The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-06
ARTS HARD TINE IN QUEENS
SETERtL T.tIN ATTEMPTS TO
GIgE IT 4 BOOST.


Y Naaateat N1luea 81 streets 8RmlmBeal,
COpae- u the Osd Masters shsV 81 nut.
and New the Are Commission BArs
Pune Ptece &C saOrc staiuAry.
Piqued and indignant at the action
oT the Municipal Art Commission. who
have disApproved of a piece OF statuary
and refused 90 permit it 90 he installed
in Public School -. at Bergen and Rathien
avenues. Evergreen. in the Borough Of
Qneens. the teachers in the school who
paid sSO for the statuary in a department
store would like Co have the commission
explain its position
The piecs selected by the teachers
represents a curly headed. barefOoted.
barelegged boy with legs crossed and
bending over a book. Queens has no
member 81 the Art Commission. A.
Augustus Hcaly and Frederic Pratt are
the Brooklyn members.
When John Quincy Adams. secretary
to the Municipal Art Commission. was
Questioned yesterday in regard TO the
matter he replied that the commissions
action spoke for itself he said that IL
was the opinion ~ the commission that II a
statue was to he installed in public school
for the artistic education Of the children
connecting nice should be selected
and not a statue at the sort rejected.
e. h. J. Snyder. Superintendent Of School
Buildings. has received instructions from
the Art Commission not 10 permit the
piece oG stntuary Ia he installed in the
school and now the b est the teachers
can 10 ~ To get n credit check from the
store and wait developments
Art IN having a hard time in Queens.
About two years ago certain members
OF tho Typographical bureau OF the
boroug h Ivy way of elevating the moral
aud artistic tone OF the staid old town
az Newtown, now the second ward Of
Queens. scandali1ed the church people
by remaining all their streets and avenues
after ancient hesthen gods and god
dssses and graces and disgraces. Dido
ran riot through one Of the streets.
while Pluto took up his reign in another.
Racchus made the thirsty Ones ON good
old Horse Brook lane 1t mp and take
notice. Others Of similar ilk held carnival
IN thc streets OF that villag" until the Rev
Edward J. Mc(iufv and other indignant
residents handed together and shoOed the
disgraceful hand OF the mcp.
The next attempt at improving the
artistic temperament came when lawyer
Alason Z. BTiggs Of the Queens Borough
Public Library returned from Europe
with SEQ worth 81 prints 81 the old mas
tiers he had gathered while abroad. Ow-
ing to lts fight against the remaining of
the streets after the ancients as de-
scribed. old Newtown was looked upon
as one of the ar; centres of Queens. and
Lawyer Briggs and the library trustees
started in to try cut the old masters In the
public library branch in that village.
Whatever in the line % indignation that
remained dormant during the remaining
Of the streets the art exhibition brought
To the surface with explosive force. The
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
the Women Purity League and the
Mothers club all combined. and they
visited the station mouse and notified
Police Captain Gardiner 70 have -thoes
sisgraccful objects removed forthwith
fnum the Walls Of the public library. DUR
ing the pictures brief stay they did much
toward the awakening OF art IA III . bosom
% tho village urchiRs. With one accord
they auit smoking cigarettes in seqnes-
tered places and Wor" short cut paths
acToa- the library lawn on their frequent
trips To study the old masters. In adeii-
ton ~ appealing 10 the police the women
Of the village thr-a tened 10 call IA Anthony
COmztock. and 80 " happened that one
night the old masters disappeared from
the library walls and their present place
OF exhibition - unknOWn.