The Washington herald., 1921-03-02
.MeU Statue
ForN Y. Park
Gen. BoliU~, Venezuela,
To Be Placed Near 5th
Avenue and 59th st.
BY RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

NEW YORK. Mar. LIN the
fixed attitude OF acknowledging
the plaudits of an imaginary crowd.
Gen Bolivar, Of venezuela. to whom
Peru. Bolivia Ecuador and Colom-
bia as well owe their independence,
is about to enter Central Park. He
will reach the Scholars Gate, at
Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street
upon the comfortable nat top Of q
giant motor truck, for with the
horse to which he Is attached he
makes a bronze statue fifteen feet
high.
First to salute him among the
park statues is the equestrian figure
OF Gen william T. Sherman, right
at the gate Inside at the south
end Of the Mall. standing in heroic
size. are the figures OF Columbus
and William Shakespeare. Nearby
ara the seated colossal figures Of
Sik Walter Scott and Robert Burns.
They cannot rise in welcome as
they are made into chairs.
But peering out Of the snow
weighted trees in the south end OF
the park are two heads that have
been furtively hiding the last six
years in the foliage. They are the
nfe-size busts Of Beethoven, Ger
man composer, and Schiller. Ger
man poet. I-fancy they will greet
Gen. Bolivar eagerly, FOR they rep
resent >countries which did not ac-
lively participate in the fiercest
connict the world has known.
To Alexander Hamilton, a huge
granite ngure on the east drive. Boil
ivar comes as a modern, but the
enormous bronze figure of Daniel
Webster, near the West Seventy
second street entrance, should rouse
from Its pose Of --ponderosity for
Boliver was Of his hour. All in all.
the South American liberator"
should nnd himself among agreeable
and enlightened company despite his
being placed In q rather lonesome.
section atop Bolivar Hill, between
Eighty-third street and the West
Drive This is the second attempt
of Gen. Bolivar to get lodgment in
the most beautiful and most ia
nous Of New York's many parks.
In the mold of the sculptor. De Ia
Cora, he first came with his great
black eyes and crisp black locks
touched with gray, exactly thirty
seven years ago. The critical mu-
nicipal art commission did not like
him as represented, although he
wss the replica Of the Bolivar
statue in Caracas, and down he wa.
pulled from his granite pedestal.
1t was. not until Gen. Bolivar rec
ognized the firm place womanhood
had taken in the arts. did he stand
a ghost Of q show OF re-entering
Central Park.
The new likeness Of Bolivar to
charge up the slope on April - un-
der the Venezuelan tricolor OF yell
low, blue and red-let all Irish be
tolerant on. that eventful day-with
hitting ceremonies presided over by
the then President Harding. is the
handiwork Of woman, the talent
ed sally Jane Farnham.
The sculptress assures the writer
that this time Gen. Bolivar comes
to stay. for not only has he been
accepted by the art commission Of
Gotham. but the Venezoelan gev-
ernment voted unanimously for
him. He was worked out" from
actual paintings in . vacant stable
In Fifty-sixth street, and he is a
whopper to see. Considering the
paucity of statuary in Central Park.
the advent Of this, the true Gen.
Bolivar" assumes major proper
tions. both with respect to our fu-
ture relations with South America
and the glory Of the recreation area
whose Egyptian obelisk, Cleopatra's
Needle, up to now has been looking
down uno, al The ofhar sfafdnrys