The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10
THE SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER TO- 1893

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freight traffic off its tracks so as to be
able TO handle the days enormous pas
senger business Not less than 1,000,0O
people will be brought into New York
from the surrounding country, accord
ing to the estimate OF the general pas
senger agent Of the New York t5en~
trail.
Hundreds of thousands of people will
be disappointed in, their efiotts to see
the admiral as he passes along the ine
of march. The arrangements for stands
are not as complete as it vas hoped
Il " would be. Mayor Van Wick S
private secretary, Mr.. Downs. who has
had much to do with the arrangements
for the celebration, says that not more
than 100000 people will be able to see
the parade, if every inch of space along
the line is occupied. AT least twice
that number viii try to- he added.
Windows from which the show may be
seen are, of course, in great demand.
The Great Arch Colonnade.
The great feature of New York S
pre- operations will consist. of the colossal
ARCH and eol0nnade on Fifth avenue,
where it will be1fanked by the famous
Madison Square and the Fifth avenue
hotel. This is the outgrowth Of pa
troitismj pure and simple. The idea was
put lOI w d4Q " Y. -. IT, l%dlllD, Il NClA
known decorator He told of it to j..
Q. A. Ward, the famous SCULPTOR
I 1.-The. city will furnish the money if
the sculYtors will do the work. said
MIR. Lamb, sbut Il don't suppose the
sculptors viii do the work"
THE sculptors will do the work, I"
said Mr.. Ward, .'but the city will not
furnish the money. I'll talk to the
sculptors about it. if you win start the
money end of the plan.
Mr.. Ward did suggest the plan to the
Sculpture society. They took it up with
a good will that carried it through in
one night. The city government was
scarcely less prompt in apDropriating
the money for materials and workmen.
There was a hitch in the issuance of
the bonds, but it was caused by a COM
plication, and did not indicate lack Of
enthusiasm over the arch project.
The Sculpture society had to make
their general plans for the work in one
night. No such colossal task was ever
performed by artists in SO short a
time. They selected the arch of Titus,
slightly modified, as the scheme for the
main feature. This arch had no side
entrances, but it was decided to pierce
the Dewey arch transversely, so that
it would span Fifth avenue and Tween
ty-feurth street with free space for
each thoroughfare. Extending ON Fifth
avenue in each direction for distance
of one block, they planned colonnade,
heroically designed and laviShly decor
ateo.
This was one nights work. The next
day the sculptors were hard at work on
their designs, and within week the
models were growing in their studios.
f. To j. @. A. Ward was naturally in
trIISte0 fhp task Of making the great
group for the top of the arch. Prancing
sea horses, drawing Victorys barge
through curling waves, with liberty at
the helm, was his subject. Two weeks
he had to complete his model in-work
which ordinarily would have occupied
as many months. And the task, the
glory of the reason for it, inspired him.
Done in haste the great group will be,
but hurried in appearance it will not be.
And so with the two great groups
which will appear on the sides of the
arch's downtown front. Niehaus and
Karl Bitter took them UP with the
same impulsive enthusiasm and the sea
warriors returning to their home with
victory's wings spread over them will
stand out on the Dewey arch not only
as evidences of the intense patriotism
which animated the idea, but as sam
pies of good art. Phillip Martigni. Dan
lei -. t IeIICH, w. GeOISe
E. Bissell, Charles A. Lopez, Isadore
Cont and many others-nearly all the
members of the Sculpture society, in
fact-have done much. Never have the
studios of New York's workers at this
art been so busy. Vacations have been
curtailed. Other orders have been put
aside. Nothing has been permitted to
stand in the way of making the home
coming of our great admiral beauti-
full as well as an enthusiastic occasion.
The Popularization of Art.
"All this has another significance"
Mr.. Ward said. He was hard at work
on the touches needed to finish his
great group. His years sit lightly on
him. The tale of time told by his gray
hair and pointed white beard is belied
by the athletic lines of his active fig
ure. He is no plush jacketed sculptor
dabbling daintily. He wore a white,
clay spattered undershirt that day. and
his trousers were the overalIs of the
Woodworking bod carrier. He profess
sedly- was pleased with all parts of life
except his own group (Which stood IN
brown, shining clay, behind him on
turning Standard, and modesty alone
made him slight the merit of that. Two