New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-30
MUCH WORK: LITTLE PAY.
Sculptor to Make Thrty-t1oo Colos-
sal Statues for 800, 900.

Harrisburg Penn. Sept. % (SpeciaD.-The
trouble between George Gray Barnard and the
Pennsylvania New Capitol Commission for
which Mr. Barnard is making the sculptures for
the new Capitol, is that Mr.. Barnard is trying 20
do $3OOOOO worth of work for 100000 When
he asked for and secured the commission rtr the
sculpture he signed a contract to do it for
$IOO,OOO and gave bond in the sum of $4,000
to perform the work. Mr.. Barnard had exceed
ingly lofty ideas regarding that work and ia
stead of planning his models on a scale that
would insure him profit when completed. he
made them of colossal size-thirty-two figures
for 100000
Why" said Mr.. Huston, the architect who
planned the Capitol. 1.-The marble required
for the Barnard groups would cost almost what
he contracted to furnish the finished sculpture
for. To show how impractical a business man Mr..
Barnard is" continued Mr. Huston. sit is said
that he made a replica of of the figures in
one of the groups that to be placed the
new Capitol and sold it to a New York man for
$1,000 1t scarcely five feet high And yet
he proposed to finish groups comprising thirty
two figures. all of them colossal in size, for
100000. He has only himself to blame if he is
financially in a hole"
Former Governor Stone Auditor General Sny-
der and Edward Bailey, members of the COM
mission, all say that Mr.. Barnard was to do the
be held to the letter of it, for with the exception
of the contract money for the decorative work
the balance remaining after the contractor for
the building was paid reverted to and paid
into the State Treasury. and there is practically
nothing left to pay Mr.. Barnard.
OF the 100000 that Barnard was to get for
doing the wOrl he has received $4,000, and -
is reported from Moret near Paris, where he has
his studio. that he has not nearly completed the
models. Mr.. Barnard does not complain of any
unfair treatment. What he diskes is the fact
that the commission will not pay him the other
$4,000 until he shows something for the money
already paid him The story that sooner than
give his marbles for the sum of 100000 he will
destroy them is regarded here silly, for there
is $4,000 of his good cash in the hands of the
bonding company, which he had to put uD be-
fore the company would go his $4,000 bond,
and it is hardly probable that he would
throw this away.
Senator John E. Fox Of this city, who is a
member of the Capitol dedication COM
mittee, called on Barnard last summer while in
France, and said that Barnard referred to the
New Capitol Commission in the kindliest way.
His only complaint the red tape that was
wound about the balance of the contract money
which he sorely needed. Barnard is Penn
sylvanian, and was selected because it con-
sdered best to get all Pennsylv Anans to do the
work Edwin 4. Abbey and Miss oakley. who
will paint the interior decorations. also
Pennsylvanians The Abbey work has been de-
Iayed by the artists serious illness. but word
comes from England that he is recovering and
is very much chagrined that his work could not
be in place when the new Capitol is dedicated, on
| October 4. An effort made to secure models
OF Barnards statuary for the dedication. but
| they could not be completed in time