The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-06
PROSAIC COP RUINS
PARKS GIFT STATUE
Sculptor Diederich's Present,
Hounds" Given as Surprise,
Is Soon Removed.
NIGHTS WORK WAS VAIN

Like a lover who has given his lady
q rose and has seen her toss II into the
gutter. 20 feels Hunt Diederich. sculptor.
The emile Ia Mr.. Diederich'e. He In
vented II yesterday In telling how he and
ten friends. thinking TO give New York
an example Of real art and at the same
time enable the sculptor to nee his proud
est work under the sky. where II be-
longs" placed the bronze Hounds" In
Central Park in the darkness Of Tuesday
nisht and how the police. seeing nothing
except two metal dogs out Of place.
knocked them over before dawn and
carried them. with three legs and one
tall broken. to the Arsenal police sta
ton 4 he described In the biotter as
"found property"
The police found the hounds-which
are a replica OF a bronze exhibited In
the Paris Salon In 1918 and sold TO
Baron Rothschiid for S5.ooo-with the
inadvertant assistance Of a hashlisht
photographer. EncounterinE the photog-
apitcI cttInUiIuB tutOuku ~ w
Of the park at 2 80 o'clock In the morn.
Ing. Pstrolman Downing was inauisitive.
I'm hunting for the Bolivar statue"
said the wanderer.
you don't tell me - snorted Downing.
Hes gone. IT'S many q year since he
was taken away. disremember what
for exactly. but there was something
about his having a sword too big for the
scabber he was carrying. Now. what's
y real business"
Seekers Are Finally Finders.
The stranger insisted that ne had been
directed TO go to the Bolivar statue and
get a picture OF Il or whatever else he
found there. He suggested that the
patrolman might And the trip worth
while Too.
So the two men climbed the shaded
knoll near West Eighty-second street
where stood a statue OF the 1.iberator
until. in 1897. Gen. Castro Of Venezuela
agreed with the city authorities that
even among the monstrosities Of Central
Park IN object used by ingenious nurse
maids to scare children into obedience
was 'out Of keeping will the landscape"
and had II aiken away.
Bowling and the ~fiashlight man
found the windblown pedestal. in the
,..rv ,u,an, 90. h,,, ~ ON. n.a..,.,
somebody had placed two bronze dogs.
They were sreyhounds-one lying on its
back. the other frolick'ng over him.
Must weigh all OF 500 pounds. some
one sweated. said Downing.
"All Of that" agreed the photographer.
Patrolman Bowling knows his bus!-
ness tic went 10 a taking the
no'oerapne ",tn nim 10 save 'ne
nounuo Iro'" q "asn''s"'' ana ca''eu up
me anse"S. - .,. ...,
~as nu" wv psu.s
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IN. of,ciaI hotter reco,d n, Tho ara /,
shsv,r. no, ci.,n,s, in : w.sr .s.w uiu hs
sold Al auction nv ,he propertv c,.rk ~
ypo,,cs u.adou.r,.r =. he r.no,,sr for
Tr,,e SrS IA. ,oid
And now for HINT Disde,icb ue was
FOUND v.s,. rd,y IL, bis s,udio a, ,oaI
p,oad~av uo ,ami,,od ma, ha x,,s ,b.
srsndson n, Willam Morris Hun, The
Araricar n,I,,or whn in,roaucaJ nj.
co,n,rv =, IN. arhi,on schoo, "a ,,ho
ma. hear called .ths v.tber ~ .msricar
painting"
n..o. uo.h..hus I'm, o.,.,..,
He told how he sold THE Hounds 10
Baron Rothschild and how he brought
the replica TO New York when the war
began. He offered II for the exhibition
Of the National Academy OF Design. but
the Judges said that the Diederlch style
was too new"
ITO an artist" he said. 1T is .very-
thing that the people should see his
work. OF what good is ii unless it is
shown? What encouragement has a
writer II his work Is never TO be read?
where is the beauty OF a new bonnet i.
q isdv doesn't wear 10
Park. l found there a pedestal among
n t'ees-H oa'Ieh p.ues'al "nefe some
noo'e "ork oi an ARTIST ought 10 De
Nooooy moiested me there' rev people
visited tne spot
said 10 myself. Lying N my little
studio The Hounds Is so much Junk
III oring II up mere. II Will Just mt the
pedestal. People VIII see It. and II will
look Just as II 1t had grown there. They
viii say. There's the spirit OF dogs
and NOR. people will come to see IL. and
even those who don't like dogs won't OBJ
free gift 10 the city"
Mr.. Diederich said he got ten friends
70 help take the bronze 10 the ma rk,
There were Charles r. Aibin. a photorn.
phsr: Mrs. Katharine Wilson. also a