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Show Distance Lends Enchantment to Diana NEW YOUK. The statue of Diana, atop the tower of Mudi-son Mudi-son Square, which Is being sought by many institutions and Individuals as the time for demolition demoli-tion of the Garden approaches, ought to be destroyed, according to Homer Salnt-Goudens, son of Diana's sculptor, sculp-tor, the late Augustus Saint-Gnudens, who explained his reasons for advocating advo-cating such a course Just before sailing sail-ing for Europe. Mr. Salnt-Gnudens In effect put Diana In the" category with girls de-crlbed de-crlbed In the old song to the effect that "They all look good when they are far awny." "It would be foolish to take Diana down from the tower of Madison Square Gardn and set her up in an altogether different environment," said Mr. Salnt-Gaudens. "The figure li 19 feet high ; It Is made of sheets of copper cop-per riveted together. If It were set up on a low pedestal or building as ! hat been proposed, the statue would be entirely out of proportion to Its environment. en-vironment. It would be far better to destroy the statue of Diana, from an artistic standpoint, than to try to preserve pre-serve It us a relic." Mr. Salnt-Gaudens explained that the models of the statue of Diana were still available In the Saint-Gnu-den museum at Cornish, N. H., nnd that smaller statues could be made from those models which would be far more suitable for preservation thun the huge statue on top of the Garden tower. The cost of placing Diana on the Garden tower was entirely apart from the cost of constructing the Garden, according to Mr. Salnt-Gaudens, who said that the late Stanford White, architect of Madison Square Garden, had paid the cost of putting the statue there. Salnt-Gaudens made the Diana statue at the suggestion of White. May 1 the wreckers lay profane hands on Diana's beauty. Leaning against a news stand at the southwest corner of Madison Square Dexter Fellows, minister min-ister plenipotentiary of the Greatest Show on Earth, looked up disconsolately disconso-lately at Diana and said In tearful tones: "It is the Inst time that dainty Diana will ever look down on our astounding aggregation of ponderous, palpitating pachyderms, and It greatly grieves me to bid her good-by. All circus men grieve." i i |