Daily News from New York, New York • 778

v-'-1 i. fill rfe- -ti r-Jt rata (i ffessSl- f-yaaMwW r-V" 1 -j vral NfWS fOTOS DAVIO MclANC Upper stories of St. Paul Building, at corner of Broadway (foreground) and Park Row, seem to rest on the shoulders of three larger-than-life-size stone statues. it On the pedestal at extreme right is a rough-hewn Chinese figure symbolizing Orientals. i 1 Everybody wsLots tlhe statues Building's going down but its stone men won't be homeless if here spirited competition among universities and civic groups across the country for the three stone men "holding up" the upper floors of the old St.

Paul Building at 200 Broadway. Requests for the "Racial Unity" sculpture group, consisting of figures of a Negro, Oriental and Caucasian on separate pedestals, have been increasing ever since the Western Electric Company announced it was going to demolish the building at the corner of Broadway and Park Row to make room for a modern office structure. The three statues, the work of Vienna-born sculptor Karl Bitter, are being offered by Western Electric through the Committee to Preserve American Art. Bitter, who came to this country in 1889 to escape induction in the Austrian Army, died in 1915 at the age of 48. His works are in museums and public places, including university campuses, in 21 states.

The group on the St. Paul Building is valued at over $150,000. I I J- 1 7 1 Center pedestal figure of "Rocial Unity" sculpture group is that of a Caucasian. Extreme left pedestal bears the figure of muscular Negro, representative of his race. SUNDAY NEWS, OCTOBER 26, 1958.