New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-09

and in accord with the eternal fitness of things
Besides, with such a name our mail would no
longer get mixed up with that of the Italians
on Macdougal-st.. out of which the alley opens"
This faction is led by H X Bush-Brown
who has gone so far as to prepare Botticelu
petition to the authorities in the City Hall who
have charge of street names
OF the sculptors there is a minority faction.
representative of which says: Il have not time
TO bother with this name business. have my
studio for workshop; not TO entertain visitors
Alley doesn't keep me from putting the proper
wings on angels and court would not help my
sense of proportion. Let them call 1t what they
will"
The stablemen too are nightly satisfied with
alley, but for other reasons Most of them are
Irish, with an Unborn disgust of italian names
and faces MacdougaI has certain qualities that
appeal to them. They would likely shy a stone
at Botticelli or Donatello, which is another
name suggested. Then they are a little IN awe
or the men of art who have come among them
They have the idea with much OF the world
that men of genius -"daffy" and that little
attention should be paid to them when it comes
to practical, everyday things like street names
They say that if you doubt that the alley sculp-
tors are geniuses just ask them
There is still another faction-the old resi-
dents, the rear of whose houses is on the alley.
AhCS dAS LleA OI means Tor the most part. and
proud of the traditions of their city One Of
them erected few years ago an observatory On
the top of his stable. 1t had the usual dome
and in it was mounted powerful telescope but.
unfortunately for the star gazer, MacdougaI
Alley vibrates exceedingly. He tried all sorts If
metnods OF weighing down the floors of his
parn to keep the telescope steady. He would
get slght on a star, only to have the telescope
google out OF range and into the Milky Way
he finally gave up in despair and moved the
telescope into the country. The observatory
DOME however, remains picturesque novelts
in the architecture of the alley.
1t is fitting to change alley to court" say
these old residents, but why cater to the ar
tlstlc sense of these new arrivals? Let us call
1t Clinton Court and honor good American"
AS result of so much agitation it seem.
likely that the alley will remain an alley and
as such become known to fame All of the
SculptorS are busy this summer, for much of
the statuary decoration of the st. Louis Ex-
position is being done in the alley studios.
Among the sculptors at work on St Louif
commissions are Andrew O'Connor and James
E. Frazer, the latter a new arrival in the col
ony, and who has lately returned from Paris.
c. E. Triekel. who has been living for some
years in Italy, has a fine studio near the be-
ginning of the alley.
which has from time to time been much in thu
public print also halls from this MacdougaI
offshOOt. H. K. Bush-BroWn and Philip Mar
tiny have been engaged for some time on this
work.
A visit to one of these ex-stahle studio,
shows how easily they be turned to this
new use Take, for instance, the studio of An
drew O'Connor, where much of the Cornelius
Vanderbilt memorial decoration of ST. BarthoIo.
news Church in Madison-ave. has been worked
out 1t ordinary stable. housing half
dozen trucks and their horses, when Mr.. OCOn-
nor secured a lease upon it. 1t the work Of
a few weeks to tear out the interior. An addi
ton of twelve feet made at the rear and
skylights and new floors were put in Then the
painters took hold, and soon had fine work
ing studio any could desire. 1t proved
particularly convenient when it came to moving
in the five ton blocks of marble needed for the
larger decorative pieces in the Vanderbilt COM
mission.
Mr.. O'Connor has just completed two of the
largest pieces, and they stand side by side in