The New York herald., 1922-09-26
CIVIC VIRTUE VAMP
GETS UGLY WALLOP
MacMOnnies's Rough Guy Said
to Be Lad Who Booted
Kitty McGinnis.
RACHEL DUE FOR HERS
Paraffine Used as Cosmetic on
Mermaid Blamed by Foster
Parents.
RACHEL DUE FOR HERS

In spite of the police court and homi-
eide records which show. some think,
that the long celebrated female sex is
getting rougher and wilder, it appears
that women are fragile creatures still.
with no great durability. This was
proved absolutely yesterday when the
CHEF engineer of the Park Department,
Gustave J. Steinacher, took one look at
Kitty McGinnis. Kitty. If you care for
all the facts. is the mermaid who Cor
does one write which?) reclines vamp-
ishly to the right of the big Rough Guy
OF the great MacMonnies Civic Virtue"
group in City Hall Park.
1t is Kitty McGinnis that you pass
more or less sympathetically as you
walk from the City Hall toward the
Federal Building and on the west. or
right, side of the not so cleaning (what
with all this soft coal SMOKEY marble
trouble--sympathetica because 1t Is
perfectly obvious that the big truck
driver who Is supposed to represent
honest government and all that sort Of
thing is merely figuring out in his own
moronic mind whether to kick her into
the middle of next week, McGinnis
thought she be and coming of honest,
Rachel Oppenheim, mermaid to the
left, If you must have still more facts
doesn't count in this story. or so Chief
Engineer Schumacher of the Park De-
partment says. Rachel probably will
get hers soon enough.
GaIIatin Gives News.
He took one look at Kitty and then
cabled the bad news to Park Commits
sioner Gallatin. who Is gallivanting in
Europe. subsequently highly certificated
engineers of the P. D. hotfooted from the
Municipal Building to the park and
confirmed their chiefs discovery. Re-
gard for the truth and the facts requires
Ii to be stated that Stenachers idea
was that the Rough Guy had kicked
Kitty SO hard as she lay helpless at his
feet that three ribs and both shoulder
blades were broken and she had suf-
fered a possible fracture of the skull
These facts suggested to him that
women are not what they once were
not so stoutly put together. To Mr..
Steinacher both Kitty and Rachel looked
hardy and robust enough to take a few
playful wallops without getting all
stove UP that way. Everybody knew,
Mr.. Steinacher said. they were going
position OF the Rough Guys feet Mayor
Hylan, 1t was recalled, said he was that
kind OF a fellow-said 1t right at the
start.
To Steinacher and any other really
observant person 1t was clear what had
happened. Some time Sunday night, or
II may have been early yesterday morn
ing, since DIR. Wilton Hoffenburg of the
Health Department seemed to think
kitty's injuries had been suffered at
about A. NJ. judging from the angle
OF break In the left scapular. the Rough
Guy had booted her something scan
dalous. Naturally 1t damaged her con-
siderably. DR.. Hoffenburg said she
had been unconscious for probably six
hours. Kitty was treated on the spot
by Dr. Hoffenburg and was resting as
comfortably as might be expected late
last night.
Knew 1t Was There.
OF course there were persons who in
sisted that the long, curving, shallow
fissure In the marble chest OF the right
hand mermaid. perceptible crack run
ming from side to side OF the figure,
was nothing more than superficial de-
feet which could be easily repaired. The
brothers Piccirili, noted marble man.
Civic Virtue" designs of MacMonnies,
told THE New York HERALD yesterday
that they knew the crack was there.
that the defect had been discovered
while the group was being chiseled out
of an enormous block OF marble, but
discovered only after much work had
been done.
1t was a case Of executing the statue
In two pieces or accepting the unsus
pected defect and repairing 1t so that
1t would be invisible as well as harm
less. SO the brothers Piccirilli, re-
membering what had been done thirty
years ago 20 restore the youth of the
Egyptian obelislS in Central Park. when
they filled the pitted surface with wax,
plastered paraftine into the crack en-
tirely concealing II. and sent the whole
group down TO the City Hall Park.
According to the matter of fact multi
plication table minds that accept this
version of the wrong done to a good.
respectable girl, the paraffine stayed
put for some weeks and then got Jared
out of place. probably by the incessant
vibration from the subways. The
brothers Piccirilli say that's all there is
to IL and that they will take an hour
off some day, run down to the City
Hall and patch up the crack. fissure or
whatever II Is that now shows so plainly
upon the fair bosom of Kitty McGinnis
cost OF repairs. nothing.
The truth Is. of course. as first stated
in this utterly veracious report. and
Chief Engineer Steinacher would not be
surprised to hear any morning that
Rachel Oppenheim. mermaid on the left,
has suffered as bad or worse than poor
Kitty got. The Rough Guy at last has
revealed his true character.
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