Show r 1 4 r rI rp I p f gr I t 4 r i t rI f 4 j x r H Yi I l lJ I 1 1 t t 44 idt J fI 1 I W Vu 4 g tl o y i ie d dr 1 I r e it J i 0 j jl I V l f I r ZO S tZ o i al ali i m i a mM ng approach of St PatrIck Patricks Day always II ways serve to direct public ot nt C to In personalities and an anthe the achievements of oC the thc most cole cele members of or the Irish race roce and particularly the tho foremost representatives of the race In America Es I does each recurring holiday servo as fl a n tIme of or retrospect for tor or the Uie events of or the preceding year among amon ft Ii people who are arc ever vrr filling n D very Tory large Inre o In Inho ho worlds work be the tho work artistic Industrial commercial or political In Jo Inthis this respect the period that closes In III March Is 19 l significant he It marked tho passing of or Augustas Autus st EL sculptor It U ban bo be been n said that St SL wan wao the greatest Celtic genius genina of or the century Ho lie o more bo was wae one of the great greatest est Nt geniuses the world has ban produced In Inmany many decades Not only wa ho Amer Americas AmerIcas foremost sculptor hut but he ho WOK waR per perhaps haps tho profiler premIer sculptor of ot the world In 10 bin hili generation and ond woe wan no co recognized rc not only In the New Nc World but In the theOld theOld theOld Old That brilliancy which ar to tobo tobe bo be a trait of or the Iho Irian In h race was In SU SL matched by iy his hi versatility er In bIt bIll prolific sculpture be bo handled the widely divergent mediums of ot marble awl bronze bronzo with equal facility nod and In early life lite he had proven himself a muter muster ns na a n cutter Persons PerM who are perhaps met Jost n a trifle Jealous of C the tho pardonable Irish pride In St are arc wont to 10 point I oat that ho he b was wn not unreservedly er an In Irish product Jile father tather was wn a in inna na oe may bo be Judged Judd from the tue name und and St although horn born In Ireland wm brought to tho the United when a n baby eo 80 that the two re republics republics publics can n claim with tho the Emerald Isle Islea a share of or Ibo ho credit In fostering his bis genius How over St Gauden will probably go down Into history AS pre eminently on en Irish R r not fco ro o much because of or the locale of or his birth ns as because he we seemed rood med to typify In hIs hla bl temperament 57 g 4 h v 3 I Irv rv t ii f te ril rilA A I t t I If JL f 11 i 7 t I e 1 I g t tj 7 j F 4 C and In the creatIve power of or Mi his hI art cO exactly C tI qualities which of or the Irish Irl h race roce ore are wont to pronounce Its dominant racial That he be tool took ilio thu greatest rent t pride In teres In his native land there Is k evidence and It Is I significant that the thelo I mat lo t pr t piece pl ce of or worl work upon which he was cuga engaged ed cd was a i of or Par lir neil 1111 des 11 for Cor or lila hit Lut lUIt I This figure of oC Parnell II NII the tho j I Ireat great reat irIs orator Just rising nOd mid put int ling on his Ills an ml i lint hut chera attitude hut mit In III I his Ihl I as nr n In miny forerunners II i t i ins I II I not lIol Icis Ic s bv h by the tho peri of ur I hi his 1111 art l Il by ilio tho tim during daring of oC his von Nil i n Close eIO L friends of or St l lint It gave MUO him him mid foil In the of or Ills his ill too brief life there cimo to him the lolI for Cor or orthis this statue of or Stewart Parnell Although Althou h the sculptor was It hen 11 II handicapped hy Ity III hI health and was waR ns not OH Lie free froc from financial worry oro as the tue Trim should be he he ho attacked this new work with unusual enthusiasm lIe He id c over cr and anti over ocr again o lIlu that ho lie lied enough Irish In his bis makeup to apprecIate the till 1 2 s i iW ir W J JA r A iP Lt k i tf i 44 a I 2 M I lit tj f L f 1 tj 1 Wt p w Z J diameter of or his subject An unexpected difficulty In tho ho execution of oC the tue figure of or Only n a few feu photo grail of or the Irish Iris leader could be found an those tho e were wire very cry un tory ns os n a 1 linds from which the tin sculptor should work wort So St S1 turned for Cor his Inspiration to 10 the lie caricatures of Par nell published from time titie to time In Iti the tho er Punch and thus tItus the cartoons that lid hud liven been In jr the Irish en caine mo In the Hit tie end en It to em serve an on exactly exo lly opposite purpose tender Renders who 11 to note nole the un s of or genius cannot full iiii to he 11 III In thu i environment which nurtured tip of Irish III In The Th fh father of or lie u Q l PAul AMIN II a Ii o of nutt of or C and thon his hili Iii trade trudo of or An As i man la tie h over mer mertin I tin IIII the of ot that hat Iha t clime aol hi III it effect n a er j m nc ln IIIi ly by h all i stages os to hurls thence In hi n 