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Show Woman Views Statue in Park in Mild Dismay Miss Edith H. Simmons of Sioux Falls Goes to New York to View Artist's Idea of Civic Virtue NEW TORK, Oct. 10 (By A. P.) Mr. Edith Hawthorn Simmon of Slouz Pal la S. D., haa com to New Tork to ae "Civic Virtue." th statu by Frederick MacMonnlea, which stands in City Hall park. Mrs. Simmon waa tb daughter of Mra Angelina Crsne, who died In 1804 In her fifth avenue home and bequeathed be-queathed her I1J5.000 estate to New York City to be used in the erection of a drinking fountain for man and beast. To her daughter Mrs. Crane left fl. Mra Simmon feel a certain pride In the statu. Sh call It "my statu." 8h feels that shs paid for It. In her home la South Dakota sh read with intereat and a measure of eorrow the praise aad denunciation whloh fol-' fol-' lowed "Civic Virtue s" Installation. One when she was a little girl living 1 with her mother In New York she told Mra Crane that she thought It would be a good idea to build a fountain I where dogs and bird and men could I get a drink. |