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Show WIDELY KNOWN SCULPTOR DEAD Karl Theodore Francis Bitter, Chief of Panama-Pacific Exposition Ex-position Sculpture Department De-partment Run Down by Auto. New York, April 10. Karl Theodore Francis Bitter , hief of the department depart-ment of sculpture of the Pananan-Ps clfic exposition, and one ol the heel known sculptors of Ibis eountrv rjled in a hospital here today of Injuries he suffered when he and !Ur Bitter nc-re run down last night by an automobile auto-mobile In Broadwav Mrs Pitt.-r? injuries are not serious. Mr Bitter was director of sculpture of the Buffalo exposition and chief of the department of sculpture of th St. ixuiis exposition. He had executed execu-ted many Important private commissions, commis-sions, including the statup of Carl Sburz here and work in the homes ni Collis P Huntington. Cornelius ':in dorhl It and other wealth) men He designed the Astor gates for Trinity Chun h here He was a member of the national institute in-stitute of arts and letters and acade mician of the Academy of Arts Hs was IB ears old. coming here in 1899 from Vienna where he was born. His home was m t hi 8 city. Mr. Ritter made his advent into sculpture as a skilled laborer He was employed lu this capacit bj i firm of architectural decorators when he entered a font est for the design of the 200,000 doors at Trinity church known as the Astor Memorial gates He won the contest and with this money as a foundation opened a small studio and started his career aa a sculptor. ean Francisco. April 10. To blend sculpture with varving architectural concepts and to ensure Panama-Pacific evnosit Ion hllllrflnn nnrl pnna what is said by critics to he a remarkable re-markable unity, was the duty of Karl Theodore Fram Is Bitter, consulting chief of the department of sculpture, died died today in New York Hit success, experts said, is shown throughout the exposition and not In any one group Sterling Calder of New York is aning in charge of Mr Bitter's work |