1 mil 1111 Hi IK to Dublin Ireland i IrIl IK hc I fell utile tile the of the tue thel l Inch h ll l illy of if f Mitry 1 n a girl WJ hii bound lu In luIl the U Mum lie store for Cor be lw tunic loot It 1 for or n a athu 11 thu mi flee tin the an IK though the 1 in settie down live lUt oil lC III In tin Irish metropolis hut but n ii Tow ew cv months after afler the tho hib nine the old oil spirit and ind lII ko so the r his oni Mt iet et saIl all fur for America In Iii I II Ni Yol York oil I ulie ilL entile and f il far fir more mure to 10 the CURIO sing of ot secret than he lie dill to the he more one of or the shoo shoe trade and ind ac cc accordingly n nC cordingly C Augustus hind lind early curly to toke taLc u II aland land hond In tho ho battle baltic for Cor livelihood II l II hood The first dozen dOlen years of tile his life ihfe during which he lie received I t be the ordinary or Cornwall common school of lr the lie New tn ew Ion hey hoy loy of or unit unita n a ago OkO were spent In sordid sir nr rounding hut hilt after hi iii left lert school at nt atthe atthe the ngu oge of or thirteen years ant WAn apprenticed Iced to a n cameo lila his artistic talent dc developed eloped lad Iud this despite the lie fact ct that the man Aret cl to whom hom ho he was out of oC the tho first firl t atone ton cameo cutters cutler In tiling but un in agreeable employer After Arter year of or mIserable life liCe under HItler this master Saint Gnu dens dena rebelled 11 and aud aut found Cound employment with witha a n more tolerant cameo emitter cutter Jules Juies Io re by If name mme All the tue while he Iw was studying drawing ut at t the Cooper Institute In the evenIngs givIng rein to 10 a talent that had ted Itself In char coul cold on the fences hIs bio home coil which hind had Instantly arrested the at nt tell lion of or tome come of ot the customers cu of or the time IhO father tAther A little later Ilter the Uie Ind left lert the Cooper Institution In to tile tle up url life work orl at It the National A Aced end emy of oC Design Soon hoon the young voting oun man raun was ns not hot only self elf supporting to his bio shill In cameo cutting limit hut easily ca lIr excelled nil all his lila fellow tellow students at nt the lie url school Just JURt here It nm nay be he II mentioned flint Saint Gau en cameos were Js ig able In their in WO inus way us ilK worn ivern his hilt Icier laler achievements lu In manIc and bronze This was eloquently attested 1 11 by the specimens shown In the memorial of the work worl of ot Saint Gayden recently hell held hI I In 10 Now NOT York and Chicago C The years that Saint was a Q stu lent Ilent at nt Cooper Institute and nuil the Academy of or Design De marked 1 the span of oC tin the War Wor ar und and the tho boy boj Just nt at nn an anage age ake to be he mentally to the dm dna mot Ie events of the tho i perio was ns deeply Impressed by hy the spectacle of or trOops dc do e par Un for tor thin the front and n a glimpse of or the lie Immortal Lincoln In Iii the streets of or I Now New ork mind pictures In which may mor be hp found something of or the ground round logs Ings In of ot that Inspiration In which later hater pro lioe Iho e of or Lincoln ut Sherman and Logan LoganA ro nn nnA A couple con pIe of ot years YC r after neter the Iho close clo e of or the war wor Saint life In J New ew York orL came to on nn end emt for Cor Or a 1 time lie He went w ot abroad to stud study working his hi wn way ns OM It were scene h ii emitting cutting cameos anti for Cor fourteen scars or from the time be he was n eighteen en years of or age nJ until he lie was thirty two he lie hewn was wn almost continuously continuous hard at nt work In Inthe Inthe the tho art centers of ot Europe lie lT went nt at first to Paris nail ond there thanks to hIs bis bl fondness for two boon bool companions he be Carlo near enlisting In iii the t c French army ormy when the tho War lIr broke out However a letter from Crom rein Ills his hiI Irish mother who scenic for tor once to have hare been devoId of oC a 11 traditional trait of her race ReI deterred him he went ven ont to tonic nome where for four tour years he waged w ed n a continual fight with lIh In the effort to complete completo hl hh train trainIng Ing 1111 iii Finally however his hll skill In cameo cutting Inspired bomo mionie of or the tho young youn mans mons customers with his own confidence In his hI future In n a larger sphere and ouo one of or these Mr Montgomery Gibbs nn an American gave gae I ye Saint Stint Gaudens allens the opportunity to finish his t statue to ex cx his hi first ordered monument a figure ure of or Silence and ultImately to return to America Amerle with that priceless boon the prospect pro peet of oC a 0 fair amount of definite work vork Even Een then It was 01 R a hart hard fight ht In the tho coun coon country country try of oC his