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Show WORK OF ART BROKEN IN FALL While attempting to move a cabinet at the Carnegie library this morning. In preparing the art exhibit which Is to be held bv th Child Culture club, a shelf broke and three sealed Jars, containing work In sand mosaics, fell to the floor and were destroyed One of the three exhibits, which'had ben loaned by W. S. O'Brien, manager of the PosLil Telegraph company, wa a large one containing a picture of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln and valued at ?V'.. The large glass Jar in which the vari-colored sand had bei.n vjrked into a picture of Lincoln that was better bet-ter than a photograph was made in McGregor, Iowa, about seven years ago by .Mr. O'Brien. He made It with a view to presenting it to the Lincoln Memorial In Springfield, Illinois, and was to take It eat himself. On one side: was .1 picture of Lincoln, while on the other side was one of the flying fly-ing eagle and the American flag, while under them was au inscription with Mr. O Prion's name, the date and the place. In speaking of the misfortune Mr. O Brien Btated that while the Lincoln vaso was worth $500, he would not hae taken $1.0u0 to have it broken. Ho said It was regrettable that the accident should have happened, hut did not blame an one for the loss. Of the others Jars that were broken, Mr. O'Brien stated that while they were valuable he did not place the value upon them that he did the one of Lincoln, Lin-coln, which Judge Stout, a former resident of Ogden, who knew Lincoln personally, said was the best picture of the- Immortal Lincoln he had ever seen. |