The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05
MRS. CRANNIS TO THE RESCUE
rousTOCK RIGI.', SIZE SAYS, IN
Art LEAGUE RAID.

cha'a ENI sslF VI tTt '
Also some statues Win UEdrapcd
Animals Exhibited IN Them Plans or
the Art League in the Conlstock Ease
The case Of Anthony Ccmsto ok, who
,,IIcd the Art Stu6or to- League, situated
n the upper TeEGerloin, last Thursday,
,rhen he learned that young persons learned
% draw from the nude there by drawing
s,om fine nude, took on added interest yes
,.rdny when it became kno wn that a num-
lar Of we'll known persors had espoused
Mr. Comstock's side Of tho raid by exposing
their opinions that Comstock had done
tho rich, thing. Among Mr.. Comstock's
sunportcrs are Mrs, Elizabeth Grannis and
tho Rev. Madison c. Peters,
Dr. parkhurst il in Europe and Mrs.
Nation is in Kansas.
Wbenit was learned that The Sun couldn't
80, into cable communication with DR..
porkhurst a re porter wen over to Twenty
eighth street to the Pump, to try to get Bug
nil Deyery's opinions on the collar Messrs.
Iarory and parkhurst, 1t will be 'remem-
hered. wore In close touch some years ago IN
q reneral crusade against naughtiness In
Manhattan and it was therefore thought
That the ex-chief would be able to echo DIR.
Parkhurst's opinions.
II WAS learned, however, from numberless
friends of Big Bill found between Eighth
oysnue and Tenth-or Double FIT avenue
as the ex.chief wishes to have 1t called
that Mfr. Deyery had joined the hot weather
or,ioration of artists, collectors and minis
,erstoward nature in the raw. Bits friends
felt certain. m nevertheless, that the ex-chlef
might lie safely quoted as saying that what
ever the gang thought Of the collar was dead
right.
From the Pump to the home Of Mrs.
Grsnnis. president of the National Chris
,ian League for the Promotion OF Purity,
was onlv a step. Mrs. Granni was found
seated AT a table above which hung two
framed photographs Of the Venus girls.
One was c'o.hrd from tho waist down and
The other from the top of the head up.
The one thet was partially draped had
posed for the picture with a little boy wear
Ing nothing to speak Of standing beside
her while he ~anXiously grasped the bit OF
dralery that seemed about to fall. Mrs.
Grannis fastened to explain to the abashed
pictures Of her W fros will, but that they
had been given to her. Nobody cares to
look a Gift horse vel too carefully.
Vow | don't go in for predestination,
total depravity and election, but I'm an
ultra evangelical woman" began Mrs. Gran
and sat down for a good long talk. TO
begin with, | shall say that | quite agree
with Mr.. Comstock in the course he has
taken"
Certainly" said her listener amiably as
be reached in his pocket for one OF the books
that Mr.. Comstock objected to. .
oh. | saw them some time ago-a friend
who shall be nameloss showed ME one. AS
for Mr.. Comstock, | believe he 10 a dear,
earnest worker. although he does lack
that Christian courtesy toward his enemies
at times which | shovld like to see. But
for thirty years he has done work hat only,
he could do. A bit coarse and rongh and
tumble, III admit, but a splendid worker
for the cause"
All aboLt Mrs. Grannis's rarlor we're
scattered copies Of the genre groups by
Rogers. One called Coming to the Par
SON depicting a bashful conrle standing
before a clergyman reading his raFer, is,
She says she received it for the first edi-
torial she wrote on china silk. Besides,
some of the silk YVES presented to her.. Mrs.
Grannis hos two Of the Rogers groups;
called Going for the Cows'-a stark naked
horse standing in the background, a nude
uUk CldWllhG wv u INV y
and a small boy with unclcthed legs kneel-
ing beside the nude dog. The COW that the
boy would be roing after il he were on the
job are probably those in another group
out in another room.
That Coming to the Parson' group
said Mrs. Grannis, -is 30 lovely to me The
bride is so young, 50 tender. Some day
I'm going to put her in the bath tub and
give her a bath. There on the other side
Of the room l have The Pilgrims Progress
got that when it first came out
THE book?'
it has thirty-six scenes all inSone picture.
That, | think, is art"
Only Miss Anna Robinson was on the
job up at the Art Stut ents' League yester-
day. From the fresh deposits of sulphur
on the sters, however, it was gathered
that Everett Shinn. the artist, had been
there earlier in the Gay. The SULPHUR
home, in Waverly place where he announced
that since the raid he had Gecioed to go
back to his half finished mural painting
Of a ring OF ouriLs, which was overlooked
by Mr.. Comstock in the raid on the Fine
Arts Building, and add some DETAILS just
for spite.
Yesterday F.. c. Crowley, the lawyer for
the league, appeared in the West Side cour
and obtained an order from Magistrate Mayo
to substitute cash bail for Miss R%obinson's
appearance In court in September in place
@. the bond given when she was arrested by
Comstock on the charge Of circulating
obscene Illustrations"
MIR. Comstock has told me-" said Mr..
Crowley Yesterday, "that he doesn't like to
prosecute a young girl in this way. but that
he simply had to do it. He also said that he
will ask for a suspension Of sentence in her
case-if she will plead guilty"
Mr.. Crowley would not say Just what ac-
ton would be taken in the matter except
to repeat his statement of the day before
that the officers Of the league felt that
Comstock had acted will -eScessive zeal, "
and that the league would fight the raid