New-York Tribune from New York, New York • 35

STATUARY FOR NEW HALL OF RECORDS WILL SOOiN BE HERE IN SPITE OF DELAYS CAUSED BY REMODELLING hllis. The country ran along the bottom of the hill where there are now many feet of water. Oae morning in the spring of the year a farmer drove into Ilackettstown. Be was returning home late at night and had reached the foot of the hill when his team suddenly balked. They never done so before, but try as he would he cculd not get thwn started.

He left the and went ahead to investigate. After taking a few steps he suddenly felt himself into quicksand. He managed to escape, but had to build a new road before he could drive home. In a few weeks water replaced the Quicksand and soon created a considerable iake A drive through the Rutherfurd deer park is most delightful. The road strikes up the mountain side from Allamuchy at an old fashioned mill, and continues at a pteep grade until It turns at the little red house the game warden.

Brilliantly plumed golden pheasants scurry away from the road at the yound of one's and carriage heels Quail and grouse, half time because they are practically 1 easy escape into the leafless forests of second growth maple and birch. Orse. drives for an hour, perhaps, over the winding roads without a deer. Saucy Rrcirrels, gray and red. chatter their approval over one's disappointment.

The road goes down a hill to the of a large lake, its surface unbroken except that now and then a particularly precocious trout jumps for a careless fly. There is much evidence of the work of indus- trtous beavers houses of mud and sticks built shore, and scores of trees which their sharp teeth have Hut still no fieri road swings away from the lake and heads apniin toward the entrance lodge. Then in a semi-clearing one comes upon not one deer, fifty. They are white tails, as one startled doe cLows by ringing away from the road and Cashing the white Bag of dagger to the others. There is i general disposition for flight, checked, however, before it becomes a stampede, by an old back v.ith a fine pair of antlers.

He looks the visitors over, decides that they mean no harm calmly goes back to feeding. The others follow his example, and soon the whole herd is as quiet as before. A SELF-DENYING OFFERING. Some young girls at a summer resort were giving a vaudeville performance for a local charity, a young man who thought himself facetious tossed the stage after one tie "turns" a bouquet whose chief ingredient was a head of cabbage. The girl who received tiiis offering of appreciation read the card that it, and advanced to the footlights.

"It gives me pleasure," she said, "to know that ilr. Edward Morgan has en joyed performance. I hoped that the audience might it, but I never expected for a mocaent that Mr. Morgan would BO far lose his as to thtow it the SHI WAS 1 SURPRISE. Southen i TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT.

rOETRT. MATKRNITY. INSTRUCTION. SOME OF MR. P.I'SII BROWNS FOR THE HALL OP RECORDS.

ON NEW HALL OF SECONDS Statues Which Will Typify the Purposes of This Costly Structure. The Xew- Yorker who is visited frequently by i "affectionate" cousins from up State, who write iiirr. "how they love to Bee the sights" of the i metropolis, will shortly have something new and incidentally inexpensive to show them. heroic figures which are to crown the new Ha.li of Records are expected to reach town in i few days, and as soon as their niches are ready on the dormer windows of the top story, they will be hoisted to their final resting places. Here.

then, the city man may come. Here he may entertain his rural relatives and escape admission fees, reserved seats, tips and souvenirs. The statues have been hewn out of Maine granite in the quarries at Hallowell, and their sculptor. H. K.

Bush-Brown, is now in the worksheds preparing the pieces of sculpture for transportation. Some are standing: figures, others are in a half reclining pose, whole others are seated. Kach has been designed for a particular station on the building, and as the Chain bers-st. front is to be made the more ornate ten of these pieces of sculpture will be placed on this side of the building. The everyday citizen, as well as the stranger, however, will be made to look at this stately group.

A plot has been laid to compel him to give them due consideration each day. and to realize that his taxes have not been spent this time for unappreciated ornamentation. For this reason the architect has cunningly planned a huge clock for the upper part of this central window, with a dial four feet across. And thus the hurrying bridge crowds, however intent they may be in the morning on the work of the office, or distraught at night with the anticipation of domestic troubles, will involuntarily take an upward glance at the clock and its guardians of statuary. I of the seventy feet which will intervene betw en tin se statues and the sidewalk, will furthermore produce a fur more pronounced effed upon the eye of the beholder by grouped together.

Thus on and at the I entral Chambers-sL ill I two representing Heritage and Maternity. Heritag in. son upon his knee and Instructing him in the way he should live. a mot hr and a cbild igher and nearer the dial of the ck, facing east and v. grill be statues il Poetrj and engaged In study.

The apex er low will be supported by four caryatides, statues which serve the purpose of pillars as will, ami each will represent one of the four seasons. Surmounting ail there will be two cherubs, whose wings above the clock win emphasize still further to the New-Yorker thai time has wings. The four figures which will adorn the central dormer window of the Reade-sL side will represent Instruction, Study, Daw and History. Law and History are seated, while Instruction and Study have a reclining attitude. Law represents a forceful type of man, who holds in his hand an open scroll ana whose forehead is contracted as if the brain behind was wrestling with some knotty! legal problem.

