The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-26

usually careful consideration, fof quite naturally not a few of them and without full study. It has been the aim of the commission to en- courage the special committees ana designers in charge, and at the same time to protect the city from the ac- quis1tion of monuments and other memorials that would be found inap- propriate or devoid of artistic merit.
 eThe graduates of a large number of our public schools have applied for permission to erect mem orial tahl cts in their buildings. In a relatively large number of eases these have not seemed sufficiently satisfactory to the Board of Education to warrant the board submitting them to the com mission. Even those thus submit ted have often required redeSigndng before they could secure approval of the commission. To meet the diff1- culty a committee of the commission was appointed to confer with com mfttee of the Board of Education, looking to the adoption of standard forms which might be acceptable to both the school authorities and the commission.
 'The unsatisfactory tablets above referred to have been prepared for the most part by commercial con- cerns which are canvassing the coun- try at large, urging upon the public a variety of stock designs, and con- peting with one another on the basis Of cost rather than of artistic excel submitted to the comm1SS1on by com InitteeS of the local communities, and have been disapproved; and in num-
 Der of cases designs other than tab lets have been submitted which could not be accepted. In a majority of such cases, however, the committees in charge has, in consultation with the commission, presented later de- signs which have been heartily ap- proved"
 Among the acceptances by the commission was g. design for Brook lyn Honor Roll. and that monument ment has been installed in Prospect Park Brooklyn. It is a gift to the city by William T. Todd, in memory of the Brooklyn boys who died in the war. A figure of soldier at whose back stands the Angel of Death oc- cupies the central place and Is flank ed by tablets with lists of names. H. Augustus Lukemen. A. N. A., was the sculptor. He had the advice and CO., operation of Daniel c. French. They worked out together a design which in the view of the commission, will stand the test of time. It has re- cefved general admiration and ap- proval by visitors to the park.
 The last week also brought from alogue of the works of art belonging to the city compiled by the comn1is- sion. Volume I. appeared in 1908. It covered every object of public adornment, including fountains, stain ed glass windows. monuments, mural paintings, portraits, sculpture and dablets, much of the work antedating the existence of commission. There
 are 4os items in it, and the value of the record 1t makes is historic rather than artistic.
 Volume IT. contains 1se items
 covering in full by enumeration and | Illustration the objects approved by
 the commission since 1908, It has
 been compiled by Henry Rutgers | Ma rshar, secretary of the comnlis- sion. Comparison of the two vol
 umes, t0 which the typographical and
 illustrative work Is of equally high quality, cor,asgrz9 at glance the good 1 judgment of She Charter makers for
 the greater city in providing for Q
 supervisory Art Commission. There i. 1 no longer anything of doubtful ar'
 value It is @ record that will chal-
 lenge for betterment tho work oi Commissioners end of artists in fur.
 nishing material for a third volume
 a dozen years hence.
 The annual report touches upon th<
 work involved in selections of worthy
 designs. Out of eighty-four matters
 submitted in 1919, there were from I one to ten plans for each subject. IT 1920, 1oS matters were submitted and from one to twenty-seven plans