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Show ART PRIZE IN NEW YORK. 4 Etruscan Relic Secured by tha Metre- politan Muaeum. Visitors lo llio Metropolitan muse- . am of art In Central Park, New York, now liavo opimrtunltt to see there a " work of anrtent anlsan-.iip whoo like the traveler mnv seek In vain j among Kuiopean muaeums. It Is the bronze blgi. or Orero l-;trnaran two- horse chariot, tinting at least from i tho atxtb century before the Christian j era, whose nriiistlon by tho Metro politan museum was flrt chronirled In tho Hun In August last, while the i correspondents In l-;nropo were re- cording Its disappearance from the fltu 'l Si: The Reetored Big. I art marta of the old world and pin- illng their Ingenuity In ascertain whore It had gone. Now York la now 4 lta permanent homo, thauka to tba 4 testamentary munificence of the Into , Jacob Ilogrra, tho locomotive builder, and to tho acumen of President Ithlnclander of tho Metropolitan mu- aeinn and hla advisors. The chariot la ono of Iho real treaa-urea treaa-urea of tho musrutn, and an one of tho comparatively few remains In t which tlm art genius of tho l-ilruscana found expression It la likely to be- , come an object of study to archeolo- . glata whlrh will bring Kunipean atu- d. nts of Creek art moro than over to I Now York In their eltorla to trace j tha civilization whlrh guve tbo bit a . bolng. No York Sun. , |