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CUTTING FROM: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 
DATE: JUN 10 

THIS IS PAN, WHO WILL NOT REST IN CENTRAL PARK

Samuel Parsons, Superintendent of Parks has decided that there is not a suitable location in Central park for the colossal bronze figure of Pan [[?]] to this city by the late Alfred Corning Clark. He thinks that the statue is not in harmony with the woodland scenery of the Park. Think of that for a reason! The Wood-god himself out of harmony with woodlands! Truly there are kinks in the minds of the truly pure reformer. If it were a stately Juno, or a ruddy Mars, nay, even that flighty Bucchanate of Macmonnies, which Boston was too truly pure to take! But Pan, poor honest Pan, with cloven hoof and whistling pipes, who never stood upon his personal beauty, and has naught but his thoroughly appropriate character to recommend him.

There's such propriety doth hedge the truly pure reformer, particularly after he has been prevailed upon to accept office, that he won't even look at tomatoes undressed. So what chance has poor old Pan? Shall we, in order to obtain the statue, hold a mass meeting and pass resolutions empowering the reformers to clothe Pan in a granite Fauntleroy suit, with a cement sash? 

"So they won't have me, eh?" says Pan. "All right; there are others. I'll hie me to the Addyroddyrondacks to meet the summer girl. Tush, tut and au revoir!" 


CUTTING FROM: NEW YORK TRIBUNE 
DATE: JUN 13 1897

THE CITY ART COMMISSION

MR. WARD SPEAKS WELL OF THE PAN STATUE- THE PROPOSED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' MONUMENT.

Under the act passed by the Legislature this year the Mayor, the president of the Board of Alderman, J.Q.A. Ward, president of the National Sculpture Society, and Bruce Price, president of the Municipal Art Society, were made a commission to pass upon all works of art to be accepted by the city.

The commission has a meeting at the Mayor's office yesterday, at which all the members were present except Mr. Price. 

The powers which the bill conferred upon the Commission were discussed and held to be confined to a veto simply. 

The reception of the Pan statue was considered. Mr. Ward said that he had examined it and described its artistic merits to be excellent. The projected Soldiers and Sailors' Monument was also talked over. It was thought that, with the $250,000 appropriated, something superior to the Washington Memorial Arch, in Washington Square, might be produced. Mr. Jeroloman urged that figures lifelike and symbolical of the war ought to be reproduced. The spot at Fifth-ave. and the plaza was considered as the place for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch. The Commission adjourned until next Wednesday. 


CUTTING FROM: TRIBUNE 
ADDRESS OF PAPER: CHICAGO, ILL 
DATE: JUN 9 1897

REJECT A STATUE OF THE GOD PAN. 

BEQUEST OF ALFRED CORNING CLARK IS REFUSED BY THE CENTRAL PARK COMMISSIONERS. 

New York, June 8. -[Special.]-And now the Park Commissioners of this city, like the Library Trustees of Boston, have called down on their heads the condemnation of art connoisseurs for rejecting a statue of the great god Pan, which had been offered for erection in Central Park by the late Alfred Corning Clark before his death. The latter's executors were ready three months ago to have the bronze cast when the city should erect a site for it. 

The model made by the young sculptor, George Grey Barnard, presents the god Pan recumbent upon a pedestal in the centre of a basin to surmount a bronze drinking fountain. The model was greatly admired for the strength and force its lines suggested.

The design was a basin twenty-four feet in diameter, with a figure of Pan measuring nine feet nine inches, from elbow to knee, in a reclining posture, and now the Park Board has rejected the statue, which members admit is a fine one, for the diplomatic reason that they "cannot find in Central Park a position of sufficient dignity and suitability for such work of art, where it would at the same time harmonize with the characteristic scenery of the park."