Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-09-06
STATUE PRESENTED
TO NATIONAL GUARD
Interesting Sketch of Artist

Interesting OhclCn VI AIllot
Last week the Remington Cen
tennial statue, presented to the
National Guard of Delaware, by
the citizens of lion, New York,
was delivered to the state capitol
at Dover. The statue was cast in
bronze from an original by Albin
Polasek, the Bohemian sculptor.
1t stands three feet high, includ
ing it's ebony base.
The occasion of the presentation
is the commemoration and celebra-
ton of the one hundredth ami
versary of the making of the first
Remington rifle at the Mohawk
Valley town of lion, which mark
ed the beginning of the firearms
industry in America. From the
eros ads settlement of 1916,
lion has become thriving city Of
more than 10000 people, city
which cherishes and is proud of
Remington tradition and history
So the new Ilion-seeking to fit
tingly express it's reverence for
the memory of Eliphalet Reming-
ton, Jr., the makes of the original
rifle-is giving to the National
guard of each and every state OF
the Union-a perpetual prize for
proficiency in craftsmanship. The
statue will be contested for an
nually, by the various companies
of the militia, forever, or at least
as long as there is National
Guard The statue is given as &
part of the general centennial OBJ
servance plan, the center of which
will be three days of speechmak-
ing, games and pageants at lion,
where Governor Whitman, of New
where Governor Whitman, of New
York State, Senator Warren G.
Harding of Ohio, and Major Cen
eral Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff
of the United States Army, and
many other notables, will be enter
tanned.
The following sketch of the ar
fist who executed the statue is
given by Robert J. Cole, art critic
of the New York Evening Sun:
"Polosek read about America
| and it's inventions. He read OF
, New York and it's crowds and OF
the wide, lonely plains of the
West. The idea he got Of America
from his reading sent him over
here. First he did carving fol
e builders and finally, just as younl
= Remington decided to make a gun
e himself, the young Bohemian de
e cided to be sculptor. What il
e more, he said:
f 1 shall live and work here;
a will begin my studies here
a Therefore, wherever he was born
e he is an American artist. H
t went to Philadelphia, city tina
: is closely related to the beginning
s of our nations life.
+ But the instructors in tn
Pennsylvania Academy saw tn
l. skill that was already in thos
S hands and the power of the min
r that was already beginning
s work through them, and they sen
Polasek abroad to study. Later h
# came to New York and the Amer
q can Academy in Rome got hold G
= him. They sent him across tn
n water again. He must love Amer
" lea for somebody was always pacl
Is ing him off to Europe, and he a
is ways came back-more of a
al American artist than ever.
N ''He set up a studio in Macdol
A. gal alley. The bricks of the oil
al stable wall furnish a backgroun
if for many clay or plaster figure
r. finished or unfinished. Along tt
- top of screen march the lit
es wooden images that were the boy
n first work and in the center Of tt
as room is a great mass of wet cl;
o. out of which the new figure of
ga man is emerging.
or Between these we see the fms
C. ed portrait of young Remingto
he The sturdy legs and firmly plar
all ed feet gain solidity from the blu
of the anvil beside which the Ii
o+ stands. A blacksmith's aprc
:; falling nearly to the knees, Civ
ro at once the feeling of shop a
nd craft, and a faint classic touc
~. The old Romans who wore t
=; toga with so heroic an air W.
~, not wholly unlike the pioneers
~ our country.
~ One lifted hand grasps the b
bo rel Of the new-made gun. I
~. ~ other, held slightly outspre
III suggests the expansive, half
a. Taxed mood of one who had dt