The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-03

! Yorker by proxy. Came to United States IN
infancy and learned to carve in a metropol-
tan buarding-house whose name and iocal-
ity is unfortunately lost, by watching the
lJEiladv extract eight second FONTS. TOUR
teen legs and eighteen chunks or whlte
meat from 4 single, chicken ana sun re-
tain posscssicn of the chicken. There
must be something in carving the child
mutterCd to himself, as he watched the
landiady at her task of distribution, and he
then and there resolved to take up scuIp-
ture as his life work.
Tried his hand ut age OF seven on a
Thanksgiving turkey, but, finding it too
hard. he took up cameo cutting instead, in
which h. became most proficient. Lacking
other materials, he would cut canoes IN
his schoo desk, on chairs, on stone walIs
and on trees. How many Xqulsite specl-
mems Of his handicraft have gone to waste
upon the trees of his environment It Is
difficult and depressing to surmise.
Studied drawing at COoper Institute, New
York. ana at age of . was i master at
all varieties Of craftsmanship save that OF
checks, which, in spite Of his deXterlty, ne
was not able 10 draw Consplcuously FOR
many years. Also studied at the National
Academy OF Design. ana learned there the
disadvantages Of achieving fame too early
in life. success in art before ninety-seven
being at that time frowneu upon by that
institution.
Later stuGigd mt the Ecole des Beaux
ArS. Paris. ID rival OF the Art Students
League OF New York and the Winnepesau-
kee Academy of ChroTatics of Nebraska.
where he learned to put an accent upon his
carvings that mas ADDED much to their chic.
if not to tleir mcdulia oblonSata. Went
thence 10 Rome, where he did as the Ro-
mans did not so equipped himself i"r the
production of his famous Diana g ths
Tendcrloin.' a goddess Of brass, slightly
clad in nit goods. who presided over The
Madison Square Garden at horse shows,
sportsmcn's shows and Christian Ende9vu.
conventions. For this took degree LII ID.
HarVardD-Jhe l~ou--leSSed Diana. FROM
that time to this has been regarded as the
greatest Irish-Amerlcan sculptor since the
days of Phidias.
An unconfirmed rumor credits him with
having chiseIed Z statue of the hero of San
tiago 10 be erected in Washington, consist
ing of a figure OF heroic size with movable
heads. so that each succeeding Administra-
ton can have its separate hero without ne
cessitating the removal and reconstruction
of the whole statue.
The greatest thing he ever did by COM
mon. consent was not doing the Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty While his Shaw monu-
ment at ~Boston-spelled Shaw" not
"Pshaw," so common in Boston-ranks high
among the notable achievements in sculp-
tuce in ell the ages. Tn lifelike quality of
1t is such that residents of the quiet Beacon
street have complained that the noise of the
drums keeps them awake nights, and the
negroes OF the regiment, it is said. nave
been seen leaving the monument and going
over 10 Youns's Hotel to wait in the din
ing-room. Address, Windsor, Vt, or C. o.
the Amalganlated Copper Trust. U. S.,
whose material he recommends as being
excellent for statues, panels or busts gen.
orally.
Gibson. Charles Dana.
King of the Illustrators, Cartoonist Ex-
traordinary TO the Four Hundred and In