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Show YANKEE SCULPTORS IOSUBTDESIGNS Uruguay Wants Statue of Native Cowboy WASHINGTON. Pen. 12. American sculptors hav been Invited by the Urufuayan government tnrougn the Pan-American union here to submit designs for a statue of the "Gaucho," or South American cowboy to be erected in the principal pi ax, of Montevideo Mon-tevideo in commemoration in the part played by these Intrepid frontiersmen in the development of Uruguay. I I The prise offered is 60,000 pesos. old. or about :',. 40 In American money., i The Uruguayan gaucho, one of the 1 most- pcituresqu characters in his-1 his-1 try, represents a survival of the old Spanish colonial days. Though he la called the cowboy-of South America, he is more than that. A horseman spending most of hfs life In the saddle, he was also a rancher, trapper, hunter, pioneer and soldier. Although, like the . French Canadian "habitant," he was , nearly always n ha If breed Indian by blood, he was actually an Indian In no other sense of the word. He did not , live as the Indians lived, but was the i pioneer of white civilization on the pampas. In the history of Uruguay, it was the g.iuchof who made up the rank and file of the armies which fought for and gained independence from Spain. In agriculture also It was the gauchos who led. ' A' Jurv hf Awards, ponslsilTij. nf TV. Kllus Hegulcs, Dr. Alejandro Calllnal. Manuel Mores, Francisco J. Ros, ("Hrlos A. Arocena, and two artists representing rep-resenting the Society of Architects and the circle of fine arts in Montevideo, will pass upon the merits of the designs, de-signs, for which second and third prises of 1500 and 1000 pesos, gold, respectively, re-spectively, will be given. |