New-York tribune., 1903-05-03

Statues Which VIII Typity the Pur-
poses of This Costly Structure.

The New-Yorker who is visited frequently by
'affectiOnate' cousins from up State who write
him how they love to see the sights of the
metropolis. will shortly have something new and
incidentally inexpensive TO show them. The
heroic figures which to crown the new Hall
of Records are expected to reach town in few
days. and as soon as their inches are ready on
the dormer windows of the top story, they will
be hoisted TO their final resting places Here.
then. the city man may come Here he may en-
tertain his rural relatives and escape admission
fees, reserved seats. tips and souvenirs.
The statues have been hewn out of Maine
granite in the quarries at HaIlowel, and their
sculptor. II. K. Bush Brown, is in the work
sheds preparing the pieces OF sculpture for
transportation. Some standing figures
others are in half reclining pose. whole others
are seated. Each has been designed for par
ticular station on the building. and as the
Chambers-st. front is TO be made the more
ornate ten of these pieces of sculpture Will be
placed this side of the building
The everyday citizen, as well the stranger
however, will be made to look at this stately
group. plot has been laid to compel him to
give them due consideration each day. and to
realize that his taxes have not been spent this
time for unappreciated ornamentation. For this
reason the architect has cunningly planned
huge clock for the upper part of this central win
dow, with dial four feet across. And thus the
hurrying bridge crowds, however intent they
may be in the morning on the work of the office.
or dstraught at night with the anticipation of
domestic troubles, viii involuntarily take
upward glance at the clock and its guardians of
statUary.
Because of the seventy feet which will in
tervene between these statues and the sidewalk.
they viii Furthermore produce far more pro-
nounced effect upon the eye of the beholder by
being grouped together. Thus either side
and at the base of the central Chambers-st.
dorIner window viii be TWO sitting figures repre-
senting Heritage and Maternity. Heritage por-
trays father holding his son upon his knee and
instructing him in the way he should live. Ma
ternity represents mother and child. Higher
and nearer the dial of the clock facing east and
west respectively. viii be statues of Poetry and
Philosophy. each engaged in study, The apex
Of the dorner window Will be supported by four
carvatides statues which serve the purpose of
pillars as well, and each viii represent one OF
the four seasons. SurmountIng all there viii be
tgo cherubs whose wings above the clock will
ar1phasize still further to the busy NeW-Yorker
that time mas wings.
The four figures which viii adOrn the central
iorroer window, of the Reade-st side Will repre-
sent instruction, Study. Law and History Law
and History are seated. while instruction and
Study have a reclining attitude. Law represents
a forceful type of man, who holds in ms hand
an omen scroll and whose forehead is contracted
as if the brain behind was wrestling "lth some
tnottv legal problem. History is unprecedented
,v an old man. who sharply contrasts with Law.
History is a reciuse Law is a man among men
The C.Dtre-st side as well as the FACADE on the
street to the vest. viii each haE~ only IA" Hs-