The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-09
GREENWOOD BARS The EUDE
CIPID avn PSICHE RETIRFD
TO ~ CERON.

Trustees aOrsier MetaSVaI 90 sentlRs~aIaI
asaluepe FrSW NSa,an's Grave ~
mstperI 90 an OOserN ant GraN edlggrr
Nss Fres-s ssss ssrs GssT = sssses~TS
grave IN the GreenwoOd Cemetery
IN BROOKLYN has been stripped % its nOnu
menI because ths trustees don't think
that the nude figures OF man and a
woman are proper ornaments for such
a place Even then they might have
forgiven the nudeners n the man hadn't
been bonding very naturally "a kiss the
hfehke lips ~ reclining PsVche The
man was none other than han Cup,d
full grown,
Samusl Carey. rontToller ~ GreeBwood
Cenetsrv. dictated the following letter
10 Mrs Mary l.. Stetler ~ y2u Svdenha M
street. Philsdelphia
Nv attention has Just 6.-n called Ia tue
aarue,ts Of Cupid ana P-v"hs placed "a
your bot This - not proper object to
b. placed IN the osm-,-rV snd mat 'n~'-t
on youT having ~ removed
Mrs St~tleT didn't know what 4" do
with tn, statuei,e She had no u-- TOT Il
and sb- didn't want Io sell - 10 she
asked y Mcliovcrn. who has green
hous-s IN Ninth avenue near Gr--n-
wood, to- get the statuette and take care
Of IT. McCoVsrn took IL 60 his plar-
in the eXpectatiou that word would come
from Mr. Stesler providing for its di-po-
month OF two went by without any
orders Then McGovern wrote to Mrs
StesIsr about il. Il didn't take mp much
room buf Il attracted lot 81 attention.
and wouldn't she please take u away
Mrs Stetler didn't send definite orders
and McGovern had to provide for u -
has necessity dictated.
In McCIoverns establishment 10 a room
which he has for storing odds and ends
u - fun Of flower pots. wire plant stands
roots. spades. trowcis and grass shears
and IN one corner ~ an old losbOx He
looked over his stOrero0m with the
thought that he could tuck CUPID and
Psyche away in 70 somewhere bnt look
as he would he couldn't fiud a place
for u
Mrs Stetler vas written 10 again but
she didn't send any orders McGovern
went hack and looked the storeroom
over again. He opened up the old ICE
sratuette Besldes il offered the proper
ss-rluaion and would stop folks inquiring
Whom IL belonged to
They carried the little marble hack.
hut when they came to tuck IL into the
ice boN the door caught Cupid's wings.
McCioN ern looked carefully az the wings
and found that they uphinged. Carefully
he took them 0H and Shen the statuetSe
slid into place The wings be put in
Psyche spsnt the winter IN an ice box IN
A GravsdigGer was the first TO discover
IT, whisper ran through the working
force and finally reached the ears OF
stunt GrnSsau He strolled down 60 take
has rtN.sA -
The stAtustte. nearly three feet high,
adorned the grave Of Alice Stetler until
the trustees decided that u wasn't proper.
II was given to Miss Stetler by her hancs
many years ago. He died just before
their marriage and tho gift became a
sort ~ idol upon which the girl lavi-hed
most Of her love. The lover purchased the
statuetts while travelling in Europe. He
died a few weeks after his rssurn The
ks, which cupid and P-yche were pre-
pa ring tO exchange hut which vas for
ever held IN allegiance IN the mar bls'
came tn represent her own dt~appoint-
ment. and the suggestive group was kept
| in her room
Miss StssIer was married several years
/ after the death ~ her first -We~theart
! hut tho marriage wa- unhappy. II y aid
| that the sfatuetta caused the first 81 a
I -pris-- 81 auarr~l- which resulted IN a
divorce When MIR Ststler came to her
| daugnt~T IN lnl- CITY ~" Iounu het ON
her denthhed The Statuette was on a
pedestal IN the room and the dying woman
! then past middle life begged that u be
| placed on her grave.
Mrs Stetler thought ~ carrying the
matter to the courts and hghting the
| order 81 removal a. issued by the ceme-
/ terry authorities. hut she Wa- advised
\ that they werc acting within their rights
l Every purchaser Of a plot signs an agrse-
ment permitting the removal of any
thing 20 which the cemetery authorities
| digaDpYOya