St. Paul daily globe., 1894-09-02
The Worlds Fair Leading Attrac.
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The Worlds Fair Leading Attrac.
tion.
Through the enterprise shown by S.
+. Olson. Minneapolis secures the Mon
tana Silver Statue, and will place it on
free exhibition for two weeks.
Ada Rehan In silver.
The famous Montana Silver Statue of
Justice, modelled after the celebrated
actress. Miss Ada Rehap. can be seen,
beginning Monday. Sept. 8, on the sec
ond floor of S. e. OlSOn's Mammoth De-
partMept Store.
This celebrated work of art, encased
In a huge, strong box, arrived ON
special car Saturday morning. accom-
panied by three armed guards; was
switched to the American Express COM
pany's track. where it was quickly un-
loaded and driven up to s. E. Olson Co..
as il it was a big case of ordinary
Eastern merchandise. and then hOisted
by derrick up to the second floor and
placed on its pedestal, where thousands
Of those who did not see it at the
Worlds Fair last year can see it for the
next two weeks, beginning with tomor-
row, Sept. Sd, and those that did get a
glimpse Of 1t through the crowds now
have an opportunity to get better
acquainted with this beautiful work of
art, all of which is due to the liberality
of S. E. Olson.
From the time the idea was flashed
over the world that Montana was to
haze a silver statue nine feet high, Col.
Higbee, OF that state. was in trouble.
He himself. stout and gcod-natured.h had
conceived the idea. and, with their
usual absence of red-tape methods, the
Worlds Fair board Of THAT Western
tor oh . ks.
involved, as the GLOBE readers will
recall, hair.pulling contest among all
the celebrated actresses of our own, and
some of foreign lands, as to who should
be the model. Ada Rehan was selected,
and Sculptor Park. of Florence, Italy,
made the clay model.
The casting was really the remarka-
BILE thing, owing to the difficulty In
, working silver over all other metals, and
the majority of the founders of the
2 world said it simply could not be done;
but 1t was completed, and it will stand
guarded by armed watchmen for the
next two weeks on the second floor of
s. E. OlsQn's Big Department Store.
3fsIt is today the only piece Of solid sill
yer casting in one piece nine feet high
ever produced In the world. q
Col. HIgbee at the start merely hoped
to outdo other Western states at the
worlds fair, but the silver statue aud
the Ferris wheel caine to the front as
leading features of the exposition, and
that he has struck the popular fancy is
evidenced by the fact that since the close
of the fair the statue has averaged over
1000 people per day coming to see it.
The colonel will sail for Europe In a
few days In answer to calls to briug it
over there.
Montana is a great state and riclIin
the mineral displayed in this statue and
the statue was and is great thing for
the state. The silver in the statue has
deprecated nearly sll.O since it was
cast, but that does not worry Its own
ers, who are all mining men of large
means. Col. HigbeS says that while
congress was debating the proper ratio
for silver to gold, he has settled the
question by putting silver on a gold
basis. The base Of gold Is under the
silver statue. 1t Is worth 1924 ZOO itself.
No one, however, need dream of raiding
on 1t to carry 1t of, In whole or in part,
as armed detectives are constantly in
the crowds around it, and they know
how to use "gun" If necessary.
Anyway, ii you have not. or have
seen this statue, you can see 1t again for
the next two weeks at
g S. E. OLSON Co.'s.