adoption but hut zt t last there came come the tho order for Cor the of or Farragut which now no stands In Madison Square J New cw York from that moment the skies brightened With success 9 seemingly lr assured welled wedded Miss Ills Au Augusta gusta r F I Homer Homera a marriage that hail had long Waited upon the dawn n of oC financial Indo Inde Independence For almost sixteen years thereafter ther octer SaInt labored conscientiously with splendid results In the th studio he h es cs In Jim New York lork and ond became almost from room tho the outset one of or the tho most eon coo conspicuous figures In the art lIfe of or the thc metropolis While at nt work upon that wonderful monument to the tho lite wife of or henry Adams Adorns the lie historian n a master masterpiece masterpiece r piece of or sculpture which stands In Hock Rock Creek Cemetery Washington for tor which n a score of or deficient tItles lilies ba bno bave o been b n proposed ed although Saint Gauden would wool never neer gIve giro It one Iho sculptor first vIsited the picturesque of or h New Hampshire and there he lie soon bought nn In old UrIck tavern nod converted It Into u a summer Hummer home To this haven In the upland of oC New ew Fn lont the brol broken en sculptor came mommy many years jears later Idler to mal mole make e his permanent Idene and here ho mild did his hili final work The Alum monument somber r unit and tn in n IK If i ns with another RI event cent In 10 Saint balut career One Out October night In 1001 the sculptors chief studio turned burned to d lion Ion not only nil mill the th sculpture In progress pro ress hut hL hit portfolios containing the tho of or forty Corty yours years On that dreary morning lifter the lie fire the head beau of or thu Adams mon men monument monI faced Its Us creator a seemingly ee liP souvenir the one and only I thing that the thc After ACt blow blon Saint Gaudens set bravely to work ork c Ii e eI I I I 1 I 1 kd iii I se J 4 0 s ond and noon coon hnit recovered In hla work much of ot the be lost Around One circumstance that shin o llo from his dennl gives ghiM hp 1 Saint unusual prowl In this the year of oC she tho Lincoln centenary is IB that the Irish sculptor In Interpreted I d the martyr president In tn art an as annil R asno nil no other olber poInter painter or sculptor ban ha ever cier er been I nile to rIo do Ills His two heroic figures tho the theone t I Ione one representing Lincoln standing having place In hit Lincoln Park Chicago and tho the theother other olber showing Lincoln seat seated d a gift tt to tolie the lie South Side of or the city elt of or Chicago by bequest t of or the lie Into John of or that city the latter one of or Saint Gnu Gau miens deD statues seem to reach very Cry apex of ot achievement ns REI counterfeit presentments of or the savior of the Union Only n a tow few weeks leo ago alO the tho national gov government go selected the tho Saint head bend of oC I Lincoln as all the th beat portrait extant for Cor reproduction on It ho one hundred bondred mil rail million millien lion lien commemorative postage tamps stamps which have bae been Issued for use uso u this year Other nol lle statue of or the nations most prominent men which came from the hand band of or Saint were ero the monument to General Logan Lolon on the tho Lolo Lake front Chi CM Chicago coo cage that to Jimmes A Garfield Garnold eld In tn Fair Fairmount Fairmount mount Park lorl Philadelphia and that tri trl triumphant ri Sherman In ID Control Central Park Pork New NewYork NewYork e York the horse horBe and ond rider preceded p by that exultant Inspiring female figure of ot I Victory VIctor which modeled from the woman whom hom he be always con to bo be the handsomest ho had hod ever eler ocen Whistler the painter and Ind other giants 1 of or the tile world virld of or ort art who were Vere also nl lo con congenial genial nail companionable e to Saint Gnu miens dens endeavored e to keep up the sculptors spirits In tho ho face of or encroaching ill health but from 1000 when be he returned to America after a sojourn of or three years In Paris IarI It was n a losing sight fight He Be lived ns nR much an or possible po In ID the tho open skating and golfing n while bin hla strength Ilsted arid Anel later sitting by the hour on the tho porch or being carried about In an I el Sedan Sedon chair With his ebbing strength he at the tho request of oC President Roosevelt prepared the tho designs for Cr the tho nations new gold geld old coins colus and finally death deth found Cound him with his hands still molding m lj a i cherished cherl he relief of or his wife There Them ThemIs Is I more Inore than ground for hope bope that the tho long American school of or art arthas has hns been founded by bT this thin son of or Ire Ireland Ireland Ireland land whose birthday we celebrate within the month dedicated to St bt Patrick |