The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-17
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in honor of Admiral Dewey, being COM
pleted OH the most elaborate scale the
street pageant will be in itself the greatest
national demonstration of the century, but
the naval parade, passing between the
brilliantly lighted shores of New York, and
the Jersey coast and coming to anchor at
the end of Riverside Drive will be the
finest water pageant that this country has
ever produced. The navy department has
done everything in its power to make the
parade a success.
For the land parade the line of march is
down Fifth avenue to the Washington
arch The Dewey arch at Twenty-fourth
street and Fifth avenue will be. of course,
the greatest feature of New York's prepar-
atoms. The arch and colonnade, which
was designed by Lamb, and which will be
ornamented by the work of the most noted
seulptors of the country, has evidenced q
public spirit on the part of these men,
which will result also in an awakening of
art in America. The sculptors of New
York offered to do the work gratuitously,
and the city appropriated the amount for
materials. Something of the patriotism Of
the members of the Sculpture society may
be judged from the following extract from
the New York World: THE members of
the Sculpture society have set for all New
York a noble example of public spirit in
their labors for the Dewey celebration.
They have given their time, their energy.
other artist of their society have given
their lives in the effort to leave nothing
undone to insure the city a fitting celebra-
ton. The work has been pushed with such
strenuous haste that perhaps it was not
surprising that Caspar Buherl was found
dead at his desk in his studio. He had Just
completed a statue of Admiral Semmes or
the Confederate navy for the city of Mo-
bile and all his odd hours and evenings
were devoted to making sketches ana
plans for his figure for the Dewey arch.
When the celebration was first preached
the members of the National Sculpture So
eiety decided that the occasion demanded
something noteworthy from them. There
was little time to prepare designs. for esti-
mates were called for by the general COM
mittee and had to be submitted quickly. Nor
was there leisure for experiments ana
much remodeling. Time being so short,
these men who earn between $1,000 and S2O,-
600 a year each by their work gave up
their private business and devoted all their
efforts 20 oding the work assigned to them
on the Dewey arch or the colonade. AS
millions of patriotic Americans were going
to see their work they put their best
thought into IT. One of these men ad-
mitted that his compensation for this sort
of work ordinarily would have been about
81 100 Another sculptor gave his personal
check to pay immediate expenses when req
tape tied up the small appropriation on
which the workmen and artisans depended
for their pay"
Karl Bitter, one of the art commission
ers has contributed a group ITO Arms
Karl Bitter made the famous bronze por-
tails of Trinity church besides the I'M
mense terra Gotta pediment stretching
across the Broad street station in Phila-
delphia, and twenty groups for the Chlca-
go worlds fair. Among the distinguished
sculptors engaged on the Dewey arch none
is better known than Charles Niehans. lie
has a great work in hand in the pediment
for the new Appellate court house at
Madison avenue and Twenty-ffth street.
but he worked overtime on his group Tor
the arch.
No figure of Dewey had been completed
| though dozen other naval heroes were
| modelled when Niehans hit upon the IDEA
of putting Dewey in his panel "Triumpn
with the hero of Manila raising his cap III
response to the plaudits of the crowd.
That the arch be made a permanent
memorial is said to be popular demand.
The newspaper people whom I met in New
York expressed the opinion that this mat
ter would not be taken up.