Show ir of UA sr fame A casata statuary ru Y not AUS artisti jab usail 7 IT HERE is a determined effort being amade A made in washington to have old representative hall in the capitol cleaned out this is the room now known as the hall of horrors to those villo have seen the statuary in it but which is arl aristocratically sto cratic ally titled the hall arall of fame this hall is almost circular it has a tiled tilea floor many pillars and a low gallery al lacross one end it is also known as the whispering hall ball for the reason that standing on certain cartain blocks of tile the tiling your voice comes to you from the floor on other blocks over your shoulder into your ear car on other blocks from the winged victory clock that faces you and there are many other blocks which give forth strange echoes when you stand upon them no one has ever been able to tell why these echoes are or why other tiles give forth nothing at all they just do it that is all there is of it there are a lot or of statues that are freaks from way back there is only one piece of really good sculpture in the whole bunch of some 35 or 40 and that is father marquette which was presented by wisconsin it is an exquisite piece of work the rest of the statues are practical caricatures there Is one of F ulton fulton who is seated in a chair with a place piece of machinery in ills his hand ho he lops all over the chair his legs are sprawled in all sorts of ways and it Is abreut abr ut as woebegone a piece of marble as can well be imagined there is a marble of webster whom everybody knows was not a large man b but aut ut the statue makes him a regular giant there is a statue of johnj john J ingalls the only one as yet sent by kansas that it is like a line has hais neither breadth nor thickness which was a good description of ingalls it Is the limit for ugliness there Is a statue of ai frances willard in ill a bas basque quean and ill III hanging banging dress which bears not the slightest resemblance to that dainty sweet faced women woman there is a statue of phil kearny in bronze which la Is very pretty to look at but has very little artistic merit iii erit and there is one of shoup of idaho baho which looks as though it might have h avo been sanda out of a piece of marble k and then there io washington a dapper little darling with sloping brow as fashioned by boudon the washington newspapers some time ago began a crusade to have the law placing statutes in statuary hall by the states repealed repeated repe aed it is to be repealed on oil tile the ground ithac that the hall is already jammed to overflowing and if my i more n oro statuary is presented it will bo necessary to make a second and inner row |