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he came with bis family to Moret and set
/ 10 work.

II wa no hardship 70 come pack 70 hAoIet.
There he had made the acquaintance OF
the young woman who became his wife
NlSs Munros, whose father-hoW many
Americans know his name welli-was re-
sponsible for the old text book 'Munroe's
Third Reader To Moret g Barnard
and his family he built q studio there and
cot out to make PennS y~ivania and Barnard
famous.
He felt thai be was under obligations TO
do the utmost that was in him, that In the
execution Of the ideas he had outlined he
must model as many statues as the fulness
Of his conception demanded.
Some OF these ideas had been in his mind
In embryo for eighteen years. II even
without realizing it he felt that a hfetime's
work lay before him on Pennsylvania
capitol, what with the other sculptures
which were to be added after this first third
| OF the great whole was completed, 10 II
particularly 10 be wondered at2
The practical men OF the commission
however, didn't feel that thirty figures
were necessary In q group where hall a
dozen would nave suflced for them, and
were more inclined to sympathize with
Huston thar with Barnard when the archi-
tect received q cable despatch In the middle
Of the night saying Born to-dhy'-whlch
message came to be translated later through
the medium Of q letter and was found TO
indicate not a new member Of the sculptor's
family, but q new or more complete idea
for the groupments which we're under way
for the Harrisburg Building.
Barnard was hard at work, was fast and
~furiously al work. at his Moret studio
creating the statues, creating the groups,
which we're to speak to the people OF Penn
s~ylvania with the ~eloquence Of genius made
eternal In those marble exemplars Of poetic
ideas, Motherhood and brotherhood and
labor were 10 speak in plastic gestures to
the visitors to this Harrisburg hill.
IDEAL AMERICAN TYPES.
The old Adam and Eve story with Its
futile experiment of life without knowl-
edge-an experiment which Barnard says
| will never be made again-is told there in
the fig leaf version, while more prominently
appear the New Adam and Eve. a nude
youth and maiden going forth into the
World ~outreaching for knowledge, free
and unafraid. And as America has gone
farther than other lands in the way OF
lettering the conditions Of the laboring
| people Barnard deemed 1t fitting to show
two typical American faces and figures,
man and woman. workers, looking west
ward. looking toward the sunset, TOWARD
the end Of day, but Of a long day, 9Th
End Of Labor
or all the many figures in these groups
| OF sculptures only these two will appear
as portraits. For these American types
Barnard determined to do portrait heads.
| The work Of making these immense groups
| moved fast. They were to be finished
within three years, q tremendous under
taking when one considers the time usually
required by %sculPtors for completion OF
be monuments to the State of pennsylvania
| and to the artist; they we're not to be statues
| for the New York Hall of Records.
Barnard wouldn't even consent to nave
the marble men complete the statues from
his first models. but insisted upon going over
the figures again after each p~ointlng-up,
each enlargement. This cost money. as
well as time and labor,
The sculptor bounded from spot to spot,
from work TO work, from workman to
complete the whole In due time. He moved,
lived. immersed himself in these tasks.
He ats when IL was too late to work.
He reached a point where even his friends
didn't dare to call on him. to such a degree
had he wrought himself up in the intensity
OF his desire TO do great work. TO do 1t in
season, and to do it in spite OF the money
difficulties which kept piling up about him.
For the work Of sculpture costs money,
it costs more when a sculptor insists upon
going over each Of his figures at each stage
OF their enlargement, when they have TO
| come back from the marble works Tor a
rehandling. And Barnard had spent money
right and left in the determination to get
things through properly and as promptly
as possible.
THE PLASTER CASTS.
Special arrangements had been made
for part payments from America. Some
times when the payments didn't arrive
the sculptor's agitation was increased and
his difficulties at the same time
Commissioner from Pennsylvania came
and saw the work and pronounced them
| selves satisfied, but the home authorities
were scarcely pleased at the delay which
il was quite evident they would have TO
expect In the works completion. Then
: cams a crucial time.
II had become quiet clear that the
sculptures could not be ready for the dedf-
cation Of the building, and at this point,
Mr.. Barnard says, MIR. Huston came over
and told him that he must send over replicas
in plaster for the dedication day, these
to be replaced as soon as the marble groups
were finished. To Barnard's statement
that ne couldn't pause in the other work
to make these plasters. Huston replied
that he must do 80, that the plaster groups
must 20 up and that S25. 600 would be paid
the sculptor for this extra work, thus giving
him more funds-for which he was press
ingly in need-to continue the more i'm
portant work.
SO Ba rnard set about making the plaster
groups, mourning expense Immediately in
doing 80, but counting upon the $685. GOO
which had been promised him promptly.
When it was due he oabled repeatedly for
the money and said that aside from paying
the bills incurred he couldn't ship the goods,
even, without a payment.
After a time, Barnard says, during which
no reply cam to his cables, a brother Of
Huston came o~ver-returning TO New York
on the next steamer-to tell him that things
weren't turning out right on the other side
and that the t25, 900 couldn't be paid, and
hat the plaster groups would have to be
given up.
SCULPTOR IN A PIX.
Barnard was in a pretty FIX. He was
in deeper thar ever. Workmen. models,
material merchants olamoring for their
money, and he had non to pay them. He
didn't then know what to make OF the turn
affairs had taken.
Later he was brought TO the conclusion
that It was the early th~reatenings OF the
Pennsylvania soandal that made 1t im-
possible for the Capitol commission TO
pay this money. But II mattered not the
1vby ~ wharefora. Barnard Waa against