The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-02

srsrbe tFeur,sAr. Fzxhibftfo4 recently shown in Buffalo and Pittsburgh. is now in New York. It will soon go to Detroit. Chicago and St. Louis sare. director of the Albright Gallery. Buffalo, for bringing the Exhibition of the Belgian sculptor,s work to this country.l
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 In endeavorirar to depict the life of the laboring man of our tiEnea, in Meu- nier struggled with several materials chalk, color, wax and clay. His dis tinction rests in the main upon one worth while, understandable n1onu- ment which. while naodesfIy termed tribute to humanity and it's ability to endure.
 HIS MAsTERPIEcE
 This piece so viyfdly illustrates the triumphs and tragedies of daily sa- bor that even the most un1utored peo- pie must understand- His four great panels in high relief and groups of detached figures are not extravagant outlines of occasional but of daily oc- currenc es. They typi6y sp1endidly four great adventures wherein man Is admirably and naturally working as 8 child Of nature. Tn the field is man shown gathering the harvest; in the mine picking coal; in the glasshouse husbanding the heat of the furnace and in the dockyard carrying mer- chandise
 The intensity of Mennier's feeling his ability to concentrate and to transmit to others is illustrated in the scene in the glasshouse It is obvious to the most casual observer that the postng of men engaged in this peculiar avooRtion was practically an tmpossibiIity. They are evidently en melting-pot from the furnace, an operation fraught with danger to the men as we'll as to the remaining cru-s cfbles, holding the arnaigamation of earthss siIicas and metallic oxides.
 Meunier has caught the general movement, the excitement, the temper |of the occasion-an occasion which may happen twice in 24 hours or only once in season. The melting pots fused in glass making are made of clay; they hold the silica until It eats it's way through the thin side. For fhe breaking Of the pot there is no Eprearranged sign signal or test nothing but the cry of the fireman in tho pit who, raking the clinhers. finds glasss running like water upon the heap Of ,nders or partly burned coal. or, perchance, the prongs Of his fork may betray the leak. To bank the fra, rush up and sound the alarm Is the
 work aoF a few seconds. Panic may
 be the result. ..An hands." is the fcry.
 ITo1LERs' QUALITIES REVEALED The men vary in age, temper. dispo- Isftion,-all this the group reveals. They have been brought to the work by | the hurry-up call. Some of the men
 are old. Others are young. Both
 qualities are of rare value this mo-
 ment-the madcap abandon of youth
 land the older. more staid experience.
 Some have been called from the clay bin where they have been treading
 to extract the air bubbles to locate tiny pebbles. Just as they are. bare footed, they have had to respond, to the call The temporary steel curtain Of the fire opening has been lifted and the fumes strike the faces of every
 man deaantiy.
 1 In the cool depths of the mine Meu- nier shows different condition. He has eontriyed to show some of the miners working in narrow channels, galleries. some of them only twenty Ito thirty inches in depth, with dangers from hre-damp. and cramp of muscle and nerve.
 THE MAN AND HIS METHOD. But of the man, his equipment and his training, a word. After thrne fyears of study in the Academy of Brussels, he taught drawing in Lou vain.
 l In the sec1usion of this somnoIent, scholastic town, he worked out his salvation unaided. His studio had formerly served as dissecting room Of the nearby medical school Of the university. and was a grim sepul-