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...model stand holding a stuffed bittern by the right leg. It was a unique occasion in the history of U. S. art. William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins in one of his better canvases...
This week the fountain of Miss Vanuxem and her bittern (known officially as the "Spirit of the Schuylkill") was on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and with it something unique in the history of art exhibitions: every known surviving work by Sculptor William Rush. Preparing for the show for ten months, Curator Henri Marceau raised the list of known surviving Rush items from about 30 to 80, and though it entailed a raid on Independence Hall itself for a statue of Washington, all of them were finally made available for this week's show...
...financing will go to retire 40,837 shares of the present 6½% preferred stock, the rest for 40 new stores scattered all over the U. S. Scheduled for opening this summer in Miami is a five story Walgreen drugstore with three stories of soda fountain & eating facilities which will be Walgreen's biggest and best...
...weigh 65 tons. A new stainless alloy containing 2% white glass will be used for the sheets forming the statue. There will be an interior staircase, an observation platform in the Apostle of Humility's head, and on the too of his head will splash a drinking fountain and bath for the wild birds St. Francis loved...
...fine pair of English racing homers, imported from the estate of an English fancier and bought by Charles Heinzman of Louisville. ¶ Best bird in the show was a Blue African Owl, weighing 1/2 lb., which received a fountain pen, a plaque and $11.50 in cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise...