The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-04-29

ter into the feeling Of her subjects as we'll
as Kuehne Beveridge.
The price to be paid fer the bust was
not considered, for the Hawaiians do
things in princely way. Besides they
want the bust, heroic size, which is larger
than anything recently executed Of a
woman.
The attitude in which the figure is to
pose is to be left partly to the imagina-
ton of the sculptress, but Kaiulani's pro-
file which was singular1y lovely when
seen with head slightly inclined forward,
has been suggested. Around the should
ers there will be a drapery, making the
figure a classic which cannot be altered
by the changing fashions.
Miss Kuehne Beveridge, the young
sculptress who is to be so singularly
honored in a distant branch of her own
country was born in the executive man
sion in Springfield, Illinois. Her grand
father was at that time governor of the
state and he chose that his grandchild
should have. the prestige of his home.
But the Beverages did not long live
in Illinois. Mrs. Beveridge contracted a
second marriage and went to live in Eu-
rope as the Baroness Won Wrede. Pre-
vious to her life in Europe she spent a
time in California; and there little Kuehne
and her sister went to school.
The life in Europe was very beneficial
to the young girl from an artistic stand
point. The Baroness, her mother, had a
great fondness for the fine arts and de-
bated between music and painting for her
| daughter; for Kuehne was very pre-
cocious and early outgrew her classes.
Finally her mother chose the violin and
save her daughter thorough instruc-
ton in the art. But Miss Beveridge grew
tired of music and, at the age of sixteen,
! decided to devote her life to painting and
sculpture.
In 1892 when she was seventeen years
| old she came to New York with her
mother and maid and took up her apart
| ments in the old Victoria hotel, now gone
out of existence. She had been here only
few days when she got commission
| flom President Cleveland to model
BUST Of him. This she did so successfully
that Joe jefferson allowed her to model
| him, and so also did Buffalo Bill and
James J. Corbett. Her later work has
| been over head of William J. Bryan
and another of Stevenson, the latter be-
| ing particularly fine. Her bust of Maceo,
an inspired work done within two hours
after hearing of his heroic death, is her
! favorite.
| 1t is impossible that one so precocious
and so talented should not have known
all the experiences of the world; and
| Miss Beveridge, beautiful, gifted and
versatile found her way upon the stage
in Charles Coghlan's company. OF course
the inevitable happened. Miss Beveridge
| and Mr.. Coghlan married in 1898 when
| she was scarcely eighteen years old,
and after few months of harmony they
separated. Eleven months after Miss
Beveridge obtained a divorce through her
guardian as she was too young to appear
personally in the divorce courts.
| She then took up her residence in a
! little house in East Seventeenth street,
New York, house which is said to be a
converted stable and which is unique
outsinde and in, but particularly inside.
Here Miss Beveridge has stored treas
ures in cur;os and bric-a-Drac, and here
she works upon q piece of clay whose
| name one minute is mud, and whose
name the next minute bears that OF one
| OF the heroes of the world.
Miss Beyeridge has been lately reported