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Show SCULPTOR NEARLY LOSES LIFE IN FIREj SAX FRANCISCO. Sept. 10. Arthur Putnam of San Francisco, the animal t sculptor, narrowly escaped death today, when his studio here took fire. Partly paralyzed as the result of a recent opera- ! tion. rut nam was unable rn help himself- and but for the arrival of George Stan- snn, a fellow-artist, who carried the sculp- . tor from the blazing studio, might have 1 perished. One side of the studio was destroyed and a falling wall shattered the casts of a work on w hich Pu tna m has been en-gaged en-gaged for a year. Other casts were broken. Putnam is one of the Panama-Pacific-ex posit ion sculptors. |