Evening star., 1939-11-14
Nurse Contributes
$1,000 10 Help Save
Soul ptress' Home
Mrs. Johnson Smiles
When Read Message
Of Anonymous Donor
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picture on Page A-3.)

A "nameleSs registered nurse" in
New York today offered to contrib
ute $1,000 toward saving the studio
home and part of the lifetime work
of Adelaide Johnson, widely known
sculptress, who has spent so years
modelling leaders of the American
feminist movement.
Mrs. johnson, unable to sell her
works, faces eviction from her home
at 230 Maryland avenue NE. be-
cause she is year and a half be-
hind with taxes and interest on a
5000 mortgage. Served with an
eviction notice by a United States
marshsal ordering her to quit the
premises by Sunday she started
undoing part of her life's work
with a sledge hammer. Six of ner
most famous pieces of statuary have
been Clipped and mutilated.
Bloom Receives Offer.
Representative Sol Bloom, Demo-
crat, of New York, who came to the
artists assistance yesterday and OBJ
tanned stay in the eviction pro-
ceedings, received the telegraphed
offer from the New York nurse. It
read:
Glad to pay $1,000 taxes for
Adelaide johnson. Unaware of her
plight. Being a Christian American
woman believer in democracy and
lover of the arts and science profess
sions and crafts wherever they
flourish, I am filled with remorse
that both our National Capital and
women of free America have per-
mitted this blot on our escutheon.
II can assume no more than this,
but fervently hope a pension may
be, raised by those women who
reverence the freedom they here
possess. Do not believe it was willful
neglect but merely lack of awareness
or imagination. Courage and best
wishes to Mrs. johnson from a
nameless registered nurse. My Ger
titled check awaits your instruc-
tions."
Smiles When Read Wire.
Mrs. Johnson's tense features
broke into smile as Mr.. Bloom
read the telegram to her.
THAT is kind, so kind" she mur-
INJURED.
Mr.. Bloom said he was confident
enough money can be raised to
restore the home to Mrs. johnson
and permit her to carry on her life
work.
Some of the work is already
Clipped under the heavy blows of a
sledge hammer-work, Mrs. johnson
said, that all of Rockefeller's
money could not recreate.' These
money could not replace" These
pieces include a bust of Susan B.
Anthony, similar to the one reposing
in the Metropolitan Museum in New
York from which the Susan B. An
thony stamp design was taken.
Others already damaged include
the two other feminist leaders, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton and Lucretia
Mott. A medallion and another
bust of Susan B. Anthony likewise
has been Clipped and scared.
The sixth piece that has been
damaged is a bust of Ellen Hardin
Walworth, one of the early leaders
in the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Bloom Appeals for Aid.
Mr. Bloom said he had eviction
proceedings delayed in order to
make some arrangements for the
care Of the sculptress.
"The women of America" he said,
should do something for this fine
old lady. It's a fine thing when
the creator of great statue to the
womanhood of America which re-
poses beneath the rotunda of the
Capitol is faced with eviction from
her home within the very shadow
of the Capitol dome"
Mr.. Bloom referred to Mrs. john
sons statue of the three feminist
leaders-Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
which was purchased by the Gov-
ernment.
Mrs. Johnson's home was sold at
auction last August for 1880 be-
cause, the artist said, she was q
year and half in arrears on taxes
and interest on . drst mortgage Of
5000.