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Herald Friday July 2
SITE FOUND FOR GOD PAN
City's Acceptance of the Statue Now Depends on President Jeroloman's Taste.

If President John Jeroloman, of the Board of Aldermen, is satisfied to-day after his inspection of the plaster cast that the proposed bronze statue of the god Pan, given to the city by the will of Alfred Corning Clark, is a suitable work of art for the public to gaze upon, the statue will be placed near Seventy sixth street in Central Park on the Fifth avenue side. This site has been selected and the Park Commissioners have approved of the design of the statue.

The City Art Committee, consisting of Mayor Strong, President Jeroloman and the president of the American Federation of Fine Arts and the American Sculpture Society, in a meeting yesterday in Central Park. The art members at the committee were satisfied that the work of art would embellish the Park.

Mayor Strong and Mr. Jeroloman statd that they would not approve of the statue unless they were satisfied that it was a proper work of art to have in the Park. Mr. Jeroloman added that he would inspect the plaster cast to-day and would probably decide at once. I saw Mr. Jeroloman after the meeting and asked him whether the Mayor would inspect the plaster cast also. He replied:-

" No: the Mayor has left that to me. He is willing to give his approval provided I am convinced, after an examination, that the stature will be suitable. Of course I am not an art critic, and will reach an opinion only from a  popular point of view. I am told that art experts believe that the statue will be an adornment to the Park."
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Cutting from DEMOCRAT, CHRONICLE
Address of Paper ROCHESTER, N.Y.
Date JUN 18 1897
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Another piece of sculpture representing a classical subject is now in controversy. The work is by George G. Barnard and represents the God Pan. It was offered to Central Park on condition that it be placed in a position mentioned by the donor. The p ark commissioners demur to the requirement on the ground that they wish to avoid crowding the park with statuary. As the work is said to be of a high order and imposing effect the commissioners might find a way to satisfy the sculptor. A good work of art is need in Central Park.
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Cutting from EVENING ITEM.
Address of Paper PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Date JUL 8 1897

PAN'S RESTING PLACE.

George Gray Barnard's "Pan" and Macmonnies "Bacchante" seem to have a serious time of it. "Pan", however, has just been located. News comes from New York that President Jeroloman of the Board of Aldermen said last night that the City Art Committee, which met yesterday afternoon at the City Hall, had at last found a site for the bronze statue of the god Pan. It is to be placed in Central Park, between Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth street, on the Fifth avenue side. Mr Jeroloman will to-morrow inspect the plaster cast of the statue, which is in the studio of the sculptor, George Gray Barnard.
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Cutting from: Republican
Address of Paper: St. Louis, MO. 
Date: Jun 27 1897

THE STORY OF PAN.
Something About the Ancient Greek God Who Piped for Arcadian Herdsmen.

Written for The Sunday Republic
As St. Louis may shortly be the possessor of sculptor Barnard's much-talked-of statue of Pan, it is interesting to turn back the pages of history to the time when Pan was something more in the world than a mere myth.
 
To the ancient Greeks Pan was a divinity of pastures, forest and flocks.  Among the mountains of Arcadia, there were numerous sanctuaries and holy caves devoted to the worship of the great god, Pan, before the Christian era.

He was the herdsman's god, the giver of fertility to the flocks; a god of prophetic inspiration and of dreams.  He was also the god of music, of dance and of song.  The sweet notes of his flute were supposed to guide travelers over the pathless mountains, and even to smooth the rough seas.

Pan is represented as having horns, a goat's beard, a crooked nose, pointed ears, a tail and goat's feet. During the heat of the day he would sleep in the deep shade of the woods, and would grow very angry if his slumber was disturbed by the halloo of the hunters.  The syrinx, or Pandran pipes, are credited to Pan's invention.  The Romans identified the Greek Pan with their own god Faunus.  Plutarch is the first to tell the story that in the reign of Tiberius a pilot named Thamus, when steering near the islands of Paxae, was commanded by a loud voice to proclaim that "the great Pan is dead." As soon as he reached Palodes he cried the news from his ship, and - so the story goes - a great noise was heard, as though Nature itself were lamenting the fact. The coincidence of this story with the birth or the crucifixion of Christ gave occasion to a explanation that it marked the end of the old world and the beginning of the new when the old oracles passed away. His worship originated in Arcadia, Greece, though it was long in reaching the city of Athens.

Mr. Barnard has kept faithfully to the original conception of Pan, and the result of his work in bronze is called by critics a masterpiece. The figure surmounts a beautiful fountain.
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Address of Paper  CHICAGO, ILL
Date JUN 12 1897

There seems to be a reaction in the east from the indiscriminate acceptance of all statues. The Heine Lorelei fountain was first to be rejected, soley on artistic consideration. Then
Mac Monnies' exquisite "Bacchante" was declined by the Boston library, on the ground of incompatibility. Since then it has been offered to the Metropolitan Museum of New York, and the museums unaccountably slow in welcoming the beautiful gift. Now George Gray Barnard's colossal reclining "Pan" has been first accepted and eventually refused by the Central Park commissioners. They make the excuse that the park is already overcrowded with statues, and that no suitable location can be found for this large figure with the fountain designed for it. They intimate that a site might be assigned it elsewhere that in the park, but this the donors decline to consider. The fountain will be cast and presented to some other city. Of its artistic merit there is no question. It has been approved by the National Sculpture Society, which may be considered a final court of appeal in matters of taste. Here may be a chance for Chicago to obtain a fine piece of urban decoration. Mr. Barnard, it will be remembered, was originally a Chicago man.