The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-20
PLANNING TO RESTORE STATUE
 OF KING GEORGE Patriots Pulled ii Down a Gen. tury Ago and Sent it Into
 Connecticut. Here Gov. WolcOtt and Three Daughters Made 42,088
 Bullets of it

New York. Aug. 20.-If some day in the near future you should observe the Statue of Liberty toss away it's beacon light the statue of Lafayette in Union Square yank out it's sword and glover and that of Washington make Wall street ring with shouted remonstrances from the Treasury Building steps. you will know that the restored statue of King George III is being unveiled on it's old site in Bowling Green
 ThatS the proposition.
 The statue that stood in Bowling Green in the old, old days, when gen. tlemen wore knickerbockers and buck led shoes, carried rapiers instead of walking sticks. took snuff from sfl- yer boxes and loitered in Burns's coffee house. represented King George as a very noble person indeed. He was astride a charger and his mai estic form Gin reality he was a little man With an outrageous long nose, big stomach and bowed legs) was clothed splendidly. and he gracefully held won in salute his three-corner- ed hat.
 Poor old Bowling Green George. His head is over in England It lays Undiscovered in some cranny or in tIC SoIiCt OI tIlS MdyIdlT ndnSlOn or Lord Townshend. The New York Historical Society has the horses tail and a few other chunks, includ- ing the top slab of the monument. Other pieces found their way into Connecticut. But the major portion of the statue of King George and his horse had a more interesting fate In the shape of bullets. it was pumped into the persons of his own soldiers by the colonists. among whom were undoubtedly ancestors of some of the men who have conceived the notion of putting the statue back
 It was after the reading of the Declaration of Independence in New York on July g. 1776. that the reyolu- tionists decided that George had been prancing on his pedestal long enough. Ropes were cast; there were enthusi- astic whoops backed by strong pulls, and over George came. The bulk of the statue was loaded that night on a sloop and taken to Norwalk, Conn.,, Gov. Wolcott received it. He and group of patriots. among whom were his own three daughters, made 42,0SS bullets out of George and his horse
 Some time ago the Holland Society of New York decided to erect a statue in this city to William the Silent, and public criticism got so loud that the stgtue didn't go up. And a worse storm arose when a monument to Andre, the British spy,l was erected at TarrytOwn. It was blown up by dynamite. A second monument was knocked down
 About that time Assem- blyman Bern stein prepared an act ito prohibit the erection of a monument or statue to any emporer, king, prince, sover- eign, potentiate, monarch or spy of any foreign country" The offense was to be classed as a misdemeanor. But the Yankees with the long line ages and purses who had the notions of perpetuating William the Silent and glorifying Andre, said that if the Legislature was going to make fuss the project would ce abandoned.
 The men identified with the move ment to-restore King George do not as yet stand forth prominently for public approval for their plan. Henry c. Quimby a lawyer and member of the St. Nicholas Society. was seen in his home at the Astor Apartments in Seventy-fourth street by a reporter for the World last night:
 'The discussion of the plan for the restoration of King Georges statue is something I cannot go into now. It would be premature I might be violating the confidence of several other gentlemen who are interested in the matter. I cannot say at this time whether any of the historical societies nave acted O1Ilclaiiy on the scheme. In about two weeks I may be free to talk of the plan%
 Henry L. Bogart. a lawyef of No. 99 Nassau street, is secretary of the Holland Society, whose members re- were the memory of Peter Stuyvesant and other Dutch burghers of New Amsterdam
 personally" he said. 'T shouldn't suffer any great spasms of indigna- ton if they put King Georges figure back on Bowling Green But many other members of the Holland Socie- ty would take up arms. guess. Patriotic societies like the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution might take the view that a statue once torn down be- cause of patriotic motives would have to be torn down again. I'm sure I don't know what view the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick might take of