Show CUTS DOLLAR MARK ON CHURCH architect plays joke when he builds st thomas new york other signs of the times almea aro are DI dla s covered sculptured in wood in the edifice now new york st thomas episcopal church in ili fifth avenue lobins as a possible rival of the metropolitan art museum in public interest following I 1 cumulative mula tive disclosures that showed t the he JOW gothge structure to be a veritable treasure trove trova of unique sculpture und and woud wood carving the first discovery made by a newspaper recently revealed a huge ironic dollar mark carved in the ornamentation na above the brides baldea entrance then followed the discovery of a whole row of avenue types little heads about the size of a fist sculptured above the alie main entrance these included a dandy a man with a dissolute nose and a woman heralded as tile divorcee the architects have permitted to become public a chart listing some of tile the wood carvings that decorate the interior of the church one of tile the carvings entitled prohibition depicts bacchus tumbled from a keg by it woman with a spear fallen from hla his outstretched hand Is a bunch of grapes while le behind the lie womans comans ure Is a tit single agle lemon emblematic of the soft drink tile the wood carvings also li elude a son king george of great BrIt britain aln 1 king albert of belgium clemenceau I 1 lloyd george general war mar foch admiral beatty herbert I 1 hoover maj gen peyton U march marc I 1 and many other figures appear appeal A S sal a 1 army insolo la Is shown handl handing out doughnuts to doughboys dough boys and poll us and other figures include a gob and tin an aviator F I 1 L mayors mayers partner of bertram goodhue architect of oc the church explained that the wood carvings most of which have been put in place recent I 1 ly lv had the full approval of rev dr ernest M stires rector of st tho thorny ma as tho the work was waa dono done he said la in accordance with the tra tradition ditton of architecture that modern figures in history problems of tho the day and saml Is off of the age should receive recognition in a sacred editia the dollar kiark abono the brides door and the avenue types above the main entrance however were the architects little jests jesta worked in on his own initiative when the church was built ten years yeara ago |