Life — May 5, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: Pennsylvania Station IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK’S SOCIAL AND BUSINESS ACTIVITIES The Pennsylvania Station in New York City fronts directly on Seventh Avenue, Thirty-first Street, Thirty- third Street, Eighth Avenue opposite the new United States Post Office, and on Thirty-fourth Screet by special plaza. It has entrances and exits on all four fronts. The main entrance is at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-second Street, which leads directly to Broadway, Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. This entrance is one block from Broadway, two blocks from Fifth Avenue, and by way of Thirty-third Street one block from the busiest spot in the city's centre. Within a radius of a mile are located the majority of New York’s big hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of amusement, and most of the big retail stores. The Seventh Avenue surface cars and the Eighth Avenue surface cars pass the doors of the Station, the Thirty- fourth Street surface cars (crosstown) pass the Thirty- fourth Street entrance, and a station of the Sixth Avenue Elevated is a short block from the Main Entrance. All sections of the city are within easy reach by regular lines of travel. Through trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad will arrive at and depart from the Pennsylvania Station on timetables which are now being arranged, to take effect on a date which will be announced in due course. Travel to the ‘downtown’ section of the city will also be provided for by trains from the transfer station at Harrison; near Newark, by way of the Hudson & Manhattan tubes from Jersey City to the Hudson Terminal at Cortlandt and Church Streets, which is the heart of the financial district as well as of the section where all the big industrial and manufacturing cor- porations have their business offices. The ferries between Jersey City and Cortlandt and Desbrosses Streets will be continued in operation. The location of the station appeals directly to the hotel guest, the shopper, the amusement seeker, the business man, the professional man, and every class of travelers to and from New York over the Pennsylvania Railroad. tions to the award and brought the strong pressure of the Irish socicties Dickinson, Meyer, Wetmore, and McCall Dear Live: Some time ago Congress appropriated $50,000 for a memoria} statue of Com- modore Barry, the work to be done by a sculptor of Irish descent. A compe- tition was opened and models for the statue were placed on the top floor of the State building, where, I believe they are to-day. The names of the sculptors were kept secret till after the award, which was made by a competent and in- dependent jury. Andrew O'Connor, an Irish-American residing in Paris, was given the prize. O'Connor, f whom a French art magazine recently said: “* He is the strongest and ablest sculptor now working in France, Rodin alone ex- cepted,"’ was a student of art with Sar- gent and of sculpture with French There is no question concerning his ability. The French Government has bought several of his pieces for the Lux- embourg, But, after the award was made, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, incited (I say on my own authority) by some of the sculptors whose work was rejected, came to the front with objec- The Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY 2 At your club or dealer's THE SURBRUG CO., Makers, New York. »,000 commission to well-trained young American who had fairly won it. After fifteen months of delay and consideration (sic), the Barry statue commission, consisting of Secretary Dickinson, Sec- retary Meyer, Senator Wetmore and Representative McCall, have recalled the award and have informed O'Connor that they will not require his services. They have asked another sculptor* to prepare odel, with the promise that, if it is satisfactory, the award will be made to him. I have it on the authority of artists that that sculptor is not capable of pro- scing a worthy statue artistically. hington is already filled with statues that are scarcely more valuable than so much junk and that are a by-word among It is the result not alone of ig- norance, but because some of the com- missions have tried to mix politics and art. Will you not protest against this kind of injustice, which will soon drive all self-respecting artists from entering artists. * Boyle, of New York. (Continued om page 796) comicbooks.com