Newark post., 1922-01-18

Goddess" of '78
Dollar Still Lives
Girl Whose Profile Cleans
from Millions of Cart
Wheels" u White
Haired Peda-
gogue

The Goddess of Liberty of 1878 is
not jealous Of the Goddess of Liberty
of 1922, whose face has pushed hers
from the American silver dollar.
The girl whose profile, in silver
bas-relief, has been seen and touched
by millions, is now handsome white
haired woman. Her clear-cut features
still retain the classic beauty which
led to her selection as model for the
Goddess of Liberty on the BLAND
Dollar" forty-four years ago. And
she is still Miss Anna D. Williams, of
Philadelphia.
The fact that her face has been re-
produced so many million times, that
these silver images have gone forth
into all corners Of the world, have
bought food for the starving, largesse
to the poor, have slipped from the
hand of the spendrift to that of the
tip-grasping menial, have clattered
across gambling tables and ratified
over the bars Of the lowest rum dives
and most gilded palaces of alcohol,
have clinked into church plate and
the collection box-all this broad
spanning history Of her pictured self
does not thrill Miss Williams at all.
Neither does the fact that, now the
new "Peace Dollar" has been minted
and put into circulation, the dies will
no longer stamp out her portraits.
For Miss Williams, head of Phila-
delphia's kindergartens and an edu-
Gator Of national note, is the living
refutation of the fallacy that pretty
girls don't have brains. She is inter-
ested in more important things than
why she was selected as the best
model out of thousands of girls, and
of how it feels to be the heroine of
myriad 'iron men," ''bucks," "cart-
Wheels" "simoleons,'' "smackers" and
all the host of nick-names which the
burly, rather awkward coins have ac-
cumulated.
When the former model was re-
Gently interviewed, she said: "Why,
when Pm nearly of retiring age,
should we talk of something that hap
pened in my youth? l have Travelled
along other lines. l can't be interested
in a purely accidental occurrence of
days long gone by. Now, if you want
to discuss kindergartens-" her eyes
frightened with interest.
But this story is about dollars, so
if Miss Williams won't tell it herself
here goes
In 1876, when the then new dollar
was projected, the Treasury, seeking
someone capable of working it out,
sent to England and brought over
clever young designer named George
Morgan, and brought him to the
Philadelphia Mint. Mr.. Morgan is
still clever, and still young-minded,
and he is still an engraver at the
Philadelphia Mint.
But to get back to the 70's-Mr.
Morgan spent long while designing
the eagle, grasping thirteen arrows in
it's talons, which appears on the re-
verse of the old dollar, and is sup
planted in the new one by an eagle on
mountain peak. Then he turned to
the Liberty head for the diverse.
AS model for this he determined
he must have real girl, who should
/ combine classic beauty with charac-
: teristic American features. Friends
told him Of Miss Williams, he saw
her, and told her he must have hel
t as model. She promptly refused
! it didn't appeal to her. Friends beg
i ged her, she consented, and hence he1
d silver Immortality. Mr.. Morgan aver
K red Miss Williams head the most per
t feet he had seen in England o.
,. America.
$ But Miss Williams is still con
). vinced her being chosen was "just al
|, accident" 81 was a student at tn
j. Academy of the Fine Arts at tn
/, time. They thought my particula
}. type fitted land with the persuasion
h of friends l consented to pose."
=, AS a matter of fact, Miss Williams
s despite the new Peace Dollar, is still
= the only girl ever to have her face S
e immortalized.