History is impersonated by an old man, who sharply contrasts with Law. History is a recluse. is a man among men. The side, as well as th- facade on the street to the west, will each only I ngures. In Inscription and Custody will typify the duties of the Recorder, for whose department tho structure has chiefly been erected.

On the opposite side of the building two statues representing Industry and Commerce are to portray ie elements of business which have made New-York great. There been many alterations in the designs of the different statues by the sculptor at different times to meet the approval the M'lnicipaJ Art Commission, often the original model as shown to the commission by photographs had practically abandoned. For example, one according to the model, was in wear a modern hat. although typifying a mythological character, in another model the legs were regarded by the commission as out of proportion, it was feared one time thai serious friction would result xreen commission and sculptor, but after many consultations the changes advised by the former were uted tiy Mr Brown. All the eighteen figures havtnow been epted, statues about the dormer windows however, will form only a sm.ul pan 1 1 tin decorative plan for the building.

The for twenty-four standing figures to ranged th-- Chambers, Centre and i-st. sides, main cornice of the building. with its sixth and story nearer the sidewalk than the dormer window statuary. There will also two groups, on each side of th-- Chamber s-sL entrance. two seated figores, oiu" 1 on either side of th-- Centre-st.

and two groups for the Chambers- st. The contract for this work has been let I i Philip Hartiny, who is now engaged preparing modi Is Because of the report that JHorgan SI iti the Tammany architects, were attempting to thwart th- commission and have the work done piecemeal, without any harmonious plan for the entire art scheme, vigorous protests were by the leading sculptors and artists of the i Lty, and a compn hensive plan was drawn up by the Fine Arts Federation and presented to the Mayor. Martiny, however, i- following a plan of his own and will shortly present the first of bis models to con mission for its approval. Witri! complications will then arise cannot be presaged at this time. RIVALRY IX PRAYER.

The tall hoy lifted up his voii and wept. "I've prayed and prayed and prayed to have it stop snowing." he wailed, "and it keeps on snowing just is hard as it' I hadn't s-xid a He was too young to made to understand that without intelligence is and his mother did not to upset his simple belief. must be," she suggested, "thai another little boy is praying to have it keep on snowing and be is praying ti than you are." HASTED III: DETAIL. Pauline, aged six. was listening to the story of the marriage at md the miracle of the w.iter and the wine After her mother had finished ncital the little girl Inquired: "Mother, what did you Fay was the name of the gentleman what gave the party?" HE WAS COMPETENT HIMSELF.

Bobby's father was breaking the news to him. would you like to have a little brother, Bob?" he i "First fully. i. ted a i "No," he said 1 gu- ss after all 1 ter. I'm a i elf.

you know." 7A 'LOBSTER PALACES." Scenes in Broadxcay After the Theatre. That particular kind of Manhattanite who id often referred to as the man about town is generally considered to fairly hate to go to bed. and sleep is the last thing he thinks about. He and bis kind can do that when there is nothing else to do and no one about to do it. Once in a lons while sheer weariness forces them to retire before 1 or or o'clock in 'he morning, but that is a physical defect and must be laid at the door of their ancestors from Schoharie County' and the State of Ohio.

With this kind of New-Yorker evening begins, dinnei an elaborate meal, usually, with food highly seasoned enough wine to excite. Then it is a rush to Broadway for two hours and a half entertainment any kind you like, with fifty playhouses from which to choose. Now, in most cities that would satisfy. Ba ton people would coast to homes of dignified dreariness in the Back Bay Pittsburgera would climb into their carriages and shut their teeth for a rough rule out to the End. In Chicago there would be tune for nothing more, for the Windy City Is so far from the various pans I that one has to look smart to get hon In time for breakfast.

Giddy but Bui falo is keeping Lent and doing penance for her sins, rp in dear old Kehoe's Int Keboe's is not having theatres just now; the school board will not rent the room. Thus it is that while the citizens Othef cities know when they have had enough and give a thought for the morrow, certain New. Yorkers do not know: and how can they think of to-morrow wiien to-morrow is at hand before stof) to think? When the theatre is over, most of the people, it is true, ko straight home, but they art- not the sort this story is It is about those for whom the theatre is just an incident, arid the real fun comes afterward. If this were not the a hall of "lobster shops" that satisfy after-theatre hunger and thirst might as turn on: electric signs and revoke their own re not for rushing bus i they do tasl mid first houi the day there would be no profit in it. Real hunger has little to with the New- York rush from parquet restaurant.

This supper is the one meal of the day minds of men don't run to roast beef or steak. Appetite there Is, but not for food, for to drink, perhaps, for the glare of and blare of orchestra; a desire to keep ay Lea as lonp as possible. It may bo noted, too, thai this fourth A idea is no longer coi ned to the money-to-si nd class. and her "gentleman aft'-r three hours of melodramal i'oiirt'-' make for the nearest tile paved, plate glassed, all night "hash house" Just aa naturally as Miss West Side, with her escort chaperon! goes to Delmonlco'a or Lplace equally expensive "Maggie" enjo and" even more thoroughly than her more fortunate sister does her la paral Lobster Row" begins or ends way you happen to be going) with a the "drip drop" place, as it is known li is French from menu to waiters, and Parisian as to drinks. hen bestra and there 5.