The sun., 1900-11-25
JUST SOCIABLE IDOLS.
kIEwwERS OuEER Tgwrfg oy a
MOI NTlfN WAN RStDr>G.
There ue Keeps Images sf Aadsnt Gods, D,'i.
and stodern Heroes which re Msde Him.
seif lie Doesnt wership Them. lie
says bat Only Enjoys Their Compso,

and ModerW Heroes which He Made Him.
seif lie Doe.nt Worship Them. Hs
says bat Only enjoys Their Compso,.
RK.pISo. Pa. Nov. william Klenfncf
who has achieved fame here as a maker ~
Idols and images has moved his two hundred
or moro specimens from tho frame shed they
occupied TO o stone temple on the mountau
two miles frcm tho city. lie built the temple
himself. being stone mason
klemmer IL Pennsylvania German Of about
M. has vifs and family and works daily at
his trade At night be makes idols Of clay.
cement. stone or wood. lie talks intcllisenuy.
goes u church. Is a good citizen. and his only
pastime Is In spending his evenings hours and
other spare time In contemplating his hsndi-
work and In the production OF new idols
To have more secure place 70 keep them In
he built on Mount Penn n rude house Of stone
with walls two feet thick. The site Is a ravine
out OF the way Of men The Images are
shelves or stand on the floor. He had too
many visitors at the frame shed In this city
where his idols were FIRST stored and this 10 one
OF his principal reasons for removing them To
tho mountain. lie has been making images
for twenty years. lie has not only idols Of
mythology In his collection. but also images
OF historical and local characters. One Of his
grav cement images. about two feet high. he
calls Napoleon He has idols representing
Silence Moloch. Satan. Mephistopheles Dagon.
the fshgod OF the PhillstInee. the idol Of jug
gernaut Apis. the calves Of Bethel and Dan. .Ahab.
an imitation OF the Hindoo idol Pulhar. and
many others of different sizes from Ave inche .
20 three feet high. His taste leans toward the
ludicrous and hideous. He has only q few
female idols, Some OF the images have been
anointed with oil or crowned with wool. and
the spirit Of some departed person 70 believed
u dwell therein
It is known that Klemmer has passed entire
nights with these images OF his creation. He
sSpl ain, though that i S' he wishes to put up Sp
an image TO represent ANYBODY. natural or
unnatural. and u be in close communion with
what II represents or is supposed To Sepresent
there ~ no harm In 1t. 50 long a. he does not
One OF his latest is an image Of Dewey. but
that fell the other night and was broken Just
as the Dewey arch b gan to come down.
That same night mysterious light was seen
about the temple and il was thought by hunters
on the mountain setting rabbit snares that
the night worship Of idols had begun for the
winter season. but Klemmer was not there
broke into the temple and carried on two loads
Of idols The images were found by the police
| in shed on North Eleventh street. where the
boys had started a temple on their own account
| up when the idols were carted back to Klein
mer's temple on the mountain All the stolen
images were returned except Napoleon.
His image of Silence Is a gray cement idol
with lot Of straw stuffed In lis mouth. Klen-
mer never refers 10 his idols unless he IL first
questioned about them, he served warning
would surely be troubled FOR HE He thnke
he has right TO have a stock Of such images
and that the law must protect him in the IN
joyment Of such property so lor as he is guilty
| Of nothing unlawful His relatives look upon
klemmers pas'ime as entirely harmless.