The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-06
CAN'T SEE CITY HALL PICTURES
ALDERMEN GUESSING ABOUT THE
COMING ALLEGOREES.

HarbOr Scene: Pier "A, N. R.--Rescue OF
Gen. Greene From Asphalt Wreck
Partridge Astrlde the Raines Lave.
4. Aldermen Tunnellin9 Into Tammany.
Carpenters built scaffold in the chamber
OF the Board of Aldermen yesterday for the
maintenance of the decorators who are to
put new paints and veneer on that sacred
room. Taber Sears, the artist who has
prepared designs for the panels in the cell
ing, was up among the rafters measuring
distances with his eye and studying contrast
effects for his color scheme, Mr.. SeaTss
sketches were up in the Office of the Munici-
pal Art Commission, which Ia to pass on
them next Tuesday. One Of the Tammany
Aldermen went up to look at them, but the
fair young maid who presides there while
the secretary is gathering art knowledge
in Europe was obdurate, and the Alder
man went back to the lean-tos Of the first
floor.
Il wanted to see them pictures" he said.
"Its our board and our room, but | sup
pose they'll use the space with campaign
matter for Low. It's to be up In Septem-
Der, but it'll come down in January, and
we'll put up something that'll suit"
So few things are now doing that interest
the Aldermen that a lively curiosity has
been aroused at the City Hall as to what
subjects are to be chosen as depicting
the progress Of New York. The big
elliptical Ia Tammanyite called it epilep-
ticaD dome piece is to be filed with ships
Of the harbor and the growth on land The
five smaller panels around the border OF
the ceiling will show stages Of New York's
municipal ages. Tammany feels quite
sure that one of these ia going to illustrate
the Seth Low period
Some OF the Mayors admirers think that
a panel might well be used to portray the
Mayor picking Gen. Greene out of the dust
and ashes Of the Asphalt Trust and setting
him down on a velvety chair in Mulberry
Street. AS a thumbnal sketch in the
corner Of this picture they suggest the
departure Of Col Partridge. from Head
quarters astride Of the excise law. On
the other hand, one Of the Mayors friends
believes that for this chamber the open
hand would be a glad allegory, with vista
of the Citizens Union Aldermen going over
to Tammany via the Pennsylvania tunnel.
At top and bottom, it is suggested,
might be likenesses Of Big Tim and Little
Tim Sullivan, the first idealized and the
second glorified the first as the owner of
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Hall top and the second as the leader Of
the House. If there is going to be anything
equestrian in this allegory the Tammany
Aldermen insist that it shall carry the colors
of the T. d. Sullivan stable.
If Alderman Whitaker can Influence
the Municipal Art Commission he'll have
the features Of Capt Norton Goddard pre-
served as part of the municipal panel game.
One thought is to show him in library
scanning the Congressional Directory the
Red Book and the City Record for n job
vacant or about to be vacant. while another
suggestion liz to illustrate his share in the
strenuous life, indicated by fourteen trips
to Washington to see the President once.
In the harbor scene il is possible that a
view of Pier "a, North River, may be shown,
with some appropriate advertising matter
for the 0dell Hudson River steamboat
line
The artist is going to develop his sketches
on canvas at his studio in Fifth avenue.
Little Tim Sullivan said yesterday he'd be
glad to sit for him, but not in Fifth avenue.
Mr., Sears would have to bring his tools
down to the Larry Mulligan Association