The sun., 1903-04-07
,lY FIRST, STATUE LATER.
yoIIAND SOCIETY NEEDS SlO, 900
FOR WILLIAM THE SILENTS.
..,ud,ates q Proposal TO Apply Missionary
principles 10 Eta sculpture Projects.
and VIII Let sculptor ShrAdy Walt
Little while for . Contract.

Little WINE tot contract.
The Holland Society, which met at Del
..,ricos last evening. had q rather ami
r,a,ed discussion over proposition to
Lird the society to enter into a contract
.i,b Henry Merwin Shrady. the sculptor,
,ho-s model of the proposed statue OF
Grant and his Generals to be set up In WASH
i,oton was accepted, TO design a statue
n william the Silent, to cost $4,000. and
10 he paid for by the society.
The proposition came from committee,
,he chairman OF which is Dr. ID. b. st. John
pooso Another member Ia Warner Van
Norden. In submitting the committees
report Dr. Roosa said.
The committee would like to have been
able to report that we had been able to get
man like Daniel French or st. Gaudens to
undertake. this work. but when We couldn't
do that we did what we believe TO have
been the next best thing.
we have received an offer from Mr.. Henry
NJ Shradv, the young sculptor whose de-
sign for the statue OF Grant and his Generals
as selected bv French and st. Gaudens
sher a mighty sharp competition. Mr..
Shrady's offer is embodied in a resolution
which / am about to read. want the
society to think we'll upon It before 1t votes.
The committee means business this time.
and IL the society doesn't mean the same
thing. it should vote down this resolution
and do il promptly
that, IL Mr.. Shrady should design q statue OF
William the Silent which should be accept
able TO the society's committee and to the
Municipal Art Commission, the society
TOR 10 execute the design for $4,000. Mr..
Roosa said that IL the society passed the
resolution he was authorized by Mr.. Shrady
10 say that he would spend this summer In
Holland making necessary studies for the
statue.
In seconding the resolution. Mr.. Van
Norden said:
Il hope the resolution will pass. be-
heve we can raise the money without the
slightest difficulty. For a work like this
,"es,S s0ra for oe sdbserptions bnt don be
ieve We will have to do so We have about
600 pledged already and We can get
the rest
John W. vrooman wanted to start the
subscription then and there by pledging
5000 from the society's treasury to tho
statue fund. Ex-Mayor Charles Ellsworth
Of Poughkeepsie wouldn't hear any such
.fhe money we'have in our treasury he
intended to buy statues with II, and IL this
resolution is to pass submit that the money
should be raised by individual subscrip-
ton. But I believe there are some in the
society who cannot afford to subscribe
even pro rata share Of the $4,000
IF we're going to have this statue"
said Robert B. Roosevelt. 'as I hope We
shall, don't let US enter into a contract
with anybody until we have the money
10 pay the bill. II we make this contract
somebody must pay the piper: don't
know, as a matter of law, whether we
would all be individually liable for this
$40 900 or not, but I suggest that we make
contracts when we have the money to carry
them out, and not until then
That's ali very WELL, said Mr.. Van
Norden, but we've got to take some things
in this world on faith I'm q member Of
the missionary board Of our church. We
have already voted to spend 81 200 600 on
money have we got. We don't even know
where it's coming from, but know 1t will
be raised and speht.
Charles Z Lydsossr moved to amend the
trsos- should not be made With Mr.. Shrady
uRtf the money was raised. The amend
ment was accepted and the resolution was
passed. DR.. Roosa said that William
Waldorf Astor had subscribed 81 900 and
that another man had subscribed $500,
while last evening q member at the meeting
had increased his subscription from $3.50
TO $500.
Therodore Banta was elected president
~ the society to succeed George G. Dewitt.
Henry l.. Bogert was elected secretary and
Arthur H. Van Brlnt treasurer. Robert b.
Roosevelt delivered an address on Peter
s,uyvesant and old New York, which con-
cluded as follows:
only in one matter have. we deteriorated.
We have less civic pride. less self-reliance.
that we are 5000, 600. than when we were
loo. Then we would not submit to dictation
or tyranny from the High Mightinesses across
the sea. Now We basely submit to the Low
Mightinesses at Albany.