The San Francisco call., 1896-08-25
GRAN rs BUST is
NOT YET UNVEILED
The Monument Stands Com
pleted in Golden Gate
Park.
swATHED IN wRAPPINGs
The Next Chapter in It's History
Promises to Be a Law
suit,
SCHMID'S CLAIM REJECTED.
The Committee Says 1t Has No Money
to Pay for the Scu. ptor's Modi.
fications.
sCHMID's CLAIM REJECTED.

For over month the Grant memorial
has been entirely completed, but it still
stands draped in Golden Gate Park, and
to judge from the present outlook it will
stand there long time before General
Barnes is called upon for the inaugural
address which he has promised to deliver.
The deadlock in the unveiling of the mon
ument is caused by difference of opinion
respecting the money value of the statue
Rupert Schmid, the sculptor, claims $3.50
more than the memorial committee desires
to pay, and Herbert Choy nski, the sculp-
tors lawyer, said yesterday that he feared
the end of the dispute would be a lawsuit,
during which the monument will have to
remain hidden from the public gaze under
its wrappings.
1.-THE memorial was to have been un-
veiied on Decoration day, but the commit
tee has not yet accepted the design and
shows no signs of intending TO do sc"
said Herbert Choynski. 1.-The trouble
arose out of the notifications. According
to the original contract the bust was to
rest on a plain shaft of green sandstone,
with laurel wreaths at the base. orna-
mented with four bronze scrolls, each
bearing the name of battle.
tThis design was very plain and severe,
and Isaac Hecht, the chairman of the
committee, but now deceased, expressed a
desire to have 1t modified. At his request
Mr.. Schmid had four eagles with out
stretched wings cast in bronze, and in
other ways the design was extended and
EN- belllshed. 1t was understood that
these notifications were made with
the consent of the committee, but,
though the sculptor paid for the casting
and the transportation from Europe, and
has bills to show for it, the COMMITTEES re-
fuses to pay more than the original design
calls for"
Colonel Choynski saws that one reason
for no more money being forthcoming is
that the funds are all exhausted.
~ am unable TO state positively whether
the Examiner paid for the base or not, ="
he said. "If it did there should still be
funds, for I saw the handbook of the
memorial fund at one time, and the
amount to the committees credit exceed
ed $4,000. The committee says that the
Examiner did not pay for the base. Two
payments have already been made to the
sculptor, but if the Examiner paid for the
base there should certainly be money in
the bank.
According to the contract Rupert
Schmid was to provide base of green
sandstone out of the second payment of
$1,000. Con O'Connor suggested that base
of granite would look better and he stipu-
lated with US that we should give him $3.50
and he would have the base made by some
one whose name he would not divulee. 1t
afterward transpired that the granite base
was being made at Folsom prison. After
that the Examiner offered to pay for a
granite base, but I don't pretend to say
whether it did or not. If the Examiner
paid the committee cannot be without
funds.
ssThere are a whole number of people
who put down their names as subscrbe bers
who have never paid up"