The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-03
DENVER PAPERS ARE JEALOUS
VICIoUSLY ATTACK THE MAUDE
ADAMS STATUE.
Find Fault Because the Golden Girl
Is to Be Hollow-Guard Composed
of Colonies.

Denver newspapers show a disposition
to SANDER the Colorado golden statue for
the Paris exposition, because the pro-
moter, Frank ID. Higbee, proposes that
Maude Adams, in stead of Denver belle.
shall be the model. The green-eyed mon
ster seems 10 have taken fun possession
of the Denver Republican which is mar
ucularial rabid in its attacks upon Mr.
Higbee and the statue. In its issue of
saturday IL makes sport of the scheme in
the following fashion:
The Paris commissioners were sue
cessful in their seach for a guard for
the baldheaded and hollow golden girl
which they have conspired with Higbee TO
send to Paris They officially announce
a week ago that such a faVorab BILE statue
could not be sent around the country and
across the bounding deep unless an armed
escort OF truSty men We're sent with it
As the statue is TO be hollow ii will be
very light, and any healthy person. with
the aid OF wheelbarrow, could readily
steal II, unless il were protected That is
II any thief cheap enough TO want TO steal
II were to come along. The indications
now are that the guard will be needed no
less for the. statue than for the members
of the hoard, who may be mobbed at any
time after the fraif statue is blown over
by some stray breeze and badly dented by
coming in contact with the Brussels car
pet in Higbee's New York Office
But the guard The thirty colonies are
it. They have practically been decided
upon, and as soon as Colonel T. J. Ma
statue become damp enough en- route for
the gold covering 10 wash Off tickets will
be purchased on some slow line going out
of Philadelphia. the 1st and 18th of every
month. Two tickets will be bought for
Colonel Maloney and one each for every
other members of the staff and the golden
girl. The commissioners will be allowed
to travel at childrens' rates.
The golden girl, worth 100000 for $50
pounds very gross, is the attraction with
which the commissioners who have sell
dom crossed even the Platte river orig
inally intended to dazzle Paris. Since
her hollowness was exposed by the Re-
publican, however the golden girl will
only be taken along as an incident. The
chief part of Colorado's mineral exhibit
viii be the thirty colonies Of the COVER
nor's staff. Armed with popguns and I'M
der the leadership of Colonel Gregg. at
those frequent intervals when Colonel T.
J.. Maloney is eating. the staff members
will do more to dazzle Paris than any
thing else from Colorado could do. Strict
ly speaking, they may not be minerals,
but they are brilliant enough to meet all
practical requirements.
The exceedingly small scheme of the
Paris commissioners and Higbee was ex-
posed yesterday. Higbee expects to tour
the country with the brassy girl, and is
now trying to allure advertisers of all
kinds all over the country TO let him dis
tribute their printed matter and SAMPLES
He can see in the distribution of millions
of circulars. pamphlets, cards and samples
gold enough to make a statue which is
not a fake.
"A member of the commission again in
sisted yesterday that the competition for
the golden girl modelship was open to all
and that no one had yet been selected
Higbee. however. has given it out cold
that Mary Ellen Lease, Miss Della Rogers
and Jobyna Rowland will all be ignored
He says that Maude Adams will be the
model.
Governor Charles S. Thomas says Hig-
bee has agreed to furnish all the gold
necessary for the alleged girl The Col
orado Paris commissioners therefore have
nothing left save to help distribute circu-
lars an rnaIte ar 81 n thousand"