Show MR RHIND AT WORK ON STATUE OF CALHOUN mr air J massey tile the sculptor la Is now engaged lit in ills country studio it at closter N J on oil it a heroic lit statue attio of calhoun A rood good idea of the magnitude of tile the work la Is riven given by the picture the statue when completed which will not bo for live five or six months yet Is to be set up lip in tile the city of charleston S C mr air receives ills his commission front from the calhoun association So of charleston which had organized and raised it 11 fund for the erection of a of calhoun callio ull when tile tho war broke out after tile tho war half of tile fund was expended on oil a statue which la Is now standing lit in charleston Chai leston nut mit it Is not it a satisfactory one and mr Rh liula Is designed to tithe take its place of tile the original members bers of the association only tour four or five now survive one of these Is mrs snowden now ninety old she front from the first has been resident president of the association and la Is said to havo have insured the iho safety of tile alie fund during the war by sewing the govern J N 0 V N A 4 11 q ment bonds in which it was invested into lier her petticoat it Is also said that lit in her young lays there was a romantic attachment between tier hot ancl tint calhoun mr mind Is it a young scotchman who v to came to now ne york lit in 1889 arid and who ho tills has since then produced ed somo some quite not ablo work ills his grandfather and father were ero sculptors torA before him and tile latter produced tile statue of william chambers tile P and tile tho ile 10 clining statue of oe tile marquis ol of in st bt ollett works biks that are aie ro 10 caf ded 03 among the choicest art ai t treas ures bics of edinburgh mr rhind first studied for or a short ehno in edinburgh then in ili london jondon and aad then lit in parts I 1 als under dolan it was waa soon after completing its ills studies lit in paris pails that lie ho cattle camo to Ai the hist first work aik oik lie did after coming haq cis toi for the decoration of tile the theological seminary at twenty first street and ninth avenue new york ills his reputation ic however ho oci was by his ile designs signs foi the bronze doors of trinity church donated danatos by b Will willmarn farn waldorf astor aslor lit in commemoration of oc ills his father and his designs for foi tho the king fountain in fit albany N Y ile iio Is at present engaged on oil a luge large dec figure for tile portico of the Anie american rican surety building new york and 1 l an t elaborate In borate scheme of decoration for comfere ement hall princeton college |